Guwahati: A special voter’s enrollment initiative with an aim to include all qualified electorates’ names in the voter’s list begins on Saturday in Assam. State chief electoral officer Nitin Khade recently announced the special campaign dates (13 & 14 November 2021) in regards to the ongoing process of special summary revision for registration of all…
Guwahati: Along with the other parts of India, Assam is also celebrating Chhath Puja to worship the Sun God from the bank of various rivers. Assam Governor professor Jagdish Mukhi and State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma greet the people across the State on the auspicious occasion, which is recognized as a festival of self-discipline,…
Guwahati: Voices against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are increasing around the world and last week Enes Kanter, an NBA athlete, called on the IOC to move the international sports extravaganza, which has been labelled as the ‘Genocide Games’ by people of conscience around the world. “Kanter began taking human rights issues straight to the…
Guwahati: The Covid-19 pandemic has snatched away the lives of over 20 north-eastern journalists since March 2020, which is comparatively low to the national volume of media-corona casualty crossing the 300-mark. Besides three scribes, who died while working outside the region, all others succumbed to the novel coronavirus infection related ailments while performing their duty…
Guwahati: The release of some political prisoners on 18 October, who actually should have not been arrested in the first place, by the ruling military junta of Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh) was nothing but a public relations exercise to improve its image in the backdrop of ASEAN’s decision to exclude them from…
Guwahati: As India continues to lose journalists to Covid-19 complications, a national union of scribes has appealed to the Union government in New Delhi to declare working journalists as frontline warriors. Indian Journalists Union (IJU) also urges all States and Union territories to separately announce compensations to the families of corona-media victims excluding the Centre’s…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global safety and media rights body, endorses the statement of Cambodian civil society organizations (CSO) on the occasion of ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ (2 November 2021) for ensuring safety and security to all working journalists in the south-east Asian country and urged the Cambodian government…
Guwahati: On the occasion of Deepawali (also known as Deepanwita, Diwali or Dewali), the Hindu festival of lights, Assam government dedicated a newly built two-lane flyover at Supermarket-GS Road area on Thursday in the virtual capital of northeast Bharat. Inaugurating the flyover, State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma assured that the BJP-led government is committed…
Guwahati: As China is preparing for the next Winter Olympic Games, the Tibetan freedom fighters around the world start raising strong voices against the worst human rights records in the authoritarian country. They exclaimed that the IOC’s decision to hold a prestigious and influential games in China is nothing less than an endorsement of all…
Guwahati: The recent release of some political prisoners, who actually should have not been arrested in the first place, by the ruling military junta of Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh, which is an eastern neighbour to India) was nothing but a public-relations exercise to improve its image in the backdrop of ASEAN’s decision…
