Guwahati: The number of journalists dying of Covid-19 globally are still growing, where more than 1828 media workers have succumbed to the novel corona virus infection in 83 countries since March 2020, said the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) based in Geneva. However, India has significantly reduced the number of…
Guwahati: With the allegation for instigating enmities amongst different groups with the intention to disturb public tranquilities through media pieces on the backdrop of recent Gorukhuti-Dholpur eviction drive against the illegal settlers, an anti-influx forum lodged a police complaint against Suraj Gogoi (a Singapore based Assamese researcher), Angshuman Chowdhury (associated with New Delhi-based Institute of…
Guwahati, 6 October 2021: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva- based global media rights body expressed serious concern over the imprisonment of a Cambodian journalist without the fair trial and urged the government led by Prime minister Hun Sen to help Youn Chhiv defending his position in the legal courses of action. It may be…
Guwahati: The BJP led Union government in New Delhi is planning to make major interventions in north-eastern States for oil palm promotion which will finally turn the region into the oil palm hub of Bharat. The new found initiative would change the socio-economic status of the farmers in the region with opening up of employment…
Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based media rights body condoles the demise of young television scribe Raman Kashyap at Lakhimpur Kheri locality of Uttar Pradesh in central India and demands an authentic probe into the incident that led to killing of the rural reporter on 3 October 2021. According to local sources, Raman (35)…
Guwahati: Congress legislator Sherman Ali Ahmed has been suspended by the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Monday for communally provocative statement about a number of martyrs of historic Assam Agitation (1979 to 1985). APCC president Bhupen Kumar Borah has taken the decision to suspend the party legislator with immediate effect for repeatedly violating the…
Guwahati: Raj Bhavan on the southern bank of mighty river Brahmaputra at Kharghuli locality of the city sets to turn a zero waste campus with the dream of achieving the objective of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Governor Jagdish Mukhi has taken the lead in conceptualising and also implementing the mission to drastically reduce the impact of…
Geneva, 2 October 2021: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva based global media rights body, laments over missing of newspapers from the stands across Afghanistan as most of the media managements shifted to online space after the arrival of Taliban forces in the capital city of Kabul. Expressing serious concern on the growing security threats…
Guwahati: Assam Cabinet meeting under the chairmanship of State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, which was organized at Dhemaji in eastern part of the State on Thursday, took several major decisions regarding reliefs to nearly 11 lakh micro-finance borrowers, relief packages for Nagaon & Cachar papermill employees, various projects for Dhemaji and other adjacent localities,…
Guwahati: Sar Karyavah of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday (September 30) said in Guwahati that preserving the rich heritage of ‘Bhartiya Sanskriti’ and its age-old traditions in literature is the need of the hour. Addressing the representative of 108 tea communities of Assam Sar Karyavah Hosabale asked them to upkeep the great values…
