Guwahati: As the 9th Chalachitram National Film Festival 2025 (CNFF-25) sets for 25 & 26 October next at Jyoti Chitraban film studio premises in Kahilipara, nearly 100 film works have reached the organizing committee till 15 August from various parts of northeast Bharat and also outside the region. The two-day annual festival, initiated for fostering…
An interesting debate involving the media fraternity of north-east India recently surfaced with two major issues, is it logically correct for an editor of a daily newspaper to regularly write a column for another daily (where both competing dailies are published in the same language) ? Moreover does the practice indirectly establish that the columnist-editor…
Guwahati: Commending Assam government for deciding to name the under-construction Dighalipukhuri–Noonmati flyover in the city after legendary Kamrup ruler Prithu Maharaj, a forum of nationalist citizens appeals to State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for erecting a life-size statue of the iconic ruler of Kamrup (ancient Assam), also known as Visvasundaradeva, along with the longest…
Guwahati: Addressing the nation on live television on 5 August 2025, Bangladesh’s interim government head Dr Muhammad Yunus announced that the south Asian nation will go for 13th Jatiya Sansad polls by the first half of February next year (Bangladesh election authority later specified first week of February for the national event), where he also…
In a bid to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2060 and proposing an engineering marvel to the global community, China started the construction of a colossal hydropower dam in Tibet prompting cautious observation with concerns from India and Bangladesh. Soon after Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the dam on Yarlung Zangbo/ Tsangpo (Brahmaputra…
Geneva, 8 August 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed shock over the murder of a journalist in the capital city of Bangladesh and urged the interim regime in Dhaka to nab the killers of Md Asaduzzaman Tuhin, who was hacked to death by some miscreants in Gazipur locality…
Bangladesh is going for national elections by mid-February 2026, as declared by its caretaker government head Dr Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday evening while addressing the nation on live television. Meanwhile, the trial of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is taking a temporary shelter in India, began and seemingly her party Awami League will get…
After years of speculation the Chinese Communist regime in Beijing started the construction work for a colossal hydropower dam in Tibet autonomous region prompting cautious observation with concerns in India. The continuous hydro-electric activities on Yarlung Zangbo/ Tsangpo river in the seismically active Tibetan plateau are apprehended to put millions of people in the lower…
One of India’s greatest patriots, educationists, fearless campaigners for national unity Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was recently remembered for his exceptional contributions to the country in general and Assam in particular. The regional centre of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in collaboration with Assam directorate of Museums, Indigenous and Tribal Faith and Culture…
The indigenous population in Assam continues getting shocking revelations every alternate day from none other than State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Pursuing a series of eviction drives to reclaim hundreds of thousands of bighas of government lands (including forest and water bodies) during his term as the head of Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in…
