northeast

Terror outfits claim responsibility for Manipur ambush, condemnations pour on

Guwahati: Two terror outfits namely People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF) claimed responsibility for Saturday’s Manipur ambush attack, where seven persons including five Assam Rifles personnel were killed on the spot. A commanding AR officer along with his wife and minor son also succumbed to injuries in the incident that took…

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Journalist

Global outcries surface as American journalist Danny Fenster imprisoned in Myanmar

Guwahati: Various global media and human rights organizations expressed dismay over the 11-year imprisonment of American journalist Danny Fenster by the military junta of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) and demanded his immediate and unconditional release by the military dictators in Naypietaw. Mentionable is that the US journalist was arrested on 24 May…

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Assam

Rs 100 crore released for Assam fertilizer plant

Guwahati: The Union government recently released Rs 100 crore for the revival of Brahmaputra valley fertilizers corporation limited (BVFCL) at Namrup in eastern Assam. Soon after meeting with the visiting Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the national capital, the Union chemicals and fertilizers minister Mansukh Mandaviya took the initiative. It may be mentioned…

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Assam

Special voter’s enrollment initiative begins in Assam

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…

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PEC

PEC demands fair probe into murder of another Pakistani digital media user

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the relentless murder of scribes, citizen journalists and digital media users in Pakistan for exposing anomalies in the government, administration, and society through various media outlets and demands fair probes into all those assassinations. Local media outlets reported that…

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NBA athlete Enes Kanter terms Beijing Olympics as Genocide Games

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…

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Covid-19 taken away 20 scribes from Northeast

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…

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IJU

IJU bats for compensation to media corona-victims

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…

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