Guwahati: Jailed for 11 years in Myanmar, the American journalist was released on 15 November 2021 and was immediately deported out of the south-east Asian country. Danny Fenster is on a flight out of Myanmar, said the authority of a digital media outlet named Frontier Myanmar, where he is working as an editor. There is…
Guwahati: Indian Journalists Union (IJU) expresses shock over the brutal murder of a young scribe in Bihar and demands a thorough probe into the incident that led to the untimely demise of Buddhinath Jha. The national union of scribes also raised voices for discarding all legal procedures against two female journalists by the Tripura government…
Guwahati: Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condoles the sad demise of two young journalists in India and Afghanistan within 24 hours and urges the concerned authorities to probe the developments that led to their untimely deaths, and subsequently to book the perpetrators to justice. It may be mentioned…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
