Shimla: To scale up the ease of doing business and to minimize delay in approvals through a single-roof facilitation mechanism Himachal is establishing Investment Bureau in the State. This was stated by Chief Minister, Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu while presiding over a meeting, to discuss the modalities of the proposed investment bureau on Wednesday evening. The ...
Shimla: Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu today celebrated Holi at the Peterhof, Shimla with Cabinet Ministers, Congress leaders, prominent people and citizens of Shimla city. On this festival of colours, the Chief Minister said that we all should celebrate this festival with traditional fervor and gaiety. He wished that this festival of colours would ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the recent physical attack on a journalist in Uttar Pradesh and demands stringent punishments to the perpetrators.Devendra Khare, who is associated with the privately owned Hindi media outlet News1India, was shot at by miscreants in the evening hours of 26 February at ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock over the killing of journalist Shashikant Warishe in Maharashtra and demands a fair probe to identifythe culprit for punishing under the law. Warishe (48), who used to work for Marathi-language daily Mahanagari Times, was mowed down by a four-wheeler on Monday ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, wishes all success to the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati’s annual festival Alcheringa kick starting on 2 February withan aim to celebrate the nation’s victory over one of the most significant pandemics in recent history and also encourage the attendees to rejuvenate and ...
Shimla: Expressing concern over the delay in granting forest clearances under the Forest Conservation Act (FCA), Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has emphasized on evolving a mechanism to expedite the clearance cases of FCA, so that work on developmental projects in the State could be started at the earliest and completed within the stipulated time period. Thakur Sukhvinder Singh ...
Geneva: New year brings sad news as a young Bangladeshi journalist was killed in the first half of 2023. Ashiqul Islam (27), who worked for Dainik Parjabekshon from Brahmanbaria locality (which is adjacent to India’s north-eastern State of Tripura) was hacked to death on 9 January by a group of miscreants. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), ...
Geneva/Guwahati, 18 December: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, mourns the death of two senior journalists, who died of Covid-19 complications in China recently.According to a media report by Reuters with the dateline of Beijing/Shanghai on 16 December 2022, Yang Lianghua (74, a former People’s Daily reporter) died on Thursday, ...
Ukraine and Mexico emerge as most dangerous countries for journalists in 2022 Geneva, 14 December 2022: Ukraine and Mexico emerge as the most dangerous countries for media work this year, stated the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) in its annual report published in Geneva on Wednesday.Since January, 115 media workers have been killed in 29 countries ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, denounces the Myanmar (Burma/Brahmadesh) junta for continue jailing scribes as Yangon-based freelance journalist Ah Hla Lay Thuzar was recently sentenced to two years in prison with hard labour by a military court. PEC maintains its demand to release all detained and imprisoned journalists by ...
Geneva, 17 November 2022: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses happiness over the release of Japanese journalist-filmmaker Toru Kubota along with 6,000 political prisoners in a mass amnesty. However, it maintains the demand to release all detained and imprisoned journalists by the Myanmar (Burma/Brahmadesh) military junta, led by Min Aung ...
Geneva, 2 November 2022: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while marking the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Wednesday commented, ‘more needs to be done to fight impunity on the ground’. Slow progress is made, but still very insufficient, said the PEC after appealing ...
Guwahati: Lauding the United Nations for its emphasis on some key issues to be tackled by 2030- where the fuel cell technology is termed as an efficient option to tackle climate change- All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) believes that the governments would take necessary actions to phase out the internal combustion engine while promoting the ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) condemns the continued arrest and imprisonment of journalists in Myanmar, and urges the military authority to release all media persons detained, arrested or imprisoned in fake cases across the southeast Asian nation. The global media safety and rights body also demanded the Burmese military rulers to withdraw the notorious electronic ...
Mandi: Coalition governments at the Centre have failed to deliver, leading to the world casting a doubt on India’s ability, therefore stability was vital for keeping the pace of development going. This was stated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi while virtually addressing the Yuva Vijay Sankalp Rally organized by the State BJYM held at ...
