Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union law & justice minister Kiren Rijiju flagged off Lachit Divas cultural celebrations in New Delhi on Wednesday evening adding colour to the initiative to pay nationwide tribute to the legendary Ahom general Lachit Barphukan marking his 400 birth anniversary. Union minister Rameswar Teli and State minister ...
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 ...
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who also happens to be chairman of Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra Society, attended the inaugural ceremony of Kalakshetra’s silver jubilee celebration in the city on Wednesday. Named after 15th century neo-Vaishnavite saint and an outcome of the historic Assam Accord, the cultural complex was inaugurated by the then President ...
Guwahati: The city-based scribes will observe the forthcoming National Press Day 2022 and discuss the state of press freedom in Northeast and India as a whole along with the relentless threats, pitfalls andchallenges to the journalists after the steady invasion of digital media users. Media persons, under the banner of proposed Assam Union of Journalists, ...
As we are celebrating National Press Day on 16 November in India, let’s pay our heartiest tributes to everyone who contributed to the growth of print media and also the Press Council of India (PCI), its mentor and watchdog. Moreover, it should also be an occasion for the practicing media persons to introspect over their ...
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 ...
Participating in a debate on satellite television or digital channels needs some homeworks to make the deliberations short and clear. Unless you face an arrogant anchor and unruly participants, the experience in talk shows normally emerges as an intriguing one. It happened to me, as I had recently participated in a digital media discussion on ...
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 ...
Guwahati: If a senior scribe is named and shamed in social media as a scam star, should or should not he respond to it? Moreover, when a particular social media post (following up with a series of posts onthe same television journalist) is liked and shared by thousands of non-media persons, can he ignore it ...
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing concern over the disturbing news related to uptation process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam demands that the concerned authorities should pay the outstanding amount of money to around six thosand data entry operators (DEO) as early as possible. The forum of nationalist citizens also ...
Guwahati: The lone Nobel laureate of Bangladesh, who is popularly known as banker to the poor, Professor Muhammad Yunus has been awarded with Karl Kübel Prize of Germany for his extraordinary and multifaceted commitment to families all over the world. The Karl Kübel Foundation for Child and Family honoured the Bangladeshi economist, who conceptualized the ...
During our college days the teachers used to advise and inspire us, once we become automobile engineers, we should try to replace the piston engine as it’s not fuel efficient. When I left Assam Engineering College (under Gauhati University) in 1990 after completing my degree course in Mechanical branch (with a special paper on Automobile ...
Guwahati: In a move to draw a roadmap for holistic development ofAssam and to create a blueprint for expediting its growth as we allmake it a model on all sectors, State chief minister Himanta BiswaSarma along with spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev inaugurated athree-day Chintan Shivir at Kaziranga. The three-day camp beginningon Saturday will have ...
Guwahati: Rashtriyata Swayamsevak Sangh chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while attending a public meeting at U Soso Tham auditorium in Shillong of Meghalaya, stated that Bharat is an ancient nation since time immemorial, but due to forgetting the civilizational motto and values, it lost the freedom. Sarsanghchalak Bhagwat also added that ‘our binding force among one ...
