Guwahati: Is it usually possible to get hundreds of newspaper-articles, prepared by independent experts on Bangladesh politics, published in various countries within a few weeks, particularly at a time when the south Asian nation is approaching national elections early next year? Or was it a sponsored campaign by a number of writers with dubious credentials ...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed concern over the sudden closure of city-based satellite news channel DA News Plus from Friday and demanded fair compensations to the employees including scribes. The affected employees saw a notice on 17 August 2023, where it was stated that the telecast and other related activities will be ceased ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the murder of Vimal Kumar Yadav, a young scribe associated with the leading Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran, in Bihar province of north India this morning and demanded a high level probe into the incident to unearth the motive behind the assassination as ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) expresses its serious concern over the murder of two Pakistani journalists within a week and the global media safety and rights body demands justice to the bereaved families of Jan Mohammed Mahar and Ghulam Asghar Khand. Pak media outlets reported that Mahar (50), senior reporter of Kawish Television Network and ...
Guwahati: Press Club of Assam (PCA) expresses profound grief at the untimely demise of photo journalist Dhanti Hira (25) at Samaguri in Nagaon district and demands a thorough probe into his mysterious death after a road accident in night hours on 16 July 2023. Dhanti, who worked for a city-based satellite news channel NKTV, was returning ...
Geneva: Fewer journalists were killed in the first six months of this year, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said on Thursday. Since 1 January, 27 journalists have paid for their profession with their lives in 17 countries. This is the lowest figure recorded for more than 15 years. Although the number of deaths is falling, ...
Guwahati: Press Club of Assam (PCA) demands a modern multi-media centre in Guwahati for the benefit of working journalists across northeast India and urged State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma totake personal interest in realising the project nearby the International Convention Center or Guwahati Club Rotary (opposite to Kamrup Academy School). PCA, in a media ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the mysterious death of a young Indian scribe and raises demand for an authentic probe to findreasons behind the untimely demise of Abdur Rauf Alamgir (32), who hailed from Assam province in northeast India. Local media organisations informed that Alamgir ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, while expressing its concern over the blockade on Asia Sentinel, an independent online media outlet focusing on Asian news coverage, urges the Singapore government (precisely the interior minister K. Shanmugam) to withdraw the ban immediately and unconditionally. ‘Access to Asia Sentinel’s website has apparently ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the killing of Bangladeshi journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim (45), who becomes the 26th media person to be killedthis year till date. It also demands a fair probe to book the culprits and punish them under the law. Local media reported that Nadim ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the missing of Pakistan journalist and political commentator Imran Riaz Khan for weeks after his arrest at Sialkot international airport and urged the federal government in Islamabad to launch a probe to get his whereabouts at the earliest. The 47 ...
First thing first. I never imagined to be a journalist (not to speak of a sports reporter) but destiny had a special script (prepared in a bad mood) for me. After appearing in the final year examination in Assam Engineering College (1990), I went to meet our unique Physics Professor Surendranath Medhi (many believe him ...
Guwahati: The role of media is to balance between truth and general welfare of the whole society and it should be the mantra for media personnel as propounded by Devarshi Narad since time immemorial, said Narendra Kumar Dev, Akhil Bharatiya Sah Prachar Pramukh of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday, while gracing the annual Maharshi ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses its concern over the killing of senior Pakistan television scribe Imtiaz Baig by unidentified gunmen in Jhelum locality of Punjab province. Baig, who worked for private news channel Samaa TV, faced the brutal attack on 4 May 2023 as he came out of ...
Guwahati: Assam’s well known journalist Rupam Barua has been selected for the Prestigeous Devarshi Narad Jayanti award this year, which will be conferred on the nationalist media columnist on Saturday. Barua, who also edits popular Assamese children magazine Sofura, was recently selected for the coveted award, informs Kishor Shivam of Visva Sambad Kendra Assam. As ...
