Articles for category: Media, News, world

Foreigner arrested for illicit visit to Andaman’s isolated area

Guwahati: London-based global outfit dedicated for indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights, Survival International (SI) expressed relief that a foreigner was arrested after landing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean to make contact with the uncontacted Sentinelese people. Terming the news as deeply disturbing, the Sl  director Caroline Pearce commented on 2 April 2025 ...

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TV Journalist killed in Nepal, PEC demands fair probe

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body expresses shock over the killing of a Nepali journalist in Kathmandu on 28 March 2025 and demanded a fair probe into the tragic incidents which led to the demise of television journalist Suresh Rajak (photo). Local media reports reveal that Rajak was burnt ...

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Bangladesh may go for elections by 2025

New Delhi: There are indications surfacing from Bangladesh that the country may go for national elections by this year if the concerned political parties agree to accept a minimal reform in various administrative, financial and electoral agencies with assurances that the winning representatives in Jatiya Sansad  (National Assembly/Parliament) will continue pursuing the reform process in ...

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New political party coming up in Bangladesh

Guwahati:  As expected, a new political party is emerging in the trouble-torn Bangladesh under the leadership of agitating students and young people, who compelled the  sitting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India on 5 August 2024.  The new entity, to be named Jatiya Nagorik Party (National Citizens’ Party), will be launched ...

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Prof Yunus greets Hindus in Bangladesh on Saraswati Puja

Guwahati: As the Hindu population of Bangladesh celebrates  Saraswati Puja to worship the deity of wisdom, knowledge, and arts on 3 February 2025, the caretaker government chief greets members of the Hindu community on the auspicious occasion. Chief adviser to the interim government  in Dhaka, Professor Muhammad Yunus in a message termed Bangladesh as an ...

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Assam minister Bimal Borah in London for Advantage Assam 2.0

Guwahati: After the road show of Advantage Assam 2.0 in Dubai, Assam industry, commerce and public enterprise minister Bimal Borah arrived in London on Thursday. After arriving there as a precursor to the Advantage Assam 2.0 summit, Borah met with British minister for Indo-Pacific, Catherine West  at her office in the evening hours. Borah explained ...

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Globally a record number of journalists killed in 202

Geneva: A record number of media persons  have been killed this year across the world, observed the global safety & rights body Press Emblem Campaign. At least 165 of them lost their lives in 21 countries on the globe (till Tuesday) said the PEC. Two conflicts are responsible for two thirds of victims namely the ...

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12th media persons killed in Pakistan, PEC expresses serious concern

Geneva:  Pakistan, even though without any war on it, continues to lose media persons to assailants and the south Asian nation witnessed the 12 th journo-victim within 12 months of 2024. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern after receiving the news about the murder of another journalist ...

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Cambodian journalist died with bullet injuries, PEC demands justice

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, demands justice to Cambodian journalist Chhoeung Chheung, who was shot by a homemade gun inside a forest reserve in Siem Reap locality on 4 December 2024. Chheung (63), who worked for an online  media outlet named Kampuchea Aphivath (Cambodia Development News), emerged as a ...

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11th journalist killed in Pakistan, PEC expresses concern

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over continued killing of journalists in Pakistan as another scribe lost his life in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering Afghanistan. Janan Hussain (40) became one of the 42  Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen in Kurram locality on 20 November. ...

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Palestinian journalist receives PEC 2024 prize

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) annual prize 2024 for the protection of journalists was awarded to Palestinian journalist Iyad Alasttal on 20 November. Since 7 October last year, more than 150 Palestinian and Lebanese journalists have been killed, which is an unprecedented toll in a conflict in such a short space of time. The PEC ...

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How Beijing playing  tricks with Myanmarese hope   

China’s ruling Communist party knows how to deal with a military regime along with the pro-democracy armed forces reflecting the aspiration of common people and Beijing has played the tricks in Myanmar (also known as Burma/Brahmadesh). The giant neighbour remains supportive to various batches of military rulers in the southeast Asian country and at the ...

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Special UNSG envoy on Myanmar has little regard for human rights

Guwahati: Special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar Julie Bishop seemingly has little regard to human rights, observes Progressive Voice, an umbrella organisation of pro-democracy Burmese outfits. In its weekly statement, the organisation argued that Julie Bishop made her first address to a UN General Assembly committee since her appointment in April and ‘her ...