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 statement, reveals that the eco-friendly centre will facilitate a meeting place for scribes, initiate programs for their capacity building and arrange programs for the welfare of media families. “Regular programs like press meets/briefings, interactive sessions with distinguished personalities, screenings of national & international classic movies…
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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 went missing on Saturday and his wounded body was found floating in Kulsi river water at Jambari area of Boko locality under Kamrup district on 26 June. Aresident of Goroimari Hatipara, Alamgir was associated with a news portal titled TNL. The recently married scribe also…
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 been blocked in Singapore by the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information, according to local media, after we refused to comply with an order to correct a May 24, 2023 article concerning the use of government power against dissenters,’ said the media outlets on 3…
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 was physically attacked by some supporters of a local Awami League party leader on 14 June evening at Jamalpur locality and he succumbed to injuries at Mymensingh medical college hospital the next day. Associated with a Dhaka-based news portal (Banglanews24.com) and a news channel (Ekattor…
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 years old scribe’s family members informed that he was flying to Oman after their Lahore-based house was raided by the police in the second week of May and subsequently Khan was arrested. Later thepolice informed the family members that he was released on 11 May…
Guwahati: All Assam Engineers’ Association (AAEA) strongly demands for demarcation of the campus of Assam Engineering College and a solid boundary wall to protect the premier institution of northeast India in Jalukbari locality. The graduate engineer’s forum, while condoling the recent deaths of seven AECians in a late-night road accident, insisted that the regons’ first government engineering college should have a sealed residential campus so that the hostel boarders can not come out after the specified evening hour. “Lot of questions were raised when the fateful accident took place (killing seven and injuring six individuals including three students along with…
Shimla: The Doctors have agreed to end their pen down strike after a meeting with the Chief Minister, Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu held here today. During the meeting, the Chief Minister said that the State Government has not abolished Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) for the medical officers but has withdrawn it for the time being. He also accepted the demands of delegating the DDO powers to the Principal of the Medical Colleges, giving representation to the doctors in Himachal Pradesh Medical Corporation and time bound DPCs for the promotion of doctors. He also assured that contractual doctors would not be…
Guwahati: Expressing profound grief at the demise of seven brilliant students of Assam Engineering College (AEC) in a tragic late night accident on 29 May 2023, All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) urges the college authority to impose some basic disciplinary measures urgently. The forum of graduate engineers (many of them are AECians) also wishes an early recovery to all the injured students and others in the fatal road mishap. The AEC Hostel 7 boarders were returning to the residential college campus from western part of the city and faced the accident near the Jalukbari overbridge. The luxury car carrying ten…
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 Narad Jayanti celebration held at Sudarshanalay in Barbori area of the city. The RSS Pracharak also added that in contrast to Satyam Bruyat-Priyam Bruyat, many of present day’s media outlets prefer to nurture fake news to propagate their selfish agenda. Arguing that the society in…
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 a local mosque after the prayer. He was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries on his face and head, where he succumbed to injuries. Confirming that Baig was killed in the assassination attempt, the police forces have begun theprobe to identify the culprits…
Dhaka: Asia-Pacific Forum Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) sincerely condoles the untimely demise of senior Bangladeshi journalist and green campaigner Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, who breathed his last at 8.30 pm on 2 May 2023 in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for some weeks. Former news editor of the government-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and general secretary of Jatiya Press Club, Chowdhury died of liver ailment and pancreatic cancer. The soft-spoken gentleman was 63 and left behind wife Kazi Shahnaz, son Shah Meem Rafayat Chowdhury, daughter Maimuna Chowdhury along with a host of relative and…
Geneva: The number of journalists killed since January to April 2023 has fallen compared to the same period last year, observed Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (being celebrated on 3 May across the world with the theme of freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights).Since 1 January, 16 media workers have been killed, the lowest number in the past 15 years, according to the same criteria. “This figure is still too high, but if this trend continues, it is finally good news,”…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expressed concern over the arrest of three Afghan journalists by the Taliban forces in the south Asian country and demanded the authorities to stop persecuting the scribes. Local media outlets reported that two reporters from Radio Television Afghanistan (Safiullah Wafa and Noor Agha) and a scribe from TV Tanwir (Ghulam Ali Wahdat) were picked up by the intelligence agencies from Pule-e-Khumri locality in Baghlan province on 5 April. According to Afghanistan Journalists Center, over 236 cases of media freedom violations were documented in the last 12 months. Days back,…
Guwahati: Expressing concern over the alleged unusual increase of monthly electricity bill after shifting to prepaid bill paying system, a forum of graduate engineers urges Assam Power Distribution Company Limited, a division of the government run Assam State Electricity Board, to clarify its stand as the process of changing conventional electro-mechanical meters (with a rotating aluminum disc) to electronic (digital/smart) meters with an LCD or LED display must not record more energy consumption (to increase the monthly bills) at any cost. All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA), while supporting the new technology as preferred by many countries across the globe with…
Shimla: The rural economy of the state is based on agriculture and animal husbandry is a major component of it. Himachal Pradesh has a total livestock population of about 4.41 million and livestock care is an essential part of every rural household. Proper Care on time can bring a lot of benefit to the farmers and enhance their livelihood. The state government under the able leadership of Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is determined to ensure that livestock is provided quality treatment in a time-bound manner, and the farmer is saved of additional expenses like traveling to the point of…