Eye check-up camp at press club

Finally Assam government has bowed down to the growing public outrages. Following intense public pressure, the province government of Northeast India, has favoured for a CBI probe into the cases of rhino poaching at different preserves in the state. The state chief minister Tarun Gogoi on May 2 declared that following demands from various socio-environment organizations, the government has decided to go for a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the killing of over 30 rhinos in Assam since January 2007.The civil societies and the advocacy groups of the region had rigorously raised voices against the slaughtering of endangered one horn rhinos by poachers since the early part of 2008...

Guwahati Press Club (GPC), in association with DS Group, has decided to engage a group of journalists to study two important issues namely medicinal plants and mobile theatre groups of Assam. The press club will select four mid career journalists in two groups to study both the issue in details and report accordingly. The study program will include the usefulness and market potentiality of medicinal plants available in Assam. Moreover, the economy of mobile theatres of the state, the prospect of entertainment tax collection and a welfare scheme for the artists and technicians (with other) of those groups will be studied and report in the media outlets. Two comprehensive reports (in...

The 10th Guwahati Press Club Inter Media Cricket tournament has kicked off today morning at Latashil play ground, Guwahati. The inaugural match is played between Dainik Batori eleven and Assam Tribune eleven. Next match is scheduled between Photo Journalist eleven and The Sentinel eleven.The final match of the tournament is scheduled to be held on March 23.

Nellie, a sleepy village in Assam witnessed a heinous massacre in 1983 snatching the lives of thousands of Muslims. It was the time, when the Assam agitation led by All Assam Students Union reached peak and New Delhi imposed an election in Assam against the will of the indigenous people. The memory of Nellie massacre still haunts the Assamese psyche. The media revisited the Nellie story recently when former Express reporter Hemendra Narayan recently released a booklet on Nellie and its coverage 25 years ago.And it also became the occasion for some unabashed rehashing by a journalist. A story on NDTV's portal following the release was an example of this. Nitin A Gokhale, who visited Nellie...