The Assam government starts distributing the Anundoram Barooah Award to the first and high second division holder HSLC examinees from Tuesday. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi gave away the award to the recipients at a function in Khanapara in the morning.
In his address, Gogoi advised the students to take a vital lead to dress the society afresh with innovative mind and idea which, he hoped, would pay dividend in near future.
Education minister Pradyut Bordoloi, parliamentary secretary for education Rekibudin Ahmed were prominent among those who attended the function.
Comprising a certificate and a laptop, the award would be given away to altogether 40,800 first and high second division holder HSLC examinees in 2014 across the state.
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The doctors, nursing staff and employees union of Kusal Kanwar Civil Hospital took out a protest rally and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner for providing security to the employees...
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Kokrajhar: A Bihu dance workshop was organsied at Rashmela field in Kokrajhar to impart dancing skills among performers in the area.
A good number of performers participated the workshop, which was organized by Kokrajhar Rongmon Bihuwa group.
Bisuwa Utsov and Rongali Bihu is being organizing at Rashmela field beginning from April in Kokrajhar.
Guwahati: The gate-keeping role of traditional media has been questioned by observers, despite the advent of social media where everyone has a say but there is little credible analysis. Reacting to the recent controversy over NaMo TV, the Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has urged news channels in particular to introspect whether they too are facing a major credibility challenge.
The forum, in a statement issued today, posed the question whether common viewers are turning to raw news rather than interpretative news content aired by recognized news channels. If the answer is yes, it could mean professional journalists are being rendered irrelevant as news consumers prefer 'unedited'...
Guwahati: On the eve of Rongali Bihu, the festival of joy & fervor, Guwahati Press Club in association with MMCH, Panbazar has organized a free media OPD clinic on 10 April 2019 at its premises, where the participants will get the opportunity to screen their lipid profile, RFT, LFT, RBS in blood.
The reports will be available next day at the press club office. Member-journalists are requested to arrive at 11 am to join the camp, which will continue till 1 pm on Wednesday
Guwahati: Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) expressed serious concern over the brutal attack on city based television journalist Chakrapani Parashar last evening by a group of vendors at Ganeshguri locality and demanded stringent actions against the culprits.
The forum also urged the State government in Dispur to ensure security to media persons with enacting a special protection law at the earliest. It may be mentioned that Chakrapani, who is working for satellite news channel News18/AssamNE, was stabbed by some workers of a restaurant, adjacent to his office, on Thursday (21 March 2019) evening while he was on duty.
Chakrapani got serious injuries in various parts of his body and...
Seven ULFA-I cadres surrenderd on Monday before police in Tinsukia.
The cadres were identified as Barun Asom, Sourav Asom, Utpal Asom, Bosonto Asom, Ninja Asom, Mazid Moran and Shekharjyoti Asom.
Police paraded the surrendered ULFA cadres before media on Tuesday.
Applications are invited for a Research and Orientation Workshop to be held in Kolkata from 25 November to 29 November 2019. The workshop will be organised by the Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. It will address issues of protection for refugees and migrants, gender, race, religion and other faultlines in the protection regime, neo-liberalism and migrant labour, statelessness, borderlands and the Indian and South Asian experiences in a global context.
Research papers or creative pieces such as photo exhibits or documentaries relevant to the themes mentioned above will have to be presented by selected participants in the workshop which will...
Guwahati: Senior Afghan radio journalist Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar will interact with member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club on 3 March at 3.30 pm.
An MA in international relations, Khalvatgar is scheduled to address the city based scribes through video-conferencing from the capital city of Kabul.
Khalvatgar, who has pursued journalism studies in the Europe and USA along with Turkey, Sri Lanka and India, is expected to discuss about India-Afghanistan relationship, present trend of media in Afghanistan and the impact of alternate media on mainstream journalism.
Author of ‘Islam and Globalization’, ‘Provincial Councils and National Cooperation’ and ‘Ethics on Social Media’, Khalvatgar has...
ITANAGAR : The State Government has announced Ex-gratia of Rs 20 lakhs for diseased families with government job and Rs 10 lakhs for seriously injured person in the recent protest against government's consideration to give PRC to 6 communities. Three protesters were killed in police firing and fine others injured in the recent orgy of violence in the state capital.
Answering to questions by media, Chief Minister Pema Khandu, said that the government is setting up a committee to assess the damage done by the protesters.
Mobile Internet services in the entire state has been suspended.
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The liquor tragedy that struck the state with 200 toll has created no less raucous in the state assembly on Monday leaving the ruling camp red faced. The Opposition cornered the government demanding CBI probe into the incident while the Government allowed the House to discuss the entire opposition.
Visited JMCH today and took stock of the health conditions of the patients who were admitted after consuming illicit liquor and I pray for their speedy recovery.আজি যোৰহাটৰ JMCHত উপস্থিত হৈ সুৰাৰ বিষক্ৰিয়াত আক্ৰান্ত সকলৰ স্বাস্থ্যৰ বুজ লওঁ আৰু আৰোগ্য কামনা কৰো। pic.twitter.com/TaULQiK4DO
— Tarun Gogoi (@tarun_gogoi) February 24, 2019
When the assembly proceedings started, Congress member...
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