Guwahati Press Club with the support from ERD Foundation, Guwahati has declared a short term fellowship programme to study various aspects of pavement dwellers (primarily beggars) of the city. The one and half month long fellowship is expected to provide space for the journalist to go for an in-depth study (and report) about the issue. The fellow will try to analyze the reason behind their homelessness, categorization and also the security aspect of the homeless persons in Guwahati.
The selected fellow will be offered Rs 15,000 as remuneration. At the end of the fellowship, (s)he has to submit a comprehensive report (of not less than 5000 words) on the issue (preferably in English ) to the press club, which may be brought out in printed form later.
Interested journalists (preferably from Guwahati) are requested to send the application with a brief CV and a sample report (of any issue) to the office of Guwahati Press Club on or before March 13, 2009.
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Caught in a grim situation of paralyzing dissidence against him, Chief minister Tarun Gogoi is leaving it all on the party high command.
This was what forest minister Rockyul Hussain told reporters...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday asked police to nab the culprits in the Guwahati molestation case within the next 48 hours. But out of 12 identified police have so far arrested only 4 miscreants. That too five days after the shocking incident that brews widespread acrimony. Chief Minister Gogoi on Friday evening appointed a Special Task Force to look into the matter. Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women formed a three-member team which is in Guwahati to conduct a probe.
A Bihu troupe from Assam will dazzle in London Olympics. A 16-member troupe will be performing Bihu during the Indian campaign for the London Olympics on August 1 and 2 at Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre in London. Led by Bihu exponent Ranjeet Gogoi, the team will lead the trip on July 25. Also, the creations of Utpal Baruah, an associate professor in the department of design at IIT, Guwahati, will be exhibited at the ‘Olympic Fine Arts-2012’ to be held in London for the visitors during the Olympics.
She lost her mother when she was just eight months old. Her mother Lakshi Dey died in a mysterious burning incident in Birubari,Guwahati five years back. Father Syamol Dey had abandoned her the very next year and was disappeared forever. Grandfather Pramod Debnath took helpless Priyanka to his house at Puthimari village near Kalaigaon after the death of her mother. Life was colorful for Priyanka at the company of her grandfather. But something terrible was waiting for little Priyanka. She lost her vision completely in 2009 due to pox infection. Illiterate Pramod could never understand that she was loosing her vision. It was too late to realize the cruel reality. This is the miserable heart...
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Saturday targeted a satellite TV news channel alleging that a reporter of the channel was actively involved on the Guwahati molestation incident. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, the RTI activist said that the entire incident was planned by a group of miscreants involving NewsLive reporter Gauravjyoti Neog. Gogoi produced some video clippings to justify his claim he made o Friday. According to him, Neog planned the incident for footage and he was also part of the mob that assaulted the girl. He further slammed the channel’s management, editor in chief and managing for trying to shield the reporter and demanded that the channel should be...
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Friday demands President’s Rule in Assam to bail out the state from the worsening law and order situation. Talking to reporters, Gogoi said that Guwahati is teeming with lumpen elements and criminals where the people have no safety and security. He further demanded a CBI probe into the incident saying that the incident suggests total collapse of law and order in the state. He further claimed that the DGP is aware of the whereabouts of the criminals ad that he can’t take action in face of pressure from the government. KMSS activists, will gather on Sunday in Guwahati to protest the breakdown of law and order in the state.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday asked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to strictly deal with the perpetrators in the Guwahati molestation case. Talking to reporters in Chandigarh, Chidambaram strongly condemned the brutal molestation of a girl in Guwahati. On the other hand, a delegation of the National Women Commission is expected to arrive in Guwahati to assess the incident.
Police have arrested one more youth in connection with the recent molestation case on the GS Road. Operation is on to nab 8 others culprits who outraged the modesty of a teen aged girl in full view of a crowd on Monday. According to police, 12 others have been identified on the basis of the video clip of thebrawl. One of those arrested earlier was a contractual employee of the Assam Electronic Development Corporation Ltd Amarjyoti Kalita, who had also acted inan Assamese serial. The other two arrested were Dhanonjoy Basfor and Bulbul Das. They were charged under Sec 341 (wrongful restraint), Sec 143 (unlawful assembly), Sec 294 (obscene act), Sec 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), Sec 354 (...
Three suspected NDFB cadres were gunned down during an encounter with security forces in Goalpara district on Friday. According to police, the encounter took place during an operation in Salpara around in the wee hours. In the retaliatory firing, three cadres were killed, while the rest two managed to escape. An AK-56 rifle, a 9mm pistol, a Chinese grenade and over 100 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the spot.
A woman died of electrocution when she was trying to charge her mobile phone in Kamrup (Rural) district on Friday. The incident took place in the morning in Pitambar Hat Bajali village, when the woman jolted as she put the mobile charger to the switch and fell unconscious in her house of the district. Identifiedas Lalita Kumar, she was rushed to the Rangiya Civil Hospital hospital where she was declared brought dead.
EMFA urges Akhil to prove allegation against media person Guwahati, July 13: The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has expressed serious concern at an activist’s unfounded allegation against a television journalist (also a member of EMFA) being involved with the molestation of a girl in the street of Guwahati on Monday last. The EMFA argues that the verbal allegation leveled by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity leader Akhil Gogoi, in a press meet held at Guwahati Press Club on Friday, against Gaurav Jyoti Neog (of NewsLive) is out of context, and the forum has asked the activist to prove his allegation within 4 pm tomorrow (Saturday).
Otherwise, the forum demands a public apology...
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