Health check up at press club
Guwahati Press Club in association with the Sun Valley Diabetic Care and Research Center, Guwahati has organized a health check up camp for media persons on December 31 next (Thursday). The camp, to be held at the press club premises, will start at 10 am (and continue till 2 pm). Senior surgeon Dr Sudhir Jain with Dr Bikash Bhattacharya, Dr Mukul Bora will attend the camp and be available for consultation. Member-journalists of the press club are encouraged to participate in the camp.
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A media workshop titled 'Tracking the activities of MPs and MLAs' was organized at Guwahati Press Club today (September 16, 2008), where variuos aspects of media reporting on the functioning of legislative bodies and legislators were discussed. Organized by PRS Legislative Research, a New Delhi based NGO, in association with Guwahati Press Club, the workshop also focused on highlighting the activities of MLAs and MPs using authentic information sources. Nearly 30 journalists representing the print, web and audio-visual media participated the programme, where Chakshu Roy and Mr Madhavan attended as resource persons. Mentionable that PRS Legislative Research is an independent research...
A media workshop titled 'Tracking the activities of MPs and MLAs' has been organized at Guwahati Press Club on September 16, 2008. Organized by PRS Legislative Research, a New Delhi based NGO, in association with Guwahati Press Club, the workshop will focus on tracking the functioning of legislative bodies and legislators, as well as, highlighting their activities using authentic information sources. The workshop, beginning at 11 am, is open for Assam based journalists representing the print, web and audio-visual media. Interested media persons are requested to register their names at the office of the press club as not more than 25 journalists will be entertained for the programme....
Journalists from different parts of India with advocacy groups had met at Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh in central India today for a wide range discussion on the freedom of press as well as the protection of the journalists working in the conflicts zones.Inaugurating the workshop, Justice Subashan Reddy, Chairman of Human Rights Commission, Andhra Pradesh endorsed that the media must be protected to uphold the democratic values, but, he added, the journalists must also be restrained and cautious while performing their duties.“After all the people (readers and viewers) have their rights as well to read (and listen) correct news,” commented Justice Reddy adding that...
The Press Institute of India (PII) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have jointly organized a daylong workshop on Media, Conflict Reporting and International Humanitarian Law at Hyderabad on September 5. The workshop is expected to pave way for journalists and advocacy groups for a wide range discussion on the freedom of press and the protection of the journalists, who continue reporting from the conflict zones.Organized in collaboration with the Department of Journalism, Osmania University, the workshop is designed to sensitize the participating journalists about the existing rules and norms of conflict, the role to be played by media while reporting conflict, safe...
A group of journalists from Guwahati Press Club today visited the city based Forensic Science Laboratory to attend a media sensitization programme on various aspects of forensic science, which is essential for authentic reporting on crimes.The joint director of the Laboratory, Dr Padmapani made a power point presentation and elaborated about the facilities available in the laboratory.
Guwahati Press Club in association with the city based Forensic Science Laboratory has organized a media sensitization programme on various aspects of forensic science, which is essential for authentic reporting on crimes. The programme will take place on August 30 at 11 am.A group of journalists will visit the laboratory at Kahilipara on that day, where the Joint Director Dr Padmapani will deliver a lecture on the importance of the forensic science for credible reporting for the media.
A senior US officer from the Information Office of American Embassy in New Delhi will attend a media interaction programme of Guwahati Press Club on September 11. During the programme, starting at 11:30 am, Ms. Tara Rigler will deliver a speech on the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election. Moreover, she will respond to the queries of the journalists as well.It is expected that the interaction will provide the city based journalists a rare opportunity to know more about the American Presidential polls. Member-journalists are requested to attend the same.
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