National award winning Youth Assamese Journalist Amarjyoti Borah has been selected for the Wolfson Press Fellowship offered by Cambridge University, United Kingdom. The three month fellowship will start from April 19 and during the course of the fellowship the fellows will research on their selected subject areas.
Amarjyoti has already made a mark in the field of Environment Reporting. In 2007 he was adjudged the “Youth Environmental Journalist (print) of the Year” by the Forum of Environment Journalists at New Delhi. Again in 2008 he was among 15 Journalists from Asia, Europe and Africa who were selected for a scholarship to attend a two months advanced training on environment reporting at Berlin, Germany. The scholarship and training was offered by the International Institute of Journalism, Berlin.
The Wolfson Press Fellowship brings Journalists from various countries to Wolfson College, Cambridge University to research on a particular topic of interest to the Journalist. Amarjyoti will be researching on the issues of Climate Change and the Environment Refugees.
“My area of case study will be the impacts of Climate change on the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh, and its impacts on the human population”, says Amarjyoti. “I will also be concentrating on issues of the rights of the people there, and the views of the international community and international organisations on these issues”, adds Amarjyoti.
Amarjyoti has been reporting for “Down to Earth”, a leading Environment and Science magazine and have covered many major issues related to the North. The coverage on the destruction of the heritage caves in the Jaintia hills in Meghalaya has been widely appreciated. Besides this, his coverage of the much neglected oil spill issue at Changpang in Nagaland along with exclusive interview of NSCH leaders on this issue have had major impacts. Amarjyoti has also reported extensively on the impacts of Climate Change on different aspects of human life. “The entire North East is reeling under severe impacts of climate change. The consequences could be devastating in the future”, says Amarjyoti.
Amarjyoti, who has several achievement to his name is a resident of Rukmini Nagar, Guwahati and is the younger son of Sri Hiren Borah and Nizara Bora.
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Assam governer JB Patnaik on Friday visited kokrajhar and reviewed the law and order situation in view of the upcoming BTAD polls. He talked to the top ranked police and civil officials who apprised him of the steps to ensure the poll a free and fair.
Authorities on Thursday have issued a non bailable warrant against Gogoi. The action is coming up after the Dhemaji district administration lodged a complaint against him alleging his role in the recent incident in front of DC office premises. Scores were injured when police and CRPF jawans sprang upon a mammoth gathering but according to the FIR a section of the people led by Akhil Gogoi pelted stones at the security forces deployed there.
A major disaster was averted when some passengers of an Assam bound passenger train managed to douse fire sparks in Kanpur on Thursday. The incident took place near Kanpur in the evening as the Rajdhani Express from New Delhi was bound for Dibrugarh. Some passengers of the train talked to the authorities as they came to see fire sparks in their compartment. They furthur tried to douse it after the train halted. Fire brigade rushed to the spot but by then the situation was brought under control. However, there was no report of any casualty.
The University of Columbia will conduct a study on the health and hygiene in in Morigaon district of Assam. Inaugurating a nursing training centre under the National Rural Health Mission on Thursday state Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said experts from the university are scheduled to arrive here soon and start their study on the district's health and hygiene and also its subsequent impact and remedies. The varsity has selected two districts, one each in Assam and Uttar Pradesh, as model districts to assess the prevailing health and hygiene issues, he added.
Assam also joins the census operation which began accross the country on Thursday. A group of the Kamrup district officials deployed in census operation reached the official residence of chief minister Tarun Gogoi and kicked started the operation. Immediately after it they left for the Raj Bhawan and met Governer J B Patnaik for collecting is information.
he Assam chapter of National Union of Journalists has organized a media workshop on judicial news reporting in Guwahati Press Club on April 4. The programme is open for the selected reporters of various newspapers and news channels of the State. Justice (Retired) D.N. Choudhury will attend the function as the chief guest and deliver the keynote address and Pachugopal Baruah, the former Advocate General of Assam will preside over the inaugural function. Two senior advocates of Gauhati High Court, Arup Borbora and Mrinal Kumar Choudhury have been invited to attend the programme as resource persons.
Scores of people have been injured when police flogged a huge gathering in Dhemaji as they were protesting against a set of anti government policies. The incident took place when the people led by KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi were waiting to raise their demands before the deputy commissioner who refused to come out of his chamber. As a section of protesters tried to sneak into the office, police and para military forces sprang upon them and started beating up the people. Beside blankfiring the security personnel lobbed teargas shells to disperse the protesters. Later talking to reporters, Gogoi said the government has no moral right to continue after it tried to gag a serious protest.
The normal proceedings on the floor came to a grinding halt as the opposition members are staging dharna at the Assembly House premises demanding horse trading in the recent Rajya Sabha poll where the ruling party retained both seats. Barring the expelled AGP, BJP, AIUDF along with 3 independent MLAs were seen sitting on the floor during the question. The opposition party MLAs are demanding chief minister Tarun Gogoi alleging his role in this nefarious deal. Meanwhile, AGP, BJP and AIUDF leadership have urged the Speaker Tankabahadur Rai to disqualify the MLAs they expelled for defying party whip in the Rajya Sabha poll.
An uneasy situation is prevailing in the Cottion College campus when a girl student commit suicide on Monday. Talking to newsmen at the college campus magistrate Chinmoy Phukan confirmed that Sahanaz Rahman, a degree student in the stream of science committed suicide by hanging at a newly constructed building in the campus after she reached there to appear in the examination. Shahanaz hails from Machkhowa area. Later her body was taken for post mortem in presence of magistrate. Meanwhile a pall of gloom is descending in the entire campus following the incident. It took place hardly a month after a student committed suicide near girl hostel in the Gauhati university campus.
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