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Guwahati: All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA), while expressing concern over the recent controversies relating to Assam Power Distribution Company Limited’s notice to e-rickshaw owners for arranging separate (commercial) charging arrangements, urges the authority to establish charging stations for the benefit of battery run rickshaw pullers. The forum...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed serious concern over the killing of a senior journalist in Balochistan on World Press Freedom Day and demands a thorough investigation over the incident that led to the death of Maulana Mohammad Siddique Mengal.
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Geneva/Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, mourns the death of two senior journalists, who died of Covid-19 complications in China recently.
According to a media report by Reuters with the dateline of Beijing/Shanghai on 16 December 2022, Yang Lianghua (74, a former People’s Daily...
Nava ThakuriaGuwahati: Amidst the threat of spreading novel coronavirus (precisely the Omicron variant) across India, Asom Granthamela (Assam Book Fair) came to a successful end in Guwahati, the virtual capital of Northeast. Organised jointly by Asom Prakashan Parishad (Publication Board Assam, the government sponsored literary institution) and All Assam...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses profound grief over the demise of two Bangladeshi journalists in a devastating fire that took place in Dhaka. The carnage on 29 February 2024 snatched away the lives of at least 46 people including Abhishruti Shastri...
Guwahati: The stage was readied to narrate the inspiring story of Bir Chilarai, the younger brother of Maharaj Narnarayan, the 16th century great Koch king of eastern Bharat, as the astonishing war hero mesmerised everyone with his bravery, clever diplomacy, patriotism and scholarly personality. The makeshift platform, erected on the bank of the mighty river Brahmaputra, welcomed...
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Guwahati: Ranjan Kakati, a senior healthcare administrative manager, associated with Dispur Hospitals in the city, has been honoured with Six Sigma Excellence Awards 2022. The young and energetic professional was handed over the award by Union sports, youth and information & broadcasting (I&B) minister Anurag Singh Thakur...
Nava ThakuriaIT WAS PROBABLY two decades back, when a group of journalists and Guwahati-based patriots marched on a street of Guwahati to celebrate the Independence Day. As a number of separatist armed militant outfits imposed a general strike on the day (that was the way the ethnic insurgents made...
Nava ThakuriaGuwahati: Acclaimed Rakhine author Maung Paw Tun, who translated popular Hindi novel Mera Naam Joker of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas into Burmese language, passes away. The award winning writer-translator, who was suffering from colon cancer, breathed his last at 9:45 am on 13 August 2022 at his residence in...
Guwahati: Assam’s well known journalist Rupam Barua has been selected for the Prestigeous Devarshi Narad Jayanti award this year, which will be conferred on the nationalist media columnist on Saturday. Barua, who also edits popular Assamese children magazine Sofura, was recently selected for the coveted award, informs Kishor Shivam...