Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, a veteran journalist, will receive the Parag Kumar Das Journalism Award 2023. The award includes a cash prize of Rs 25,000, a citation, and a memento. The award ceremony will take place on May 17.
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty currently serves as the National Affairs Editor for the digital news publication 'The Wire.'
The Parag Kumar Das Journalism Award was established to honor the courageous journalist Parag Kumar Das, who lost his life while fighting for the truth. The award recognizes and encourages journalists who tirelessly uncover the truth and bring it to the public.
Utter shock and anger grip Demow in Sivasagar area where two minor boys were cut into pieces two weeks after they went missing forcing the people in large number in the area to hit the streets demanding examplary punishments for the perpetrators. Hundreds of people in the area thronged Nemuguri near Bokota where police arrested a person in this connection after the decapitated bodies were recovered when brought to dump in a river on Thursday evening. Local residents blamed it all on the police who failed to trace out the kids during the last two weeks. “We have doubt over the role of police why they failed to find out the minor boys even after they received the complaints,” said a local...
The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) joins the chorus against the move to impose Sanskrit as compulsory subject till Class VII in all schools alleging a well orchastrated conspiracy being micro managed and monitored from Nagpur.In a statement issued in Guwahati, president Biraj Kumar Talukdar charged the government with preparing to recruit Sanskrit teachers from outside since the state as of now lacks the required strength.”But we won't allow the outside teachers to be recruited in our schools,” said Talukdar.He said AJYCP is never opposed to Sanskrit in the schools since it is the ancient language which needs to be promoted and preserved in the schools and...
In yet another incident of man elephant conflict, wild elephants took the life of woman in the outskirt of Guwahati city on Wednesday.The incident took place in Rani area border Meghalaya where a heard of wild elephants trampled to death a woman in the morning. Identified as Renu Nath, she was at home as the elephants stormed into her home.The heard of wild elephants has been unleashing no less reign of terror in the entire area destroying pady fields and damaging houses for the last couple of months.
Caught in NRC confusion, Opposition leader in the Assam Assembly Debobrata Saikia said that the NRC authority is free to appeal to the court to review the decision.Talking to reporters in Dispur on Wednesday, Saikia said the court might review it as the process gathered momentum.Many political leaders who spoke to Assam Times on the condition of anonymity said that NRC might not be completed with the next two or three years if these documents are rejected. The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday rejected these certificates saying that if a panchayat secretary is allowed to issue such certificates the tribunals might reject its merit. “If the court or a tribunal detects a...
The process to update the National Register of Citizens hits a major roadblock when the Gauhati High Court ordered dismissal of the Gaon Panchayat certificates as link documents.Various political parties, organizations and individuals have expressed grave concern over the new turn where over 50 lakh residential certificates issues by the gaon panchayat secretaries would not work in the process. This would further delay in the completion of the process to update the NRC. The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday rejected these certificates saying that if a panchayat secretary is allowed to issue such certificates the tribunals might reject its merit. “If the court or a tribunal...
Security forces claimed to have flush out rebels from Karbi Anglong district during an intensive ongoing operation. Acting on some disturbing inputs, army’s Red Horns Division of Gajraj Corps is conducting the crackdown in some vulnerable areas where Kuki Liberation Front rebels were allegedly unleashing terror in the form of extortion at regular intervals.
A special court in Guwahati on Tuesday served two months time for the police to complete the ongoing probe into the APSC scam.Accepting the status report of the investigation filed by the SIT led by S S Panesar, the court asked the authorities to complete it by the next two months where the names of a circle of political leaders is believed to have surfaced.The special investigation team set up to probe the scam in the state public service commission on Monday submitted the status report hours after the team grilled former Congress minister Gautom Roy. After interrogating, Roy was asked to appear again on March 18 saying that his statements need to be justified. ...
Instead of the Armed Forces Special Act, the Naga peace framework dominates the pre poll heat and dust between Congress and BJP in Manipur. Rahul Gandhi firmly took on Narendra Modi four days after the Prime Minister blame Congress for backwardness. The Congress vice president on Tuesday slammed the Centre for keeping the north eastern in dark when the Centre struck the peace pact with NSCN-IM in Delhi last year.In his address at a poll rally in Imphal, Gandhi hounded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not examining the pulse of the Manipuris before striking the deal to fetch peace for the Nagas.He said even Okram Ibobi Singh was kept in dark not to speak of the other ministers. “What is...
In a move that benefits Assam and Gujarat, the Centre is paying a huge Rs 22,000 crore fund to ONGC and OIL to bear the burden of pending oil royalty to both the states.Rs 14,698 crore will straightly go to the state exchequers on the condition that the states will never insist on levy of Rs 7,223 crore pending interest.ONGC has Rs 1,404 crore outstanding for Assam as royalties for the period between April 1, 2008 and January, 2014 where the interest liability stands at Rs 2,868 crore. On the other hand, India Ltd (OIL) has Rs 4,902 crore royalty for Assam with Rs 4,355 crore as interest.A couple of years back, Gujarat moved the court a writ petition which asked ONGC to clear the payment of...
Thousands of devotees along with their well-wishers throng in Makhibaha Sabha Mahotsav, a century old socio-cultural & religious festival of northeast India, which was kicked-off last Sunday (26 February 2017). Held in six hundred years old village under Nalbari district in Assam, the festival will continue for nine days. Organized annually by Makhibaha village-development committee at Harimandir premises, the unique fiesta witnesses various programs including rituals, cultural shows, public discourses etc along with brisk business activities. Each and every household of the large village contribute for the fair that gives them an opportunity to showcase their hospitality to guests....
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