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.
Sonapur: A recent workshop on understanding child growth and development in schools drew huge response from the school teachers in and around Guwahati. Organized by Assam Don Bosco University on March 1 and 2, the national workshop package aimed at 'enhancing the effectiveness of a school as an institution of education through strengthening the capacity and ability of school teachers by understanding the child in the context of society, polity, economics, culture, physical, psychological, and special needs, thus making the teaching - learning process effective and child friendly within school in relation to larger socio-cultural milieu, said Jacob Islary, the...
KOKRAJHAR: Security forces are believed to have killed an NDFB-S rebel at an encounter in Kokrajhar on Monday.Acting on a tip off army, police and para military forces conducted a combing operation in Jhorbari area where the rebel was killed in the wee hours. Details are awaited.
Kokrajhar: Kokrajhar is gearing up to host an international trade fair. Courtesy Bodo Writers Academy, an organisation of Bodo writers where the leaders are preparing to hold the event from March 10 at the Bodofa Cultural Complex in Kokrajhar. The fair will mark the 34th Foundation Day of the Bodo Writers Academy and Bodoland Book Fair which would be continued till March 20. The trade and Book fair has been associated by national Book Trust(NBT) and Sahitya Academy of India. A multi-poets meet is also being organised in which noted poets across the country and writers area participating. Nearly 100 stalls from different states,apart from foreign countries Bhutan,...
KOHIMA: NDPP legislative party leader Neiphiu Rio on Sunday called on Governor PB Acharya and staked claims to form the government a day after the new regional party and BJP came close to the magic mark. The Governor asked the NDPP leader Rio to submit signatures of all the 32 MLAs supporting him by Monday to take a final conclusion on the formation of the new government in the north eastern state. NDPP and BJP have won 30 seats where JD(U) MLA G Kaito Aye and Independent legislator Tongpang Ozukum announced support to Rio and his party.
Kokrajhar: A total 32 couples from Santhali community from different villages of Kokrajhar have tied the knot at a same function on Sunday showing the unity of the poor people who otherwise would have found it difficult to do it. Manzhi Porgana Baishi, Gaurinagar in Kokrajhar district organized the functions where hundreds of people from different areas thronged the venue to witness it. BTC executive members Doneswar Goyary, Rajiv Brahma, social activist Sudang Brahma were prominent attendees on the occasion.
BABUL GOGOISHILLONG: A non Congress coalition government is set to be installed in Meghalaya. UDP legislative meeting which took place on Sunday morning at Donkuper Roy’s residents in Shillong announced support to NPP to form the government.NPP chief Conrad Sangma accompanied by his legislators and their UDP and BJP counterparts are meeting governor Ganga Prasad on Sunday evening to stake claim to form the government with Conrad as chief minister. The high voltage development took place a day after Congress got 21 seat, NPP 19, BJP 2 and UDP 6 seats with six independents who wants non Congress government in the state.
Kokrajhar, Mar 3: An unidentified body struck no less sensation in Kokrajhari on Saturday after somebody dumped it in the evening. Local residents in Ward No 19 told Assam Times that they spotted the body at 5.45 in the evening which they suspected to have seen after somebody dumped in the area. Police came to the spot and recovered the body which might be of 50-52 years old. Police investigation is going on.
SHILLONG: Meghalaya’s power plays draws no less attention of the political strategies since Congress is emerging as the single largest party even after it falls short of nearly 10 seats to cross the magic 31 mark.But BJP which will has to remain satisfied with two seats in the Christian dominated state pins hopes on the support of NPP and UDP to unseat the ruling Congress. Now the focus falls on the independent candidates who have become the target of both Congress and BJP. BJP leader and master strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma is waging a slew of option to install a non Congress coalition government. AICC has also sent senior leaders Kamal Nath and Ahmed Patel to help the party...
KOHIMA: BJP-NDPP alliance is in a mood to wrests power from NPF in Nagaland with 33 seats towards the end of vote counting in the north eastern state on Saturday. The ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) led by chief minister TR Zeliang had to remain satisfied with 24 seats leaving no space for Congress in the 60 member assembly where voting took place on Tuesday. NDPP president and chief ministerial candidate Neiphiu Rio has already been declared uncontested from Northern Angamai-II seat. Others are set to get three seats in the assembly polls. Nagaland’s assembly polls assumed significance since all major political parties and leaders have defied the diktat of the civil society...
PRASENJIT SAHA AGARTALA: Setting at rest an era of anxiety the 20 year Left Fort collapses like a pack of cards in Tripura as the vote counting in the evening. Now BJP’s lotus blooms brightly in yet another north eastern state. With a landslide victory, a resurging BJP- IPFT alliance is preparing to form the government in the state in a couple of days allowing the Left Front to e decimated. The alliance has wrested 41 seats, ten more than the magic mark 31. Initially, Left and BJP-IPFT alliance moved neck and neck putting both the camp in deep dilemma which did not last long as after a couple of rounds BJP took an unstoppable lead weakening...
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