Wi-Fi Internet Service in Press Club premises
The Wi-Fi internet service will be available for journalists Monday onwards in Guwahati Press Club. The specific service, offered by Java Internet, will be launched on on June 6. The member-journalists can use the facility free of cost any day. This wireless service will also be available in all laptops taken inside the press club premises.
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The Journalists’ Forum, Assam has organized a citizen’s meet at Guwahati Press Club today. Various environmental organizations and individuals participated in the meeting. The meeting unanimously resolved three decisions for greater interest of wildlife protection initiatives in Assam.
In its first resolution, the meeting demanded that the authority must ensure a transparent forensic test of the ‘to be burn’ over 1500 endengered rhino horns by the forest department of Assam. Mentionable that Assam forest department has already made a decision (also make it public) to dispose off all the rhino horns in its possession. The department has also formed a committee under...
Dr Sushil Kumar Jain, senior surgeon of Apollo Indraprastha Hospital, will interact with the members of Guwahati Press Club on May 22. The program will begin at 12 noon (Saturday). Dr Jain, who completed his M.S. (General Surgery) from Guwahati Medical College, did his post graduation in London. Member-journalists are requested to participate in the program.
The Burma Centre Delhi and the Journalists’ Forum, Assam have jointly organized a consultation meeting on the proposed general election in Burma (Myanmar) with a focus on its probable implication in Northeast India. The meeting to be held in Guwahati Press Club on January 30 (Saturday) will start at 10:30 am. Mentionable that, the military rulers of Burma have recently reaffirmed a general election this year by October. The last election held in Burma during 1990 was won by the National League for Democracy (392 out of 492 parliament seats), but the regime ignored the results and refused to handover the power till today. Instead, more repressive methods were practiced to crack down...
Guwahati Press Club has announced a short term media fellowship to study and document the indigenous sports of Assam (primarily from Brahmaputra valley). The selected fellow will try to gather information about the traditional sports, mostly its rules & regulations and also a probable picture, with an aim to get it published in a book form later.
The fellowship has been sponsored by Gopal Jalan in his father Basudev Jalan’s memory. The interested media persons (preferably members of Guwahati Press Club) are requested to apply for the same on or before January 20 to the Secretary, Guwahati Press Club with a formal application with his/her bio-data.
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.
The world witnessed for almost two weeks how the negotiations went on during the UN global climate conference in the freezing cold Danish capital. The conference, the biggest in the history of mankind for the cause of environment, witnessed the participation of over 130 heads of government and states from around the globe, where every one initially remarked that the summit must not be failed.
But the latest series of negotiation and discussion proved that the division between the developed and developing remained intact. The repeated opposition and adjournment of the meetings delayed the acceptance of the resolutions. The summit, which was supposed to get concluded by Friday night,...
Hectic negotiations among the climate negotiators from different countries, never ending protest and demonstrations carried out by various activists in the freezing cold winter and unbelievable busyness of the environment NGO workers and also the media persons inside and outside the historic Bella Center at the Danish capital remained some important highlights from the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009.
With formal negotiation process starting from December 7, the climate summit is going to culminate on December 19 though the probable outcome is yet to get assured as the divide between the developed (western) and developing (eastern) countries continues to hunt the...
A group of journalists, joined by eminent citizens, artists and social activists on Thursday registered their protest against terrorist brutality in Bhimajuli on October 4 and government inaction preceding the fateful night.
They took out a rally on the thoroughfares of Guwahati city shouting slogans like “We condemn government inaction,” “Hang the terrorists” and “Stop massacre of children.” The protesters came onto the streets in response to an appeal by 12 journalists who included chairman of Assam Tribune group Tulsi Govinda Baruah, veteran journalists Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah, Dhirendra Nath Chakravorty and littérateur Nirupama Borgohain....
The Assam State AIDS Control Society in association with Guwahati Press Club has organized a media workshop on HIV/AIDS at the press club on September 22. The programme will begin at 10.30 am.
The meeting is understood to have deliberations on the highly sensitive issue, where the officials of the State AIDS Control Society will make audio-visual presentations. The interested member-journalists of the press club are requested to contact the secretary, Guwahati Press Club for participation in the programme.
Although Manipur has remained a high prevalence state regarding the epidemic, Assam has been able to keep the epidemic at a low prevalence over the years because of the efforts of...
Guwahati Press Club in association with ActionAid (Northeast India regional office) has declared three short term media fellowship for young journalists of the State. The month long fellowship will provide space for the working journalists to study and report about the impact of the climate change in Assam, which is finally expected to draw the attention of the policy makers. Similarly, the other fellowship is expected to make public awareness regarding the natural and man made disasters in the locality.
It may be mentioned that Actionaid is an international humanitarian organization, whose primary concern is to reduce the risk related to all kinds of disaster and the impact of the...
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