The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has condemned the Asom Sahitya Sabha for serving "extortion notices" to a number of electronic media houses in Guwahati. A letter printed on the official ASS pad (vide no 2010-2011-2165-71) and signed by its general secretary Paramananda Rajbangshi has demanded Rs 3,50,000 from four news channels — NewsLive, DY365, NewsTime Assam and Prag News at the...
Mridul Phukan alias Samar Kakati, the prime accused in the murder of eminent journalist Parag Das, was Tuesday acquitted by a Guwahati court for lack of evidence. District and Sessions Judge, Kamrup, Justice Dilip Kumar Mahanta, delivered the verdict in a jam-packed court amidst tight security. The one-line verdict said Phukan, one of the three living accused in the murder case, was acquitted due...
Journalists in Assam have served a seven-day ultimatum to the state government for arresting those responsible for the killing of Anil Mazumdar, executive editor of daily Aji on Tuesday night. The Journalists Action Committee (JAC) has warned that lackadaisical attitude on the part of the government to carry the investigation forward will compel the journalists fraternity to take up vigorous...
Anil Mazumdar, the editor of Assamese daily Aji, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in front of his house in Guwahati on Tuesday night. Majumdar was returning home from office around 10:30 pm when he was attacked.
Press freedom groups have condemned the killing of a reporter in Assam's Kokrajhar district and urged the Indian government to ensure the safety of journalists working in conflict zones in the Northeast. "The police in Assam must thoroughly and transparently investigate Jagjit Saikia's killing," said Bob Dietz, Asia Programme Coordinator of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
A journalist of a leading Axomiya daily was Saturday shot dead by miscreants in Lower Assam's Kokrajhar district. Jagajit Saikia (35), the Kokrajhar district local correspondent of the Guwahati-based daily Amar Asom, was shot at near a pharmacy in the heart of Kokrajhar town, official sources said. The gunmen fired six rounds, they said. Saikia was immediately rushed to the Rupnath Brahma Civil...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened and angered at news of the brutal death of Asomiya Pratidin correspondent and Morajhar Press Club president Md Muslimuddin on April 1. According to the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), an IFJ affiliate, Muslimuddin was attacked about 10pm while returning home on a bicycle near in Jagirod in India’s north-eastern state of Assam. An...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the “ban†imposed on a daily newspaper, Asomiya Protidin, by a political party in Assam. According to information received from an IFJ affiliate, the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), armed vigilantes belonging to the Bodo People’s Front (BPF), intercepted a delivery van belonging to the newspaper on February 25 in Kokrajhar...
Tinsukia (Assam), June 21: A scribe of a popular local daily was arrested from upper Assam’s Tinsukia for allegedly selling sim cards to the ULFA and for being entrusted to prepare the groundwork for setting up a new frontal organisation. District Superintendent of Police Prasanta Kumar Bhuyan told reporters that Robin Dhekial Phukan, correspondent of ‘Asomiya Pratidin’, the largest...
A female journalist was dragged, kicked and punched mercilessly by security guards recently when she attempted to interview a group of hospitalised women at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital, according to delayed reports. Afrida Hussain of Northeast Television (NeTV), who had a hand broken in the assault on March 31, is now undergoing treatment at the International Hospital, Guwahati. The...
