The Supreme Court has stayed an Assam government order cancelling accreditation to the North East Television (NETV) correspondents to cover the 33rd National Games in Guwahati which began Friday, news agencies reported. Soldiers use bomb detectors to check for explosives on a road in Guwahati, Monday, February 5, 2007. The rebel United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) withdrew its call for a...
After its recent carnage in Upper Assam, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has now trained its guns on the media in the state. The militant outfit has warned three editors of local newspapers who criticised the group for asking a private TV channel to prove a news report within a month or to wind up its operations in Assam. Security personnel keep vigil near the bomb blast site at...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the attacks on the NE TV station office by members of the Youth Congress on October 12 in Assam, India. According to an IFJ affiliate, the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), the group of Youth Congress workers gathered outside the station and yelled abuse at NE TV journalist Manoranjana Sinh and her husband, a former central minister...
Journalists in Assam have condemned the recent threat issued by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to four journalists in the state. The ULFA 'commander in chief' Paresh Baruah in a statement on June 8 had accused the journalists of trying to create an atmosphere of confusion over the peace initiative to facilitate direct talks between Government of India and ULFA. OMEGA OF THE ULFA: A...
The assault of a journalist by the police in Assam last week has been condemned by journalists both in the state as well as abroad. HOPING FOR A WAVE: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function in Guwahati in November 2004. The attack on a journalist and the subsequent boycott of government functions by journalist comes as more bad news for Gogoi who has been...
A journalist was seriously injured Friday when policemen assaulted him at Kakopathar, the scene of violent clashes last week that left nine people dead, according to Indo-Asian News Service (IANS). The journalist, Robin Dhekial Phukan, a correspondent with daily Asomiya Pratidin, had gone to the area to cover a visit by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. YOUNG NOT SPARED: A young girl being brought to...
Reports of international condemnation of the killing of a young journalist by a forest ranger in Assam are trickling in but the Indian government is yet to make even the ritual noises about the gruesome murder that has shaken conservationists and journalists alike in the Northeast state. CONCERNED: UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura speaks at a news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados...
GUWAHATI, JANUARY 10: The ranger of the Nambor reserved forest, K Z Zaman Jinnah, was arrested for allegedly murdering journalist Prahlad Goala of Assamese daily Asomiya Khabar in Golaghat on Friday last. Goala had reported on illegal felling of trees in the forest range. Goala, the Golaghat district correspondent of the daily, was reportedly killed by unidentified assailants who waylaid him at...
A journalist with an Assamese daily has been murdered allegedly at the behest of a forest warden he had criticised in several articles. According to the Assam Tribune, Prahlad Goala, the Golaghat correspondent of the Asomiya Khabar, was brutally murdered on the night of January 6 at Thuramukh near Nambar Reserve Forest. Goala is the first journalist to be killed anywhere in the world in 2006...
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has voiced deep concern at a report that a journalist kidnapped five months ago by Assam separatists has since been killed by his kidnappers. Indra Mohan Hakasam, correspondent for the daily Amar Assam published in Assam province in India's extreme northeast, was kidnapped in June by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). "If the murder...
