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  • Gadgets for scribes lands Assam govt in controversy
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    Gadgets for scribes lands Assam govt in controversy

    Guwahati, October 18, 2019: The Information and Public Relations (I&PR) department of the BJP government in Assam has stoked a controversy over electronic gadgets distributed among journalists. The department which is headed by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has distributed 200 Samsung Galaxy tablets among scribes between 2018-19 and in 2019-20 but a query under the…

  • Pranab reminds the media of its role, duties
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    Pranab reminds the media of its role, duties

    New Delhi, Aug 28, 2019: Former President Pranab Mukherjee here on Wednesday said while newspapers were getting closed everywhere, they were doing quite well in India and urged the media to make a meaningful difference in the field of development communication. “It’s the uniqueness of the Indian economy that gets reflected in the fact that…

  • Plastic: Wake up call from a remote island
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    Plastic: Wake up call from a remote island

    Canberra, May 17 (IANS) Some 414 million pieces of plastic, including one million shoes and over 370,000 toothbrushes, were found washed ashore on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, a new research has revealed. The study, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday, found that the Australian territory was littered…

  • ‘Crying girl’ image wins World Press Photo award
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    ‘Crying girl’ image wins World Press Photo award

    New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) A photograph of a toddler crying helplessly near the US-Mexico border has won the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award. Captured by Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore, the image titled “Crying Girl on the Border” shows Honduran toddler Yanela Sanchez crying as she and her mother, Sandra…

  • Social media main news source for young Indians
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    Social media main news source for young Indians

    New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Online news generally and social media specifically have outpaced print as the main source of news among English-speaking young Indian news users, showed a new report. People over 35 still mix online and offline media to a great extent, according to the Oxford University’s Reuters Institute India Digital News Report. While…

  • Five years that turned India’s concept of news on its head
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    Five years that turned India’s concept of news on its head

    By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) When Anna Hazare launched his India Against Corruption (IAC) in 2011, little did he realise the media convergence – some term it media disruption – the movement would cause over the next five years, unleashing a “spiral of mediatisation with its ever-widening gyres” that has forever changed the…

  • News headlines on Sep 2 noon
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    News headlines on Sep 2 noon

    September 02, 2017: News headlines of selected Eng Papers as found in net version :   The Indian Express: ‘Qurbani’ of cow, buffalo, camel, ox to invite Gangsters Act in UP. Gorakhpur hospital tragedy: Dr Kafeel Khan, in-charge of encephalitis ward, arrested. J&K Policeman dead, 3 injured as militants attack police bus at Pantha Chowk…

  • Short Film, Photograph and Poster Competition for Promotion of Child Rights
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    Short Film, Photograph and Poster Competition for Promotion of Child Rights

    Feb 03, 2017: For the first time after it came in to existence in 2007, The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is organising an All India Short Film, Still Photograph and Poster Competition for promotion of child rights in the country. The Commission has invited entries from film makers, producers, artists and…

  • উরি হামলা: জনমানসে সরকারের দক্ষতা নিয়ে প্রশ্ন
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    উরি হামলা: জনমানসে সরকারের দক্ষতা নিয়ে প্রশ্ন

    ProMASS Media: Agartala: Sep 26, 2016: পাঠানকোটের পর এবার কাশ্মীরের উরি – আরও একবার জওয়ানদের রক্তে রাঙ্গা হল দেশের জাতীয় পতাকা। দায়ী কে? বাক্যবাগীষ নেতা-মন্ত্রীদের ঘন ঘন মিটিং চলছে। দিল্লি থেকে কোঝিকোড় – দেশব্যাপী ছুটে বেড়াচ্ছেন বি জে পি’র মাথারা। উড়ে আসছে স্টেটমেন্টের পর স্টেটমেন্ট। হাত-পা ছোঁড়াছুড়ি, নিন্দা দু:খ প্রকাশ করা, পাকিস্তানকে গালাগাল দেওয়া – সব…

  • Media needs to promote harmony and not divisive communication, says Naidu
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    Media needs to promote harmony and not divisive communication, says Naidu

    ProMASS News Bureau: Sep 01, 2016: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu has said, media serve as an effective ammunition in combating poverty, corruption and terrorism. In his address after inaugurating the Regional Editors Conference this morning in Chennai, organized by the Press Information Bureau, he appealed media to be far away from sensationalism and…