Former Director General of Assam Police – Shankar Barua – has committed suicide by shooting himself. He was rushed to a private hospital where he was declared dead. Barua was released from Hospital today and reached home before the incident. It is to be noted that the former DGP has been under the scanner of The Central […]
Eleven accused in the sensational G S Road molestation case here on July nine last, including prime accused Amarjyoti Kalita, were convicted today while four others acquitted. Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate S P Moitra today convicted prime accused Amarjyoti Kalita along with 10 others under various Sections of IPC with rigorous imprisonment of 2 years. The CJM […]
Four years before, the same day a count of serial bomb blasts was ripped apart Guwahati, Barpeta Road, Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar killing more than hundred with several hundred casualties. At that time, I was a journalist in an Assamese daily, and I tried to witness the Ganeshguri blast place as I was near to it at […]
Compromising the very ethics of Journalism as described by the Press Council of India and shattering the principles of code of conduct, reporters of various electronic media and print houses have of late been accused of turning any small time situation into such a extent to increase TRP where viewers remain glued to their TV […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- July 23, 2012 The prime accused in the Guwahati molestation incident, Amar Jyoti Kalita has been arrested finally in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Kalita reportedly surrendered at the Banaras Hindu University Police Chowki in Varanasi today afternoon. Arrested Amar Jyoti Kalita is now in Lanka police station in Varanasi city. DIG […]
By- Jyotishmita Sarma This article is in reference to the recent incident of molestation of a young girl outside Club Mint located in Christian Basti, Guwahati by a mob consisting of some twenty or so young men, and the video being captured by a certain camera person of the NewsLive channel. A few days since […]
By- Staff Reporter | Date- July 20, 2012 Gaurav Jyoti Neog, reporter of city-based NewsLive channel, who had filmed the July 9 molestation of a 20-year-old girl here, was arrested on Friday on the charge of instigating the attack on her. Gaurav Jyoti Neog has been arrested in connection of the case No 191/12 with […]
RTI activist and KMSS General Secretary Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday blasted with a new theory that the recent molestation of the Guwahati girl instigated by the reporter of news channel NewsLive may have been part of a greater conspiracy to stain the image of and destabilise the government. Pointing out that the channel is owned […]
About 19 years ago at a famine affected area in Sudan, world famous photojournalist Kevin Carter had shot a photograph of a vulture approaching a withered baby. For the photograph, he waited for the vulture to enter into a frame with the baby, for which he was asked questions later on whether he was a […]
One of the prime accused of barbaric Guwahati molestation incident, Amar Jyoti Kalita has been arrested in Orissa. He is arrested from Bhubneswar railway station. Assam Police yet to confirmed the arrest of Amar Jyoti Kalita, who was an employee of AMTRON India Pvtd Ltd. However another prime accused Gaurav Jyoti Neog has not been […]