Guwahati, June 5: Marking the World Environment Day, the State Chief Minister Shri Tarun Gogoi today announced that the highly endangered river dolphin, locally known as the “Xihu,” would now be the State Aquatic Animal. Earlier today, Shri Rokibul Hussain, Minister for Forest, flagged off a colorful march of about 300 children dressed in caps…
New Delhi, May 23: Ms. Ratrna Bharali Talukdar, a freelance journalist from Assam, has been awarded the Second Media Fellowship on Refugee Issues sponsored by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) for her proposed study on the condition of Chakma and Hajong Rrefugees…
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Sanjoy hazarika speaks at a Colloquim on Global Poverty at Tufts University Feb 22, 2008 The 2008 Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium on "Global Poverty and Inequality" was held at Tufts University on February 21-24, 2008. The EPIIC international symposium involves four days of intense and far-reaching discussions on critical issues from the…
Guwahati, 30 April 2008 - In a new initiative, health teams, including doctors, nurses, and community organizers, have been traveling under extremely challenging conditions to reach thousands of people with health services in the island populations of Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Morigaon and Dhubri districts in Assam, bringing health and healing to many who have been…
C-NES has been providing health services to communities on the river islands of the Brahmaputra in Assam, groups which do not have any access to health facilities and services through SB Akha and SB Shahnaz. Initially it was done since 2005 in collaboration with the District administration, district of Dibrugarh than Dhemaji and Tinsukia as…
JMI and C-NES have signed a MOU to promote and develop studies of North East India. The Centre at Jamia, the first of its kind in any central University, will work like a Think Tank on the North-East. The Jamia Centre will draw upon the expertise that the C- NES already has in the field…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India and the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research today announced three Media Fellowships for journalists in the print media seeking to research and write on refugee issues. The fellowships, called the UNHCR-CNES Refugee Media Fellowships will each be of three months duration. The first…