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April 2007 - March 2008 Editorial: Opening the Innings This is the first issue of our news letter which seeks to provide communications and information about C-NES, its people, work and activities. We hope it will inform and interest readers whom we request to look at our websitewww.c-nes.org, which is being revamped. We will, naturally,…
SAJA is the most interactive and best media group on the net with regard to South Asia in the news in the US and Canada. This includes interviews, events, books and authors, cutlural functions, blogs and special discussions on an energetic site run by the eclectic and wonderful Sree Sreenivasan who teaches journalism at Columbia…
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…
New Delhi, February 15 – The First Media Fellowship on Refugee Issues sponsored by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) has been awarded to Nava Thakuria, a Guwahati-based journalist who has written extensively on issues related to Myanmar, it was announced here today. The…
Pasted below is the schedule of public hearings planned for the document on the NE Vision 2020 prepared by the Natinoal Institute for Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi. Place: Itanagar Person conducting the hearing: Dr(Mrs) I K Barthakur, Member NEC Phone: 0364-2522641 / 09436160713 Date: 07 Nov NEC Nodal Oficer: Dr.Binay Singh, Adviser(Agri/Hort)…