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)…
In September, Mr Sanjoy Hazarika participated in a conference on Media and Stereotypes, organized by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn (September 3-5) and in a larger conference on the role and impact of the media, co-organized by FES and Deutsche Welle. His paper was on media stereotypes of "Bangladeshis" in India. Mr. Hazarika travelled…
The inaugural screening of Mimesha Productions’ latest documentary “Children of the River – The xihus of Assam” will be held at the India International Centre Auditorium on November 15, 2007 at 6.30 pm. The xihus, as they are known in Assam, are the fresh water Gangetic dolphins of the Brahmaputra, Ganges and other rivers of…
The India International Centre presents an evening with Sanjoy Hazarika on July 3, 2007 on his initiative with health ships on the Brahmaputra. Please see the details below and do come. Tuesday 3rd July - AUDITORIUM at 18:30 A Boat Called 'Hope' – Health and Healing on the Brahmaputra An illustrated lecture by Shri Sanjoy…
Mr Sanjoy Hazarika has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) of the Government of India. The 12-person committee includes such distinguished figures as Ms. Kumud Bansal, former Secretary, Ministry of HRD, Dr. RK Pachauri, Director General, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) and Dr. PK Iyengar, former Chairman,…