From: <FriendsofAssamNE@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:52 PM Subject: [FriendsofAssamNE] Digest Number 824 To: FriendsofAssamNE@yahoogroups.com Congrats to Sanjoy Hazarika on another initiative............ the Xihus (river dolphins) are being presented in Germany. Some of us got a chance to see this documentary in Washington DC last year Sept... (http://www.c-nes.org/events/59.html) screened at the World Resource…
The dolphins came right up to me as I entered the water. They began to swim around me, kiss me and let me touch them. As I whistled gleefully, one came near me and splashed water all over me. It gently rose out of the water, rested his head on my shoulder and touched his…
Coinciding with the World Environment Day (June 5), C-NES organized a two day State Children’s Summit with the theme - “Save the river dolphin,” at Guwahati’s Shilpagram. For two days Guwahati played host to nearly 300 school children from across the state - more than half coming from remote villages. The idea behind organizing this…
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…