Global Integrity, an international non-profit organization dedicated to tracking governance and corruption trends around the world, is seeking interested journalists, researchers, social scientists, and other experts with a background in governance and corruption issues to prepare its 2007 Global Integrity Report. The Global Integrity Report is a compilation of in-depth country assessments prepared by local…
For centuries, the Brahmaputra river has swept along its long journey from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal, touching the lives of tens of millions with its enormous power, physically, culturally and economically. Every year, lakhs of people are displaced and extensive property, crops and livestock are destroyed in annual floods in Assam and other…
New Delhi, January 6, 2007 -- The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research invites applications for the Third CNES-Setu National Media Fellowship (2007), a program aimed at enabling metro media journalists as well as those from the North East of India to research, understand and communicate on issues relating to the North-east as…
New Delhi, April 1 -- Sankab Kaushik Baruah, Chief Sub-Editor of the Assamese daily, Dainik Janambhoomi of Jorhat, Tinsukia and Guwahati, has been selected for the 2006 CNES-SETU National Media Award for his project on Urban Waste Management, with a specific focus on Kolkata. The award carries a cash component of Rs. 75,000 and will…
The deadline for receipt of applications for the CNES- Setu national media fellowship 2006 has been extended to March 28, 2006. The fellowship, which carries an award of Rs. 75,000/-, is open to journalists from the North-east and enables them to work in different parts of the country to study an issue of professional interest.…
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) announced the CNES-Setu National Media Fellowship for 2006 on January 4, 2006; this is open to print journalists from the North-east. The fellowship carries an award of Rs. 75,000; the last date for receipt of applications is March 15, 2006 and the announcement of the…
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research invites applications for the second CNES-Setu National Media Fellowship (2006), a program aimed at enabling metro media journalists as well as those from the North East of India to research, understand and communicate on issues relating to the North East as well as in other parts…
New Delhi/Guwahati, January 2, 2006 -- The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES)today announced the CNES-Setu National Media Fellowship for 2006, which will be open to print journalists from the North-east. Making the announcement, Mr. Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee of C-NES and senior journalist, said that the fellowship would carry an award…
The Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research in association with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a German foundation working in India, collaborated on a two-day workshop in New Delhi that brought together many young students and professionals from the North-eastern region as well as senior figures from Government, academia, business and the media. The…
Mumbai, January 16 -- Representatives of industry and business in Mumbai, the country's financial capital, encouraged by recent steps to promote investment in the North-east of India have agreed to try and boost the region?s economy of India after a two-day workshop on business opportunities in the North-east which ended here today. In specific terms,…