Drama at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia saw the 'ousting' of its core committee over budgetary concerns & 'expulsions' of members of its interim body.
'Ousted' Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia president S Venkat Narayan has written to them saying 2 members had admitted they were forced to sign resolution for his removal.
Eight FCC members called an ‘emergency meet’ on 4 Oct and unanimously passed a no-confidence vote ousting president, V-P & gen secy alleging lack of transparency in running club.
Certain members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia, who were not at the meeting, have called the removal of the president, vice president & general secretary ‘illegal’.
Notice issued by Directorate of Estates says Indian Women’s Press Corps 'rents out its premises to pvt parties' for several events. IWPC president says 'club followed all rules'.
The declaration looks for an easy way out by taking the best alternatives for fighting Covid off the table, and pretending a normal state of affairs is also an optimum one.
Considering the behemoths that Alphabet Inc, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon and Snap Inc are today, it may be imprudent to expect the repeal of net neutrality to be a smooth sail.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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