Despite their indispensable contributions to print media, the small-town/rural stringers remain invisible and their day-to-day struggles for livelihood go unnoticed.
Election is between two panels of 21 candidates each and a handful of independents, who are aiming for many positions, including president & general secretary.
A hand grenade was lobbed inside the office of Manipur daily Poknapham Saturday evening, days after the the police booked the editor of The Frontier Manipur for sedition.
Haze Fan, a Chinese citizen, was last seen Monday while being escorted by plain clothes security officials. Chinese authorities said she is under suspicion of engaging in criminal activities.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Here in West Bengal, almost all stringers are graduate. Interestingly most of them are actually school teachers who do reporting as a hobby. Some of them are simply bored with their teaching jobs and hence have quite a passion for reporting. Money is never the problem for them. But the rest of the stringers are mostly very poor people.
Here in West Bengal, almost all stringers are graduate. Interestingly most of them are actually school teachers who do reporting as a hobby. Some of them are simply bored with their teaching jobs and hence have quite a passion for reporting. Money is never the problem for them. But the rest of the stringers are mostly very poor people.