{"id":1588,"date":"2020-07-08T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2020-07-08T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:44:47","slug":"jfa-expresses-shock-at-scribes-self-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/jfa-expresses-shock-at-scribes-self-killing.html","title":{"rendered":"JFA expresses shock at scribe\u2019s self-killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGuwahati: Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) expresses shock at the
\nincident of self-killing by a scribe who tested positive for Covid-19
\nat All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
\nHailed from Bhajanpura area of north-east Delhi, Tarun Sisodia working
\nwith Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar was admitted to the hospital with
\nspecific symptoms.
\nSisodia, 37, ran out of his bed and jumped from the building in the
\nafternoon hours of 6 July 2020. Unconfirmed reports reveal that he was
\nunder tremendous stress because of losing his job as the pandemic
\ncontinues to hit the newspaper industry. Later Sisodia, who left
\nbehind his father, mother, wife, two minor daughters with others,
\nsuccumbed to the injuries.
\nDays back, city based businessman Rantu Das, who was the
\nprinter-publisher of Asomiya Khabar, died of heart-failure on 3 July,
\nbut later he tested positive for Covid-19. He was admitted to the
\nhospital few weeks back with various ailments. Das, 54, left behind
\nhis wife, one son and one daughter with a host of relatives and
\nwell-wishers.
\nEarlier Chennai based journalist E Velmurugan, who worked as
\nvideographer in a Tamil news channel, Hyderabad based journalist Manoj
\nKumar, who worked for a Telugu news channel, Agra based print
\njournalist Pankaj Kulashrestha and Kolkata based photojournalist Ronny
\nRoy succumbed to Covid-19 complications.
\nUnconfirmed reports now claim that over fifty media employees working
\nfor various news channels, news papers and web channels of Guwahati,
\nturned positive for novel corona virus. As the worrisome development
\nhas not been reported by the State\u2019s mainstream media outlets, JFA
\nurges the media workers to be cautious and careful in safeguarding
\nthemselves and their families.
\n\u201cWe reiterate our demand for mass Covid-19 screening of all media
\nemployees by the respective managements to prevent the outbreak of
\nCovid-19,\u201d said a statement issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and
\nsecretary Nava Thakuria adding that State chief minister Sarbananda
\nSonowal and health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma should support the
\ninitiative as media persons are presently playing the role of Covid-19
\nwarriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guwahati: Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) expresses shock at the incident of self-killing by a scribe who tested positive for Covid-19 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Hailed from Bhajanpura area of north-east Delhi, Tarun Sisodia working with Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar was admitted to the hospital with specific symptoms. Sisodia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tarun-Sisodia.jpg?fit=1024%2C589&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS11m-pC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}