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  • UNI news agencys Urdu news website launched

    UNI news agencys Urdu news website launched

    NEW DELHI: The Urdu service of the United News of India news agency has been lauded for its efforts to promote the language.

     

    Union Ministers Oscar Fernandes, K Rahman Khan, Srikant Jena and Manish Tewari were speaking after launching the Urdu website of the UNI Urdu service, which remains the only national news agency to have an Urdu service.

     

    The ministers and other eminent speakers resolved to give full backing to the news agency’s efforts to popularise the Urdu language.

     

    The UNI Urdu news service was launched two decades ago for bringing Urdu newspapers into the mainstream, becoming the first in the world to launch a service in that language.

     

    UNI Urdu news service was launched in 1992. The agency disseminates its news services in three languages–English, Hindi and Urdu.

  • Wage Board for journalists, non-journalists soon: Oscar Fernandes

    NEW DELHI: A wage board for newspaper and news industry employees will be constituted soon by the government.

    Labour minister Oscar Fernandes told mediapersons that ”The Wage Board will be constituted in a few days without any further delay.”

    ”The government has already approved the constitution of two wage boards, one for working journalists and the other for non-journalist newspaper employees,” the minister said.

    This had been approved in accordance with Section 9 and 13(C) of working journalists and other newspaper employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955, he added.

    The minister was speaking on the sidelines of a meet relating to the forthcoming 41st Indian Labour Conference beginning on 27 April which is to be inaugurated by prime minister Manmohan Singh.