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Nava J. Thakuria

Journalist based in Guwahati, Assam, India.

Manipur Needs Healing, Not an Insensitive Approach

Manipur is burning for nearly two months, killing over one hundred people and rendering thousands of families homeless after more than 9000 houses were burnt down by miscreants. The north-eastern Indian State continues to witness stray violent incidents following the…

Saving AEC from Unholy Intruders

It was shocking to observe the pathetic condition of my college recently after three decades. When we left the college, it was one of the brightest technical institutions in eastern India, but it has now turned into an ordinary residential…

My Days As a Sports Reporter

The hard life for a working journalist always teaches one to bear numerous limitations and face challenges relentlessly. That preaching has benefited me enormously (like many others in the media fraternity) and the spirit of sports in my early days…

When 40 Global Leaders Bat for Prof. Yunus

Once a senior media columnist in Dhaka exclaimed that if one wants to witness how a lone Nobel laureate can be abused in his/her own country, come to Bangladesh. He referred to a brilliant University teacher of economics-turned revolutionary banker-turned…

Assam determined to eliminate child marriage menace

By 2026, the Assam government will eliminate the menace of child marriage and if one believes in State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s commitment, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government in Dispur is ready to fight against the social…

PEC demands the release of Afghan scribe Mortaza Behboudi

Geneva, 17 February 2023: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, demands an immediate release of Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who was arrested on 7 January by the Taliban regime in Kabul. Though Afghanistan did not report any incident of journo-murder…

After two years of a military coup, Myanmar heads nowhere

Guwahati: The large section of people in Myanmar (known as Burma and Brahmadesh) observed a silent protest last February 1 marking two years of the military coup and subsequent public resistance movement against the military junta across the south-east Asian…

Prof Yunus will grace Bodoland International Knowledge Festival at Kokrajhar

Guwahati: Bangladesh’s lone Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is expected to grace the forthcoming Bodoland International Knowledge Festival at Kokrajhar in western Assam scheduled for the 27th of February to the 2nd of March. Widely acclaimed as a banker to…

Conserving the one-horned rhinoceros: Assam’s way

Incidents of poaching related to rhinoceros in various forest reserves of Assam in northeast India have decreased drastically. Brutal laws against the poachers, strengthening of ground staff inside the protected forest areas, and increasing public awareness in the fringe localities…

RSS continues to engage new blood: Mohan Bhagwat

Guwahati: The nation should be the priority for everyone. Leaving aside all differences, we have to work tirelessly for the welfare of the nation, thus said the chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Sarsanghchalak, Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, while addressing a conclave…

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