By Our Correspondent Dhaka: Asia-Pacific Forum Environmental Journalists (APFEJ), in the backdrop of Indian government’s recent decision to ban a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) scribe on filming in its tiger reserves, has urged New Delhi to be reverent to the global media outlets respecting the democratic spirit of the country. The environment media forum also […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) expresses serious concern over the Goalpara incident, where a sitting judge was physically manhandled by some lawyers recently and demands stern actions against those unruly law practitioners to maintain the dignity of the Indian judicial entity. The  forum strongly  argues that the anti-national culprits, who targeted […]

By Our Correspondent Agartala: Alternate media users among the practicing journalists of Tripura have taken a pioneering initiative to form an organization named Tripura Web Media Forum (TWMF) with an aim to pursue independent journalism from the alienated region of India. The launching of the web media forum was initiated with a delegate conference and […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Creative writers, journalists, filmmakers, vivid appreciators, enthusiast observers from various parts of the globe now gather at Brahmaputra Literary Festival in the far eastern part of India. First of its kinds in the alienated region of the country, the festival witnessed the gala opening on Saturday precluding all serious panel discussions […]

By NJ Thakuria A colourful literary carnival will lead the three day Brahmaputra Literary Festival in Guwahati of northeast India starting on 28 January. The vibrant carnival will proceed from the Khanapara locality of the prehistoric city towards the venue of the festival at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra cultural complex.  Union human resources development minister Prakash […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Newly crowned US President Donald Trump last night called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi  and expressed hope to host the hardliner Indian premier in the United States later this year.  In a telephonic conversation with PM Modi on 24 January 17, President Trump also termed India a true friend and partner […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while appreciating the Myanmar police for arresting  three persons suspecting their role in the murder of  Ko Soe Moe Tun on the night of 12 December last, urged the authority for stringent action against the culprits. The northeast India based scribe’s forum argued that killing a journalist […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati:  Worried over one of the leading media houses in the country,  HT Media Ltd’s decision to shut down four editions of its English daily  Hindustan Times , Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed serious concern over the development. It may be mentioned that various bodies of journalists across the country expressed serious […]

Guwahati: Joining the chorus of protests by media personalities against the directives towards three channels in India, Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) and Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed serious concern over the development that started with the order from the Union information & broadcasting  ministry (I&B) to take Hindi news channel ‘NDTV India’ and  Assamese […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the recent directive from the Union information & broadcasting  ministry to take Hindi news channel ‘NDTV India’ off air for 24 hours with effect from 01 hours on 9 November  till 01 hrs of 10 November 2016. The directive came after an inter-ministerial committee […]

Nava Thakuria To, Shri Banwarilal Purohit, Honourable Governor of Assam, Raj Bhawan, Kharghuli, Guwahati-781004 Dated: Guwahati, 31 October 2016 Your Excellency, Warm greetings from the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA). We would like to bring to your kind attention some of the recent misleading and manipulative statements by some individuals and organizations on the Citizenship […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern that the Pakistan government in Islamabad has  issued indirect threats to a senior scribe for his report published in Dawn. The northeast India based scribes’ forum argues that the Nawaz Sharif government  should respect the freedom of Pakistani journalist Cyril Almeida who reported about the […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Prominent Assamese writer, who is an Arunachali by native, Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi opposes the idea of inner line permit (ILP) arrangement, which is presently applied to three northeastern States namely Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Attending the ‘Guest of the Month’ program of Guwahati Press Club  on 4 October 2016, the […]

 By Our Correspondent Guwahati: The city based Dispur Hospitals prepare to observe the World Heart Day on 29 September next with the global spirit to reduce the number of cardiovascular patients. The popular private hospital of northeast India will organize a free health camp on the occasion for all cardiac patients . The camp, scheduled […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The Cambodian transgender women are subjected to high levels of discrimination in their day to day life and most of them face some kind of harassments while in public spaces because of their identities, said a report of Cambodian Center for Human Rights. The rights body is scheduled to launch the […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The city based  GNRC Hospitals will support the ‘Evening with a Doctor’ program at Guwahati Press Club (GPC) on  10 September with their resource persons.  Dr Rajib Das (Cardiology) and Dr Bikash Rai Das (Heart Surgeon) along with health workers from the prestigious healthcare institute will join the Saturday evening OPD […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati:  As the Rhino Horn Verification Committee, constituted by Assam government recently found few fake horns in the custody of the government, the issue of illegal trade of rhino horns has emerged as a burning topic for the people of Assam. In this context, Nature’s Beckon and Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) organize a […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: The second episode of ‘Evening with a Doctor’ Program, organized by Guwahati Press Club in its campus on Saturday, was graced by two physicians from the city Down Town Hospital.  Conducting the OPD,  Dr Swapnav Barthakur (Medicine) and Dr Ruma Dutta (O& G) provided free healthcare consultations to around  40 media […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) strongly condemns the murder of a senior journalist based in Junagadh of Gujarat and asked the authority to nab the perpetrators and deliver justice to the victim family. The forum expressed shocks that the miscreants had entered to the bureau office of Gujarati newspaper ‘Jai Hind’, where […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Emphasizing on preventive healthcare initiatives for the media persons along with their close relatives, the Guwahati Press Club  initiates for a special program titled ‘Evening with a Doctor’ at the press club premises on every Saturday evening. The first program of the series begins on 20 August 2016, where  Dr Kashyap […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Nobel peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrives in Brazil as he was honored as an Olympic torchbearer for the Rio Olympic  Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach. The first & only Bangladeshi Nobel laureate was chosen to join the mission of spreading the spirit of Rio 2016 […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Eminent cultural personality and the chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi, Padma Shri  Shekhar Sen will attend the next ‘Guest of the Month’ program of Guwahati Press Club (GPC). The interactive session with the distinguished singer, music composer, actor & theatre director is scheduled to start at 1  pm on 7 August […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: With an aim for initiating professional excellence, raising voices for social-financial security to scribes and finally developing a comprehensive platform for the working journalists of northeast India, a new organization named North East Union of Working Journalists (NEUWJ) has been mooted. A provisional committee was recently formed in a meeting held at […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Continuing its call to release all prisoners of conscience in Myanmar (also known as Burma), Amnesty International demands an immediate and unconditional release of 15 factory workers and student union members, who were detained by the Myanmar authority after clamping criminal charges for organizing a peaceful protest demonstration. On 18 May, […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The lone Bangladeshi Nobel laureate  Professor Muhammad Yunus expressed shock at the barbarity of the terrorists, who killed 20 hostages and two Bangladeshi police officers in cold blood at Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery on 1 July evening and pleaded for a new world of equality and dignity. Meanwhile, following the barbaric […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The ASG Eye Care in association with Guwahati Press Club has organized a free eye check-up camp for the member-journalists along with their close relatives on Tuesday (5 July 2016). The screening camp at press club premises will begin 10.30 am and continue till 3 pm. Ophthalmologists from ASG Eye Care, […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Expressing shocks at the mysterious death  of a lady scribe in Punjab, the Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) demands an authentic probe into the incident to find the culprits and book them under the law. Freelance scribe Anshita Bawa (22) died under a strange situation on 22 April 2016 when she went to […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: A new satellite news channel targeting the audience of 60 million people in northeast India emerged from the pre-historic city of Guwahati to join in the battle for electronic media space. The News18 Assam/NE, owned ETV News Network, was officially launched by Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in a glittering function held […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Senior painter Benu Misra and artisan-photographer Labu Senapati have joined in a mission to showcase their works once again in the city. A three-day exhibition of drawing-painting, bonsai and wood-works has been organized at Surjya Club (CK Agarwalla Road, Guwahati-781001) which will kick-off on 2 July 2016. The show is scheduled […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: New Delhi based senior journalist Syed Nazakat has been elected to the board of directors of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), a Washington DC based international media body. Nazakat ran unopposed to become the representative for the Asia Pacific region and he would serve a two-year term in the forum. Besides […]