By Our Correspondent Guwahati. On the eve of International Women’s Day (8th March), the city based Dispur Hospital has organized a health camp exclusively for lady journalists and better halves of scribes on 8th March 2016 (Monday) at Guwahati Press Club. The camp, to be conducted by only female doctors, lady assistants and nurses, will […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) has hailed the initiative to raise the national flag in Jawaharlal Nehru University premises prominently as it would help erasing the unwanted impression about the prestigious institute in New Delhi that it had virtually turned into a hotbed for anti-India activities. The Assam based patriotic forum […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati:  Expressing shocks over the recent developments erupted from the New Delhi based Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus with a section of students indulging in anti-national activities, a forum of patriotic people urged the authority to take stringent actions against the anti-India elements. Regretting that a prestigious institute like JNU has virtually […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: With an aim to protect the lands against excessive resource extractions in Cambodia, an influential rights body urged the authority to maintain indigenous land rights for the natives. The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), while releasing a report recently at Phnom Penh, fervently called  the Cambodian royal government  to accelerate […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Nearly eighty percent city based scribes of northeast India have shown satisfactory outcome when they were exposed to a general health check-up on 8 February 2016 at Guwahati Press Club. Over eighty journalists participated in the daylong health check-up camp, organized  by the city based ‘down town hospital Limited’ at the […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: As northeast India is preparing for the 12th South Asian Games 2016, to be held in Guwahati and Shillong on 5-16 February 2016, both the capital cities have turned into fortress under security nets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the spectacular sporting event on Friday in presence of […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, 3 February:  The Ajmal Foundation has offered financial supports to five ailing journalists of Assam. Khasrul Islam, manager of Ajmal Foundation  handed over the amount totalling rupees 1,15,000 to the beneficiaries at a brief function held at Guwahati Press Club on Wednesday. The beneficiaries under the Ajmal Media Welfare Scheme include […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The residents of northeast India, whom the mainstream agencies often misunderstand as sympathizers to various separatist militant outfits, have joined in 67th Republic Day celebrations one and all to pay heartfelt tributes to the martyrs. For the first time in recent decades, the auspicious Day on 26 January 2016 was observed […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: A group of Guwahatians have joined a nationwide initiative named Shramdaan on 24 January 2016 at the premises of Kasturba Gandhi national memorial trust in the city. The group cleaned up the frontal part of the trust, named after Mahatma Gandhi’s better-half and also donated few dustbins for the benefit of […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has appealed to each and every patriotic resident of northeast India to hoist the national flag on the forthcoming 67th Republic Day (of India) and pay homage to the martyrs who had made supreme sacrifice for the motherland. It has been observed that separatist elements and so-called […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: A mega cycle rally with the message of cycling for health & environment was organized on Sunday morning in various parts of Assam including the central function held at historic Latasil playground in then heart of the city. About 250 participants took part in the rally that marched through the pre-historic […]

Nava Thakuria Bipanchika, Anubhawar Shabdajyoti released at press club By Our Correspondent Guwahati: The third annual issue of Bipanchika, published by Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi Puthibharal Paduoi Samaj, was released at Guwahati Press Club on Sunday. The same meeting also witnessed the release of Anubhawar Shabdajyoti, a collection of Assamese poems penned by Lambit Barua […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, 20 December 2015:  Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed strong resentments over the militant’s threat to an Imphal based television editor and urged the Manipur government led by Okram Ibobi Singh to take immediate & appropriate actions against the culprits. The Assam based journalist organization also extended moral supports to the […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Assam in northeast India has lost a dedicated theatre director, actor and journalist  Dipak Mahanta in a tragic accident. Mahanta was on his return journey from Tejpur after a shooting schedule, when the vehicle he was traveling in with few other colleagues met with an accident at Deoshal locality of Jagiroad […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: The Department of Urology, Dispur Hospitals Pvt. Ltd., Ganeshguri  under the aegis of Assam Urological  Society in northeast India has organized a live workshop on laser prostatectomy. Dr GS Kochhar, a senior Urologist and Director of Lions Kidney Hospital, New Delhi will perform diode laser vaporization of prostates and Dr P […]

By NJ Thakuria The next all India Tibet supporting groups’ conference is beginning at Guwahati of  northeast India  on Monday, where over 180 representatives from various Tibet supporting groups of India are expected to participate. The two-day conference starting on 2 November 2015 in the capital city of Assam is poised to provide an unique […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Another middle-aged journalist, this time it is in poll-bound Bihar, has lost his life to the perpetuators. Mithilesh Pandey, 40, was shot dead on 25 October 2015 in his hometown under Gaya district. According to the family source, the miscreants (two masked persons) entered the victim’s house on Saturday evening and […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is awarded by the United Nations ‘in recognition of Bangladesh’s far-reaching initiatives to address climate change’. Ms Hasina will receive the Champions of the Earth award in the Policy Leadership category at a ceremony scheduled for 27 September 2015 at New York. A media statement, […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati:  Eminent educationist Professor Srinath Baruah on 5 September 2015 urged the media outlets of Assam to use accurate Assamese words and correct sentences in various items, which are made available to the reader-audience-viewers. Interacting with the scribes at Guwahati Press Club, Prof Baruah also emphasized on maintaining the beauty of Assamese […]

By NJ Thakuria Northeast India based journalist Hiten Mahanta passed away on 29 August 2015 at GNRC (six mile) hospital. His last moment came on 7.25 AM of Saturday. According to the doctors the immediate cause of his death was the cardiac arrest. An honest, brave and acclaimed journalist, Mahanta suffered multiple head injuries as […]

Nava Thakuria National consultation on media freedom & law  begins By Our Correspondent New Delhi, 9 August 2015: With the invasion of alternate media today every one can opt for journalism, but they have to acquire the skill and responsibility, said Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a senior journalist and media commentator. Addressing a consultation meet at […]

 Our Correspondent Guwahati: The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) in association with Indian Women’s Press Corps, Delhi Union of Journalists, Press Club of India (New Delhi), Mumbai Press Club and Indian Federation of Working Journalists  have organized a two day national consultation on media freedom and the law on 8 & 9 August next. To […]

By NJ Thakuroa Eminent Gandhian Dr Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao while interacting with the media persons at Guwahati Press Club on 12 July 2015 commented that the human beings have created a new world for their comfort, but at the end of the day they become stranger to their own world. A fellow of Gandhi […]

By NJ Thakuria With an aim to spread the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi on peace & brotherhood among the northeastern youths, an international centre for Gandhian studies’ (ICGS) was launched on 9 July at the University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya (USTM). Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa while inaugurating the centre pointed out that […]

By Our Correspondent  Guwahati, June 29: The journalist fraternity of Assam today demonstrate their angers against the relentless brutal assaults and killing of scribes across the country in front of Guwahati Press Club.  The protest demonstration that started at 12 noon and continued till 1 pm. Representatives of various journalist organizations, while meeting at the […]

by our correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed utter dismay at the repeated incidents of scribe’s murder in the country and urged the robust media fraternity of the largest democracy of the globe to stand united for the cause of justice to all the slain journalists. The JFA’s aggravated reaction came out following the […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Emphasizing on all round youth empowerment, the 6th annual Social Business Day was organized by Yunus Centre on 28 May 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka of Bangladesh. The daylong event with the theme titled ‘We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers—Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship’ was hosted by Nobel […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Well-known political activist of Burma (Myanmar) Ko Wai Lu has been imprisoned for one year by a Rangoon (Yangon) based lower court for providing support to protesters who were calling on the authorities to resolve their land disputes and been sent to Insein prison in Yangon. Amnesty International has termed the  […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Assam Governor PB Acharya, who was recently sworn in as the constitutional head of  the State,  argues for proper welfare to the veteran soldiers and their families. Expressing gratitude to the ‘men in uniform’ for their sacrifices to the nation, Governor Acharya appreciates any initiative to help the ex-servicemen with their […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Observing the present political turmoil in Bangladesh, where around hundred people got killed and thousands injured, a rights body urged the Sheikh Hasina government in Dhaka ‘to bring an end to human rights violations and establish accountability’. Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its latest report tiled ‘Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political […]