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 […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Two Bengali Nobel laureates from Indian sub-continent have been ranked 3rd and 5th among global influential thinkers in 2014 Global Thought Leader survey.  The worldwide survey, carried out by the Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic & Social Studies (GDI) and MIT Sloan School researcher Peter Gloor, put Bengali economist Amartya […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Burma (now known as Myanmar) becomes a shareholder of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Infrastructure Fund as the country has completed all formalities. Emerged as the 11th shareholder of the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF), the transforming nation thus joined hands with the other ASEAN members and also the Asian Development […]

NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Burma (Myanmar), as it passes through various phases of transformation from a military dictatorship to multi-party democracy, is expected to improve its infrastructure connectivity as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered a sizable volume of loans for the same. An ADB statement issued on December 16, 2014 from Rangoon city of […]

Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed its contentment that a Nepal court has convicted and sentenced five perpetrators involved in the killing of a Nepali journalist in Dailekh district of western Nepal. In a recent unprecedented verdict the Dailekh district court has sentenced the assailants for torturing Dekendra Raj Thapa, an active […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The failure of  Andhra Pradesh police in making any breakthrough regarding the brutal murder of a Telugu journalist a week back has prompted a northeast India based journalist body to express serious concern and annoyances. While condemning the vicious killing of MVN Shankar, a senior journalist working with Andhra Prabha, a […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: For an Afghan graduate from Asian University for Women (AUW), her trip to the United States of America was ‘about getting inspiration and hope’. Last month, Mursal Hamraz, a graduate from the Chittagong based  AUW got the opportunity to visit the foreign land on a speaking tour. Ms Hamraz, who arrived […]

Nava Thakuria, Secretary, APFEJ, Dhaka, 3 October 2014: Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) has emphasized on an advanced national and international early flood warning system to prevent the casualties and loss of properties to a great extent. The umbrella environment journalist forum urges the respective governments of Asia Pacific region to initiate for such […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Amnesty International has urged the Burma government in NayPieTaw to allow six farmers from Chin province ‘to return to their homes in safety and without fear of reprisal’, as they are now hiding after facing tortures from the Burmese Army personnel. Chin farmers namely U Maung Sein, U Kyaw Aung, U […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: It was a memorial meeting with  intense emotion about an extremely talented cinematographer, who died young after facing an accident a decade back. Mrinal Kanti Das, who continues to be the first of many achievers from northeast India including the national award for best cinematography, met with the fatal road accident […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalist fraternity of Assam in northeast India continues demonstrating their angers against the State government for arresting a television journalist with the suspect of ‘maintaining unlawful relationship’ with banned armed outfits. The media persons under various forums in Assam also urged the police to release Jaikhlong Brahma, a Kokrajhar based journalist […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The abduction and murder of a foreign journalist in Syria by the militants and later publicizing the crime through the online video have shocked the conscience of media world. Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) from the eastern part of India has also expressed shock at the incident and urged the media fraternity […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The emerging democracy after decades of military dictatorship in southeast Asia, an unusual well wisher emerged with Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who advocates for Burma’s entry into the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The first and only Nobel awardee from Bangladesh, who created the world famous financial institution […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), a northeast India based scribes’ body, has expressed dissatisfaction over a verdict of a lower court in central Burma (Myanmar) to sentence five media employees, engaged with Unity Weekly News, a current-affairs magazine published Rangoon, for 10 years of imprisonment with hard labour. The Pakokku township court […]

By Nava Thakuria It was a December evening of 2001, when I first met Mahbubul Alam, veteran journalist of Bangladesh, in the office The Independent, a prominent English daily newspaper published from Dhaka. In fact, he was the first Bangladeshi editor, whom I knew and occasionally talked to him from my home city (Guwahati of […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: As the news about the killing of a young television journalist by miscreants spreads, the condemnation pours on the Orissa government in central India. Orissa (now known as Odisha) thus records the first murder of a working journalist in India this year with the slaughtering of Tarun Kumar Acharya on May 27 […]

By NJ Thakuria India’s highest court on April 9 ruled that journalists and non-journalists of newspapers and news agencies are entitled to a pay hike under the recommendations of  the Majithia Wage Board. Dismissing pleas by various owners seeking a review of its earlier judgment, the Supreme Court directed publishers to implement the recommendations of […]

By NJ Thakuria, Guwahati: Sri Lankan journalist M. V. Kaanamylnathan, who has 50 years’ tough experience in journalism in the island nation has been honoured by an international media watchdog as an information hero. Involved with Uthayan, a Tamil-language daily newspaper in Sri Lanka since 1985, Kaanamylnathan is included in the list of 100 information […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Yunus Centre of Bangladesh and National Central University (NCU) have agreed to create a Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) in the acclaimed public university of Taiwan. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was ceremonially signed on April 14, 2014 between the Yunus Centre and NCU in presence of mayor John Chils-Yang Wu, […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: All Assam Media Employees’ Federation (AAMEF) has welcome the recent verdict of the Supreme Court to implement the Majithia Wage Board recommendations for journalists & non-journalists newspaper & news agency employees from this month onwards and urged the media house owners to follow the ruling of the apex court of India. […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: As the nation prepares for the next general election, Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has urged all political parties to show their sincerity towards the implementation of various welfare schemes to media persons engaged in both print & electronic media. The Assam based scribes’ body also insisted on enrolling a special protection […]

Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) Dhaka, 25 February: Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the self-immolation of a Guwahati city dweller demanding land-settlement and urged the authority to initiate due consultations to  resolve the issue amicably. The journalist forum also appealed to hundred thousand conscious citizens of […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, February 22: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed utter dismay at the prolonged strike of newspaper hawkers in Guwahati since February 16 and urged the Press Council of India (PCI) to intervene on the matter as the agitators have directly implicated on people’s right to get essential information. Taking queue from […]

NJ Thakuria, Guwahati, northeast India Whenever the Republic Day or Independence Day (of India) approaches, the separatist rebels of northeast India issue boycott calls to the residents of the region. The 65th R-Day also came with the same diktat from a host of militant outfits based in the troubled part of India. The banned outfits, […]

Nava Thakuria, Secretary, Journalists’ Forum Assam, Guwahati Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) and Arunachal Press Club (APC) have appealed to the media to exercise restrain while covering the border conflicts between the two neighbouring States in northeast India. The appeal was issued jointly after the incident of firing by armed miscreants at Bihali reserve forest […]

By NJ Thakuria Umesh Chandra Devchoudhury, who joined the Indian National Army (also known as Azad Hind Fauj) in 1943 and fought many battles under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s command for the motherland of India, was paid rich tributes by his admirers recently. In a formal meeting held at Guwahati Press Club on January 11, […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Voice of protests against the brutal killing of a dedicated journalist of Chhattisgarh in central India by the Maoists is slowly increasing. After the protest demonstrations by the Chhattisgarh based journalists, various other media persons’ organizations of the country have joined in the chorus. Recently two national journalist bodies namely Indian […]

‚ By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The political turmoil may not recede in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the initiative for an inter-country gas pipeline project continues as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been -Ëœappointed transaction advisor to help attract a commercial consortium leader of global repute that will build, own and operate the planned 1,800-kilometer natural […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: To deal with the huge volume of garbage produced by every city today, an eminent environmental activist of Assam emphasizes on promoting non-burning technologies. Aashim K Chatterjee, who stronglyopposes the open burning of garbage, argues that the practice can help curbing the level of pollution in the air. Attending a program […]