Nava J. Thakuria

As the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updating process in Assam embraced corruption and malpractices, the issue often drew media attention across India and lately Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma added another dimension advocating for a countrywide NRC. The…

Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) appreciates the State government in Dispur and the current leadership of All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) to resolve the definition of Asomiya (Assamese people) with the cut-off date of 1 January 1951. The forum…

  Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights, expressed shock over the killing of journalist Salman Ali Khan (35) in Madhya Pradesh of central India and demanded a fair probe into the murder so that the…

Geneva: After putting numerous troubles for professional media persons in Bangladesh with brutal laws in the background of relentless socio-political turmoil in the last few decades, the current interim government in Dhaka, headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, starts…

Guwahati: With a huge expectation from the people of Bangladesh, the interim government under the leadership of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was formed on 8 August 2024 in Dhaka. But on the ground, the caretaker government is yet to…

Geneva: Pakistan has slowly turned into a graveyard of working journalists as the South Asian nation loses another journalist, the tenth victim this year to date, to assailants. Local media reports confirm that senior journalist Nisar Lehri was shot dead…

Even the middle-aged Assamese nationals remember that Assam agitation was initially propagated as ‘Bohiragata Kheda Andolan’ (literarily meaning agitation to deport outsiders) and later, redefined as an agitation against illegal migrants (from East Pakistan/ Bangladesh) by the intellectuals and media…

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, strongly condemns the killing of two reporters  during a military raid in the Mon State of Myanmar and demands a fair probe into the incident that led to…

Guwahati: Hundreds of Assamese women on Friday hit the street of Dhing in central Assam demanding justice for a minor who was gang raped by a group of suspected Muslim migrants on 22 August 2024 while she was returning home…

Geneva: Press  Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, called the interim government of Bangladesh to initiate a fast probe into the murder of five journalists in the last few weeks and punish the culprits under the…