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Nava J. Thakuria

Journalist based in Guwahati, Assam, India.

Bharat Mata Pujan Kick Starts in Guwahati

Five-day festival to Celebrate the Legacy, Culture, and Traditions of the Land Guwahati: Bharat Mata Pujan 2023, organized with the aim to celebrate the legacy, culture, and traditions of the great land, kick starts on Thursday (1 Kati of 1430…

Bharat Mata Pujan to Showcase the Legacy, Culture, and Traditions of the Land

The art connoisseurs along with the patriotic citizens in the far eastern part of Bharat (India) gather at the Chandmari AEI field in Guwahati on 19 October (1 Kati of 1430 Bhaskarabda) for a five-day festival to celebrate the legacy,…

PEC Expresses Concern over the Arrest of Indian Media Persons

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the recent arrest as well as raids of a media office in India’s capital city New Delhi, asserting that scribes should not be harassed for…

 Professor Yunus Summoned Again by Anti-Corruption Commission

Guwahati: As if it was not enough to malign the image of Professor Muhammad Yunus, the lone Nobel Laureate of Bangladesh, by repeated legal harassment from various government agencies, now the pioneer of microfinance and social business has been summoned…

Waiting for the Pragjyotishpur Literary Festival

An intellectual and interactive treat for literary enthusiasts, cultural connoisseurs, and budding writers is waiting to emerge as the Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2023 (PLF) will unfold a series of literary activities for three days in the virtual capital of Northeast…

Even the Manipur Scribes Put the Editors Guild of India in trouble

We used to presume the Editors Guild of India (EGI) was a national forum of editors, but the journalists-editors of Manipur changed the perception. Two major local media bodies have challenged the EGI over its fact-finding report on the ongoing…

When Bangladesh PM Shows Growing Enmity Against Prof. Yunus

As Bangladesh is approaching the next national elections in early next year, where the ruling Awami League (AL) party will seek the mandate from 170 million people (including voters) for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Waged’s fourth consecutive term in office,…

PEC Condemns Scribe’s Murder in India’s Bihar Province

Geneva, 18 August 2023: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the murder of Vimal Kumar Yadav, a young scribe associated with the leading Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran, in Bihar province of north India this…

PEC Demands Justice for Bereaved Families of Murdered Pak Journos

Geneva, 16 August 2023: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) expresses its serious concern over the murder of two Pakistani journalists within a week and the global media safety and rights body (www.pressemblem.ch/pec-news.shtml) demands justice for the bereaved families of Jan Mohammed…

Another Drive Against Child-Marriages in Assam Expected

Guwahati: The Assam government in Northeast India, which earned national and international media headlines with the crackdown on child marriages in February, is going to relaunch the drive across the State. Addressing the fourth SP (superintendent of police) conference at…

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