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Nava Thakuria

Nava Thakuria is a Guwahati (North East India) based journalist, who contributes to News Hour and various other media outlets. He writes over various socio-political and environmental issues of North East India along with Bangladesh, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal. One of his areas of interest is also the media and its development.

JFA bats for CBI probe into cow smuggling

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 21, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while appreciating Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal for showing the initial political will on Dhubri journalist Rajib Sarma’s arrest incident, bats for a high level probe into the cow smuggling racket that...
JFA mourns demise of Orissa’s media corona-warrior Priyadarshi Patnaik

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 12, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed sorrows over the death of a media corona-warrior from Orissa, who passed away yesterday at KIMS Covid hospital in Bhubaneswar. Priyadarshi Patnaik, who used to work for Oriya (Odia) daily newspaper Dainik...
PCA bats for a modern media centre in Guwahati

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 11, 2020

Press Club of Assam (PCA) emphasizes on the need of a modern multi-media centre in the pre-historic city of Guwahati for the benefit of working journalists across Assam and urged the State chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal...
Press Club of Assam urges media houses to come clean on Covid-19 employees

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 6, 2020

Press Club of Assam (PCA) expressed deep concern that some city-based people involved with media have tested positive for Covid-19, and has urged the media house managements to come clean on their staffs’ health status as...
JFA insists on mass COVID-19 screening for media employees

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 3, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed serious concern regarding increasing number of city-based media employees infected with novel corona virus recently. JFA urges all media houses to go for mass Covid-19 screening for their staffs as well...
JFA demands action against the murder of UP scribe Shubham Mani Tripathi

by Nava Thakuria - Jun 25, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while expressing serious concern over the brutal killing of a young and spirited scribe at Unnao locality of Uttar Pradesh (UP), has urged Lucknow’s State government to nab the culprits who were...
JFA mourns untimely demise of Ripul Kalita

by Nava Thakuria - Jun 20, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses profound sorrow at the untimely death of video journalist Ripul Kalita. He was 35 and breathed his last yesterday evening in a city-based hospital in Guwahati. He was suffering from various...
JFA expresses concern over corona infection to media person

by Nava Thakuria - Jun 18, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the news of a city based media person, who has been tested positive for novel coronavirus and wishes his quick recovery. Prahlad Kumar Agarwal, aged 55, has been working...
JFA condoles untimely demise of Telangana scribe, Manoj Kumar

by Nava Thakuria - Jun 9, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses sorrow at the death of Manoj Kumar due to Covid-19 complications in Hyderabad. Manoj, aged 35, was working for the first Telugu news channel and becomes the first journalist victim of novel corona virus...
JFA pays tributes to journalist Pankaj Kulashrestha

by Nava Thakuria - May 9, 2020

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses profound grief at the demise of Agra based senior journalist Pankaj Kulashrestha with Covid-19 complications. The forum announces Kulashrestha, who tested positive for novel corona virus, as the second Indian media...