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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 demands stern action against assailant in Guwahati

by Nava Thakuria - May 8, 2018

Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses shock over the incident of physical attack over a lady reporter in Guwahati on Sunday morning and urges stern action against the culprit. According to the young reporter, a mason engaged in her...
National PR day celebrated in Guwahati

by Nava Thakuria - May 5, 2018

It was a normal celebration of National PR Day in a city hotel, but the deliberation and discussion turned too intense for the audience. Organized by the Public Relations Society of India’s Guwahati chapter on 28...
Nearly 10% Guwahati scribes are vulnerable for heart diseases

by Nava Thakuria - Apr 18, 2018

A lipid profile screening camp, covering a group of working journalists, indicates the necessity of urgent medical attention for at least one-tenth of the participants as their cholesterol and triglycerides levels were found far above the permissible...
Sonowal’s gesture to Assam journalists

by Nava Thakuria - Apr 14, 2018

On the eve of Assam’s vibrant Rongali (Bohag) Bibu, the State government in Dispur ceremonially distributed journalist accreditation & recognition cards to a new set of media persons on 13 April 2018 in the city. Gracing...
When confusing media reports create chaos

by Nava Thakuria - Feb 16, 2018

Relentless rumor, continued uncertainty and subsequent voluminous media coverage in Assam has recently resulted in the elimination of two innocent lives along with severe injuries to few others and also stranding of thousand railway passengers for...
PPFA calls for healthy debate on citizenship bill in Assam

by Nava Thakuria - Dec 27, 2017

The forum of patriotic people in a statement pointed out that those motivated elements had been claiming, as if, the concerned bill is Assam centric and once it turns into a law, millions of Bengali Hindu...
Kidney transplanted successfully at Dispur Hospital in Assam

by Nava Thakuria - Nov 23, 2017

The procedure was carried out under the supervision of senior consultant urologist & transplant surgeon Dr. PM Deka and consultant nephrologist & renal transplant physician Dr. TA Choudhury at Dispur Hospital informed the city-based hospital’s public relation authority Ujjal Saikia....
Dr Patta Radhakrishna from SIMS Hospital Chennai graced OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club

by Nava Thakuria - Oct 29, 2017

News Hour: Commended gastro surgeon Dr. Patta Radhakrishna from SIMS Hospital Chennai graced OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 27 October (Friday) 2017. The practicing doctor was available for free consultations to the participants from...
International Day of Older Persons observed

by Nava Thakuria - Oct 1, 2017

News Hour The International Day of Older Persons-2017 was observed through various programmes in the country today as elsewhere in the globe wishing dignified life for the country’s senior citizens. This year’s theme of the day...
JFA demands high level probe into the murder of Punjab journalist

by Nava Thakuria - Sep 26, 2017

News Hour: Worried at repeated incidents of journalist’s murders across India, the Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) urges the Union government in New Delhi to formulate a national action plan for delivering earliest justices to the victim...