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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 condemns the brutal murder of a young television scribe in Tripura

by Nava Thakuria - Sep 24, 2017

News Hour: Expressing shock at the brutal murder of a young television scribe in Tripura, the Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) demands a high-level probe into the incident and urges the Manik Sarkar-led Left government at Agartala...
Journalists express concern over Cambodia anti-media crackdown

by Nava Thakuria - Sep 22, 2017

News Hour: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed concern over the ongoing crackdown on newspaper & radios in Cambodia with an aim to silence the media ahead of next year’s general election. The recent shutdown of an...
Doctors of SIMS Chennai to attend Guwahati media clinic

by Nava Thakuria - Sep 12, 2017

News Hour: More specialized doctors from different parts of the country now start attending the weekly evening OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club (GPC). Organized under the series of ‘Evening with a Doctor’ programs since last...
Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus expresses concern over Rohingya crisis

by Nava Thakuria - Sep 11, 2017

News Hour: The deteriorating Rohingya crisis has compelled Bangladesh’s lone Nobel peace laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, to raise voices for resolving the human crisis immediately in Rakhine (Arakan) province of Myanmar urgently. In an open letter...
Manufacturing misguided protests in Assam

by Nava Thakuria - Sep 5, 2017

News Hour: Can Assam be put on a red-hot pan anytime by few motivated leaders even though for a wrong reason? If most of the Assamese speaking people often listen to a section of biased intellectuals,...
Militants dictate, but patriots appeal for celebrations

by Nava Thakuria - Aug 13, 2017

News Hour: As usual, various separatist militant outfits of northeast-India called for boycotting the forthcoming 71st Independence Day celebrations, but at the same time a forum of patriotic people in Assam urges the residents of the...
Voicing for electrical distribution rearrangement in India

by Nava Thakuria - Aug 9, 2017

News Hour: Understanding the gravity of the situation where India loses nearly 10000 people to electrocution deaths annually, a civil society group raises voice for total rearrangements of the power supply system in the country. Endorsed by Gandhian Natwar...
Northeast forum appeals for saluting Tri-color on I-Day in India

by Nava Thakuria - Aug 2, 2017

News Hour: As India approaches 71st Independence Day, a patriotic forum based in the Northeast, appeals to citizens of the region irrespective of their caste, creed and religious backgrounds to hoist the National flag on 15th August and pay...
Flood recedes in Assam, toll mounted to over 70

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 20, 2017

News Hour: The first wave of monsoon flood in Assam starts receding as the rains stopped in the last 48 hours. However, it causes severe damages to north-eastern part of the State with over 70 casualties. Over...
PPFA bats for 1951 as cut-off year, opines for work permits to settlers

by Nava Thakuria - Jul 19, 2017

News Hour: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) reiterates its stand to detect all immigrants from the then East Pakistan and later Bangladesh with the national cut-off year (1951) and urges the Union government in New Delhi...