Articles for author: Nava Thakuria

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Dissecting Assam NRC for better understanding

Participating in a debate on satellite television or digital channels needs some homeworks to make the deliberations short and clear. Unless you face an arrogant anchor and unruly participants, the experience in talk shows normally emerges as an intriguing one. It happened to me, as I had recently participated in a digital media discussion on ...

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When a senior scribe named and shamed in social media

Guwahati: If a senior scribe is named and shamed in social media as a scam star, should or should not he respond to it? Moreover, when a particular social media post (following up with a series of posts onthe same television journalist) is liked and shared by thousands of non-media persons, can he ignore it ...

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PPFA demands outstanding payment to NRC temporary workers

Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing concern over the disturbing news related to uptation process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam demands that the concerned authorities should pay the outstanding amount of money to around six thosand data entry operators (DEO) as early as possible. The forum of nationalist citizens also ...

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One more prestigious award conferred on Prof Yunus

Guwahati: The lone Nobel laureate of Bangladesh, who is popularly known as banker to the poor, Professor Muhammad Yunus has been awarded with Karl Kübel Prize of Germany for his extraordinary and multifaceted commitment to families all over the world. The Karl Kübel Foundation for Child and Family honoured the Bangladeshi economist, who conceptualized the ...

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Following the intriguing debate on road mishap

During our college days the teachers used to advise and inspire us, once we become automobile engineers, we should try to replace the piston engine as it’s not fuel efficient. When I left Assam Engineering College (under Gauhati University) in 1990 after completing my degree course in Mechanical branch (with a special paper on Automobile ...

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Sadhguru graces Assam government’s Chintan Shivir

Guwahati: In a move to draw a roadmap for holistic development ofAssam and to create a blueprint for expediting its growth as we allmake it a model on all sectors, State chief minister Himanta BiswaSarma along with spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev inaugurated athree-day Chintan Shivir at Kaziranga.  The three-day camp beginningon Saturday will have ...

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Mohan Bhagwat addresses public meeting in Shillong

Guwahati: Rashtriyata Swayamsevak Sangh chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while attending a public meeting at U Soso Tham auditorium in Shillong of Meghalaya, stated that Bharat is an ancient nation since time immemorial, but due to forgetting the civilizational motto and values, it lost the freedom. Sarsanghchalak Bhagwat also added that ‘our binding force among one ...

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Playing tricks while appreciating PM Modi

Guwahati: America’s largest selling newspaper The New York Times (NYT) has done it cleverly. The most acclaimed newspaper, when it had to laud Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, used the words ‘Leader of India’ in the front page. The news headline in the physical paper mentioned the Russian President, who has been targeting the USA ...

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CM Sarma hails Indian judiciary for upholding the rule of law

Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while attending the diamond jubilee celebration of Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim  lauded it for various activities such as orientation programs for advocates, steps towards digitization of records, etc. Congratulating the Bar Council for having successfully completed 60 years of glorious existence, Sarma ...

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PPFA insists on a proper portrait of Birbala Kanaklata

Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing displeasure on circulating a wrong photograph of  Kanaklata Barua, the young martyr of India’s freedom struggle from Gohpur in Assam, urges the government to take the pain to paint a proper portrait of  Birbala Kanaklata with the help of her close relatives. The forum of nationalist citizens ...

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New York Times Edition, Visibility & Credibility

For some days, it has been widely discussed about the success stories of Delhi government in both education and healthcare sectors. The well wishers of  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) along with Delhi chief minister CM Arvind Kejriwal  and his deputy Manish Sisodia have flooded the social media space with appreciative messages. Latey it was added ...

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Burmese translator of Mera Naam Joker passes away

Guwahati: Acclaimed Rakhine author Maung Paw Tun, who translated popular Hindi novel Mera Naam Joker of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas into Burmese language, passes away. The award winning writer-translator, who was suffering from colon cancer, breathed his last at 9:45 am on 13 August 2022 at his residence in Yangon city of Myanmar (also known as ...

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Tri-colour hoisted at RSS headquarter in Nagpur

Guwahati: Along with every patriot of Bharat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat hoisted the national flag at its  headquarter in Nagpur on Saturday following the nationwide campaign for Har Ghar Tiranga. The largest nationalist organisation in the globe had already extended its support to both Tri-colour festuval and Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav commemorating ...

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Marching ahead with the spirit of Swatantra Bharat

Guwahati: It was probably two decades back, when a group of journalists and Guwahati-based patriots marched on a street of Guwahati to celebrate the Independence Day. As a number of separatist armed militant outfits imposed a general strike on the day (that was the way the ethnic insurgents made them visible in the public domain ...

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UTA demands a correct NRC for Assam

Guwahati: United Trust of Assam, while expressing serious concerns over the sensational allegations, floated in regards to the process of National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation in Assam, demanded a high level probe (preferably by the Central Bureau of Investigation) into the irregularities, through which it is assumed that a huge number of illegal migrants ...