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Bhutan ready to host green summit
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 4:20 pm | Nava Thakuria
Tiny Himalayan country, Bhutan will host the next South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in its capital Thimphu. The two day meeting, starting on April 28 next, will witness the participation of the ‘heads of state or government’ ... More >>
ASEAN insists on free election in Burma
Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:36 am | Nava Thakuria
The influential leaders of Southeast Asian nations had finally asked its member country Burma to ensure a free and inclusive poll, as it proposes for a general election in the country some time later this year. The government heads under the banner of ... More >>
Burma on radar as New Delhi prepares for talks
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:05 pm | Nava Thakuria
The military ruled Burma (Myanmar) emerges as an important actor on the projected peace talks between the Union government of India and the banned militant group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). An active and influential underground outfit ... More >>
AI calls for end of repression in Burma
Monday, 22 February 2010, 2:13 pm | Nava Thakuria
The Burmese military rulers, who are trying to earn credibility from international communities after declaring the general election some time in October this year, has received a brickbat from the Amnesty International. More >>
Asian MPs Insist On A Free & Fair 2010 Burma Polls
Monday, 30 November 2009, 12:56 pm | Nava Thakuria
A group of pro-democracy parliamentarians from various Asian countries have emphasized for a free and fair Burma elections duly monitored by a team of impartial international observers and not ‘under the fraudulent Constitution of 2008’. More >>
Activists Urge Halt of Shwe Pipeline Project
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 9:51 am | Nava Thakuria
The Shwe Gas Movement, an oil and gas watchdog, along with a number of well wisher and supporters are officially going to urge the Chinese government to suspend the Shwe Gas and Oil Pipeline Project in Burma (Myanmar). The Burmese organization has ... More >>
Nava Thakuria: Burma polls 2010 sans Suu Kyi!
Monday, 5 October 2009, 2:10 pm | Nava Thakuria
Is there any meaning for the proposed general election in Burma (Myanmar) by the military rulers, if Daw Aung Suu Kyi with other political leaders are kept out of the process? Not only the pro-democracy Burmese exiles, but also a significant number ... More >>
'Capitalism' Opens Today at a Theater Near You!
Monday, 5 October 2009, 1:23 pm | Nava Thakuria
For two months, we've sat and watched the rabid right achieve the unimaginable: Derail universal health care and send the Democrats in Congress running for cover. Many have asked, "How did this happen? How could a small minority of angry people control ... More >>
When media propagates a China-India war!
Monday, 5 October 2009, 1:22 pm | Nava Thakuria
Does a war between China and India become inevitable-this is question hundred thousands Indiana are making whenever they glue to the news channels or read newspapers in the last few days. In fact, everyone in the country is talking about a forthcoming ... More >>
Scoop Contributor In WWFJ Body
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 3:35 pm | Nava Thakuria
Northeast India based journalist, Nava Thakuria, who writes for Scoop News, has been elected as one of the Assistant General Secretaries of World Water Forum of Journalists (WWFJ), the head office of which is based in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka. More >>
Northeasterners defy militant’s diktat
Monday, 17 August 2009, 1:06 pm | Nava Thakuria
The common people of Northeast India have shown their braveness and gratitude to the motherland once again on the 63rd Independence Day (of India), as they came out in large number to join the celebration defying the diktats of separatist militants. ... More >>
Breeding vultures for the Parsis’ World !
Friday, 10 July 2009, 10:55 am | Nava Thakuria
As the vultures in the Indian sky are missing, the Parsi people living in the country remained worried, of course for a religious reason. The Parsis, who fled Persia-the present-day Iran-centuries back after Islamic uprising practise the religion of Zoroastrianism. More >>
Indian Muslims Raise Voices For Uighurs
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:00 pm | Nava Thakuria
The apex body of Indian Muslims has come forward to condemn the brutality shown by the Chinese authority in the autonomous Xinjiang region in the last few days. More >>
One More Editor Is Shot Dead In Assam
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 1:37 pm | Nava Thakuria
The trouble torn northeastern part of India has witnessed another incident of killing of a newspaper editor in Guwahati. Unidentified gunmen has shot dead the editor of an Assamese daily ‘Aji’ (meaning today) on the night of March 25 at around 10 ... More >>
Northeast India: Journalists In Line Of Fire
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:12 pm | Nava Thakuria
At least 20 editor-journalists were killed in Assam of Northeast India during the last 17 years and surprisingly enough not a single perpetrator of these heinous crimes was booked under the law- this is how an Assam based journalist rights body expressed ... More >>
Rhino-Tiger’s Losing Battle In Kaziranga Reserve
Monday, 9 March 2009, 12:25 pm | Nava Thakuria
ASSAM’S wildlife reserve with international fame is presently in the media headline, but again for wrong reasons. Kaziranga National Park, which is more popularly known as a safe heaven for the endangered one horn rhinos and also Indian tigers grabbed ... More >>
Militants defied on India's republic Day
Friday, 25 January 2008, 8:58 am | Nava Thakuria
The 59th Republic Day of India on 26 January 2008 also witnessed a boycott call from four outlawed outfits and as usual it has been hit back by a group of journalists of Assam (India) with advance announcement that they would hoist Tricolour in the ... More >>
Nava Thakuria: Empowering Judiciary in Bangladesh
Monday, 14 January 2008, 10:12 am | Nava Thakuria
Bangladesh, though having witnessed an eventful 2007 amidst the emergency, postponement of general election, human rights violation and the arrest of some senior most political leader, had ended the year with some positive initiatives. More >>
India Supports Democracy In Bhutan, Not Refugees
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 9:50 am | Nava Thakuria
When Pakistan, Burma and Nepal are bleeding on their ways to achieve a democratic regime in their countries, the 'Shangri-la' has shown a different picture, where a monarch comes out for a democratic set up in his kingdom. More >>
