Nava Thakuria

He is one of the richest candidates, who has contested for the Lok Sabha polls from Assam in Northeast India. A lottery baron turned politician, who has already won three times from Tezpur parliamentary constituency, is more known as a man of money.

The trouble torn northeastern part of India has witnessed another incident of the killing of a newspaper editor in Guwahati.

The public resentment against the failure of the authority to nab the serial killer of at least seven pavement dwellers in Guwahati has surfaced slowly but steadily.

To mark a decade long illegal detention (of those Burmese), the Burmese pro-democracy organizations in India had organized a protest demonstration program in New Delhi on February 11.

Sri Lankan army vows to destroy the remaining hideouts of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam amidst international cries that civilians were targeted and victimized in the infighting.

Look at some of our neighbours. China, thanks to communism, is an authoritarian rule. Myanmar is an isolationist, barbaric, military dispensation. Nepal continues to flounder in its search for a democratic ideal

The ritual of Northeast India separatist groups imposing diktats on Republic and Independence Day results in the ritual of conscious citizens rejecting it outright.

Both the governments should immediately set up a Joint Action and Investigative Agency for total cooperation and mutual assistance to address and overcome the problem of terrorism effectively and without any further delay.

The editor of Prantik, Pradip Baruah revealed many of such surprises in an interactive session at Guwahati Press Club on December 20 last.

Soon after the terror strikes on India's financial capital, society came out with the opinion that excessive media footage of the Mumbai episode only helped the terrorists.

Unidentified gunmen kill correspondent from leading Assamese daily, Assam based journalists protest.

Jagjit Saikia, a Kokrajhar based scribe, associated with a vernacular Assamese daily, Amar Asom, was shot at by miscreants this afternoon in Kokrajhar town.

The Northeast is no stranger to terror attacks, but the latest serial blasts in Assam had shaken the psyche of the people. For the first time, they feel helpless and totally insecure.

The civil society, advocacy groups with the common people took various agitational programmes to condemn the incident of serial blasts that killed over 80 people.

Various parties fault Home Minister Gogoi for inefficiency in handling the situation and for not visiting the violence-hit areas earlier, while relatively close by.

While arguing that the press persons should have access to public affairs, he on the other hand asserted that peeping into private affairs can not be termed as journalistic exercises.

Following the exposure, this writer tried to contact the editor of the Bangladesh daily repeatedly through e-mail and also over telephone, but failed.

Quoting the record of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the statement also revealed that 615 journalists had to pay their lives on the job between 1992 and March 2007.

The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), formed in 1979 to fight for a 'Sovereign Socialist Asom', today faces a peculiar and embracing situation.

Defying the diktat of militants, the people of Assam in Northeast India celebrated India's 62nd Independence Day.