GUWAHATI: The Assam government has made the Assamese language compulsory for all official works in the state barring five districts under the Bodoland Territorial Region and three districts in the ...

On the first day of Assamese new year, the Assamese language has been made mandatory for all official work in Assam, according to an official notification issued in this regard on Monday. It will come ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said people who seek to replace Assamese with Bengali in the electoral rolls would help the government get an idea about the number of “foreigners” in the ...

The digital age has changed the way languages survive, grow and reach people. For Assamese, this change creates both opportunities and serious challenges.

Guwahati: Central govt’s granting of classical language status to Assamese, alongside four other languages, has been welcomed across the political spectrum in the state. Chief minister Himanta Biswa ...

Guwahati: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved to confer the status of ‘classical language’ to five languages, with Assamese language being one of them. The ...

Assamese to be compulsory official language for all government notifications, orders, acts and other such works in Assam, announced Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday. He further said that ...

Guwahati: A minority student leader in Assam stirred a hornet’s nest with remarks that Bengal-origin Muslims would list Bengali, and not Assamese, as their mother tongue in public documents. Chief ...

GUWAHATI: The Assamese language has been made mandatory for all official work in Assam, according to a notification issued in this regard on Monday. It will come into effect from Tuesday, the first ...

Two Guwahati-based NGOs and IIT Bombay's AI initiative BharatGen have joined hands to include Assamese language in the database of artificial intelligence, an official said on Wednesday. The three ...

On a summer day in 1973, then Assam chief minister Sarat Chandra Sinha visited our tiny town. The occasion had nothing to do with my birth later that evening but it turned out that it had everything ...