Explore how language policy and identity fueled conflict in Assam, revisiting the 1961 Silchar violence in a new study.

Presented at the Northeast India Regional Pastoral Conference currently underway in Guwahati, the Assamese Missal is the brainchild of Bishop Albert Hermon of Dibrugarh. Assamese is the mother tongue ...

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 Delhi event will bring together prominent cultural figures, including sarod maestro Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan, Subhalakshami ...

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, June 16 (IANS) Indigenous microblogging platform Koo on Wednesday launched the app in Assamese language with state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma releasing the first message. Sarma’s ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said writing Bengali as the mother tongue in census documents will quantify the number of foreigners living in the state. His comments came in ...

Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that attempts by a section of minority organisations to replace Assamese with Bengali in electoral rolls or census would only ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged Assam's electorate to back BJP in upcoming elections for development and to combat ...

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 ...

Assam launches Japanese Language Training Centre in Dibrugarh under CM-FLIGHT to equip youth for global employment, especially in Japan.