GUWAHATI: Academics, students and engineering aspirants welcomed the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) decision to conduct the JEE (Main) in 10 more languages, including Assamese, from 2021. Drawing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jorhat, July 18: The reprint of Rev. Nathan Brown’s Grammatical Notices of the Assamese Language (1848), released on July 9, has revealed the multiple “surgeries” and distortions the simpler original ...

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 ...

There’s jubilation across Assam with many terming the move by the Centre as a safeguard against questions about the language’s distinctive identity. As a language, Assamese has a long, deep-rooted and ...

A week-long programme to celebrate Assam's linguistic diversity commenced on Sunday, coinciding with the completion of a month of according of Classical language status to Assamese. Programmes are ...

In recent years, there has been a rise in the number of Assamese meme pages on social media platforms, particularly on Instagram. These pages use humor and satire to showcase the daily lives and ...

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 ...

Guwahati, January 24 Eminent Assamese linguist and academician Golok Chandra Goswami died on Friday due to old age ailments at a private hospital here. Goswami, 96, had retired from the Gauhati ...