Jayanta Malla Baruah said Assamese being granted Classical Language status is a proud moment for Assam. He said the ...

The community has played a crucial role in “safeguarding” the language in every Census since the 1950s, they said.

Politicians, activists and scholars have documented the origins and development of the language, spoken mostly by tribal people, while the state government has shut down schools using Assamese. Since ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday, June 13, said linguistic identity should be reflected through actual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Assamese language has finally found pride of place in Google Translate. On Wednesday, Google announced it has added 24 new languages to Google Translate, including eight Indian languages among ...

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 ...

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 ...