Guwahati: Three retired civil service officers have urged airport authorities to add Assamese to the public announcements at ...

Former Assam Director General of Police (DGP) Kuladhar Saikia, along with two other retired senior bureaucrats, has urged the ...

Guwahati: Members of the Assamese film fraternity gathered at Kumar Bhaskar Natya Mandir on Saturday to mark legendary ...

The last decade has seen an explosion of writing from North-East India. While fiction and poetry from the region led the way, nonfiction, recording the history, politics, anthropology, environmental ...

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

New Delhi, September 30, 2020: Today, Microsoft India has announced the addition of Assamese as the latest Indian language in Microsoft Translator. The Azure-based service will now provide real-time ...

The gamosa has entered the spotlight again, this time through a political controversy that followed the President of India’s ‘At Home’ reception after the Republic Day parade. The Bharatiya Janata ...

Assam has mandated Assamese as the compulsory official language for all government communications, including notifications and orders, as announced by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Bengali and ...

Zubeen had travelled to Singapore to participate in the North East Festival, where he was scheduled to perform. His untimely passing has sent shockwaves through the music industry and the Assamese ...

As a language, Assamese has a long, deep-rooted and cherished history. But there have been times in the past when questions have been raised about its unique identity and comparisons being made to ...

The Union Cabinet has approved the recognition of five more languages as "classical," Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday, expanding the nation's list of culturally significant tongues.