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 ...

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 ...

India, Jan. 18 -- The length and breadth of India has such a variety of cultural traditions to offer that it might take many lifetimes to absorb it all. Over the years, however, a few cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 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 ...

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 ...