The Union Cabinet’s decision to confer classical language status on both Bengali and Assamese simultaneously puts to rest certain socio-historical and linguistic compulsions inevitable in the early ...

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: 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 ...

English is still ruling the roost when it comes to higher education, be it engineering, management, communication or the general streams. Therefore, many are worried about the survival of regional ...

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 ...