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 ...

Forcibly imposing Assamese as sole official language in undivided Assam was a historic blunder, which triggered a sense of separation and resulted in the creation of multiple states in Northeast, ...

Origins of the Tweedledum-Tweedledee relationship between Bengali and Assamese can be traced to the provincial administration in British India where educated Bengalis in droves were at the helm. The ...

Guwahati, October 3: The Central government has officially recognised Assamese as a classical language, along with four others, in a landmark decision on Thursday highlighting the nation's linguistic ...

The Ministry of Culture, India, has taken a landmark decision to grant Classical Language status to five significant languages—Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali. This move is a part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Tuesday (April 15, 2025) that Assamese would be the compulsory official language for all government notifications, orders and acts in the State.

For decades, not weeks as the recent discourse in Assam would have us believe, the people of Assam, especially its scholars and litterateurs, politicians and bureaucrats, media and activists, have ...

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 (Assam) [India], April 15 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced that Assamese will be the compulsory official language for all government notifications, orders, ...

CM Sarma took to social media post on X to make this announcement. Beginning this Bohag, Assamese will be the compulsory official language for all government notifications, orders, acts, etc, across ...