Guwahati: State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has started developing bilingual textbooks in Assamese and their home language for adivasi children of Assam living in tea gardens.

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 ...

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, 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 BJP-led Assam government has made Assamese the “compulsory official language” for all government communications in the state, barring Barak and the Bodoland districts, from Tuesday. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Assam Cabinet on Tuesday expressed its gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for granting classical language status to Assamese. It also approved the delimitation of panchayat areas and ...

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 ...