The digital age has changed the way languages survive, grow and reach people. For Assamese, this change creates both opportunities and serious challenges.

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: Tezpur University will host the Centre of Excellence for Studies in Classical Assamese, following the conferment of classical language status on Assamese in 2024.Get breaking news anytime, ...

On Lakshminath Bezbaroa’s 162nd birth anniversary, we revisit his role in revitalising Assamese literature, preserving ...

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 ...

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 Union Ministry of Education has approved the establishment of five Centres of Excellence (CoEs) for the study of ...

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 ...

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 ...