UGC approves Assamese Department at Assam University as Assam Sahitya Sabha marks Chandrakanta Handique Bhawan centenary in Jorhat.

The Literature of Assamese Language optional comprises of Paper I and Paper II of 250 marks each. Out of 1750 total marks of the UPSC IAS Civil Services Main Written Examination, it accounts for 500 i ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asam Sahitya Sabha president and former director-general of police Kuladhar Saikia has found a unique way to spend time indoors during the lockdown — strengthen the global reach of Assamese language ...

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: Academics, students and engineering aspirants welcomed the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) decision to conduct the JEE (Main) in 10 more languages, including Assamese, from 2021. Drawing ...

Assamese Facebook users had something to cheer about as they will now have the option of viewing their pages in Assamese after the language has been enlisted among more than 100 other languages 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 ...