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 ...

A week-long programme to celebrate Assam's linguistic diversity commenced on Sunday, coinciding with the completion of a month of according of Classical language status to Assamese. Programmes are ...

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 ...