In Assam, a social media campaign called “Chalo Paltai – Mission 2021” is causing a stir. The war cry, “chalo paltai” – “let us change” – is a call to Bengali speakers who identified Assamese as their ...

Explore how language policy and identity fueled conflict in Assam, revisiting the 1961 Silchar violence in a new study.

Over 1,700 acres of reserve forest land in Assam's Hojai district have been cleared of encroachments. Chief Minister Himanta ...

Assam, India – At around midnight of November 29, 2016, Morjina Bibi was woken up by repeated knocks on her door. “When I opened the door, I saw two female police officers. Within a minute, several ...

On Thursday night, five Bengali-speaking daily wage labourers were killed in Assam. They were picked out and shot dead by armed men in military fatigues in the eastern Tinsukia district. The execution ...

A social media campaign that seeks to build a movement for making Bengali the first language of Assam in the coming 2021 census has raised the hackles of Bengali minority groups in the north-eastern ...

MAJULI: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has accused the BJP-led government of pushing Assam's bonafide Bengali Hindus to lie about their origins for obtaining citizenship under CAA and warned that this ...

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured that Bengali language and identity is paramount to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday (July 19, ...

CM Himanta Biswa Sarma frames the upcoming polls as a “civilisational conflict between Sanatani civilisation and that of the ...

At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam or ULFA terrorists in upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Thursday evening. Initial reports said the terrorists belonged ...

Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has accused the BJP-led government of pushing Assam’s bonafide Bengali Hindus to lie about their origins for obtaining citizenship under CAA and warned that this "divide and ...