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 ...

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 ...

Campaign seen as bid to disturb peace between the Assamese and Bengalis Kolkata/Guwahati: A social media campaign that seeks to build a movement for making Bengali the first language of Assam in the ...

A sartorial fusion attempt is the latest flashpoint in Assam’s cultural and ethnic battles. On March 25, the Bangla Sahitya Sabha, a newly formed literary body in Assam, organised its first-ever state ...

Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi make up the Barak valley of southern Assam, where local Bengalis have fought and died to establish Bangla as the official language since the 1960s. The strike call ...

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 war of words broke out between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Assamese counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday after the former alleged that Bengali speaking people are being ...

GENEVA: The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has voiced grave concern over the treatment of Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam, pointing to racial bias in the ...

Bengali poet from Assam Sutapa Chakraborty has won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for her collection of poems ‘Deraje Halud Ful, Gatajanma’. Sutapa Chakraborty. Chakraborty, 32, who hails from ...

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 ...