The government said that the latest evictions, carried out on January 5 and 6, were aimed at clearing encroachments from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bengali-speaking Hindus in Assam have been "most comfortable" in Assam under the Bharatiya Janata Party's rule in the last 10 years, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, further hailing his ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The student body launched a three-day protest at Dispur Last Gate on the first day of the budget session of the assembly seeking safeguards from the state government for the community. GUWAHATI: ...

Silchar (Assam), Sep 1 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted that Bengali-speaking Hindus have been "most comfortable" in the northeastern state under the BJP's rule in the last 10 ...

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 ...