Guwahati: The All Assam Bengali Parishad, an organisation representing the linguistic minority people of Assam, on Sunday appealed to all Bengalis living in the Brahmaputra Valley to register their mother tongue as Assamese in the ongoing census. Chitta Pal, the president of of the parishad, said at a news briefing that the 48 lakh Bengalis of the valley have always identified themselves as Assamese but some with “vested interests” are working overtime to coerce the people into changing their identity to Bengali. “Langauge has never been a problem for us. Our only concern is socio-economic uplift of the people,” he added. Guwahati: Union minister of state for communication and IT, Gurudas Kamat, on Sunday launched a life insurance policy for children at Cherrapunjee in Shillong. During the programme, the minister handed over policy documents to children at the Cherrapunjee post office, East Khasi Hills. Guwahati: The two-day conference on Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Development for northeastern states concluded on Sunday with two sessions on Human Trafficking for Child Labour and Prostitution and Domestic Violence and Gender Equality: North East Scenario. imphal: A two-member team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, headed by its registrar Binod Kumar Sahu, arrived in Imphal on Sunday to collect information about trafficking of children from Manipur to Chennai.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
