The Assam Tribune

The Assam Tribune
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Assam Tribune Pvt Ltd
Founder(s) Radha Govinda Baruah
Editor-in-chief Prafulla Govinda Baruah
Founded 4 August 1939 (1939-08-04)[1]
Language English
Headquarters Tribune Buildings, MRD Road, Chandmari, Guwahati, Assam
Sister newspapers Dainik Asam
Asam Bani
Website www.assamtribune.com
Free online archives assamtribune.com/epaper/

The Assam Tribune is an English daily newspaper published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam. With over 7,00,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in North-East India. The newspaper was founded way back in 1939 in Gauhati.

The Assam Tribune building

History

First published on 4 August 1939[1] in Gauhati by Radha Govinda Baruah as a weekly newspaper under the editorship of Lakshminath Phookan[2], it is now published simultaneously from Guwahati and Dibrugarh as a daily. It has a huge readership in Assam and is the most popular newspaper in the North-East India. The Assam Tribune has a wide reach in terms of circulation figures as well as the reliability of the news matter. In 2014 it celebrated the Platinum Jubilee in the presence of India's Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi.

The present editor is Prafulla Govinda Baruah, son of Radha Govinda Baruah, and P. J. Baruah is the Executive Editor.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Deepali Barua (1994). Urban History of India: A Case Study. Mittal Publications. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-81-7099-538-8.
  2. ↑ "A glorious journey". The Assam Tribune. Retrieved 5 July 2018.


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