The Arleng Daily

The Arleng Daily
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) T.Pong Hanse
Publisher T.Pong Hanse
Editor T.Pong Hanse
Founded June 2004
Language Karbi
Headquarters Diphu, Assam
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The Arleng Daily is a daily newspaper published from Diphu, Assam. It has its beginning in June 2004. Initially its publication was distributed for free in and around Diphu, (mostly in Diphu Government College). As of 2008, it was one of the only two Karbi language dailies in Karbi Anglong district,[1]

The present editor is T.Pong Hanse.

History

The Arleng Daily is the first daily newspaper to be published in Karbi language in modern-day (after India Independence) and second Karbi daily since 'Birta' in 1903, after a gap of 101 year. The Arleng Daily is notable for starting a new trend in newspaper publishing in Karbi Anglong (in different languages). This step was soon followed by Thekar and others. Since then there has been dozen of newspaper that came to public attention.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sahil Nagpal (2008-08-29). "Assam’s Karbi Anglong witnessing high newspaper readership". TopNews.in. Retrieved 24 April 2014.


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