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	'''''The Assam Tribune''''' is an ~~[[India]]n~~ English daily [[newspaper]] published from [[Guwahati]] and [[Dibrugarh]], Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in [[North-East India\|northeastern India]]. The newspaper was founded way back in 1939 in [[Gauhati]].		'''''The Assam Tribune''''' is an Indian English daily [[newspaper]] published from [[Guwahati]] and [[Dibrugarh]], Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in [[North-East India\|northeastern India]]. The newspaper was founded way back in 1939 in [[Gauhati]].

	[[File:Assam tribune picture by Vikramjit Kakati.jpg\|220px\|thumb\|The Assam Tribune building]]		[[File:Assam tribune picture by Vikramjit Kakati.jpg\|220px\|thumb\|The Assam Tribune building]]

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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Assam Tribune
| logo = Theassamtribunelogo.png
| logo_size = 220px
| image = TheAssamTribuneCover.jpg
| image_size = 240px
| type = [[Private Company|Private]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1939|08|04|df=y}}<ref name="Barua1994">{{cite book|author=Deepali Barua|title=Urban History of India: A Case Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MzjyHi4LEQAC&pg=PA127|year=1994|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-538-8|pages=127–}}</ref>
| ceased publication =
| price =
| owners = [[Prafulla Govinda Baruah]] (100%)
| founder = [[Radha Govinda Baruah]]
| publisher =
| editor =
| chiefeditor = [[Prafulla Govinda Baruah]]
| assoceditor =
| staff =
| language = [[Indian English|English]]
| political =
| circulation = 7,00,000+
| sister newspapers = ''[[Dainik Asam]]''<br> ''Asam Bani''
| headquarters = Tribune Buildings, MRD Road, [[Chandmari]], [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]], India
| oclc =
| ISSN =
| website = {{url|http://www.assamtribune.com}}
| free = {{url|https://epaper.assamtribune.com}}
}}

'''''The Assam Tribune''''' is an [[India]]n English daily [[newspaper]] published from [[Guwahati]] and [[Dibrugarh]], Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in [[North-East India|northeastern India]]. The newspaper was founded way back in 1939 in [[Gauhati]].

[[File:Assam tribune picture by Vikramjit Kakati.jpg|220px|thumb|The Assam Tribune building]]

== History ==
First published on 4 August 1939<ref name="Barua1994" /> in Gauhati by [[Radha Govinda Baruah]] as a weekly newspaper under the editorship of Lakshminath Phookan,<ref name="A glorious journey">{{Cite web|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/mdetails.asp?id=nov2914/city050|title=A glorious journey |access-date=5 July 2018|work=The Assam Tribune}}</ref> 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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} ''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.

== Controversy ==
On 28 March 2021, a day after the first phase of polling for the [[2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election]], the newspaper ran a frontpage ad claiming the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] would win all the Upper Assam constituencies along with seven other newspapers. The [[Indian National Congress|Congress party]] claimed that the ad was a ploy to “influence and deceive” voters ahead of the remaining phases of the election; a violation of [[Representation of the People Act, 1951]] and Election Commission of India's directives.<ref>{{Cite news|others=PTI|date=2021-03-29|title=Assam Assembly polls {{!}} Congress lodges FIR against Sonowal, Nadda, 8 Assam newspapers over BJP advertisement|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/assam-assembly/assam-assembly-polls-congress-lodges-fir-against-sonowal-nadda-8-assam-newspapers-over-bjp-advertisement/article34188047.ece|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329124451/https://www.thehindu.com/elections/assam-assembly/assam-assembly-polls-congress-lodges-fir-against-sonowal-nadda-8-assam-newspapers-over-bjp-advertisement/article34188047.ece|archive-date=2021-03-29|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Speaking on the controversy, editor Prafulla Govinda Baruah told [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] that “The advertisement came in late.”<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-29|title=Assam Assembly elections 2021: Ad in garb of news predicts BJP win|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/assam-assembly-elections-2021-ad-in-garb-of-news-predicts-bjp-win/cid/1810916|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329124827/https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/assam-assembly-elections-2021-ad-in-garb-of-news-predicts-bjp-win/cid/1810916|archive-date=2021-03-29|access-date=2021-03-29|website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]}}</ref>

==See also==
*''[[The Sentinel (Gauhati)|The Sentinel]]''
*''[[Seven Sisters Post]]''

==References==
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