The Arleng Daily is a Karbi daily newspaper published from Diphu,

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

. 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 The Karbi language () is spoken by the Karbi (also known as Mikir or Arleng) people of Northeastern India. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, but its position is unclear. Grierson (1903) classified it under Naga languages, Shafer ...

dailies in

Karbi Anglong district Karbi Anglong district is one of the 34 administrative districts of Assam in India. Diphu is the administrative headquarter of the district. The district is administered by Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council according to the Sixth Schedule of the C ...

, The present editor is T.Pong Hanse.

History

''The Arleng Daily'' is the first daily newspaper to be published in

in modern-day (after India Independence) and second after the now closed 'Birta' (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 Thekar is a Karbi daily newspaper published from Diphu, Assam. It is the highest circulated Karbi daily in North East India. As of 2008, it was one of the only two Karbi-language dailies in Karbi Anglong district, The Thekar has wide reach among t ...

and others. Since then there has been dozen of newspaper that came to public attention.

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History

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