 The newspaper was founded way back in 1939 in Gauhati.First published on 4 August 1939 in Gauhati by Radha Govinda Baruah as a weekly newspaper under the editorship of Lakshminath Phookan, 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.