India, Jan. 12 -- Amid an existential crisis in northeast India's well-known media house, the Assam Tribune group of newspapers, which worsened after the Covid-19 pandemic, a popular Assamese weekly newspaper ceased publication in the latter part of 2025.

Asom Bani, once a mainstream weekly for Assamese readers for decades, stopped appearing on stands from September last year, as the management lost interest in continuing its Friday publications. Even though the seven-decade-old, Guwahati-based Assamese-language weekly exited the media market, the management did not issue any statement about Asom Bani's fate.

Before its discontinuation, the weekly had been merged with Dainik Asom, an acclaimed Assamese daily from the same prestigious me...