West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language, asking whether there can be an India without West Bengal. Banerjee ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

Bengali is our mother tongue, our state language. In 1952, Rafiq, Jabbar, Salam, Barkat and Safiur shed fresh blood to protect the dignity of mother language. In return for their great sacrifice, we ...

The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided between ...

The government has taken extensive measures to modernize the use of the Bangla language in the digital sphere. As part of a string of initiatives to facilitate the use of Bangla on digital platforms ...

Bengali, or Bangla, is often called the "Sweetest Language in the World." UNESCO declared February 21st as International Mother Language Day in 1952. Over 300 million people speak Bengali, ranking it ...

South Korean YouTuber Lee Jun-hak fell in love with Bengali culture and language when he arrived in India in 2016 for his university studies. While pursuing a degree majoring in Hindi, Lee picked up ...

Kolkata: Tollywood has joined politicians across party lines who have come in support of CM Mamata Banerjee, who criticised Delhi Police on Sunday over a notice issued to Banga Bhawan in the national ...

More members of the film and music fraternity in Bengal joined the chorus against Delhi Police over a purported letter that referred to Bengali as “Bangladeshi national language”, questioning whether ...