The Trinamul Congress released its election manifesto a few days back with a ten-point promise if the party came back to ...

Among the power centres of Bangladesh, the status of Bangla is a little better at general universities. Bangla is used more in general universities than elsewhere and its status, too, is higher, if ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Where else would you be able to enjoy classics and recent flicks for Tk 50, which would usually cost Tk 300-500 in cinemas?" asked Maliha Tasnim, a Master's student at Dhaka University, whom I met ...

“Based on the Bengali nationalism that is derived from our language and culture, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led the 23 year-long political struggle and the Liberation War that ended with the ...

New York’s 2024 presidential ballot is sparking curiosity with its language lineup. In a city where over 200 languages are spoken, one Indian language has made its way onto the ballot — and it’s not ...