Kolkata: A number of puja pandals in Salt Lake will have ‘Bangaliyana' as the theme this year, highlighting Bengali language, ...

Every year the Amar Ekushey Book Fair honours those who became martyrs on February 21, 1952 in the Language Movement by showcasing the depth of the Bangla language and literature, serving as an emblem ...

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 ...

Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj. Calcutta's presence as the British Empire's capital in the colony shaped ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for digital publication of the books alongside the printed ones and their translation into different languages to reach the Bangla language, ...

Kolkata: Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the granting of classical language status to Bengali, in a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi. Similar status was given to Assamese, Marathi, Pali and ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to declare Bengali a classical language. In her letter, the Bengal CM requested the Prime ...

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 ...