Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress has issued a whip through WhatsApp on Monday, instructing its councillors in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to speak exclusively in Bengali during the ongoing ...

Marking Language Month in February, Bashundhara Shuvosangho on Saturday organised a Bangla alphabet competition in Dhaka to promote respect, love and awareness for the Bangla language. The event, held ...

New Delhi: In author Jhumpa Lahiri’s world, migration does not begin at the airport and does not end at citizenship. It begins much earlier in the body, in language, and in the knowledge of being ...

The United Nations General Assembly – the main policymaking body of the UN – in July adopted a historic resolution recognising 7th July as the World Kiswahili Language Day. ( July 25, 2024 ). This was ...

That was how Jhumpa Lahiri described the City of Joy during a session on her novel Roman Stories at Kolkata Literary Meet on January 22 — a brief remark that suddenly popped up in between a ...

Sharman Joshi is stepping into new cinematic territory with his first Bengali film, Bhalobashar Morshum. Despite not knowing the language, the actor says the experience has been both exciting and ...

Amidst its ongoing stand-off with the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) launched its campaign song, with a focus on Bengali identity and language, for the forthcoming Assembly ...

Bengali film actor and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Parno Mittra joined the Trinamool Congress on Friday (December 26, 2025), ahead of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections ...

Bangladesh has launched its first artificial intelligence–based platform dedicated to the Bengali language, named Kagoj.ai. Alongside it, a new Bengali font called “July” has also been officially ...

Calling suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir’s rhetoric ”the language of Muhammad Ali Jinnah”, senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said it was a direct ”challenge to Bengali Hindus”. The remarks ...

The American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) is delighted to announce the intensive, immersion-based Bangla language training program. This program offers participants an excellent opportunity ...