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 ...

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 ...

More than 200 languages are spoken in New York, according to the Department of City Planning, backing the claim of it being the melting pot of America. However, the ballot papers in the U.S.

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 ...

A senior Bangladesh minister on Tuesday exhorted the United Nations to formally adopt Bangla as one of its official languages, on the day when the country celebrated the Language Martyrs Day to ...

In her letter to PM Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that Bengali is the second most spoken language in India and 7th most spoken in the world. The chief minister also mentioned ...

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 ...

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 ...