New York City ballots in the upcoming US presidential election will include Bangla, one of three Asian languages available alongside English. This addition, aimed at easing voting access for ...

A legal notice has been issued requesting the inclusion of Bengali as an official language of the United Nations and its use in all official matters within Bangladesh. The notice has been sent to ...

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 ...

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 ...

West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari mandates Bengali for all state govt communication from Sep 1, 2026, following Amit Shah's ...

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has taken strong objection to a letter by the Delhi police describing Bangla, or Bengali, as a “Bangladeshi” language and called for strong protests on ...