Actress Payal Ghosh, who’s known for her work in the Hindi and South regional film industry, is currently helping her co-actor Krushna Abhishek learn Bengali for certain scenes in their upcoming film ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kolkata: The National Library of India (NLI) is set to celebrate the recent recognition of Bengali as a classical language, a historic moment for the language and its rich literary tradition. NLI, ...

Bangla is what we native Bangalees call the language. And so that is what it should be known as. Just like Hindi, Urdu, or Tamil. So why not use the word Bangla globally, instead of "Bengali?" After ...

Actor Saswata Chatterjee is a prominent name in both the Bengali and Hindi film industries, synonymous with thriller and fictional characters. Whether it was as Bob Biswas in Kahaani or Commander ...

In the cauldron of West Bengal’s 2026 Assembly election, Mamata Banerjee wields Bengali pride like a battle-axe, slicing through the Bharatiya Janata Party’s faltering campaign. With her fiery ...