The Bengal chief minister started the movement with a 2.5km march and a rally in Bolpur-Santiniketan, the soil associated ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were assaulted and threatened ...

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation mandates the use of Bengali in official proceedings, echoing TMC's campaign to protect ...

On Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's death anniversary, CM Mamata Banerjee paid tribute, crediting him for Bengal's progress.

Several BJP-led state governments have started campaigns to take discriminatory positions against Bengali-speaking Indian ...

That Ms Banerjee will use this issue as an electoral trump card is to be expected. Bengali identity and its attendant ...

Taxpayers have been funding "mother tongue" language lessons for second and third generation immigrations to learn foreign ...

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 ...

They all agreed that Bangla language has originated within 9th – 12th century AD. The Bangla language, Assamese, Oria, Maithili and Hindi have originated within this span of time.

At 6 pm, "a poll worker found the Bengali Democratic ballots under stacks of other items on the poll workers’ table, the lawsuit said. Only Bengali language Republican ballots were available to ...