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The pro-Bengali group, Bangla Pokkho, held a march in the city, protesting what they view as the BJP's attempt to impose ...
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 ...
Wednesday marks International Mother Language Day, and members of the Bengali community came together for a celebration of ethnic heritage. The day aims to celebrate people from every country speaking ...
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a notice to traders making the Bengali language mandatory on all ...
Leading Bengali-language streamer Hoichoi is expanding into the feature film production business with Hoichoi Studios. The new studio plans to use the learnings gleaned from six years as a streaming ...
"Where else would you be able to enjoy classics and recent flicks for Tk 50, which would usually cost Tk 300-500 in cinemas?" asked Maliha Tasnim, a Master's student at Dhaka University, whom I met ...
Hakim responded by confirming the expectation that Bengali font size should not be smaller than any other language on the ...
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will begin teaching its four-year ...
Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, who will next be seen in the Rajkummar Rao-starrer Maalik, recently found himself caught in a controversy after his comments at an event went viral. The actor reportedly ...
Kolkata: In a new initiative, IIT Kharagpur will now teach its four-year BS (Bachelor of Science) degree in Bengali, keeping ...