Through remembrance, music, poetry and quiet procession, the nation once again marks a day when language was defended with lives and transformed into a universal call for dignity, identity and human r ...

Bangla is one of the approximately seven thousand languages spoken worldwide, with around 250 million native speakers in Bangladesh and West Bengal. In terms of the number of native speakers, it ranks ...

A football match in Kolkata witnessed a symbolic protest against a Delhi Police officer's letter seeking a translator for the "Bangladeshi language" that has sparked a massive row amid the Trinamool ...

A Caritas volunteer, right, holds a phone from which a Bengali-speaking cultural mediator explains to a group of Bangladeshi migrants the terms of their expulsion order from southern Italy, Oct. 23, ...

Bangladesh is observing Language Martyrs’ Day on Saturday, paying homage to the heroes of the 1952 Language Movement whose sacrifices ensured the rightful place of Bangla as the mother tongue. With ...