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 ...

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 ...

Bangla referred to as a ‘Bangladeshi language’: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) vs Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) face-off has taken an ugly turn after a letter from Delhi Police referred to Bangla as the ...

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, ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language, asking whether there can be an India without West Bengal. Banerjee ...

Last week, Chief Minister of Assam and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leader Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that people writing Bengali as their mother tongue in the census would help identify how many ...

Kolkata: Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the granting of classical language status to Bengali, in a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi. Similar status was given to Assamese, Marathi, Pali and ...

In a bizarre recent development, the Delhi Police, in an official FIR, claimed that alleged illegal Bangladeshi residents in the city were communicating in “Bangladeshi” language rather than Bengali.

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on BJP after Amit Malviya, the national convenor of the party's IT cell, said that there is no language called “Bengali”. A day ...

During the 1980s and 1990s, a new wave of Bangladeshi migrants, comprising mainly unskilled workers, led to a widespread perception of Bengali migrants as itinerant labourers and temporary workers in ...

Mamata Banerjee held a strategy meeting online with her MPs to ensure they went full throttle in Parliament on the alleged linguistic discrimination against Bengali-speaking Indians A child wearing a ...