On January 26, 2012, an inter-ministerial meeting unanimously designated February 7 as the national 'Bangla Sign Language Day'.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

For long, a whispered dream has been held dear: grander recognition for Avro Keyboard – free and open-source graphical keyboard software developed by OmicronLab – and the brains behind it. Mehdi Hasan ...

Kolkata/IBNS: The trailer of Mukhoshe Manushe Khela - Dark Mind Games was launched at a grand event in Kolkata last Saturday.

The upsurge of the Language Movement reached Tangail in 1948, with the people and students launching a protest on February 23 over the Pakistan government’s stance against the demand for Bangla as a ...

The pioneer Bengal hardly even knows of today, the one who first sculpted the Bengali alphabet, has been resurrected in the ...

Bangladeshi police dismissed online rumours in December that a massive fire burned a neighbourhood near the site of the ...

A Master’s student from Kolkata on the Bengali life in NYC, from Amartya Sen and Durga Puja to kathi rolls, and more ...

Language Movement, the people of Pabna defied the authority’s oppressive measures and fought to recognise their mother tongue ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

The month-long event, a keystone in the cultural calendar, is themed around “July Mass Uprising: Building a New Bangladesh” ...

For years, only the Shakespeares and Dickenses of the world have been the mainstays in our English classrooms, with no room for the Rokeyas — voices that resonate with our culture and identity. It’s t ...