BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government has taken serious exception to the use of Devanagari script for the Odia syllabus in ...

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In 1971, Bengal witnessed an overlap of war, refugee migration from Bangladesh, and a fast-spreading eye epidemic. The slogan ...

Ashoka University and publishing house Westland Books have joined hands to launch a new translation series aimed at bringing landmark works of Indian fiction to a wider, global English-language ...

DHAKA, April 12, 2026 (BSS) - Bangla New Year 1433 was celebrated amid grand festivity at Times Square in the heart of New ...

KOLKATA: In a telling shift in political messaging, the BJP on Friday wrapped its familiar Hindutva plank in the language of ...

From here the Charyāpada has reached the world. Artists in Europe, America, Japan, China, and Sri Lanka are learning and ...

Playwrights, teachers, and theatre activists stated on Saturday that poet Shahid Qadri was a key figure in modern Bengali ...

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The streets hum before anyone even steps onto them. You can almost hear whispers running ahead of the slogans, see shadows hesitating at the edges of open grounds, feel the nervous pulse of a city ...

As Akshay Kumar gears up for his highly anticipated reunion with director Priyadarshan in Bhooth Bangla, the superstar is making waves for his candid take on the industry's linguistic shift. In a ...