A senior Bangladesh minister on Tuesday exhorted the United Nations to formally adopt Bangla as one of its official languages, on the day when the country celebrated the Language Martyrs Day to ...

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 ...

There is clear evidence that learning in multiple languages, starting with the mother tongue and then gradually adding national and global languages, is good for cognitive abilities and does not ...

Bangladesh on Tuesday recalled the supreme sacrifice of the language heroes on this day 71 years back with a fresh call for recognizing Bangla as one of the UN official languages, marking Martyrs' Day ...

Hoichoi, an Indian streaming company which specializes in Bengali-language content, has revealed plans for a 30-strong 2022 slate. It also has expansion plans for Bangladesh, Southeast Asia and the ...

Bangladesh has paid deep respect and homage to the immortal martyrs of the Language Movement. On this day in 1952, February 21, young students took to the streets of Dhaka and shed their blood to ...

Bangladesh can claim to consider Bangla as the United Nation's official language, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Mustafizur Rahman said on February 21. While talking with ANI, Mr. Rahman said, ...

The Language Movement of 1952 is the result of our country's fight to identify as a liberated nation. The present-day economy and culture of Bangladesh are also a consequence of the independence that ...

Bangladesh is set to observe “Amar Ekushey”, the Language Martyr's Day (Shaheed Day) and the International Mother Language Day on Wednesday, marking the supreme sacrifice of the language heroes for ...

Bangladesh's indigenous languages are under threat and some could die without positive action to preserve them. Catholic and ethnic community leaders have called on authorities to protect several ...

"Every time I hear my mother tongue, Bangla, it feels like home, even when home is far away," writes Steinbach's Itrat Anwar. "That's why everyone should celebrate their own mother language, no matter ...

Thousands of people on Friday paid their tribute to the people who laid down their lives during the historic language movement at the Central Shaheed Minar in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Bangladesh ...