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The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued a directive mandating that all business establishments, commercial institutions, and shops across the city must display signboards prominently in ...

More members of the film and music fraternity in Bengal joined the chorus against Delhi Police over a purported letter that referred to Bengali as “Bangladeshi national language”, questioning whether ...

Kolkata's National Library of India recently hosted a two-day international seminar celebrating Bangla's new status as a classical language. Governor C.V. Ananda Bose inaugurated the event, ...

More than 200 languages are spoken in New York, according to the Department of City Planning, backing the claim of it being the melting pot of America. However, the ballot papers in the US ...

History is often prey to socio-political demands. The Centre’s recognition of Bengali as a classical language along with four others gave rise to a kind of congratulatory pleasure in the West Bengal ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed her delight over Bengali being conferred the status of classical language and said the state government had been actively working to ...

The decision was taken at a Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. (File) The Central government on Thursday conferred the ‘classical ...

The Union Cabinet has approved classical language status for Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali, nearly doubling the number of classical languages in India to 11. This initiative aims to ...

Bengali and four other languages have been conferred the status of classical language, the Indian government announced tonight. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet presided by Prime ...