Kolkata: Stressing on unity in diversity, CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that commonly used words by people enrich a language. Banerjee, while attending an event on International Mother Language ...

A month-long campaign, "Nikhoj Shobder Khoje", to encourage the young generation to reconnect with those Bangla words that have been missing from the language for a long time, was launched at Bishwo ...

Did you know ‘Da-Ri’, which means ‘beard’ in Bengali is the word for ‘legs’ in Korean? And ‘Mo-Ja’, which is the word for ‘socks’ in Bengali, means a ‘hat’ or ‘cap’ in Korean? After enthralling her ...

Shobdo Jobdo 2024, a hunt for finding the best school through various interesting games on Bengali words in the form of quizzes was organised by Anandabazar Online at 208 schools across 12 districts ...

The government is set to add 400,000 new Bangla words in Google Translate, a free online language translation service, on the Independence Day, aiming to enrich Bangla language. "We are going to ...

KOLKATA: Have words like 'sir', 'chair', 'table' and 'football' become part of the Bengali language? Strange as it may sound, members of the West Bengal Assembly thought it appropriate to debate the ...