West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has slammed Delhi Police for referring to Bengali as a "Bangladeshi language" in an official notice linked to a case involving suspected illegal immigrants.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee called it a “calculated attempt by the BJP to defame Bengal, undermine our cultural identity and equate West Bengal with Bangladesh for narrow ...

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 ...

Bangla is not only one of the 22 official languages enshrined in the Constitution’s Eighth Schedule; last year, the Union government also listed it as one of the country’s 11 classical ...

Malviya's post also said: "For decades, no govt recognised Bangla bhasha as one of India's most prominent languages with a defining role in the subcontinent's cultural and linguistic history," and ...