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 ...

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 ...

Endangered Languages: Languages such as Kond, Kharia, Koda, Soura, and Mundari have been officially listed as endangered. For instance, in Moulvibazar, only two elderly sisters remain who can speak ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bangladeshis have begun paying homage to the heroes of the nation who sacrificed their lives for the right to Bangla as a state language in 1952, foiling a Pakistani conspiracy to destroy their ...

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 ...

Among the power centres of Bangladesh, the status of Bangla is a little better at general universities. Bangla is used more in general universities than elsewhere and its status, too, is higher, if ...

Bengali Language movement hero Abdul Matin died at a hospital in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Wednesday after a long illness at the age of 88. He was undergoing treatment at the ICU of the ...

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, ...