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Bengal singer Lagnajita threatened: 'Stop Jagoma, sing secular song', TMC leader arrested

In this Special Report, popular Bengali singer Lagnajita Chakraborty narrates her harrowing experience in East Midnapore's ...
The Daily Dot

“That’s integration, not invasion”: Bengali sign at Whitechapel station sparks a complaint on X. Locals clapped back instantly

A London commuter discovered something “new” at Whitechapel Station this week, even though it had been in place since 2022. London officials added Bengali signs at the Tube station back in 2022 to ...
NDTV

Why Every Bengali Meal Starts With Bitter Food Before Anything Else

Bengali meals traditionally begin with a bitter dish to stimulate digestion and palate. Ayurveda values bitterness for balancing doshas and aiding liver detoxification. Popular bitter dishes include ...
NDTV

"Insulting": Mamata Banerjee On Delhi Police Terming Bengali As "Bangladeshi National Language"

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on Sunday lashed out at the Delhi Police for referring to the Bengali language as "Bangladeshi national language" in a purported letter, alleging that it was ...
The New Indian Express

Trinamool Congress slams BJP over Amit Malviya's remark that there is no language called 'Bengali'

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on BJP after Amit Malviya, the national convenor of the party's IT cell, said that there is no language called “Bengali”. A day ...
The Hindu

Using ‘Bangladeshi for Bangla’ an insult to Bengali culture: Trinamool

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has taken strong objection to a letter by the Delhi police describing Bangla, or Bengali, as a “Bangladeshi” language and called for strong protests on ...
The Independent

India is targeting Bengali-speaking Muslims for expulsion to Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch warns

Indian authorities have forcibly pushed hundreds of Muslims into Bangladesh without due process, Human Rights Watch said. The rights group, based in the US, accused Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist ...
The Hindu

Migrant detentions rekindle Bengali identity politics, trigger new churn ahead of 2026 Bengal polls

The detention of Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in BJP-ruled states and their profiling as suspected Bangladeshis has ignited a fresh political firestorm in West Bengal, with the ruling TMC ...
Canadian Immigrant

NABC 2025 to celebrate Bengali culture with performances, panels and networking

The North American Bengali Conference (NABC), a long-running cultural event celebrating Bengali heritage, is returning to Toronto this summer after more than a decade. Scenes from a Bengali cultural ...
IEEE

Performance Analysis of Tesseract and EasyOCR for Bangla Optical Character Recognition on the Novel Bangla CrossHair Dataset

Abstract: This paper presents a comparative study of key metrics for OCR engines in Bangla language processing. PyTesseract (a Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR) and EasyOCR were benchmarked on a novel ...
The Telegraph

How a blacksmith from Serampore created the first Bengali typeface 250 years ago

Panchanan Karmakar’s creation led to the printing of the first Bengali language book, and his legacy will soon be showcased to Kolkata Hidden in the lanes of Serampore is the ancestral home and the ...
The Daily Star

Bangla or Bengali: which should be used?

Bangla is what we native Bangalees call the language. And so that is what it should be known as. Just like Hindi, Urdu, or Tamil. So why not use the word Bangla globally, instead of "Bengali?" After ...