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 ...

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 ...

One word that has gone missing from our Bengali vocabulary is “palpitation”. I say Bengali because the familiarity with which it was used in Bengali middle-class homes made it lose its foreignness.

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 ...

On the eve of the Independence Day, Bangalee volunteers contributed around seven lakh Bangla words and phrases to Google Translate breaking a record. This was the highest number of inputs to Google's ...

Get set to have your mind blown! Photograph: The Advocacy Project/Creative Commons The ninth edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary has included over 240 words from Indian English. While ...