West Bengal Governor CV Anand Bose performed 'Hatey Khari', a ritual to teach the Bengali alphabet to a child, on the occasion of Saraswati Puja on Thursday in presence of Chief Minister Mamata ...

A school in Bengal’s Murshidabad district has found a novel way of raising the literacy rate among the parents of its students. The headmaster of Jot Kamal High School has made it mandatory for the ...

Bengali is the seventh most spoken language in the world, with 250 million native speakers of a total of 300 million. It is considered as one of the primary vernacular languages in India and the ...

KOLKATA: ‘‘If you want to learn English, think in English, speak in English, dream in English’’ – went the old saying. But not any more. Let alone dreaming in the language, the new credo here is ...

CM Mamata Banerjee presents a copy of ‘Barnaparichay’ to the governor at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday KOLKATA: A haat-e khari ceremony (learning to write the first letter of the Bengali alphabet) for ...