During one of my first trips to Dhaka, the officer at Foreigners Registration Counter at the airport asked me if I knew Bangla. “Olpo olpo,” I confessed. “Ami beshi Bangla bujhina,” I clarified, so ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina video-recording two songs performed by A R Rahman at Dhaka’s Sher-e Bangla stadium on Tuesday evening to celebrate the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh ...

AR Rahman is currently at the 77th Cannes Film Festival to unveil his musical documentary "Headhunting to Beatboxing". Directed by Rohit Gupta and produced by AR Rahman, the documentary follows the ...

Jillian M Rose, a British citizen by birth, has spent 59 years in Bangladesh loving Bengali language and Bangladesh. Although her mother tongue is English, she fell in love with Bengali and her second ...

Dhaka, Sept 8 (BDNEWS) – Although he is now thousands of kilometres away in Washington, former US Ambassador in Dhaka Harry K Thomas Jr, who often spoke in Bangla during his tenure in Bangladesh, did ...

And, on Nov 11, Patriarca won the battle for a reserved councillor post for women in wards 1, 2 and 3 of the Radhakanai union council. In the years since she moved to the country with her husband and ...

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday said Amar Sonar Bangla, now Bangladesh’s national anthem, was “an emotion for Bengalis”, after the Assam BJP government declared to file sedition charges ...

In a recording studio in Dhaka, voiceover artist Rubaiya Matin Gity dubs the latest Turkish soap opera to become a megahit in ...

According to media executives, Turkish shows now command a larger share of Bangladeshi audiences, particularly among urban youth. "Viewers here connect with the moral themes and family values in ...