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 ...

The Bangladesh National Anthem, ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ directly translates as ‘My Golden Bengal’ and is an ode to the motherland. Written in 1905, the anthem was composed during the first partition of ...

Dhaka: Bangladesh Supreme Court has stayed a High Court verdict that declared 'Joy Bangla' -- popularised by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- as the country's national slogan. Rahman's daughter ...

The Language Movement of 1952 is the result of our country's fight to identify as a liberated nation. The present-day economy and culture of Bangladesh are also a consequence of the independence that ...