The Bengali names derives from its origins in the Bengali calendar year 1176.

Under the patronage of the Islamic Foundation, an encyclopedia of Islam in the Bengali language was being compiled in the late 1980s.

This lawyer examined the documents in Bengali submitted by the complainant and made inquiries with the Madaripur Magistrate's Court.

And, as Bengali demands for autonomy gained momentum, the response became more repressive.

Its sister languages include Bengali, Oriya, Maithili, Chittagonian, Sylheti (Cilôţi), Angika and Bihari languages.

The comprehensive defeat of the Islamist parties that sought to take Bangladesh away from its democratic and secular roots, and which had sought in 1971 to impose Urdu as a national language and suppress Bengali language and culture, is the real story of the election.

After years of conflict, the central government relented and granted official status to the Bengali language in 1956.

1911 Edward Henry, Former IG of Bengal Police, during a royal hunt with King George V at Narayani, Nepal pic.twitter.com AO8pkduA2M British India ( BritishRajTimes) March 30, 2015

Pakistani forces demolished the monument during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, but the Bangladeshi government reconstructed it in 1973.

We'd all seen matches in Kolkata, but we'd never seen anything like this Shah Rukh, with the Bengali song, getting the audiences all worked up for Kolkata not for India, but for Kolkata.

Renowned Indian Bengali writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi passed away aged 90 years old on Thursday, July 28, 2016 in Kolkata.

Born in the tumultuous years of the British reign in India, Mahasweta Devi grew up in a family of artists, poets and social activists leading Bengal's literary movement (Kallol) at the time.

Dr. Iajuddin Ahmed (28 February 1931 10 December 2012) was the 14th President of Bangladesh, serving from 6 September 2002 until 12 February 2009.

Pressure from India will not be enough to force the Bengali government to adhere to the tolerant form of Islam that the country pursued during its first three decades of independence.

In this year's competition, climate change is under the spotlight, with a special prize category for blogs and podcasts discussing the topic.

Jyoti Basu (Bengali জ য ত বস 8 July 1914 17 January 2010) or Jyotirindra Basu was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from West Bengal, India.

This is a little Bangladeshi girl from the east end of London who's got a huge malignant tumor on the right side of her face, which has already made her blind and which is rapidly growing and is going to kill her shortly.

For many years indigenous tribes in Tripura, India, have worked to have Kokborok used in their primary schools, where only English and Bengali had been taught.

Moreover, while Kokborok speakers want to use Latin script to facilitate the transition to higher education, the Bengali script predominates in the region, which has led to protests and social unrest.

Police raided an apartment in Dhaka's Rampura area on Saturday, 12 September, and claimed to have rescued 10 children, aged between 9 and 14 years old, who were in the care of a volunteer organisation meant to help street children.

The Bengal famine of 1770 (Bengali ৭৬ এর মন বন তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór lit The Famine of '76 ) was a catastrophic famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India.

So, when Pakistan s military leaders finally allowed elections in late December 1970, East Pakistan voted overwhelmingly for the Bengali nationalist Awami League, which won 167 of 169 seats in the province.

Indeed, Hindus, Christians, and Buddhists have been targeted as well, and religious extremists more recently have attacked Sufi shrines deemed to be idolatrous, and even Bengali cultural events that unite all religions in a common identity.