Imphal, May 15: The Bengali script will die in the only place outside Bangladesh and Bengal where it is used as the medium of writing. After nearly 300 years, Meitei Mayek, the script of the majority ...

The Manipuri script, over 3,500 years old by some accounts and edged out by a Bengali import, is on a revival course, with street signs, newspapers, literature and even records of Assembly proceedings ...

Calcutta: Rabindranath Tagore's Sahoj Path is getting introduced to beginners through a language and a script they are familiar with. Just that the language and the script are not the same. "We have a ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

On January 15, 2023, most Manipuri language newspapers may fail to hit the newsstands. From this date, all seven vernacular morning newspapers, nine evening papers and four periodicals will have to ...

The demand for Bengali script for the tribal language of Tripura, Kokborok, in place of Roman, has erupted in a major controversy with those in favour of the latter calling it "politically motivated".

The TBSE chief earlier this January asked all the examination centre in-charges to allow only Bengali script for writing Kokborok papers for the Class 12 and 10 board examinations scheduled to begin ...

Leader of Opposition in Tripura Assembly, Animesh Debbarma has urged Chief Minister Manik Saha to allow students to write their Kokborok papers in Bengali and Roman scripts in the class 10 and 12 ...

Agartala: TIPRA Motha founder and royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarman came down heavily on the Kokborok Sahitya Parishad (KSP), a indigenous linguistic body, after they proposed to adopt Devanagari ...

Rupert Lowe, a British MP, has raised an issue with English-Bengali signage at London's Whitechapel railway station. This ...