Bengali Language
Bengali (or Bangla) is spoken by some 230 million people in the Ganges River delta and elsewhere in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Distinct dialects of Bengali incl...
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Farmers in eastern India angered by government plans to build an industrial park on their land fought police with rocks, machetes and pickaxes Wednesday, and at least six people were killed, offici...
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Dozens of Muslim protesters led by three lawmakers attacked an exiled Bangladeshi writer at the release of her book in southern India on Thursday, calling her "anti-Islam," and telling her to go ba...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has decided
to withdraw some controversial lines from her autobiographical novel
Dwikhandita (Split in two), hoping that...
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Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who fled death threats in her home country, complained Friday that the Indian government was not allowing her to meet friends or travel outside the Indian capital...
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Farmers angry over plans to build an industrial park on their land torched a government office Thursday in a second day of unrest in eastern India that has claimed 14 lives.Police responded with ba...
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Thousands of activists burned buses and blocked roads in eastern India on Friday to protest the recent killing of 14 farmers opposed to government plans to build an industrial park on their land.Ne...
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New Delhi (dpa) - An Islamic group, whose legislators attacked
Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen in the southern Indian city of
Hyderabad, has threatened to behead her if s...
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NEW DELHI, Nov 28 (Reuters) - India said on Wednesday it
would continue to host and protect a controversial Bangladeshi
Muslim woman writer who has fled from city to city since her
radical Islamis...
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NEW DELHI, Dec 20 (Reuters) - An exiled Bangladeshi Muslim
woman writer whose presence in India sparked riots said on
Thursday that New Delhi was forcing her to live under virtual
house arrest, an...
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Bengali Language
6 killed as India police, farmers clash
