West Bengal to mandate Bengali for all official communications starting September 1, 2026, as announced by CM Suvendu Adhikari.

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Kolkata: The panchayats and rural development department on Tuesday issued a notification in Bengali. This comes after the ...

Official documents are written in English at present. And English remains the elephant in the room when it comes to this push for the mother tongue in Bengal government’s correspondence ...

The Bengal government will make Bengali mandatory for all official communications from September 1, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced in the Assembly on Monday. He also read out a letter from ...

While speaking at the state Assembly, Adhikari also said that it was Union Home Minister Amit Shah who had, in a letter, urged him to take steps for extensive use of the Bengali language at every ...

The Chief Minister further said that Bengali and Hindi could be used in official correspondence with the Central government instead of foreign languages. "Furthermore, in official correspondence with ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said he will release the long-awaited report of the inquiry panel which probed the 1993 police firing.