Agartala, Aug. 11: In a new twist to the controversy over a script for the tribal Kokborok language, the Left Front government in Tripura has decided to stick to the Bengali script despite ...

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 ...

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 ...

A militant group in Imphal directs all primary schools to stop using textbooks written in the Bengali script, reports Sobhapati Samom. A militant group on Thursday directed all primary schools to stop ...

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 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 ...

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 ...