286 pages Now Shahida Rahman has woven an absorbing historical yarn about one such Sylheti Bengali sailor's extended stay in London in the mid-nineteenth century in Lascar. Courtesy of an online ...

There are concerns that the coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on peoples' mental health, fuelling feelings of loneliness and anxiety. The proportion of adults showing symptoms of depression has ...

When BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya defended the Delhi Police's use of the term "Bangladeshi language" by claiming they meant Sylheti, he called it a dialect unintelligible to Indian Bengalis and ...

When people discover that my family originates from Sylhet, the first question they ask me is if I speak the Sylheti language. The regional dialect of the Sylhet division is so distinct from the ...

In this strange and isolating year, reacquainting myself with Sylheti gave me a new understanding of my family I never understood the Bengali girls at my London school who were proudly monolingual. “I ...

Chittagonian and Sylheti language have been ranked one of the 100 most spoken languages in the world. In an article published on Saturday, visual-content provider Visual Capitalist ranked Chittagonian ...

Silchar: Leaders from various parties in the Barak Valley, including BJP, have criticised the party's IT cell head Amit Malviya for calling Sylheti, a dialect of Bengali, a "Bangladeshi language". The ...

In addition to Bangla, some schools in Great Britain have included Sylheti on the list of students' native languages. Many British students from Sylheti families are unable to speak standard Bangla.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya has recalibrated his view on people speaking the Sylheti variant of Bengali. This follows the criticism he faced from Sylheti speakers, including some ...

The South Asian community has one of the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy in the UK, surveys suggest. More than 40% of Pakistani and Bangladeshi people say they are unlikely to get the jab, while ...

As more people get a coronavirus vaccine, they are also experiencing side effects, with studies suggesting it affects more than one in 10 people. It is normal to get side effects from vaccines, and ...