The BBC has decided to discontinue radio broadcast in 10 languages including Bangla in a bid to save £28.5 million annually. The BBC has proposed the closure of about 382 posts at the World Service.

Delwar Hossain, a schoolteacher of Sarail in Brahmanbaria, has been listening to BBC Bangla’s news since 2000. After tuning in to BBC Bangla on his radio for some time, he started listening to BBC ...

What springs to mind when you think of Dhaka? That's the question the BBC Bengali service is putting to its listeners as part of the week long My Dhaka series which launches on Saturday 19 February, ...

BBC’s 2017 Global Audience Measure says BBC Bangla radio and TV content now reaches 15 million people in Bangladesh each week. According to the report, seven million people tune in to the BBC Bangla ...

The BBC Bangla radio broadcast, the most reliable source of news during the years leading up to the Liberation War and later, will be discontinued after 81 years. The station's broadcast in other ...

Dhaka, August 31 (BDNEWS) – BBC Bangla Service is going to kick off a series of a new dialogue programme entitled 'Bangladesh Sanglap' from September 2 to discuss and debate the major political, ...

BBC Bangla celebrates its 75th birthday this week. For the first years, output was a translated newsletter - often written by then BBC employee Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. Then in 1944, ...

Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet! Bengalis are united by a love of good food, but divided over who cooks it. West Bengalis love poppy seeds and sugar, East Bengalis dried fish and chilli. BBC ...

The BBC Bangla radio broadcast, the most reliable source of news during the years leading up to the Liberation War and later, will be discontinued after 81 years. The station will broadcast its last ...