NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Supreme Court on Thursday inaugurated an 'Amar Vasha' software to translate court orders and judgments from English into Bangla. The software, developed by Ek Step Foundation of India, is being used by India’s Supreme Court and 18 high courts, to translate judgments into Indic languages.
Speaking to TOI, Vikram Doraiswami, Indian high commissioner to Dhaka said, “The development of this specially-customised translation software is a recognition of the unique strengths of our partnership: only India and Bangladesh could have worked together on such a Bangla translation software, since Bangla is equally our shared heritage.”
'Ekushey' this year has been special for Bangladesh and India. ‘Ekushey’ is celebrated on February 21 as international mother language day, commemorates the day in 1952 when students of Dhaka University started a nationwide protest against the imposition of Urdu on the then East Pakistan. It is a defining moment for the liberation struggle for Bangladesh.