West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language, asking whether there can be an India without West Bengal. Banerjee ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin expressed solidarity with his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, and objected to the Delhi Police – under the Union Home Ministry – reportedly describing ...

TIMES ARE tough for Tesla. Lately sales of the firm’s pricey electric vehicles (EVs) have fallen around the world. Yet in Bangladeshi cities, a humbler namesake is flourishing. Battery-powered ...

The detention of Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in BJP-ruled states and their profiling as suspected Bangladeshis has ignited a fresh political firestorm in West Bengal, with the ruling TMC ...

MALKANGIRI: The state government’s poll promise of renaming about 220 villages inhabited by Bengali settlers in Malkangiri has received a jolt with the Zilla Adivasi Samaj Mahasangha opposing the ...

The North American Bengali Conference (NABC), a long-running cultural event celebrating Bengali heritage, is returning to Toronto this summer after more than a decade. Scenes from a Bengali cultural ...

The broadcast of Gaan Bangla Television has been suspended. Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited has decided to halt the broadcast due to unpaid satellite fees. Shah Ahmedul Kabir, the General Manager ...

The broadcast of Gaan Bangla, a private music-focused television channel in Bangladesh, has been suspended. The channel went off-air abruptly at around 12pm on Wednesday. It has been reported that the ...

A case has been filed over the alleged illegal takeover of 'Gaan Bangla', the country’s only music-based private television channel, against its Managing Director Kaushik Hossain Taposh, his wife and ...

An arts and cultural festival celebrating Bengali artists is taking place in Birmingham. A series of events are being held between 16-23 November for Bangla Week 2024. The festival, organised by ...

Bangladesh emerged as a secular nation-state in 1971, one of the few Muslim-majority countries to do so. However, the country is currently undergoing a profound ideological transformation.

Think Bengali food and you instantly picture all decadent chenna-based sweets. If not our sweets, it is our dozen fish preparations that tend to clout popular perception about Bengali cuisine. In the ...