"Where else would you be able to enjoy classics and recent flicks for Tk 50, which would usually cost Tk 300-500 in cinemas?" asked Maliha Tasnim, a Master's student at Dhaka University, whom I met ...

The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided between ...

Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, who will next be seen in the Rajkummar Rao-starrer Maalik, recently found himself caught in a controversy after his comments at an event went viral. The actor reportedly ...

The Bangladesh national book fair, held every year in February to honor the demonstrators killed in the Bengali language movement of the mid-20th century, promotes a spirit and desire to uphold the ...

In April 2017, a network of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated organisations exhibited an unprecedented strength across West Bengal on the occasion of Ram Navami, a hitherto-marginal ...

Trinamul Congress MP Ritabrata Banerjee raised the topic of Poila Baisakh being declared as the Foundation Day.

Kolkata: A reference of Bengali language as “Bangladeshi language” in a letter of the Delhi Police under the union home ministry has triggered a massive controversy with West Bengal chief minister and ...

In a consent decree quickly reached after a lawsuit last month, the city of Hamtramck has agreed to provide Bengali-language ballots and other assistance for the city's Bangladeshi-American voters.

A furious Mamata Banerjee snapped back at the Bharatiya Janata Party as the 'Bengali vs Bangladeshi' language war - triggered over the weekend by Delhi Police's letter referring to the translation of ...

The Bengali script on business signboards must be at least as large as the font size of any other language displayed, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Wednesday. Speaking during the monthly Kolkata ...