Moving from the west to the east, a close study of the Bengal region not only traces the political boundary drawn in 1947, which created West Bengal and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), but also ...

Bengali meals traditionally begin with a bitter dish to stimulate digestion and palate. Ayurveda values bitterness for balancing doshas and aiding liver detoxification. Popular bitter dishes include ...

Imagine a slice of soft white bread, layered with sharp Colman’s mustard, and topped with either boiled, shredded chicken or mashed eggs. It’s the mustard that gives it the edge—the sharpness and ...

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has taken strong objection to a letter by the Delhi police describing Bangla, or Bengali, as a “Bangladeshi” language and called for strong protests on ...

As a letter by the Lodhi Colony Police Station to the Banga Bhawan in Delhi requesting an official to help understand "Bangladeshi language" sparked a political storm, BJP leader Amit Malviya tutored ...

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 ...

In a landmark verdict, the Kathmandu District Court has ordered Dhaka-based US-Bangla Airlines to pay full compensation to the families of victims who died in the crash of Flight 211 in March 2018 ...

Prosenjit Chatterjee, a legendary name in Bengali cinema, took Bollywood by storm with Shanghai and Traffic. Despite being a superstar in the East, he’s chosen select, impactful Hindi films, ...

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 ...

The West Bengal Government has launched a new scheme entitled “Bangla Shashya Bima Yojana” for the farmers in the state. Under this scheme, the Government will provide crop insurance coverage to ...

Kausik Gangopadhyay and Devavrata’s new book exposes how Bengali linguistic nationalism is a strategic façade to Islamise East Bengal under the guise of cultural identity; it never opposed Pakistan ...