The BJP is using the 150th anniversary of India’s national song, “Vande Mataram,” to polarize society and win votes. In the run-up to the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, Bangla or Bengali ...

Idrissa Gana Gueye was sent off just 13 minutes into Everton’s match at Manchester United after slapping his own team-mate Michael Keane. The pair squared up after Gueye’s poor pass inside the box ...

Politics in West Bengal often revolves around the State’s cultural icons. Over the past few days, the two tallest names in the Bengal literary world — Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra ...

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 ...

BJP leaders, including Amit Malviya, defended calling Bengali a “Bangladeshi language” in the context of identifying infiltrators. There is no officially recognized language called “Bangladeshi.” ...

Criticising India’s deportation of “ethnic Bengali migrants” to Bangladesh, the Human Rights Watch on Thursday (July 24, 2025) said the exercise was being done “without following due process”. Such ...

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 ...

As per Drik Panchang, the significant festival of Bengali New Year will be celebrated on Tuesday, April 15, this year. The Sankranti moment marking the transition will occur at 3:30 AM on Monday, ...

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 ...