A London commuter discovered something “new” at Whitechapel Station this week, even though it had been in place since 2022. London officials added Bengali signs at the Tube station back in 2022 to ...

The chanteuse par excellence Asha Bhosle recalls her association with SD Burman on his 118th birthday. Jitesh Pillai listens in… It must have been around 1950- 1951 or thereabouts when I first got a ...

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 ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on Sunday lashed out at the Delhi Police for referring to the Bengali language as "Bangladeshi national language" in a purported letter, alleging that it was ...

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on BJP after Amit Malviya, the national convenor of the party's IT cell, said that there is no language called “Bengali”. A day ...

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 ...

Indian authorities have forcibly pushed hundreds of Muslims into Bangladesh without due process, Human Rights Watch said. The rights group, based in the US, accused Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist ...

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 beginning of publishing newspapers in Bangla was not just a journey of providing news; it was the beginning of a social change. More than two centuries ago, when the educated population in the ...

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 ...

Geet Chaturvedi’s novel Simsim (2023), translated from Hindi by Anita Gopalan, introduced his richly evocative style to English readers. The Master of Unfinished Things, his recent collection of ...

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 ...