IN 2008, during my tenure with the University of Dhaka, I had a three-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Forum on Contemporary Theory in Baroda, India. I made friends with some Indian researchers there. Once I asked one of them about major writers in India. Most of the names they mentioned in response to my question were from Bengal. I wondered and asked...
The rebellion within the Trinamool Congress reached the national capital on Monday, with several of its MPs reportedly holding a meeting at the residence of Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's West Bengal observer, Bhupendra Yadav, according to The Hindu.
India’s West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has claimed that the Indian authorities have deported nearly 5,000 Bangladeshi citizens since prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in West Bengal last month.
Bangladesh Navy arrested 1,450 bags of cement, five engine-powered wooden fishing boats and 52 members of a smuggling gang during a patrol operation in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday night.
The fifth edition of the Bay of Bengal Conversation will be held in October 3-5 at a Dhaka city hotel, bringing together around 1,000 participants from over 100 countries.
Information and broadcasting minister Zahir Uddin Swapan stated on Thursday that Bengali identity requires no validation from Kolkata, nor does Muslim identity necessitate approval from Rawalpindi or Karachi, emphasising Bangladesh's unique national character, reports BSS.
The allegations that the former chief minister of West Bengal, also president of the Trinamool Congress, made at rally in Kolkata on June 2 warrant serious diplomatic attention. In her first public appearance after her defeat in the West Bengal legislative assembly elections in April, which ended her 15-year rule of the state, Mamata Banerjee alleged that India’s home minister...
India keeps making fresh bids to push people into Bangladesh unlawfully after India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide election victory in the West Bengal state in early May.
Virat Kohli's unbeaten 75 and inspired bowling led Royal Challengers Bengaluru to their second straight Indian Premier League title with a five-wicket win over Gujarat Titans on Sunday.
Virat Kohli was hailed as the ‘heartbeat’ of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru dressing room after his unbeaten 75 secured a second straight IPL championship.
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee claimed he suffered head injuries after being mobbed in front of a police station he visited in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Sunday to submit a memorandum against the arrest of party workers after the Assembly elections, reports The Hindu...
Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers Bengaluru will be eyeing their second straight IPL title against an upbeat Gujarat Titans in the final at the 130,000-capacity Ahmedabad stadium on Sunday.
Islami Andolan Bangladesh’s joint secretary general and spokesperson Maulana Gazi Ataur Rahman has said that after the BJP came to power in the Indian state of West Bengal, it has spread extreme religious hatred....
The exodus began after Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won power in West Bengal earlier this month promising to ‘detect, delete and deport’...
Acclaimed Bengali filmmaker Anik Dutta died on Wednesday afternoon at a private hospital in South Kolkata of the Indian state of West Bengal after suffering critical injuries in a fall from the terrace of his wife’s residence near Gariahat, family members confirmed....
West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari asked authorities to expedite deportation of the people gathered at the Hakimpur border checkpoint…
The West Bengal government has declared May 28 as a public holiday on account of Eid-ul-Azha, revising its earlier holiday schedule for the festival, reports The Times of India.
India’s West Bengal government on Wednesday handed over an initial 75 acres of land to BSF to cover fencing of 27 km of the international border between India and Bangladesh, reported The Times of India on Thursday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday announced a dual initiative aimed at strengthening border security, including the handover of a 27-km land corridor to BSF for pending fencing work and the rollout of a wider 'detect, delete and deport' strategy ‘to tackle illegal infiltration’....
The West Bengal of India has sped up barbed-wire fencing along the North 24 Parganas border with Bangladesh, reported The Times of India on Sunday.
West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that the process of handing over land to the Border Security Force for fencing the India-Bangladesh border would begin from today, with the transfer to be completed within 45 days, reports India Today.
A low pressure area is likely to form over the south-west part of the Bay of Bengal and adjoining area today, a warning by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said on Saturday.
Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as the first Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister of West Bengal on Saturday, marking a historic political shift in the eastern Indian state long dominated by regional parties.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s party named a chief minister of West Bengal state on Friday, cementing its thumping win in key elections in the bastion long held by its adversary.
The cabinet committee on economic affairs in a meeting on Thursday agreed in principle on the draft Bangladesh Offshore Model Production Sharing Contract enabling state-owned Petrobangla to call soon international tenders on 26 exploration blocks in the Bay of Bengal.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s last gambit — refusal to resign her post — ended in an anti-climax of sorts as governor RN Ravi dissolved the state’s legislative assembly, reports NDTV.
Border Guard Bangladesh has intensified security and surveillance along Benapole border to prevent intrusion from India...
Gunmen on motorbikes in India’s West Bengal ambushed and killed a political aide from the ruling Hindu-nationalist party days after it swept state elections, police said Thursday...
Four people have been killed in political unrest after Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party celebrated victory in state polls in West Bengal, police and party officials said Wednesday...
TMC chief and the outgoing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday ruled out stepping down after her party’s assembly poll defeat, alleging that the outcome was the result of a ‘conspiracy’ rather than the people’s mandate, reports Hindustan Times.