Pohela Boishakh 2026: January 1 is celebrated as New Year's Day as per the Gregorian calendar, making January the New Year's month. However, many cultures across the world, including in India, follow ...

Popular Bengali actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee died on Sunday (March 29) following an accidental drowning at Talsari in Digha, near the Odisha-West Bengal border. He was 43. The actor had travelled for ...

Popular Bengali actor, Rahul Banerjee has passed away after a boating accident in Odisha. The tragic event took place at Talsari Beach while he was filming for his televsision show Bhole Baba Par ...

Pohela Boishakh is not only a time for celebration but also symbolises new beginnings. Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year, will be celebrated on April 14, 2026, marking the beginning of the new ...

More than half a century after the birth of Bangladesh, the question of Bengali identity is entering a new phase. For decades, the narrative appeared settled: linguistic nationalism drove the ...

Whitechapel Station’s bilingual signs, installed in 2022 for Bangladesh Independence Day, celebrate the area's Bangladeshi heritage. Wikimedia Commons/Abu Ayyub CC BY-SA 4.0 Whitechapel, a vibrant ...

The Delhi Police has screened over 16,000 Bengali speakers since December 2024 to identify “illegal” Bangladeshi immigrants, said a senior official. The crackdown on the community began in Delhi after ...

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 ...

Columnist John Carlisle and photojournalist Ryan Garza spent a year exploring the cultural evolution of Hamtramck. Hamtramck, a town with a population of about 28,000, is a 2-square-mile island in the ...

Panchanan Karmakar’s creation led to the printing of the first Bengali language book, and his legacy will soon be showcased to Kolkata Hidden in the lanes of Serampore is the ancestral home and the ...

Popular actor Dev starrer ‘Amazon Obhijan’ has emerged as the highest grossing Bengali film ever as it dethroned his earlier Box Office hit ‘Chander Pahar’. This sequel to ‘Chander Pahar’ now stands ...