Kishanganj/Katihar, India – More than a decade ago, when Mukhtar Alam* studied at a government school in Kishanganj, the only Muslim-majority district in eastern India’s Bihar state, he had Hindu ...

As the politics over Bengali pride heats up in West Bengal ahead of the 2026 assembly polls, a document of the Delhi Police referring to Bengali as the " Bangladeshi" language has added fuel to the ...

Bangla referred to as a ‘Bangladeshi language’: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) vs Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) face-off has taken an ugly turn after a letter from Delhi Police referred to Bangla as the ...

Members of the civil society and a section of intellectuals from West Bengal have raised an outcry after a letter sent to Banga Bhawan in New Delhi by a Delhi Police inspector of the Lodhi Colony ...

Amid the ongoing row over the alleged arrest of Bengali-speaking people from various parts of the country, a fresh controversy has erupted after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the ...

A LETTER from Delhi Police to Banga Bhawan in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri, in which Bangla is referred to as “Bangladeshi language”, triggered a political row on Sunday with the ruling Trinamool Congress ...

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 ...

Those who believe that every Bengali is a Bangladeshi to the BJP and its governments have got the chance to cry “documentary proof”. The Trinamool Congress has circulated images of a communication ...

Abhishek Banerjee, a senior Trinamool Congress leader, has strongly criticized the BJP after a Delhi police letter referred to Bengali as "Bangladeshi language." Banerjee condemned this as a ...

In Palo Alto, Tesla is struggling. Sales are down. The stock is volatile. Elon Musk’s electric dream is hitting potholes across America and Europe. But 12,000 kilometres away, in the chaotic, honking ...

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 ...

Last week, Chief Minister of Assam and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leader Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that people writing Bengali as their mother tongue in the census would help identify how many ...