In 'Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal', Sandip Roy traces the career of Bengali stage actor Chapal Bhaduri and his ...

MUMBAI – The recent reports on social media and picked up and reported on as real by well known media publications that Jaya Bachchan’s mother Indira Bhaduri is dead, is completely false, the family ...

A biography of a female impersonator on the stage, the stories of the ‘middle-India’ woman, dispatches from the Covid years ...

On February 12, Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its first general elections since the country’s August 2024 Monsoon revolution. But ahead of the elections, attacks on women, girls, and religious ...

LAKSHMIPUR: A labor recruiter persuaded Maksudur Rahman to leave the tropical warmth of his hometown in Bangladesh and travel thousands of miles to frigid Russia for a job as a janitor. Within weeks, ...

Shimron Hetmyer's rapid 64 and Romario Shepherd's World Cup hat-trick powered West Indies to a 35-run victory over Scotland. Hetmyer, arriving late due to visa issues, showcased his strong form with a ...

Kolkata: Iranian film Muddy Foot (2025), directed by Mohammad-Ebrahim Azizi, won the ‘Best Fiction Film Award' at the fourth ...

It has vast mangrove forests, hills covered in tea plantations and record-breaking beaches, but for most tourists, Bangladesh is still a blank space on the map. The South Asia country welcomed just ...

Kolkata Metro introduces audio messages at stations to prevent suicides and promote mental health support for passengers.

The West Indies could not have asked for a better venue than the Eden Gardens to start their campaign. It was here in 2016 that they had last.

Voters in West Bengal face confusion and long waits amid surname discrepancies during the Special Intensive Revision process.

The well-known make-up man looked me up and down and asked quite dismissively, ‘So what role are you playing?’ ‘Morjina,’ I mumbled. ‘Oh,’ he said, a little taken aback. Then he said, ‘Well, you are ...