At the time, Bengal (comprising present-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam and the country of Bangladesh) ...

Hili is a border town in West Bengal while Mahendraganj is located in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region. Both towns share borders with Bangladesh. Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said the 100 ...

While Hili is a border town in West Bengal, Mahendraganj is a border town in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region. Both areas share the border with Bangladesh. Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said ...

Moreover, West Bengal was also the destination for people who left Bangladesh both before and after the 1971 Liberation War. Bangladesh shares a 4,096-km-long land border with five States in India ...

the partition of India in 1947, with Bengal being divided into West Bengal and East Pakistan, and finally, into Bangladesh in 1971.