In Bengal and Bihar, however, millions died of famine in 1769-70, after productive farmland was transformed into poppy fields through coercion by the East India Company’s ‘Opium Department’. In 1797, ...

He may have commissioned the work for a mansion he built in Taunton, New Jersey, although Philadelphia tax records between 1769 and 1789 ... position as governor of Bengal. At the time, the ...

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. "Three million is great radio ...

Senior leaders of the West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held a meeting on Sunday (March 16, 2025) to start the process of selecting a new State BJP president. State BJP in-charge Sanjay ...

He studied in Santiniketan, the school Rabindranath Tagore founded, with Nandalal Bose, was part of the Quit India movement, and lived through partition and the Bengal famine. Burney included his ...

Bengal’s opposition leader, Suvendu Adhikari, has caused controversy by stating the BJP would forcibly remove Muslim MLAs from the assembly upon forming the next government. The Trinamool ...

A 27-year-old event management professional was killed in a road accident in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district after her car overturned while racing with another vehicle on Monday ...

East Bengal maintained their newfound form with a 3-1 thumping of Punjab FC in their Indian Super League (ISL) match on Saturday. Dimitrios Diamantakos (15th minute) set the tone for the visitors ...

but now considered one of the most controversial colonial figures of his time for the role he played in the Great Bengal Famine of 1770. The famine is thought to have killed between one and ten ...

West Bengal: Internet and voice-over-Internet telephony services have been suspended in at least five Gram Panchayat areas of Sainthia town in West Bengal's Birbhum district to prevent the spread ...

Clashes erupted across several colleges and universities across West Bengal on Monday, as student activists associated with Left parties and Trinamool Congress supporters engaged in scuffle and ...