The fascinating story of how a natural disaster on the other side of the world made the summer of 1816 Canada’s coldest on ...

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New ...

The year of Salil Chowdhury’s birth is open to debate as some insist that he was born in 1925 but there is no one to verify ...

The issue is very clear, as The Guardian(UK) reported on March 25: despite its scale, 85% of Britons today do not know the full extent of Britain’s involvement in the slave trade. Over three million ...

Despite historically low female labour force participation rates, West Bengal in recent years has emerged as a major source ...

Gaachh (1997), by Catherine Berger of France, had documented only the stage life of Soumitra Chatterjee. Abhijaan (2021), by ...

Rivals star Danny Dyer has said his "surprise" best actor win at the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards 2025 was a ...

Rivals actor Danny Dyer and Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning have won best actor and actress at the Broadcasting Press ...

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 ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) has decided to widen its footprint in West Bengal ahead of next year's assembly election. The party has launched a phone number to ...