Bengali meals traditionally begin with a bitter dish to stimulate digestion and palate. Ayurveda values bitterness for balancing doshas and aiding liver detoxification. Popular bitter dishes include ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maker’s drop the first music video, Melar Gaan, by the newest Bangla Band on the block – Hooligaanism. The band is helmed by popular names Subhadeep Guha, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debraj Bhattacharya, ...

The broadcast of Gaan Bangla, a private music-focused television channel in Bangladesh, has been suspended. The channel went off-air abruptly at around 12pm on Wednesday. It has been reported that the ...

A case has been filed over the alleged illegal takeover of 'Gaan Bangla', the country’s only music-based private television channel, against its Managing Director Kaushik Hossain Taposh, his wife and ...

An arts and cultural festival celebrating Bengali artists is taking place in Birmingham. A series of events are being held between 16-23 November for Bangla Week 2024. The festival, organised by ...

A group of students have beaten up several people and handed them over to police for chanting slogans like ‘Joy Bangla’ and ‘Sheikh Hasina will return’ in front of the Awami League’s central office on ...

Bangladesh emerged as a secular nation-state in 1971, one of the few Muslim-majority countries to do so. However, the country is currently undergoing a profound ideological transformation.

Actor Akshay Kumar on Monday announced that he is set to join forces with frequent collaborator and director Priyadarshan for his new film Bhooth Bangla, which will be released in 2025. The actor, who ...

Renowned director Priyadarshan and superstar Akshay Kumar were spotted together last year, and the photo got leaked which created a lot of buzz. Everyone was waiting for the duo to come together again ...

Think Bengali food and you instantly picture all decadent chenna-based sweets. If not our sweets, it is our dozen fish preparations that tend to clout popular perception about Bengali cuisine. In the ...