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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: Bengal

What’s now called ‘Bangladeshi’ language was excluded by secular sadhu-bhasha long ago

Amit Malviya is correct that Sylheti is not the same as Bengali. But what he and his team seem to lack is any sense of the history beyond that statement.

CBI names TMC MLA, 2 councillors in charge sheet for murder of BJP leader Avijit Sarkar

In second supplementary charge sheet of the 2021 case, the probe agency also named 15 others under IPC Sections related to criminal conspiracy, murder & disappearance of evidence.

Along Bangladesh border, BSF seizes gold worth over Rs 4 cr concealed in cycle tyres, bike seat cover

On Wednesday, BSF seized 20 gold biscuits worth Rs 2.31 crore from inside a bicycle’s tyre. The day before gold worth about Rs 2.43 cr confiscated at Laxmipur border outpost.

2 killed in violence linked to anti-Waqf law protests in Bengal’s Murshidabad

A father and son were found with multiple stab wounds inside their home in Jafrabad in Samserganj area, where large-scale violence was reported Friday.

Bengal received proposals worth Rs 4.4 lakh crore, says Mamata after 2-day business conclave

Addressing the concluding day, the Bengal chief minister said a total of 212 MoUs and letters of intent were signed across various sectors.

SubscriberWrites: The complicit heart: How ordinary citizens become the instruments of their own demise

Bengal faces a stark reality of political decay, where decades of complicity and corruption have eroded its identity, leaving citizens to confront the consequences of their choices.

Bangladesh has hit us where it hurts. Durga Puja will be incomplete without Hilsa

The Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina had reintroduced what is now called ‘hilsa diplomacy’ in 2019. Now, it’s a bone of contention between India and Bangladesh.

Stop this North-South divide over mangoes. The real match is playing out in Bihar and Bengal

In 'Magnifera Indica', Sopan Joshi presents a rich synthesis of reportage, history, biology, economics, and culture to chronicle India's favourite fruit - mango.

Man dies at hospital in Bengal a week after mob attack, third such death in 3 days

Sourabh Sau was found injured, lying on a road in Jamboni area near Jhargram town by locals on 22 June. His family alleges he was assaulted by a group of men engaged by a contractor.

SubscriberWrites: Remembering Gour Kishore Ghosh – the forgotten hero of fearless journalism

Gourkishore was an ardent humanist who believed in nonviolence. It’s high time we bring their memory back when the glorious tradition of impartiality and independence of the press is under siege.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.