This tepid interest is at odds with the fact that West Bengal has the second-highest Scheduled Caste population in the country after Uttar Pradesh. Over 10 per cent of India’s Dalits live here.

North Bengal University is located at Rajarammohanpur on the outskirts of Siliguri, while Raiganj University, the district ...

Nilufa Yasmin from West Bengal has achieved All India Rank 1 in the UGC NET JRF June 2025 examination in Bengali, securing a ...

West Bengal Hindi Speakers' Society celebrates 100 years of Premchand's Rangbhoomi with a seminar on July 31, 2025.

A research scholar at Burdwan University, Yasmin is working on the intersection of music and literature in the Middle Ages ...

In American literature’s diverse tapestry, Indian-origin authors are leaving indelible marks through stories of migration, ...

Last month police in the east Indian state of West Bengal took 11,000 people into “preventive detention”. They confiscated more than 20,000 licensed weapons, along with piles of ammunition and ...