West Bengal

Bengal’s women theatre workers set up group against sexual harassment

Women theatre workers in West Bengal have created a forum against sexual harassment in theatre space...

entertainment | 5 months ago

DAG Mumbai | Bengal’s babus and sundaris

Disparate in genres and united by a common geography, the newly opened exhibition on Bengal art, The...

entertainment | 4 months ago

Cyclone Remal hits Bangladesh and India, leaving destruction and death

Bangladeshi weather experts said on May 28 that a deadly cyclone that carved a swath of destruction ...

world | 4 months ago

Howrah’s historic 300-year-old fish market hosts live painting exhibition by artist Hiran Mitra

Hundreds of buyers who went to buy fish at the nearly 300-year-old fish market at Kalibabur Bazar in...

entertainment | 2 months ago

Tough times in Tollywood

The unthinkable happened with Prosenjit Chatterjee on July 27. The actor, one of modern Bengali cine...

entertainment | 2 months ago

Centre denies repertory grant for 24 West Bengal theatre groups, veterans allege political bias

Over 20 renowned Bengali theatre troupes being dropped from the list of eligible recipients of the U...

entertainment | 2 months ago

Museum showcasing Tagore’s paintings, wordsmithery — and locks of his hair — reopens for public

When Rabindranath Tagore’s funeral procession moved from his home to the cremation ghat, in August 1...

entertainment | 2 months ago

Bengali actor Victor Banerjee hospitalised in Mussoorie

Bengali film icon Victor Banerjee has been hospitalised in Uttarkhand's Mussoorie, where he currentl...

entertainment | 1 month ago

Bengali actor Ritabhari Chakraborty says sexual abuse exists in local entertainment industry

Citing the Hema Commission report unravelling the casting couch factor in Malayalam film industry, B...

entertainment | 1 month ago