In 1904, the Viceroy visited East Bengal, “ostensibly with the object of ascertaining public opinion, but really to overcome it”. In Dhaka, the nawab laid out a red carpet. In his desire to ...

The partition had opened a Pandora’s Box. The communal identities it created eventually culminated into the end of British ...

In the mid-18th century, this is where the Nawab of Bengal parked his war elephants before he launched an attack on the East India Company. Later, trader Mehtab Chand Mullick founded a market in the ...

the then subahdar of Murshidabad and later the first independent nawab of Bengal. A domed mausoleum with the graves of Zaynab Bibi and her husband Dewan Sharif Khan now lie adjacent to the mosque.

But the death blow was to come some 20 years later. On June 16, 1756. Bengal’s new Nawab, Siraj-ud-daulah arrived with his huge army on the outskirts of the city. Against his orders, the company’s ...

Disembarking from a country boat on the western bank of the Bhagirathi River, our group of five took a mechanised rickshaw, ferried on the same boat, towards Khoshbagh — the final resting place of ...

Lord Brabourne was the 5th Baron (1895-1939) and Governor from 1933-1937 before taking up the Governorship of Bengal from 1937 till his demise ... were converted for use on use on tiger hunts. The ...

the Last Queen of Bengal,” is due to be published in December). “He said, ‘Erase me from your mind. You just do your thing like you always do. Don’t look at the camera.’” The resulting ...

Netflix India released the trailer for 'Khakee: The Bengal Chapter,' premiering on March 20. The series features a stellar cast. The makers of Jeet Madnani, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Saswata ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 struck the Bay of Bengal early Tuesday morning, with tremors felt in Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal. According to the National Center for Seismology (NCS ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale struck the Bay of Bengal in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). According to NCS, the earthquake ...