The release date for the upcoming horror comedy Bhooth Bangla, headlined by actor Akshay Kumar, has been revised. The announcement confirmed that the film will now arrive in theatres on May 15, 2026.

Thousands of students and jobseekers brought out processions and blocked major intersections, including Shahbagh and Farmgate, in Dhaka today protesting the reinstatement of the quota system in ...

Top 12 Bengali movies and series of 2025: The year 2025 has been a fruitful year for the Bengali entertainment world. From well-crafted films to groundbreaking web series, Bengali cinema and streaming ...

A delegation from the Bangladesh China Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCCI), led by its president Mohd Khorshed Alam and secretary general Jamilur Rahman, paid a courtesy call on Han Kun, president ...

“Scandalous, insulting, anti‑national, and unconstitutional" is how Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee described an August 3 letter by the Delhi police that called Bengali, or Bangla, a ...

As migrant workers from West Bengal continue to be harassed, arrested, and pushed into Bangladesh on suspicion of being illegal immigrants by the police in various States across the country, Chief ...

Less than a year before the West Bengal Assembly elections, Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee has called for a statewide “Bhasha Andolan (language movement)” to ...

Highlighting that the Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organisation, has raised the issues of harassment, persecution, and illegal deportation of Bengali-speaking people of ...

US-Bangla Airlines today (26 July) initially debunked reports that a Nepali court had ordered it to pay full compensation to families of victims of a 2018 fatal crash in Kathmandu, but a couple of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new Human Rights Watch report has found that hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims in India have been forced into neighboring Bangladesh. They told HRW that they feared for their lives if they did ...

Last week, Chief Minister of Assam and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leader Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that people writing Bengali as their mother tongue in the census would help identify how many ...