Ever since mass protests ousted Bangladesh's leader Sheikh Hasina in August 2024, minorities have faced a surge of vigilante attacks.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahma inaugurated "Multidimensional Bangladesh", a literary event postponed due to the elections. Held at the Bangla Academy, it commemorates the martyrs of the 1952 Language ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released a new Class 8 Social Science textbook featuring a chapter, The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society, which examines ...

Since director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman, Saltburn) announced back in July 2024 that she’d be undertaking an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the film has been shrouded in ...

Many readers are unhappy at my use of the phrase ‘it’s all in the Byad’. A number of them have assumed I have expressed my contempt about the Vedas. But this is a misconception. There is some personal ...

Staff box up books in The Book House’s soon-to-be former location. The Book House’s new location in Stuyvesant Plaza on Thursday in Guilderland. A human chain of volunteers lined the sidewalk at ...

Bangla Academy President Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq has voiced regret over the Ekushey Book Fair not starting on the first day of the month of the Language Movement this year. He inaugurated a one-day ...

“Buying books is a habit, and where else can one do it better than at the Book Fair?” said a senior English teacher, one among the lakhs who visited the fair on Sunday Visitors to the 49th ...

Women, Muslims, backward classes, Dalits and tribals must be welcomed by the bhadralok, insisted Alapan Bandyopadhyay, chairman of the West Bengal Heritage Commission, chief adviser to chief minister ...

Kolkata: The 49th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) continued to break all previous footfall records till now, with another close to four lakh visitors thronging the fair on Sunday, said ...

Michigan ranks 44th nationwide for third grade reading proficiency. While the statistic is alarming, a new campaign from children's education and media company, Wimage, is launching a nationwide ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...