Bangladesh has cancelled plans to hire music teachers for primary schools, a government official told AFP on Monday, after the move faced fierce opposition from Islamist groups in the Muslim-majority ...

The Bauls of Bengal move like wind through villages and riverbanks, voices carrying questions rather than answers.

The BJP unit in Assam has slammed the Congress over a video of a district-level leader singing Amar Sonar Bangla, Bangladesh's national anthem, at a party event in Sribhumi district ...

A political storm has erupted across Assam's Barak Valley after senior Congress leader Bidhu Bhushan Das allegedly sang "Amar Sonar Bangla, Ami Tomay Bhalobasi", the national anthem of Bangladesh, ...

Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious has written lyrics for more than 100 hymns.

Arranged and produced by Shuvendu Das Shuvo, the song features Gaboo (Gaurab Chatterjee), son of Moheener Ghoraguli founder ...

Sajeeb Wazed, son of Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is calling for the interim government to lift a ban on ...

DHAKA: A music teacher who had accused Chuadanga BNP General Secretary Sharifuzzaman Sharif of rape by deception has been arrested and sent to jail in a gold smuggling case. The district's additional ...

SUNAMGANJ, Sept 13, 2025 (BSS) - The soulful songs of Baul Shah Abdul Karim remain a powerful voice against social inequality, economic hardship and communalism in Bangladesh. His compositions, deeply ...

“Yeh Poschim Bongal hai, Poschim Bongal,” a seemingly Bengali policeman tells Pandit, his senior from Delhi, early on in director Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files. This is West Bengal. He is trying ...

Poozhiyil kalikkente kunje (play in the mud, child)...plavinte chuttum nee aadu kunje (dance around the jackfruit tree, child), plavu chirichal chakkapazham (if the tree smiles, you get jackfruit). As ...

February 5, 2025, could have been a day for Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus government to highlight its achievements in six months since taking over from Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian rule. Instead, it ...