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Trinamool, BJP clash over West Bengal voter roll purge

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its main rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are set for a collision course as the Election Commission of India (ECI) undertakes a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state’s electoral roll ahead of assembly polls slated for March-April next year
9 November 2025, 18:34 PM
9 November 2025, 18:34 PM
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India moves to boost textile competitiveness against Bangladesh, Vietnam and China

Faced with a 50 percent tariff imposed by the United States, the Indian government has drawn up a four-point action plan with three separate timeframes to regain cost competitiveness in the global textile market, with a particular focus on competing with Bangladesh, Vietnam, and China.
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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India, Pakistan hockey players shake hands at Malaysia meet

The gesture by the junior hockey players of the two teams came after the men's and women's cricket teams of India and Pakistan opted for “no-handshake” policy during their respective matches in the Asia Cup in the UAE and a World Cup game in Colombo.
15 October 2025, 05:38 AM
15 October 2025, 05:38 AM
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India to launch EFTA trade pact on Oct 1

In the midst of a tariff battle with the United States, India will formally operationalise its free trade agreement (FTA) with four countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) bloc on October 1.
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Anuparna Roy’s breakthrough at Venice Film Festival

For Anuparna Roy, in her thirties, the excitement of winning an award with her very first feature film at the world’s oldest film festival in Venice is yet to sink in. The Indian media took no notice of Roy, an English literature student from Burdwan University in West Bengal, when she released her first short film “Run To The River” a couple of years ago. But today, that moment seems light years away.
10 September 2025, 13:11 PM
10 September 2025, 13:11 PM
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Bhupen Hazarika centenary sets sail on Brahmaputra with musical river voyage

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a tribute this morning, called Hazarika’s music timeless, noting how his compositions “transcended borders and linguistic barriers for decades.” That universality is embodied in “Bistirna Parore” (popularly known in Bangla as “Bistirno Dupaare”), the song after which the voyage is named.
8 September 2025, 10:20 AM
8 September 2025, 10:20 AM
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BGB-BSF conference: Push-ins, border killings to figure high

The continuous push-ins by Indian authorities from different border points despite repeated protests by Bangladesh will top the agenda of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in the upcoming 56th director general-level conference.
23 August 2025, 18:44 PM
23 August 2025, 18:44 PM
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"Even simple tasks are hard": India's first ISS astronaut on space life

Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla, the country’s first astronaut to enter the International Space Station (ISS), has shared his first-hand experience that even simple tasks like sleeping, walking, and drinking water become very challenging in microgravity conditions.
30 June 2025, 08:36 AM
30 June 2025, 08:36 AM
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Tigers' maiden India Test on Feb 8-12

Bangladesh will play a historic one-off Test against India inHyderabad in February next year, marking the neighbouring country's first official trip here since claiming Test status sixteen years ago.
3 August 2016, 18:06 PM

Work begins to establish rail link with Agartala

Railway ministers of Bangladesh and India yesterday laid the foundation stone of the 15km broad gauge rail link
31 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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AVANCA INT'L FILM FESTIVAL: Cheers to Bangladesh

Bangladeshis were in the spotlight at the Avanca International Film Festival being held in the sleepy town of Portugal
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Autobiography of an ace

It was a heady show involving two aces--one from tinsel town and another from the world of sports.
16 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Watch out for Priyanka

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who has featured in American TV show "Quantico" and Hollywood film "Baywatch", has said
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM

New radio channel for listeners of India, Bangladesh

All India Radio will launch a new channel “Akashvani Maitree” on Tuesday providing a common platform for
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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From Mumbai with love

Four pints of the rare “Bombay blood group” reached Dhaka from Mumbai yesterday to save the life of a Bangladeshi youth who had a
18 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Kalki Koechlin picks up the threads of Bengali

Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin, who is playing the role of an Anglo-Indian woman in Konkona Sen Sharma's directorial debut, has picked up a little bit of Bengali language and songs for her role.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Apple's CEO Tim Cook in India

iPhone and iPad maker Apple's CEO Tim Cook was at the centre of a gathering of who's who of Bollywood organised by superstar Shahrukh Khan in Mumbai last Wednesday.
23 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Aishwarya's Cannes look draws derision

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's red carpet walk at the Cannes Film Festival has seldom failed to hit the media headlines. It was not any exception this year too.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bannya regales audience in Delhi

Lovers of Tagore songs were captivated by the soulful rendition of renowned Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet exponent Rezwana Choudhury Bannya at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations auditorium, New Delhi on May 16.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh to open another trade consulate in India

India has approved the setting up of another trade consulate of Bangladesh in Guwahati, the capital of northeastern state of Assam.
7 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Gayle's book to hit stores

Not many know about Chris Gayle’s humble origins as a skinny and shy backstreet boy from a tin-roofed shack in Kingston, stealing empty bottles to buy food.
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM

India okays bill to develop 11 rivers as transport routes

Indian parliament gave its nod to a bill to convert 111 rivers across India into National Waterways, one of which could
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bachchan's long battle with TB

Sixteen years ago, Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan made a comeback in showbiz—albeit on the small screen – with the immensely popular TV game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati”. But for him, it was also a time of immense pain as he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the spine and had to pop in 8-10 painkillers a day.
9 March 2016, 18:00 PM

100MW more electricity from India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate supply of 100-megawatt power to Bangladesh from northeastern Indian state of Tripura's Palatana project on March 23.
9 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Satyajit Ray's home receives a makeover

You mention Bishop Lefroy Road in South Kolkata, and the first thing that immediately spring s to mind is filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
5 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh FM to visit India March 1-2

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmud Ali will visit India this week, High Commissioner Syed Muazzem Ali said yesterday.
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bollywood welcomes back 'Munnabhai'

When Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt walked to freedom emerging from a prison in western Indian city of Pune on Thursday after serving out his jail-term in a deadly bomb blast case, he saluted the soil outside the prison gate and the prison itself before boarding a vehicle. Among a handful of persons waiting for him were his wife Mannayata and director-producer Rajkumar Hirani, the man whose “Munnabhai MBBS” starring Dutt was a superhit movie.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Under Construction wins laurels in France

Bangladeshi director Rubaiyat Hossain's feature film “Under Construction” won three awards at the Festival
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM

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