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Raakhee Gulzar introduced Cheung Fun to Shiboprosad

The Times of India 25 Mar 2025
Raakhee Gulzar, the actress who hails from Bengal and rose to fame as a leading lady in Hindi cinema, is set to make a grand return to Bengali films after 21 years.
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Concerns over outsider entry and safety during Jadavpur University fests.

The Times of India 25 Mar 2025
Kolkata ... It was speeding ... The two outsiders were handed over to the police ... FSD member and postgraduate Bengali department student Subhadip Mandal said, 'It has become a yearly ritual now. Every year we raise objections, but we do not see any remedy ... .
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India and the Greek War of Independence

Greek City Times 25 Mar 2025
After seven years, he moved to Varanasi (or Benares), where he studied Sanskrit ... In July of the same year, he traveled to Northern India, showing interest in the ethnic communities of the region, including the Greek one.
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Why ragging keeps raising its ugly head despite crackdowns

The Times of India 23 Mar 2025
He later died in hospital.Two months before that, at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, a 17-year-old Bengali (Hons) student fell to his death from the second floor of the hostel ... around 1,000 a year.
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Want to visit Kolkata occasionally, staying there not an option: Taslima Nasrin

The Siasat Daily 21 Mar 2025
“Very few people, in the past 18 years, have spoken out on why an author who writes in Bengali should be forcefully banished from Bengal, on both sides of the international border.
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TSF calls NH blockade, seeks Roman script for Kokborok

The Times of India 20 Mar 2025
... assured the Tripura assembly last year that students would have access to both Bengali and Roman scripts until the finalisation of Kokborok script, with question papers available in both formats.
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Bengali litterateurs protest ‘omission’ of Bengali from Sahitya Akademi Award this year

The Hindu 20 Mar 2025
Writers and scholars from West Bengal have raised questions on why Bengali literary works and writers were excluded from the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Award despite Bengali being deemed a ‘classical language’ by the Government of India last year ....
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Spivak support for Mamata’s secularism ‘in current context’

The Times of India 20 Mar 2025
... mentioned their project of a 'bilingual edition of 1,000 years of Bengali writings.' 'Some of the best writers of the world are translating the Bengali classics for the global audience of these texts.
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Holberg Prize winner Spivak praises Mamata for efforts to reduce poverty

Deccan Herald 20 Mar 2025
... also mentioned an ongoing project to publish a bilingual edition of 1,000 years of Bengali literature, supported by South Asian artistes and donors.</p>.Sunita Williams should get Bharat Ratna.
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AICTE to give ₹4 crore to colleges for conferences in regional languages

Hindustan Times 19 Mar 2025
In January this year, we organised a 2-day workshop on integrating supercomputing with AI and quantum computing in the Bengali language. We held discussions and conducted workshops in Bengali language with financial support from AICTE.”.
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Organic Intelligence XLII: British Bengalis in 90s subculture

The Quietus 15 Mar 2025
Bengalis migrated to the UK in the following years and became one of the fastest-growing migrant populations during the 70s, moving to the big cities like my hometown, Birmingham and London’s East ...
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The 16 steps to end caste discrimination — in West Bengal village, 5 Dalits enter temple for first time in history

Financial Express 12 Mar 2025
Even last year, I came to offer prayers but they didn\u2019t even allow me to climb the steps ... The Gidheshwar Shiva temple is believed to be around 200 years old, with a plaque on the temple stating that it was renovated in 1997 (Bengali year 1404).
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Bengali cinema sees jump from 10% to 18% in nomination roster of FIPRESCI-India

The Times of India 10 Mar 2025
Whilst the previous year witnessed merely six Bengali films securing nominations, this year the figure has escalated to 11 ... This shows a significant jump of Bengali cinema from 10% to 18% this year.
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