By Umme Sayeda Rivers, as Bengal’s nurturing mother, shaped the soul of this land and cultural landscape. The ever-flowing water and fertile sediments formed the entire Bengal region, nourishing ...

Beguiled by the beauty of Bengal on a journey up the Hooghly River: Eight days of bright colour, feasts, history and spice-laden air.

In 1927, Oscar Hammerstein II had penned Ol’ Man River. Set to tune by Jerome Kern and sung by Paul Robeson, the song became a milestone. Later, it inspired Bhupen Hazarika to write a song on another ...

Following an emergency meeting, the West Bengal Government decided to take immediate measures to help the villages. To bring down the level of water in the district administration was instructed to ...

Rivers also leave their mark on human vocabulary. People living along the steep banks of the Jalangi river in Nadia have a distinctive word for such edges — paudi.In Bongaon, those residing by the ...

The Ganges River is in bad shape. Sewage flows into the water that people use to cook, bathe, and perform burial rites. Cleanup efforts are behind schedule.

A study has warned that the Ganges river, with the flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers - could be responsible for up to three billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal every ...

Bangladeshi barge sinks in West Bengal river. A Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash sank in a river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district today after hitting a submerged pontoon jetty damaged ...

River erosion leads to migration When West Bengal was under Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Dayarampur in the Jalangi administrative block had been declared a model village, where Hindus ...

They embraced ‘river religion’ as the way of life, fabricating Bengal’s folklore and traditions long before the Sonaton (old) Dharma (religion), and other religions’ rooted in the Bengal ...