The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education issued a notification making Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 'Banglar mati, ...

A WBBSE official confirmed that schools in the GTA region would be exempt from the decision to make the state anthem ...

An autonomous body formed to run administrative affairs in Darjeeling Hills has said that students of the schools in the region have been exempted from singing the state anthem during prayers. The ...

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Thursday issued a directive making it mandatory for students in all government and government-aided schools to sing Rabindranath Tagore’s ...

The West Bengal government has made it compulsory for all government and government-aided schools to begin their morning assemblies with the state song ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal’, written by ...

On November 7, 1875, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay composed Vande Mataram, inspired by Bengal's spirit of Durga Puja. This six ...

GTA cites regional identity as reason to retain traditional Nepali prayers; BJP MLA flags ‘uniformity through diktat’ ...

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I ...

Kolkata: A fresh ideological rift has emerged between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its hill ally, the Bharatiya Gorkha ...

A COUNTRY music star who rocketed to fame after releasing a hit single at just 17 has died. John Wesley Ryles died in the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Vande Mataram a "prayer to Maa Bharati" as India celebrated 150 years of its national ...