The elections in two eastern Indian states were keenly observed in Bangladesh for two major contentious issues, writes Prakash Bhandari from Dhaka.

'Usually, the Left backed the Congress and other 'secular' parties on the justification of keeping the BJP out. In Bengal, the alliance targets a truly secular rival,' says Shekhar Gupta.

The winners of the 63rd National awards seemed quite overwhelmed with their big wins, and they spoke happily about them.

The West Bengal government has tied up with the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, to launch a reality show, Egiye Bangla.

From belonging to an endangered tribe, somewhere along the line I had turned into a dangerous species myself; a lying, scheming traitor, who had let the country down -- in short, an anti-national, says Durba Dhyani.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Janata Dal-United's Sharad Yadav, Samajwadi Party's Ramgopal Yadav and Aam Aadmi Party's Arvind Kejriwal will meet at Sharad Pawar's residence on Wednesday.

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was fined 75 per cent of his match fees for allegedly shoving young Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman.

A jailed undertrial from West Bengal was found in possession of maps related to Rajpath and Rashtrapati Bhawan.

It is learnt that the SNLTR is also working on Bangla classics.

Each year Rabindra Jayanti is celebrated with fervour and festivity across Bangladesh.

'Everything about you and your precious relationships spoke to me, stirred me and I wish you could hear how deeply you touched me,' Sukanya Verma says in her letter to Piku.

Piku is a film with tremendous heart, raves Raja Sen.

Nobody does ethnic chic as well as D-Pad!

The actress will be see in Aparna Sen's Bengali film Arshinagar.

Rose Valley is one of the biggest money businesses after Sahara.

Piku should hopefully be some good shit, says Raja Sen.

Mirchi Music Awards Bangla 2015 was held in Kolkata, on February 18.

'No other actor in India was as lucky as me,' Soumitra Chatterjee tells Indrani Roy/ Rediff.com

'When it came to S D Burman, a Guide song was completely different from a Tere Mere Sapne song which was completely different from a Sharmilee song. Except for their quality, there is nothing to link them together.' 'Lata was his ultimate voice. He felt there was nobody like Lata. "Give me a harmonium, give me Lata and I will make music," he said.'

He said designs for special range of saris will be launched before Durga Puja.

Rangan Chakravarty talks about the success of Bari Tar Bangla and the difficulties of making a film in Bengali.

Aseem Chhabra mourns the passing of the gentle and knowledgeable Mr K D Singh, who owned a quaint bookshop in New Delhi.

Bengali film star and Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha candidate Dev raked up a controversy by saying that joining election fray is like getting raped, but after facing flak from women's rights activists and opposition parties he apologised for the comment.

Gang Of Ghosts is one of those films that falls in the category of a bad remake, says Sonil Dedhia.

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya's take on International Women's Day.

Meet Sayamindu Dasgupta!

The veteran actress passed away today, January 17.

Ishani Chowdhury deftly straddles the diverse worlds of activism and the arts.

President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmishtha Mukherjee taking up campaigning for Delhi election has triggered speculations about her contesting the upcoming general elections.

"Manna Dey sang some of the most soulful songs for my films" is how late actor Raj Kapoor described his association with Manna Dey.

Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, journalist and writer, speaks of her experiences on being honoured by Bangladesh for helping during the 1971 liberation war.

A prominent lawmaker of the opposition Bangladesh National Party was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a special Bangladeshi tribunal for genocide during the country's 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, becoming the first Member of Parliament and seventh person to be convicted of crimes against humanity.

Indian intelligence agencies have often claimed that left-wing extremists are trying to make inroads in the militancy-hit regions of north-east to foment further unrest. But Jaideep Saikia, noted terrorism and conflict analyst, claims, "People who speak of Maoism taking roots in the north-east have not read history".

Tasher Desh is staggeringly-original film, writes Raja Sen.

Here's a lowdown on the inmates!

Ghosh was reportedly suffering from pancreatitis.

The show will be aired on ETV Bangla.

30 per cent of all movies made in Tollywood are produced by chit fund companies.

A day after about 1,200 media persons from Saradha Group media entities lost their jobs in West Bengal, the state government extended a helping hand. On Wednesday, government officials are set to meet these employees to try and find a resolution to the issue.