Kolkata has once again topped the NCRB report as India’s safest city, recording the lowest crime rate among metros. The city also saw a decline in crimes against women. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee praised the achievement, highlighting Kolkata’s efficient policing and Bengal’s improved law and order situation.
The Bengal Files portrays Bengal’s 1946–47 communal violence through a selective, one-dimensional lens. By distorting history, amplifying fear, and reducing complex realities to binaries, it functions more as propaganda than cinema. Graphic violence and polemical dialogues fuel polarization, raising ethical concerns about manipulating memory and exploiting tragedy for political ends
Kolkata: At a time of language-based identity politics, a young scholar from Bengal reaffirms the strength of mother tongue through academic brilliance
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Bengali Muslim migrant workers are being detained, assaulted, and harassed across BJP-ruled states for speaking their language or due to their identity. Despite valid documents, many face profiling as 'Bangladeshis'. Families back home live in fear, while civil society and opposition leaders call it a targeted communal campaign.
Bengali Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal face rising hostility in BJP-ruled states like Odisha and Gujarat. They are harassed, assaulted, and often labeled as illegal Bangladeshis. Many return home in fear, jobless and traumatized, as communal profiling and police inaction fuel a growing humanitarian and economic crisis.