Mani Shankar Mukherjee, known in Bengali literature by his pen name Sankar, passed away on Friday at a private hospital in Calcutta. Born in Howrah in December 7, 1933, Sankar, still in his teens, ...

Veteran Bengali author Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as Shankar, passed away on Friday (February 20, 2026) at the age of 92. He had been undergoing treatment at a Kolkata hospital for the ...

The distinguished Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as 'Shankar', passed away at a local hospital on Friday afternoon, according to family members. Mukhopadhyay, aged 93, had ...

He died in a private hospital due to old-age ailments at the age of 92. He is survived by two daughters. The Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer, best known for his iconic novel Chowringhee and a ...

Eminent Bengali author Mani Sankar Mukherjee, better known by his pen name ‘Sankar’, whose works transformed the mundane realities of urban life into timeless narratives and were adapted into films by ...

Bengali recipes are incomplete without fish. When it comes to fish, Bengali cuisine explores not just different fish snacks and curry recipes, but there is a wide variety to explore in different types ...

Eminent Bengali author Mani Sankar Mukhopadhay, popularly known as ‘Sankar’, died at a hospital here on Friday (February 20, 2026) afternoon, family members said. Mukhopadhay, 93, was unwell for some ...

French President Emmanuel Macron visited and offered prayers at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in New Delhi. Macron, who was in India to attend the India AI Impact Summit 2026, on Wednesday visited the ...

I was born on December 7, 1933. Bongram in Jessore district was my birthplace. India had not yet been partitioned. We were getting by as a middle-class family, but then one day in my adolescence I saw ...

Bangla is one of the approximately seven thousand languages spoken worldwide, with around 250 million native speakers in Bangladesh and West Bengal. In terms of the number of native speakers, it ranks ...

Although cricket was introduced to Bangladesh under British rule around two centuries ago, it was not until after independence in 1971 that the game gradually took hold with the masses. It became an ...