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8 hours ago · Stephens published another series of photographs the following Sunday along with an editorial titled “All-India Disgrace”. The famine, created by the British as they wanted to stockpile food for the Second World War and drained away Bengal’s and Orissa’s foodgrains, is believed to have killed between 0.8 to 3 million people.
1 day ago · The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
8 hours ago · A nostalgic journey into the heart of Bengali culture and music history through a personal note of meeting George Biswas.
8 hours ago · Kolkata Doctor Rape Horror: Mob Vandalise RG Kar Hospital, Pelt Stones; Cops Use Tear Gas. The RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case that shook the whole nation has forced the Mamata ...
45 minutes ago · Kolkata doctor rape-murder case SC hearing: The Supreme Court has started hearing a suo motu case concerning the rape and murder of a postgraduate medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. The case is being reviewed by a bench including Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
8 hours ago · Born in January 1929, Dacca, the then district capital of British India, Samir Kumar Das Gupta spent his early childhood in a village named Binauti in the western banks of the Titas river.
8 hours ago · India Pale Ale, the legendary beer that sustained the British Empire, has its origin myth in the experimentation of a London brewer. George Hodgson reportedly added an extra dose of hops to preserve his pale ale for the arduous voyage to Bengal undertaken in 1793 by his relative Thomas Hodgson, an East India Company ship captain.
