A special session of the West Bengal assembly is expected to be called soon to ratify the name-change and forward the proposal to the Centre for a Constitutional amendment. This is not the first ...

Thus ran a recent campaign, which strongly advocated dropping the West from ‘West Bengal.' The name change announced on Friday has left people, who supported this campaign, and many others with ...

State lawmakers would also get to choose between the Bengali names "Bangla" or "Bongo", said ... with Prime Minister Narendra Modi because West Bengal came at the end of a list of India's 29 ...

Unlike most of the bheries (shallow fish ponds) spread over the Minakhan block in West Bengal’s ... a song on the sundari tree, which gives Sundarbans its name. Locals emphasised that mangroves ...