On August 16, 1946, a day now remembered as Direct Action Day or the Great Calcutta Killings, Bengal descended into days of ...

As Vivek Agnihotri’s film 'The Bengal Files' sparks debate, a look back at the violence of Direct Action Day and the Noakhali riots that shaped Bengal’s partition.

Rather than being stoic over the aggressive agenda of the Muslim League to bring Calcutta into Pakistan, a fierce man from a ...

Set against the backdrop of the 1940s, the film delves into the violence that engulfed undivided Bengal, spotlighting pivotal events such as Direct Action Day in 1946 and the Noakhali riots.

More than 500 members of a banned direct action group were arrested on Saturday at a protest on Parliament Square. Palestine ...

Organizers across AL will rally on Labor Day 2025 in Huntsville, Mobile and McCalla to demand fair wages and economic justice ...

"I think Americans just really don't like being threatened with their own military." Rachel Maddow breaks down D.C.'s ...

London police said Sunday that 532 people were arrested the previous day when supporters of a pro-Palestinian group that was ...

Recent interest in the politics of pre-Partition Bengal largely revolves around the tragic killings and riots of Direct Action Day (August 1946), and the increasing communal polarisation that ...

London's Metropolitan Police arrested over 100 people over the age of 70 in an unprecedented day in Britain's history ...

There’s a lot going on these days: large-scale pro-democracy demonstrations all across the country, smaller weekly rallies in response to various political threats, the occasional sit-in at a ...