Bangladeshis Are Not Happy With India's Bharatya Janata Party

Subramanian Swamy speaks in Mangalore, India on 17/12/13 The world's biggest elections are underway in India, and so far elections have been completed in 21 out of 28 states. As voting nears its end, the competing political parties are trying to lure voters with lucrative and populist promises they say they will implement if they are elected. Subramanian Swamy, a leading figure of the conservative Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) whose...

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Bangladeshis Mourn Gabriel García Márquez, the 'Magician Of Words'

[caption id="attachment_467088" align="aligncenter" width="658"] Gabriel García Márquez. Image by Wikimedia/Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara. CC BY 2.0[/caption] Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel-prize winning literary legend from Colombia, died April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. He was not only popular in Latin America but also in South Asia, especially in Bangladesh through translations of his works. There, he was known as the "magician...

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