Modi factor propels rise of BJP, RSS in Bengal

The Narendra Modi wave seems to have reached the Bengal shores, indicated by the more than two-fold increase in the membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s state unit.  A BJP leader......

Another controversy over Taslima, TV serial postponed

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen ran into another controversy when protest by Muslim fundamentalists forced a Bengali channel to postpone the broadcast of a TV serial based on a story......