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New Delhi, August 13K Natwar Singh, who was a Union Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi Government that banned Salman Rushdie’s controversial book, “The Satanic Verses”, strongly defended the decision on Saturday asserting it was taken “purely” for law and order reasons.With focus back on Rushdie’s book in the wake of…

Tehran, August 13 Iranians reacted with praise and worry on Saturday over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death. It remains unclear why Rushdie’s attacker, identified by police as Hadi Mattar of Fairview,…

New Delhi, August 13The CUET-UG for more than 11,000 candidates, who were scheduled to appear in the fourth phase, has been deferred to August 30 to accommodate their choice of city for exam centre, officials said Saturday.The fourth phase of the Central Universities Entrance Test-Undergraduate was scheduled from August 17-20…

New Delhi, August 13The Government today issued orders to reinstate Shah Faesal, a 2010 batch IAS topper of the erstwhile Jamp;K cadre and posted him as Deputy Secretary in the Union Ministry for Tourism.The Department of personnel and training reinstated Faisal who had submitted his resignation in January 2019 and…

Samaan Lateef Srinagar August 13 The Jammu and Kashmir Administration led by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday dismissed four officials for their alleged links with separatists. The dismissed officials include Assaba-ul-Arjumand Khan, wife of Farooq Dar alias Bitta Karate, who is accused of killing Kashmiri Pandits in the early…

New York, August 13The 24-year-old man detained in connection with the stabbing of Mumbai-born controversial author Salman Rushdie was sympathetic to “Shia extremism” and the causes of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a media report.Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses”, was…

August 13 Before Salman Rushdie arrived on Friday, the bucolic New York retreat where the author was due to speak had arranged for a law enforcement presence at his lecture, mindful that the security might be needed for a man who faced death threats. Chautauqua Institution, a haven in the…

New York, August 13Author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, will likely lose one eye and his liver was “stabbed and damaged” following an attack on him on Friday, his agent said, noting that the “news is not good”.The New York Times (NYT) reported that according to Rushdie’s agent, Andrew…

New York, August 12 Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after he was issued a fatwa by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck multiple times as he was about to give a lecture in New York state on Friday. …