Novelist Salman Rushdie set to publish memoir 'Knife' about being stabbed in 2022Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie will publish a memoir titled 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder' in April 2024. The memoir w...
12 Oct, 2023, 08.09 AM IST
Iranian foundation offers land to Salman Rushdie's attacker: State mediaAn Iranian foundation has praised the man who attacked novelist Salman Rushdie last year, leaving him severely injured, and said it will re...
21 Feb, 2023, 01.33 PM IST
Four months after stabbing attack, excerpt from Salman Rushdie's new novel 'Victory City' releasedThe writer was severely injured in a stabbing attack in New York in August.
06 Dec, 2022, 10.34 AM IST
US sanctions Iranian group that put bounty on Salman Rushdie's lifeTreasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing...
28 Oct, 2022, 08.52 PM IST
India condemns ‘horrific attack’ on author Salman Rushdie"India has always stood against violence and extremism. We condemn the horrific attack on Salman Rushdie and we wish him a speedy recovery,...
25 Aug, 2022, 05.43 PM IST
Writers, friends gather in support of Salman Rushdie, read from his works at solidarity event in New YorkAuthors, writers, artists and members from the literary community, including Tina Brown, Kiran Desai, Aasif Mandvi and Reginald Dwayne Bett...
20 Aug, 2022, 12.30 PM IST
Salman Rushdie attack suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder, assaultHadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the "The Satanic Verses" author was to deliver a lecture on stage...
19 Aug, 2022, 11.54 AM IST
What the assaults on Salman Rushdie and a Rajasthan dalit boy stem fromIt is the failure to build democracy and secularism so conceived, in the decades after India's independence, that explains caste atrocities...
17 Aug, 2022, 12.53 AM IST
Iran denies being involved in attack on Salman RushdieNasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a briefing to journalists. "We, in the incident of the attack...
15 Aug, 2022, 01.23 PM IST
Man with knife cannot silence man with pen: New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on attack on Rushdie"New York State will always stand up to protect freedom of expression, freedom of speech and we condemn the cowardly attack on Salman Rushd...
15 Aug, 2022, 11.29 AM IST
Salman Rushdie is 'pulling through' after stabbing 'nightmare', says his former wife Padma LakshmiRushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing "The Satanic Verses", was stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident id...
14 Aug, 2022, 10.46 PM IST
Shocked and saddened to learn of vicious attack on Salman Rushdie: US President Joe Biden"Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all America...
14 Aug, 2022, 08.26 AM IST
Barring a few, Indian leaders mum on Salman RushdieNo official statement from PM Narendra Modi, the BJP or the Gandhis and the Congress - or most regional biggies including most chief minist...
13 Aug, 2022, 11.05 PM IST
Salman Rushdie: The free speech champion whose 'verses' put his life at riskMore than 33 years after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill him, Rushdie, 75, was st...
13 Aug, 2022, 07.53 PM IST
Kangana Ranaut, Javed Akhtar, Swara Bhasker & others condemn 'barbaric' attack on novelist Salman RushdieThe author is currently on a ventilator with a damaged liver and may lose one of his eyes.
13 Aug, 2022, 04.46 PM IST
Who is Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old-man who allegedly attacked Salman Rushdie?Here is what is known about the 24-year-old suspect in Salman Rushdie's stabbing on August 12 during a gathering in New York.
13 Aug, 2022, 02.10 PM IST
New York State police identify suspect who attacked Salman Rushdie"The suspect has been identified as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey. Earlier today, approx. at 10:47 am, the speaker Rushdie,75 a...
13 Aug, 2022, 07.56 AM IST