Taslima Nasreen gets one-year Indian residence permitThe 56-year-old writer was last week given a three-month residence permit following which she took to Twitter requesting Home Minister Amit...
21 Jul, 2019, 01.08 PM IST
Death threats, moving houses: Taslima Nasrin completes 25 years of exile abroadThe 'Lajja' author fled Bangladesh after she started receiving repeated death threats.
10 Jul, 2019, 03.00 PM IST
No clarification from Mamata government on why the movie was pulled out of theatres: Director Anik DuttaWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee however denied comment on the issue when she was asked about it during a press conference on Mon...
19 Feb, 2019, 08.57 PM IST
Bangladesh Muslims in India are illegal immigrants: Tripura GovernorRoy emphasised “Bangladeshi Muslims living in several places in the country are not refugees, but illegal immigrants”.
09 Aug, 2018, 06.23 AM IST
Sunil Shanbag's Blank Page sets poetry in motionThe play deals with themes like identity, political resistance, conflicting relationships.
19 Aug, 2016, 08.50 AM IST
Sunil Shanbag's Blank Page sets poetry in motion"Poetry is layered and complex and opens itself out to multiple interpretations. It's both challenging and fulfilling to be able to deconst...
18 Aug, 2016, 06.33 PM IST
Will fight fundamentalists until death: Taslima NasrinBangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, living in exile in India, today said she will not be silenced by fundamentalists and "continue to fight ...
28 Nov, 2015, 11.02 PM IST
All Indians persecuted in foreign land are welcome: Assam GovernorAssam Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya today said all Indian-origin people, including Muslims, persecuted in any foreign lands were ...
22 Nov, 2015, 03.54 PM IST
Bangladeshi blogger gets death threat on Facebook"I feel lodging a police complaint is pointless. Eleven years have passed and the cops haven't been able to do anything about my father's a...
30 May, 2015, 04.15 PM IST
ISPs, intermediaries urge Supreme Court for amendment of IT ActTaslima Nasrin was one of the petitioners though she has not pressed her plea. A case was lodged against her after she tweeted some remarks...
17 Dec, 2014, 05.45 AM IST
I did not criticise Islam in 'Lajja': Taslima NasrinTaslima Nasrin says she did not criticise Islam in her controversial novel "Lajja" and the fatwa against her is because of her criticism of...
22 Sep, 2014, 03.36 PM IST
Facing bans, Taslima Nasrin says no hope of returning to KolkataA year after the launch of her book 'Nirbasan' was cancelled at the Fair, Nasrin feels nothing much has changed in West Bengal and she has ...
03 Feb, 2014, 12.50 PM IST
- Like CPM, Mamata also soft on fundamentalists, says Taslima Nasrin
Kolkata Book Fair cancelled exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin's book release, saying the government had warned of security problems.
02 Feb, 2012, 06.47 AM IST
Jaipur Literature Festival: India must stop banning booksThat a book banned 33 years ago and its author can still stoke controversy and leave the organisers of a literary festival with their knick...
24 Jan, 2012, 08.30 AM IST
- Taslima arrives in India; whisked away to unknown destination
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who was asked to leave India in March this year, returned here in the wee hours of today a...
06 Aug, 2009, 08.02 PM IST
- Taslima may leave India
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who returned to India from Sweden early this month, is likely to leave the country again f...
24 Aug, 2008, 05.36 PM IST
- Taslima Nasrin attacked in Hyderabad
Angry Muslim protesters led by three local lawmakers attacked controversial exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin on Thursday while she ...
09 Aug, 2007, 06.12 PM IST