Salman Rushdie testifies against the man charged with stabbing him on stage in 2022Salman Rushdie testified in a New York courtroom against Hadi Matar, who is charged with attempted murder and assault for stabbing Rushdie ...
11 Feb, 2025, 08.41 PM IST
Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie charged with supporting terrorist groupHadi Matar, who brutally attacked author Salman Rushdie in New York, now faces terrorism charges including attempting to support Hezbollah,...
24 Jul, 2024, 10.27 PM IST
Trial of Salman Rushdie's assailant to be postponed till author's memoir hits bookshelvesHadi Matar, the man charged with repeatedly stabbing Rushdie as the author was being introduced for a lecture, is entitled to the manuscrip...
03 Jan, 2024, 08.51 PM IST
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
View: Rushdie's ground, anywhere but beneath his feetHis new novel, alas, will be seen through the prism of last year’s attack on himen through the prism of last year’s attack on him.
25 Feb, 2023, 11.00 PM 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
Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and handRushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death after publi...
24 Oct, 2022, 12.25 AM 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
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
'You are next': Harry Potter author JK Rowling receives death threat after condemning attack on Salman RushdieThe 57-year-old writer took to Twitter expressing her distress over the news of Rushdie's attack calling it 'horrifying news' and saying, "...
14 Aug, 2022, 03.08 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
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 the 24-year-old man who attacked Salman Rushdie?Though there are no direct links between Matar and the IRGC, law enforcement officers reportedly found images of slain commander Qassem Sol...
13 Aug, 2022, 11.48 AM 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