London: Authors around the world have expressed their shock and sadness at the attack on Salman Rushdie in New York state.
The stabbing came after years of Islamist death threats against Rushdie over The Satanic Verses, published in 1988.
Fellow...
Aden, Yemen: Tension between units of the Yemeni government forces flared up on Friday as the newly-formed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) insisted on removing rebellious security officers from their positions in the oil-rich province of Shabwa, an official told...
New York: The FBI seized top secret files from former US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week during its raid, according to a search warrant.
Agents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked "TS/SCI", a designation...
Washington: US House of Representatives passed the Democratic spending bill on tax policy, health care, and climate change, a few days after the Senate approval.
The bill on Friday, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, is scaled down from the massive...
New Delhi: Salman Rushdie, literally the "midnight's child" draws a close relation to his most celebrated title -- being born in 1947, when India too announced her "tryst with destiny".
The Indian-born novelist catapulted to fame with "Midnight's Children" in...
New York: Celebrated author Salman Rushdie, whose "Satanic Verses" drew death threats in the 1980s, is on ventilator after a New York stabbing incident.
Rushdie's agent told the media nerves in the novelist's arm were severed; and his liver was...
New York: Renowned author Salman Rushdie, who faces death threats for years after writing 'The Satanic Verses', has been attacked on stage during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, police said.
The author was attacked when he...
Washington: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to unseal the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement days after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents raided the Mar-a-Lago...
Islamabad: The Shehbaz Sharif government is preparing a ‘contingency plan’ to deal with the potential resurgence of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) after reports suggested the terrorist outfit was trying to make a comeback.
On Thursday, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif...
Havana: The Colombian government wants to resume peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla in the Cuban capital, Colombia's Foreign Affairs Minister Alvaro Leyva said here.
"We hope to resume dialogues with ELN in this land of peace...