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'Don't want to hide,' says author Salman Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa

After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is...

11 Feb 2019 10:59 AM IST

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture. (Photo: AP)

Attack on Salman Rushdie is 'appalling', says White House NSA Jake...

Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses , was stabbed by a New Jersey resident...

13 Aug 2022 6:59 PM IST

The author was attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York state

A reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he...

12 Aug 2022 10:15 PM IST

Police officers control the scene, around of shrine of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, after an assault by several attackers in Tehran, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Iran's security forces kill main commander, mastermind of Tehran...

According to a judiciary official, Iranian authorities have also arrested 7 people it suspects of helping militants...

11 Jun 2017 3:25 PM IST