DNA: Analysis of world's most dangerous train system
Indian Railways is the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport .
Oct 14, 2015, 12:14 PM IST
Punjabi author returns Padma Shri, more writers protest
Eminent Punjabi writer and Padma Shri winner Dalip Kaur Tiwana today decided to return her award protesting "recurrent atrocities" on Muslims in the country as another Kannada writer joined authors giving up their Sahitya Akademi Awards against "growing intolerance".
Oct 13, 2015, 19:07 PM IST
Salman Rushdie backs authors, 12 more return Sahitya Akademi awards
Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie on Monday joined the growing chorus of protests by writers and poets against spread of "communal poison" and "rising intolerance" in the country even as 12 more authors decided to return their Sahitya Akademi awards.
Oct 12, 2015, 23:26 PM IST
Salman Rushdie supports writers who have returned Sahitya Akademi Awards
Salman Rushdie supports writers returning their Sahitya Akademi Awards, tweets about his views on the same.
Oct 12, 2015, 16:22 PM IST
Iran boycotts Frankfurt Book Fair over Rushdie invite
Iran said today it will boycott next week's Frankfurt Book Fair after organisers invited the controversial author Salman Rushdie, whom Iranian scholars said should be killed, as a guest speaker.
Oct 08, 2015, 02:18 AM IST
Iran threatens boycott over Rushdie's Frankfurt invite
Iran has threatened to boycott next week's Frankfurt Book Fair because organisers have invited the author Salman Rushdie, who still has a fatwa against him, as a guest speaker.
Oct 06, 2015, 16:42 PM IST
