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The Jaipur Literature Festival cancelled a video-link speech by Salman Rushdie minutes before it was scheduled to begin today, citing death threats and fears of violence.
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| Three more babies die in Malda hospital |
| Update: Wednesday at 17:45 hrs (IST) |
| Three more infants died today at the Malda Sadar Hospital after being referred in critical condition from other district hospitals ... | Read.. |
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| Bhupen Hazarika, Dharmendra among Padma award recipients |
| Update: Wednesday at 16:10 hrs (IST) |
| Legendary singer Bhupen Hazarika has been posthumously chosen for Padma Vibhushan, country's highest civilian honour while cine veterans Dharmendra, Shabana Azmi... | Read.. |
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| Former ISRO chief: “Are we worse than terrorists?” |
| Update: Wednesday at 15:20 hrs (IST) |
| The government’s decision to crack down on four eminent scientists including a former boss of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for a deal with a private ... |
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| Obama launches re-election bid as champion of middle class |
| Update: Wednesday at 14:45 hrs (IST) |
| US President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint himself as the champion of the middle class, by demanding higher t ... |
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| PM meets senior ministers to sort out UID tangle |
| Update: Wednesday at 14:40 hrs (IST) |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday held talks with senior Cabinet colleagues to sort out differences that have cropped up between the Unique Identification Author ... |
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| India to move Portuguese court on Salem's extradition |
| Update: Wednesday at 14:30 hrs (IST) |
| India will move the Constitutional Court of Portugal against a ruling by that country’s Supreme Court backing the high court’s judgment cancelling the extraditi ... |
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| Mother shot at in Kasba shocker |
| A pillion-rider today pumped a bullet into a homemaker watching over her two young daughters playing badminton near their Kasba apartment after she lunged at the bike and ... |
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| 9-yr-old crushed by truck |
| A truck was set ablaze by a mob after a nine-year-old girl was crushed under its wheels at Changsari area on the city’s outskirts today. ... |
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| 7 N-E outfits lay down arms |
| After seven militant groups laid down arms here today, police said Assam had been purged of all “established” militant groups. ... |
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| ‘I heard on TV that I was dead’ |
| He heard the gut-wrenching sound of an explosion, missed a gruesome death by a whisker, lost a dear colleague and was labelled deceased by an extra alert vernacular telev ... |
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| Fugitive Maoist top gun nabbed |
| More than a year after he pulled off one of the most daring jailbreaks in Jharkhand, top Maoist leader Girish Mahto — infamous for the 2001-02 Saranda slaughters — was nabbed ... |
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Barkha Dutt: Salman, will you come back to India?
Rushdie: Most certainly, most certainly and many times, so deal with it
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