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Iran on Monday "categorically" denied any link with the attacker who last week stabbed British writer Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses". "We categ

The Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, author of the 1988 novel <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, was stabbed by an assailant at a literary event in western New York.

Extremists have targeted writers, publishers and translators since 1989.

PARIS, France (AFP) — Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which he sentenced him t...

Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good" in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.

K Natwar Singh, who was a Union minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government that banned The Satanic Verses, strongly defended the decision on Saturday, following the attack on Rushdie, asserting that it was taken "purely" for law and order reasons

Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which he sentenced him to death.- The Fatwa -On February 14, 1989 Khomeini called for him to be killed for writing "The Satanic Verses", which the cleric said insulted Islam. In a fatwa, or religious decree, Khomeini urged "Muslims of the world rapidly to execute the author and the publishers of the book" so that &quot...

Friday's knife attack on Salman Rushdie comes more than 33 years after the fatwa against him by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which he sentenced him to death.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good" in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.