Taslima Nasreen
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Bangladesh on high alert after bloggers' killing: Minister
World | Jun 08, 2015, 05:32 PM ISTDhaka: Bangladesh is on high alert following the hacking to death of three secular bloggers in recent months, a senior minister said as he blamed home-grown elements like fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for the brutal killings that
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Taslima Nasreen says will return to India
India | Jun 03, 2015, 01:41 PM ISTKolkata: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has relocated to the US after death threats by radicals from her country, today said she has not left India permanently and will return when she feels safe.She
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Taslima Nasreen moves to US after death threats from radicals
World | Jun 02, 2015, 11:42 PM ISTNew York: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been relocated to the US from India after death threats by Islamists radicals from her country where three secular bloggers were hacked to death since February."Islamic radicals
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Taslima Nasreen gets threat from jihadis, wants to meet Rajnath Singh
India | May 14, 2015, 01:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has sought an immediate meeting with Home Minister Rajnath Singh, saying she was getting constant threats from a Bangladesh jihadi group, in the backdrop of three secular bloggers being
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Trinamool MP threatens to stall release of National Award winning film on Taslima Nasreen
National | May 04, 2015, 06:05 PM ISTKolkata: A Trinamool Congress MP Idris Ali has threatened to stall the release of "Nirbashito" (The Exiled), a film loosely based on the life and times of controversial Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen.The film, directed by
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Bangladeshi terror group planning to kill me says Taslima Nasreen
India | Apr 21, 2015, 06:31 PM ISTNew Delhi: Renowned feminist author Taslima Nasreen has disclosed that she faces a serious threat to her life from a Bangladeshi terror group. Speaking to Mail Today, Taslima said that Bangladeshi terror group Ansarullah Bangla
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Facebook restores Taslima Nasreen's account after disabling it for 36 hours
India | Apr 15, 2015, 07:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's Facebook account has been restored after being kept disabled since Tuesday morning. Facebook authorities had disabled her website allegedly after numerous pro-Islamic Facebook users 'reported' against her writings
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Taslima Nasreen lambasts Mamata Banerjee on her Bangladesh visit
National | Feb 11, 2015, 05:39 PM ISTNew Delhi/Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's Bangladesh visit from Feb 19 to 21 has caught the ire of controversial Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen, who has alleged that the CM was shielding Muslim fundamentalists
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Muslim groups demand ban on sale of Taslima Nasreen's books at Kolkata Book Fair
India | Feb 04, 2015, 06:51 PM ISTKolkata: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen is again in the midst of controversy with several Muslim social and political groups demanding ban on the sale and display of her books at the Kolkata Book Fair,
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Taslima Nasreen says, West loves moderate Muslims like Malala, not atheists like me
India | Jan 15, 2015, 04:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen, who describes herself as an atheist and secular humanist, has hit out at the West for its double standards towards Islam."If you criticize Islam,you're in trouble. Islamists will kill
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Angry Taslima Nasreen describes Boko Haram terrorists as 'Haramzadas'
India | Jan 12, 2015, 06:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Indefatigable Bengali writer and 'secular humanist' Taslima Nasreen, staying in exile in India, has described the recent Boko Haram suicide bombing as the act of "Boko Haramzadas"."Boko Haramzadas used a 10-year-old girl as
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If PK was made in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Aamir, Hirani would have been in prison by now, tweets Taslima Nasreen
India | Jan 02, 2015, 05:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Fiery Bengali writer and feminist Taslima Nasreen has praised Raj Kumar Hirani's film 'pk' but has also tweeted: "If PK was made in B'desh or Pakistan, producer, director & actor Aamir Khan would
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SC asks Bareilly court to pass order on Taslima case closure report
India | Dec 03, 2014, 01:08 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked a court in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly city to pronounce its order on the closure report filed by state police on a complaint against self-exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen
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Taslima Nasreen tweets her photo with 20 year younger boyfriend
India | Oct 24, 2014, 06:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: The renowned Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has always said that her life is an open book. She has once again underlined this by tweeting the photograph of her new boyfriend who is 20
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I was expecting Indian citizenship from Modi government, says Taslima Nasreen (India TV Exclusive)
National | Aug 10, 2014, 07:12 AM ISTNew Delhi: Tough times force even the toughest of mortals to mellow down and compromise. Noted Bengali feminist and writer Taslima Nasreen, who, once upon a time, did not hesitate in directly taking on the
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Taslima Nasreen diagnosed with breast tumours in US
World | May 12, 2014, 10:57 AM ISTDhaka: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been diagnosed with breast tumours at a New York hospital where she went with cough and cold.Doctors found the tumours "quite big" and advised her biopsy to check
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Ganguly should resign from WBHRC: Taslima Nasreen
India | Dec 11, 2013, 09:00 PM ISTKolkata: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen today lent her support to the demand for resignation of Justice A K Ganguly, accused of sexually harassing a law intern, as the West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman.“As
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Life Is Not Easy, Says Taslima Nasreen
India | Sep 20, 2011, 04:27 PM ISTNew Delhi, Sept 20: “Peace is far away,” feels controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen and claims that she is a victim of religious, political and social ‘fatwas'.“Unfortunately, settlement is not for me. Banning, censorship continues.
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Taslima Lashes Out At Anupam Kher
India | Jul 13, 2011, 03:49 PM ISTMumbai, Jul 13: Bangladeshi writer-activist Taslima Nasreen has lashed out at Bollywood actor Anupam Kher on Twitter for his remark against Trinamool Minister Mukul Roy. Anupam Kher had said: "When a minister refuses to visit
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I Never Penned Any Article For A Newspaper In Karnataka: Taslima Nasreen
India | Mar 02, 2010, 01:43 PM ISTExiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Tuesday said the appearance of an article in a Karnataka newspaper purportedly written by her, which triggered violent protests in Shimoga and Hassan towns, is a "deliberate attempt to