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JLF Returns To New York: Check Details On Key Events
The Jaipur Literature Festival is set to return to the US, with the event planned in New York on September 12 and 13. The Jaipur Literature Festival went global for the first time in 2020.
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International Mother Language Day: Colleges,Universities In Rajasthan To Organise Programmes In Local Language
International Mother Language Day 2021: To encourage students in using Rajasthani Language, private, government-aided and government colleges and universities in the state will organise debate, essay and speech competitions.
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Naseeruddin Shah's Event At Ajmer Literature Fest Cancelled Amid Protests
An event at the Literature Festival in Rajasthan's Ajmer where Naseeruddin Shah was to deliver a keynote address this evening has been cancelled amid protests by right wing groups over the veteran actor's comments on the Bulandshahr mob killing of a police officer earlier this month.
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On "Padmaavat" Row, Karni Sena's No-Entry For Censor Chief Prasoon Joshi
Censor board chief Prasoon Joshi will not be allowed to enter Rajasthan to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival, the fringe group Rajput Karni Sena said today, continuing its protests against "Padmaavat" despite the Supreme Court's go-ahead to the film.
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Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy's arrest stayed over Ashis Nandy's comment on corruption among Dalits
Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy's arrest over the alleged castetist remarks by sociologist Ashis Nandy has been stayed by the Rajasthan High Court. An FIR was filed against Mr Roy and Mr Nandy last week, charging them with criminal Intimidation and for hurting sentiments of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe community.
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Ashis Nandy should be arrested immediately: Mayawati
BSP chief Mayawati today demanded that the Rajasthan government should immediately send author Ashis Nandy to jail over his controversial remarks at the Jaipur Literary Festival that "most corrupt people come from OBC, SC and ST communities".
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Rajasthan government says it had received inputs of SIMI threat to Salman Rushdie
Dismissing Salman Rushdie's charge that the state police had invented a "plot" to keep him away from the Literature Festival, the Rajasthan government tonight said it had received intelligence inputs that the banned SIMI was planning to target him during the festival.
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Rajasthan police invented plot to keep me away, tweets Salman Rushdie
The Salman Rushdie row that has hung heavily over the Jaipur Literature Festival has just got bigger. Two days after he officially cancelled his visit to the Litfest, citing intelligence reports that the Underworld was out to get him, the author this morning slammed the Rajasthan police accusing them of inventing the plot to keep him away from the ...
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Mumbai Police denies Rushdie's death threat claims, Rajasthan government says inputs came from Centre
A day after Salman Rushdie skipped the Jaipur Literature Festival alleging death threats, security agencies from Mumbai and Rajasthan have come up with different reports on the matter. The Rajasthan Home Secretary reportedly had written to the organisers of the festival detailing inputs from the Centre about threats to author Salman Rushdie. But th...
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Mumbai Police sources deny Salman Rushdie's claim, say there was no input about 'paid assassins'
Salman Rushdie declared in a statement yesterday that he would not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival because he has been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra and Rajasthan that "paid assassins from Mumbai underworld might be on their way to eliminate" him. But sources in Mumbai Police have now told NDTV that they gave no inputs about...
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Asia's biggest literature fest opens in Jaipur
Asia's biggest literary festival 'Jaipur Literature Festival' opened on Thursday morning with eminent authors and who's who of the literary world, taking part in the event.
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JLF Returns To New York: Check Details On Key Events
The Jaipur Literature Festival is set to return to the US, with the event planned in New York on September 12 and 13. The Jaipur Literature Festival went global for the first time in 2020.
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International Mother Language Day: Colleges,Universities In Rajasthan To Organise Programmes In Local Language
International Mother Language Day 2021: To encourage students in using Rajasthani Language, private, government-aided and government colleges and universities in the state will organise debate, essay and speech competitions.
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Naseeruddin Shah's Event At Ajmer Literature Fest Cancelled Amid Protests
An event at the Literature Festival in Rajasthan's Ajmer where Naseeruddin Shah was to deliver a keynote address this evening has been cancelled amid protests by right wing groups over the veteran actor's comments on the Bulandshahr mob killing of a police officer earlier this month.
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On "Padmaavat" Row, Karni Sena's No-Entry For Censor Chief Prasoon Joshi
Censor board chief Prasoon Joshi will not be allowed to enter Rajasthan to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival, the fringe group Rajput Karni Sena said today, continuing its protests against "Padmaavat" despite the Supreme Court's go-ahead to the film.
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Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy's arrest stayed over Ashis Nandy's comment on corruption among Dalits
Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy's arrest over the alleged castetist remarks by sociologist Ashis Nandy has been stayed by the Rajasthan High Court. An FIR was filed against Mr Roy and Mr Nandy last week, charging them with criminal Intimidation and for hurting sentiments of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe community.
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Ashis Nandy should be arrested immediately: Mayawati
BSP chief Mayawati today demanded that the Rajasthan government should immediately send author Ashis Nandy to jail over his controversial remarks at the Jaipur Literary Festival that "most corrupt people come from OBC, SC and ST communities".
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Rajasthan government says it had received inputs of SIMI threat to Salman Rushdie
Dismissing Salman Rushdie's charge that the state police had invented a "plot" to keep him away from the Literature Festival, the Rajasthan government tonight said it had received intelligence inputs that the banned SIMI was planning to target him during the festival.
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Rajasthan police invented plot to keep me away, tweets Salman Rushdie
The Salman Rushdie row that has hung heavily over the Jaipur Literature Festival has just got bigger. Two days after he officially cancelled his visit to the Litfest, citing intelligence reports that the Underworld was out to get him, the author this morning slammed the Rajasthan police accusing them of inventing the plot to keep him away from the ...
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Mumbai Police denies Rushdie's death threat claims, Rajasthan government says inputs came from Centre
A day after Salman Rushdie skipped the Jaipur Literature Festival alleging death threats, security agencies from Mumbai and Rajasthan have come up with different reports on the matter. The Rajasthan Home Secretary reportedly had written to the organisers of the festival detailing inputs from the Centre about threats to author Salman Rushdie. But th...
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Mumbai Police sources deny Salman Rushdie's claim, say there was no input about 'paid assassins'
Salman Rushdie declared in a statement yesterday that he would not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival because he has been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra and Rajasthan that "paid assassins from Mumbai underworld might be on their way to eliminate" him. But sources in Mumbai Police have now told NDTV that they gave no inputs about...
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Asia's biggest literature fest opens in Jaipur
Asia's biggest literary festival 'Jaipur Literature Festival' opened on Thursday morning with eminent authors and who's who of the literary world, taking part in the event.
