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The Bangladeshi writer, who has spent much of her life in exile, battling fundamentalists in her country and ours, was part of a panel discussion on the writer as political hostage, moderated by novelist Nilanjana Roy.

The former press secretary of A P J Abdul Kalam said here on Saturday that he had thought of resigning as president in 2006 when the Supreme Court quashed the presidential proclamation dissolving the Bihar assembly.

In a second blow to Goa’s tourism industry which was already reeling from a reduction in arrivals due to the devaluation of the rouble, India has been struck off the list of safe travel destinations recommended for Russian tourists, according to a report by the Russian news agency INTERFAX.

In a second blow to Goa’s tourism industry which was already reeling from a reduction in arrivals due to the devaluation of the rouble, India has been struck off the list of safe travel destinations recommended for Russian tourists, according to a report by the Russian news agency INTERFAX.

The changing caste dynamics in Gujarat, following the Patidar stir for reservation, is bound to have a major impact on the 2.59 crore voters enlisted to pick their local representatives in elections to taluka panchayats, zila panchayats and municipalities on Sunday.

Passengers at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) had their first brush with winter as fog delayed more than 100 flights, including four international ones.

Passengers at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) had their first brush with winter as fog delayed more than 100 flights, including four international ones.

Mijwan, a small village in Azamgarh that did not even have a pin code to its name, has empowered the village women such that Hollywood actress Naomi Campbell and several Bollywood actors are clients of their embroidery. Similar stories from the village were shared by Shabana Azmi at the Lucknow Literature Carnival organised by Lucknow Expressions in association with TOI here on Saturday. Mijwan is the village where her father Kaifi Azmi was born and where he founded the Mijwan Welfare Society in 1993, now run by Shabana.

“It was in 1992 that I was, for the first time, made brazenly aware of my Muslim identity,” Bollywood actor Shabana Azmi said on Saturday.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today met Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik at the Raj Bhawan. State BJP chief Laxmi Kant Bajpai was also present during the meeting.

Patient care services at Trauma Centre were affected for more than two hours on Saturday following ruckus by family members of a patient who died during treatment at the facility. The family accused the doctors on duty of misbehaviour and negligence, which they blamed for their patient’s death.

At least 50 cases of cervical cancer are reported across Uttar Pradesh in a single day, suggests data from the National Cancer Registry Programme. More than half of these women die during the course of treatment. The fact came to the fore at the ongoing national conference of Association of Radiation Oncologists in India (AROI).

Autos in the city will soon be disseminating information about legal consequences of verbal and physical harassment against women commuters. UP Mahila Samman Prakosht, in association with support of ‘Action Aid’ and ‘Ye hai soch’, on Saturday started training and sensitization of auto drivers. They were motivated to stand up for the women being harassed on streets and were informed about various legal provisions.

Interactive session ‘Marriage-Much Ado About Nothing?’ with panelists, including Sathya Saran, Kausar Munir, Noor Zahir and Rajit Kapur, was a well attended event. The panelists discussed how only understanding, love and respect for each others’ perspectives help sustain a marriage.

India may well be the birthplace of the tantalizing Kamasutra, but when it comes to sexual habits and health, India has often succumbed to Victorian era prudishness. Condoms, or for that matter anything to do with sexual practices and libido is often relegated to discrete shelves or dark corners in stores and public places.

The much-awaited All-India Kaifi Azmi Academy in UP might see the light of the day by March 2016, said Shabana Azmi on Saturday. She was responding to a question from the audience at the Lucknow Literature Carnival. She said she was hopeful of the assurance made to her by the UP chief minister.

Hailing his free laptop scheme as the precursor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday targeted the Modi government and said “excessive marketers” were exposed.

A year after the release of his film that has wowed audiences and won critical acclaim in India and beyond, ‘Nachom-ia Kumpasar’ director Bardroy Barretto shares stories from his childhood, and what inspired him to create the film that put Goa firmly on the world’s cinematic map

Claiming success of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's padyatra in Saharanpur, the UP Congress said on Saturday it will continue its two-pronged attack on Centre and state and hold a series of padyatras in 12 major cities of Uttar Pradesh. The programme will be kicked off from Meerut on December 9, the birthday of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and will culminate in Lucknow on December 31.

At the age of 65 and after a long wait of 44 years, Anil Kumar Singh finally received his M Raman Gold medal for Inorganic Chemistry from the Lucknow University (LU) on Saturday.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley and his predecessor P Chidambaram said the SC shouldn't have reversed the Delhi HC's order de-criminalizing consensual sex among gay adults.

The alleged ISI agent arrested from Meerut on Friday had got married to appear socially stable. The officer supervising the probe told TOI that Mohammad Kalam alias Islamabad resident Mohammad Ejaz (31) married the daughter of a construction mason from Arrah, Bihar, while he was in Kolkata last year. The four-month pregnant wife had no inkling of Kalam’s covert operations.

Son of a police sub-inspector posted as station officer of Amethi Kotwali turned out to be the blatant traffic offender caught by TOI lensman Ajay Kumar over Vibhuti Khand Picup flyover on November 26. A graduation student in his early 20s, Susheel has been identified as the errant driver.