Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party of India-Marxist denied that the West Bengal government had anything to do with controversial Bangladeshi writer Talima Nasreen moving from her temporary residence in Kolkata to Jaipur.
The Delhi High Court has summoned Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal and his sister Neena Tejpal in a case filed by well-known painter Raghu Vyas seeking damages of Rs 1 crore for allegedly infringing his copyright of one of his paintings.
Sonu Nigam, Mahima Chaudhary, Lesle Lewis and chef Sanjeev Kapoor attended the event.
The film was set to hit screens on November 7.
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President Pranab Mukherjee has said that the return of awards by writers and intellectuals was "evidently spontaneous" and a way of protest that has triggered a nation-wide debate on the issue of intolerance, a release issued on Thursday by a group of intellectuals has claimed.
In a 15-minute lecture at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Tharoor said he was appalled at the manner in which some people were creating a ruckus in the name of sanskriti (culture).
An artist who is credited with bringing about a momentous turn in the art of India, Raja Ravi Varma was the first artist to cast the Indian gods and mythological characters in natural earthy surroundings using a European realism.
No one has been able to touch Tyeb Mehta - not even Mehta himself - after his Mahisasura fetched a record $1,584,000 crore at an auction last year.
M F Husain, a self-confessed fan of Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, has booked an entire show of her comeback film Aaja Nachle, releasing in theatres in the UAE on Thursday.
'You are giving undue importance to this kind of stuff. In the age of the internet, you are making this an issue. It is best forgotten,' the bench had said while hearing a plea to ban the Malayalam novel Meesha (moustache) written by S Hareesh.
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God insisted on leaving humans but Mohanlal says he convinced him that we need him as we need love, art, music and compassion.
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Accusing the artist of insulting the Hindus and the nation by allegedly portraying deities and Bharat Mata in the nude, Katiyar demanded the painter be immediately arrested and prosecuted.
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A complaint was filed saying that Husain's paintings hurt the religious sentiments of people.
The Pilibhit MP, who praised Husain for his charity, alleged that his paintings had been misread deliberately and suggested that they were worthy of being displayed in a museum.
'We have kept him back here as we fear for his life. Only if the atmosphere is conducive, we shall go back to India,' the source asserted.
The exhibition will feature a selection of Husain's paintings from the 50s to 70s.
Jackson Pollock's No 5, 1948 was sold for $140 million, making it the most expensive painting so far.
The two sides said they would try to sort out the matter amicably.
M F Husain moves SC for transfer of criminal cases to Delhi
The arrests have been made in cases related to blasts outside court premises in South India since April this year.
In a joint operation with police of two states, the National Investigation Agency on Monday arrested three persons suspected to be part of a group sympathising with Al Qaeda and involved in five blast cases in court premises of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka since April.
"India is my motherland. Nobody is stopping me from visiting my country," he said.
This summer, Bush spoke at the convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the first time in his presidency. The crowd cheered when he said many blacks do not trust Republicans.
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A Congress leader has also offered Rs 11 lakh for killing M F Hussain.
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'Unlike Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, there is no opportunity for workers to earn a livelihood in Bihar.'
The paintings were sold for a record Rs 100 crore to Mumbai-based businessman Guru Swarup Srivastava. \nSrivastava will auction the first 25 paintings on May 8.
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