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Unprecedented security at Writers` Buildings

The FBI inspected Writers` Buildings for the third time in four days on Saturday.

Hillary’s visit: Writers` Buildings turns fortress

Two teams of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have already studied the security aspects of Writer...

Now, your vintage typewriters can look modern

Nearly obsolete typewriters can now be upgraded into modern-day equipment by including a USB portal ...

Fire at Bengal state secretariat, no casualties

The fire on third floor of the building was doused by three fire tenders after a 65-minute-long effo...

Malayalam script writer T Damodharan passes away

Noted Malayalam script writer T Damodaran died here on Wednesday following a heart attack.

Facebook underwriters to get 1.1 pct fee: Source

Facebook will pay just a 1.1 percent fee to underwriters of its initial public offering.

Salman Rushdie in Delhi, targets Congress

Two months after he was forced to skip a literary fest in Jaipur, controversial writer Salman Rush...

Strike: WB secretariat records 65% attendance

Attendance at the West Bengal state secretariat, Writers` Buildings, was at an `unusual` 65per cent...

WB: Protesting madrasa teachers removed by police

The police removed a group of madrasa teachers who threatened to go on indefinite fast, before the ...

British writer Christopher Hitchens dead at 62

The author of 25 books - Hitchens never lost his biting humor.

French writer drops plan to sue Strauss-Kahn

Tristane Banon said she`s always said that she`d file a civil suit only if her status as a victim wa...

Strauss-Kahn accuser wants to confront him

Tristane Banon said that Dominique Strauss-Kahn attacked her during a 2003 interview.

Life is not easy, peace is far away: Taslima

"Peace is far away," feels Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen and claims that she is a victim of r...

China dissident writer free after 5 years in jail

Yang Maodong said his jailers only questioned him about his pro-democracy activities, not business m...

Immolation bid by jobless man in Kolkata

A man who had lost his job recently, tried to immolate himself along with his wife and infant daug...

Police quiz Strauss-Kahn in French assault case

The former IMF chief returned to France after US prosecutors dropped charges that he tried to rape a...

Songwriter of Syria uprising meets gruesome death

Ibrahim Qashoush`s lyrics moved thousands of protesters in Syria who sang his jaunty verses.

Chinese writers ordered out after Philippine scrap

The two Chinese travel writers were involved in a mid-flight brawl with President’s brother-in-law.

‘Strauss-Kahn slept with French writer`s mother’

Strauss-Kahn reportedly had a "consensual but brutal" sexual encounter with mom of French writer. ...

Writer files assault charge against Strauss-Kahn

A young author filed a sex assault complaint against former IMF chief, opening a new and potential...

Students hold blockade before Writers’ Building

Mamata Banerjee on Friday faced the first road blockade in front of her office Writers` Buildings af...

New nameplate reflects Writers` Buildings` historic change

Since Nov 2000, the nameplate read `Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee` but now it`s `Mamata Banerjee`.

Singur, Nandigram were way forward to Writers` for Mamata

Making Singur and Nandigram the signposts of the march towards Writers` Buildings, Trinamool Congr...

Now, PC that uses typewriter instead of keyboard

A US designer has created a computer which allows one to use a typewriter instead of a keyboard.

Quiet Writers` Buildings await arrival of new entrant

The verdict has been given and it is time for Writers` Buildings, the West Bengal state secretariat,...

World’s last typewriter factory shuts down

Godrej and Boyce - the last company left in the world that was still manufacturing typewriters - has...

Missing Australian writer feared detained in China

Australia has asked China for information on an Oz writer who disappeared.

US writer apologises for Pearl Harbor-quake joke

US writer Alec Sulkin had cracked a joke linking Pearl Habor attack to Japan quake.

Dinkar Kowshik dead

Dinkar Kowshik, eminent painter and writer on art and artists died at his residence on Sunday, his f...

BJP attacks Karnataka governor for opposing honour to writer

BJP attacked Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj for his objection to the state government`s move to con...

Facing flak, Karna Guv approves writer`s name for doctorate

Facing flak from litterateurs, Governor H R Bhardwaj on Friday approved the name of Kannada writer...

WB BJP to gherao Writers` Buildings on Tuesday

The BJP would gherao state secretariat, Writers` Buildings, on Tuesday in protest against the pric...

Singapore jails British writer for contempt

A Singapore court sentenced a 76-year-old British author to six weeks in jail and a fine of USD 15,...

Repeal AFSPA in Kashmir: Basharat Peer

Writer Basharat Peer wanted the Centre to repeal AFSPA in Kashmir as a first step towards moving fow...

Sonia, Rahul should change their speech writers: BJP

BJP on Thursday advised Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi to chan...

Comedy show lands Kuwaiti woman writer in hot water

Kuwaiti writer-director Fajer al-Saeed has been questioned over accusations that she tried to overth...

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literatu...

Alva inaugurates Mussoorie writers` festival

Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva inaugurated the third Mussoorie International Writers` Festival...

Mukesh Ambani turns writer to tell Reliance story

Mukesh Ambani will now put his thoughts and business philosophy into words in a new avatar as a writ...

Hindi writer K L Nandan cremated

Eminent Hindi writer and journalist Kanhaiya Lal Nandan, who passed away at a private hospital in ...

`Obama reading more works of liberal authors`

A former White House aide suggests US President to reconsider this approach.

Veteran Italian screenwriter Cecchi D`Amico dies

Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D`Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated post-war Italian cinema to b...

Uttarakhand clears scheme of financial assistance to writers

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank has approved a scheme for providing financial...

Twitter a key tool for China dissident writer

Chinese dissident writer Yu Jie spends his days between two worlds: the spiritual, with the Bible to...

Kuwaiti court rejects plea of arrested writer

Kuwait`s criminal court has rejected demands by defence lawyers to release a prominent writer, who h...

Government bids goodbye to typewriters

The government announced that it would test the typing skills for clerks and stenos on computers.

Noted writer Anuradha Ramanan passes away

Noted writer and novelist Anuradha Ramanan died here today following cardiac arrest, family source...

Rooney named Football Writers Player of the Year

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney claimed his second award of a remarkable season on Friday whe...

Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers` Prize

The British Indian novelist won this year`s prize for Best Book for his epic story `Solo`.

NRI-writer wins landmark free speech ruling in UK

A respected NRI science writer has won a landmark libel battle which could make it easier for peop...

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