While the Jaipur Literature Festival organisers were busy discussing the pros and cons of linking writer Salman Rushdie to the festival audience via video more than six criminal complaints were filed in different courts in Jaipur and Ajmer against Rushdie, and against other authors for reading out from his book The Satanic Verses, which is banned in India. Highly-placed sources, meanwhile, said the government received six threat messages against the author.

With only two days to the release of Dharma Productions’ highly anticipated Agneepath, it might come as a surprise to the audience to know that KJo wondered if the film should even be called by the same name as the cult classic original.

Six-and-a-half months after the Mumbai 13/7 serial blasts case, the Mahara-shtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday claimed it had cracked the case and arrested two persons, Naqi Ahmed Sheikh (22) and Nadeem Sheikh (23).

Everyone knows that whatever Salman Khan says, protégé Sonakshi Sinha will do. So quite a few brows were raised when Sona — who is the brand ambassador for Salman’s Mumbai Heroes team in the Celebrity Cricket League — failed to show up for a most prestigious game.

The multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar Pradesh claimed its fourth victim when Sunil Verma, an official who is a suspect in the case, allegedly shot himself dead at his residence in Lucknow on Monday morning.

While Farhan Akhtar has dabbled in acting, directing and producing, we won’t be seeing him as the protagonist in a project he’s helming for a while. And why? Because Farhan feels that directing and acting simultaneously is akin to having a split personality!

Being bad has never been so good. With every actor worth his salt, from Shah Rukh Khan to Ajay Devgn, having tried the “badman” route, small wonder then that our actresses don’t want to be left behind.

The organisers of the Jaipur Literature Festival held a meeting with Muslim organisations on Monday. The Jamaat-e-Islami said it has no objection if someone linked any author through video.

The Rajasthan government strongly refuted the charges made by author Salman Rushdie against the state police and said the government received messages related to threat perception to him.

One of the two arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday had been instrumental in scouting for and arranging the accommodation for the two absconding accused who had stayed in the Byculla building on rent.