New Delhi, Aug 14 : Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen announced on Friday that she would return to India in January next year.

Nasreen also informed that she is travelling to the United States this month to work as a research scholar at the New York University.

Nasreen will be working in the US till December.

On Thursday, the Indian Government extended her visa for another six months after consulting various security agencies.

London, Aug 4 : Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, the only female writer with a fatwa on her head, has refused to apologise for infuriating fundamentalists ahead of a secret visit to beg Indian authorities to let her return.

Taslima, who is exiled from Bangladesh, had a fatwa issued against her in 1993 because one of her books, Shame, criticised Islamic texts that are used to oppress women.

New Delhi - Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to leave India earlier this year, has returned to renew her visa which is due to expire on Tuesday.

Nasreen, author of controversial book Lajja (Shame), had to leave India in March after violent protests by sections of people in the eastern city of Kolkata, which she has made her home in exile for many years.

New Delhi, Aug. 8 : Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi writer, who had to leave India in March this year, arrived in the national capital on Friday and was immediately whisked off to an undisclosed location.

Official sources said that her visa for India is valid till August 12, but did not disclose her future plans would be.

Nasreen was dramatically bundled out from West Bengal in November last year and eventually left the country for Paris before shifting to Sweden in April.

Stockholm  - Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Sweden where she has been offered a safe haven, the Upsala Nya Tidning reported Monday.

The city council of the university city of Uppsala, north of Stockholm will pay Nasreen a monthly stipend of 5,000 kronor (833 dollars) and pay for her accommodation during a two-year period, the report said.

It is the second time Nasreen will live in Sweden. In 1994 she was forced to leave Bangladesh after Islamic fundamentalist groups in her native country issued a fatwa and placed a bounty on her head over the content in her writings including the novel Lajja (Shame).

Nasreen, who is also a trained doctor, lived for more than a decade in Europe and the United States.

Agartala, May 15 : Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has said that she would like to stay in Tripura when she returns to India if not allowed to stay in Kolkata, before the expiry of her Swedish visa in August.

Talking to 'Ajker Fariad', a leading Bengali daily here over telephone from Sweden, Nasreen said she felt like being “buried alive” in that country and as she writes in Bengali so she want to stay in a Bengali inhabited place.

Kolkata, Mar 17 : Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Monday told Indian officials that she is planning to leave India.

"I could not endure it anymore," Nasreen said from her undisclosed location where she has been given shelter by the Indian Government following violent protests against her in Kolkata last year.

"I am leaving because there is no other option left for me," she said after a meeting with External Affairs Ministry officials.

New Delhi, Feb. 13: The government has reportedly decided to extend the visa of controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, but has warned her that she must respect the wishes of the people of India.

Nasreen's Indian visa was last extended for six months on August 10, 2007. The extension of her visa is due this month.

Taslima's anti-Islam writings have infuriated the radical Muslim groups and they have been demanding that the writer's visa should not be extended and that she be asked to leave India.

New Delhi, Feb 8 : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today sent notice to the Union Home Ministry and Delhi Police on Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's "solitary confinement."

The commission asked Delhi Police and the Union Home Ministry to reply within two weeks on Nasreen's isolation.

A group of writers had submitted a joint complaint to the commission and said that Nasreen was "virtually undergoing solitary confinement."

It was alleged that Nasreen was not able to even communicate with anyone except government officials and was undergoing great agony.

Kolkata, Jan 5 (ANI): In a letter to her friends in Kolkata, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has described her stay in Delhi as being “virtually under house arrest.”

The letter, which was distributed at a literary fair here, says: “This existence cannot be called living.”

She said that she was not aware of her present address and visitors to her had to be cleared by the Home Ministry.

“I am virtually under house arrest,” she said.

“I long to be back in Kolkata,” Taslima concluded in her letter.

New Delhi, Dec 27: Writers here have demanded that controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen should be granted freedom of speech and security.

"We, the writers' community, want to pressurise the government that Taslima should be provided with sufficient security. This is really shameful, if the State Government shows inability in doing so. If the State Government has been providing it (security) in other cases, then why not in this? " said Navivar Singh, a writer.

Kolkata, Nov 30: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Friday said that she has decided to withdraw the controversial lines from her autobiographical novel 'Dwikhandita' in the wake of the protests from a section of people in India.

'Dwikhandita' (Split in Two), authored by Nasreen in 2002, recalls the incidents in Bangladesh in the 1980s when the military took over the power.

According to some reports, Nasreen, who is presently staying at an undisclosed location, claimed that she had written the book in support of the people who defended secular values.

“I had no intention to hurt anybody's sentiment, " she was quoted, as saying.

Jaipur/New Delhi, Nov 25 : The recent incidents surrounding exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen have evoked mixed responses here with few coming out in support of her, while others expressing their unhappiness over the controversial author's 'attack' against Islam.

Nasreen is presently in the national capital after she was moved out of Kolkata and sent to Jaipur, and her plight has led to some social activists questioning the role of the West Bengal and Rajasthan governments.

Jaipur, Nov 23: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen is now heading for Delhi by road after an overnight stay in Jaipur.

According to reports, Nasreen is escorted by the Rajasthan police.

Nasreen, who reached the Pink City on Thursday by an Indian Airlines flight, reportedly stayed at 'Hotel Shikha' near the Civil Secretariat under heavy security.

The police had sealed the hotel entrance and thrown a security cordon around it and all vehicular traffic in the area had been diverted.