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Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction from a six-member shortlist that included Indian-origin writer Avni Doshi’s ‘Burnt Sugar’. Douglas Stuart won the prize for his debut novel ‘Shuggie Bain’ which describes a boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s with a mother battling addiction. The £50,000 Booker Prize, first awarded in 1969, is considered one of the leading prizes for literary fiction written in Read More …

Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ will be conferred with the Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award at a virtual ceremony on November 21, 2020. Vatayan International Awards given by the Vatayan-UK organization in London, honours poets, writers and artists for their exemplary work in their respective fields. Earlier many eminent personalities like Prasoon Joshi, Javed Akhtar have been awarded the Vatayan Awards for their literary contribution. Shri Pokhriyal has penned more than Read More …

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri Prakash Javadekar on November 19, 2020 unveiled e-book versions of two books ‘The Republican Ethic Volume III’ and ‘Loktantra Ke Swar’. The hard copy versions of the books were unveiled by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh. The Republican Ethic, Volume 3, is a collection of selected speeches of the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind during the third year of his presidency.

Indian Army on November 18, 2020 celebrated the 240th Corps of Engineers Day. In a solemn ceremony organized at ‘National War Memorial’, Lt Gen SK Shrivastava, Engineer-in-Chief along with other serving officers, laid wreaths and paid homage to the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country. The Corps of Engineers provides combat engineering support, develops infrastructure for armed forces and other defence organisations and maintains connectivity along country’s Read More …

Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time and a record fourth consecutive term on November 16, 2020. He took oath with two deputy chief ministers – Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi from the BJP – in the cabinet namely. Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mr Kumar at Raj Bhavan in Patna. 14 other ministers were also sworn Read More …

Veteran actor and Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient Soumitra Chatterjee passed away at a Kolkata on November 15, 2020. He was 85. Born on January 19, 1935, Soumitra Chatterjee made his acting debut with Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar (1959), which was the third part of the Apu Trilogy. The two worked on fourteen films including Abhijan, Charulata, Kapurush, Aranyer Din Ratri, Ashani Sanket, Sonar Kella and Joi Baba Felunath. He was Read More …

Public Service Broadcasting Day is being observed on November 12, 2020. The day is celebrated every year to commemorate the only visit of Mahatma Gandhi to the studio of All India Radio, Delhi in 1947. The Father of the Nation addressed the displaced people, who had temporarily settled at Kurukshetra in Haryana after partition.

Union Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on November 6, 2020 announced the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge System to be set up at IIT Kharagpur. Inaugurating the international webinar titled “Bharata Tirtha” organized by the Institute from November 6-8, 2020, Chief Guest Shri Pokhriyal congratulated the Institute for the continued work in various branches of Indian Knowledge System. About IIT Kharagpur The first Indian Institute of Technology Read More …