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Jai Ram Thakur. He was sworn in
as the 14th chief minister of Himachal Sahitya Akademi Award 2017 announced
Authors Mamang Dai, Ramesh Kuntal along with 22 other regional
Pradesh on December 27, 2017. He
authors have been named for the Sahitya Akademi Awards for this year.
became the first chief minister from
The Sahitya Akademi, on 21 December 2017, announced its annual awards
Mandi—the second largest district in 24 languages. Seven novels, five collections each of poetry and short
in the state. stories, five works of literary criticism, a play and a book of essays are
Raul Castro. The Cuban President among those cited.
will step down in April 2018 straight While Dai won the award for her English novel The Black Hill, Ramesh
Kuntal got it for his literary criticism “Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar” in Hindi.
after his successor is chosen by a
Authors Jayanta Madhab Bora (Assamese), Afsar Ahmed (Bengali),
top governing council, according to
Rita Boro (Bodo), Nachhattar (Punjabi), Niranjan Mishra (Sanskrit) won
a vote on 21 December 2017 in the
the award for their novels, while Shiv Mehta (Dogri), Autar Krishen
island state’s National Assembly. Rahbar (Kashmiri), Gajanan Jog (Konkani), Gayatri Saraf (Odia), and
Cuba’s president is designated by a Baig Ehsas (Urdu) bagged it in the short stories category.
31-member body called the Council of In the poetry category, Udaya Narayana Singh (Maithili), Bhujanga
State. The head of the council is Tudu (Santhali), Inquilab (posthumous) (Tamil), Devipriya (Telegu),
Shrikant Deshmukh (Marathi) won the award. Apart from Kuntal, the other
automatically president of the country.
writers who won the award for literary criticism are Urmi Ghanshyam
PLACES Desai (Gujarati), TP Ashoka (Kannada), Bina Hangkhim (Nepali), and
Neeraj Daiya (Rajasthani).
Manipur. The 105th Indian Science Rajen Toijamba (Manipuri) and Jagdish Lachhani (Sindhi) won the
Congress will be held from March 16 award for their play and essay respectively.
to 20 at Manipur University in Imphal. The award carries a cheque of Rs 1 lakh, a shawl and a casket containing
an engraved copper-plaque.
Tuting. Indian and Chinese troops
resolved an issue over the recent
attempt by Chinese teams to build a BOOKS
road on the Indian side of the border
at Tuting in Arunachal Pradesh. Imperfect: ................................................................... Sanjay Manjrekar
Mumbai. Fourteen people including Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House: ................. Michael Wolff
11 women died of suffocation and
several others injured in a huge fire The Immortalists: ........................................................... Chloe Benjamin
that started from a restaurant in The Chalk Man: ...................................................................... CJ Tudor
Mumbai’s Kamala Mills compound White Chrysanthemum: .............................................. Mary Lynn Bracht
on December 28, 2017.

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