A tale about a grieving widow returning to Entebbe airport with her husband’s coffin has earned Ugandan writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Contest judges praised “Let’s Tell the Story Properly” for its grace, breadth and taking risks and selected it as the top story fromContinue Reading
Pankaj Mishra: Award-winning Indian author, he is among eight writers from seven countries who have won a $1,50,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of their literary achievements. Essayist and novelist Mishra was selected for the prestigious Windham Campbell Literature prize in the non-fiction category. In addition to a novel,Continue Reading
71st Golden Globe Awards were announced at Los Angeles on 12 January 2014. The event was organized by Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It is one of the few awards ceremonies that span both television and motion picture achievements. The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93Continue Reading
Pulitzer Prizes, 2013 For Public Service: The Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for its investigation of off-duty police officers who were endangering the lives of citizen. For National Reporting: Reporters at InsideClimate News, an online site in Brooklyn, New York, for their “rigorous” reports on the flawed regulation ofContinue Reading
The novel has won Eleanor Catton, the 28-year old author from New Zealand the Man Booker prize 2013. The novel has set a new record for the longest winning novel. It is 852 pages. The Luminaries is a murder mystery set in New Zealand during the gold-rush of the lateContinue Reading
The novel has won Eleanor Catton, the 28-year old author from New Zealand the Man Booker prize 2013. The novel has set a new record for the longest winning novel. It is 852 pages. The Luminaries is a murder mystery set in New Zealand during the gold-rush of the lateContinue Reading
For Medicine: US duo James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born Thomas Suedhof, for their groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system. The trio, who all work at US universities, were honoured for “their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.Continue Reading
Karplus, Levitt, Warshel win 2013 Nobel chemistry prize STOCKHOLM: Chemical experiments ideally take place in labs. But the ability to carry them out in real time through computers has won an Israeli, Austrian and British scientist the Nobel prize for chemistry 2013. The Nobel prize in chemistry was on WednesdayContinue Reading
Ernesto Domingo, from the Philippines, for “his exemplary embrace of the social mission of medical science and his profession, his steadfast leadership in pursuing ‘health for all’ as a shared moral responsibility of all sectors, and his groundbreaking and successful advocacy for neonatal hepatitis vaccination, thereby saving millions of livesContinue Reading
The largest Indian media conglomerate, The Times of India group, has launched a new film award—the times of india Film Awards (ToIFA), a global annual awards function which will directly take on International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA).Continue Reading
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