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IN BRIEF Army gets Dhanush artillery guns Call for entries for It is the indigenously upgraded version of Bofors gun procured in 1980s The Hindu Prize 2019 Special Correspondent camp with three guns. The New Delhi last round of user exploita­ he annual The Hin- author, written in English Environment and The Ordnance Factory tion trials were completed NIA questions chief of du literature prizes and published between Ecology and Academic Board (OFB) on Monday with six guns in June last Hurriyat Conference T reflect the July 2018 and June 2019. works with a social handed over the first batch year. NEW DELHI newspaper’s ● Translations of works science orientation. of six Dhanush artillery guns The gun is fitted with iner­ The NIA on Monday commitment to from the regional ● Publishers can enter to the Army. Dhanush is the tial navigation system with questioned Hurriyat promoting good writing, languages into English five of their best titles indigenously upgraded ver­ global positioning system­ Conference chairman Mirwaiz fiction as well as non­ published between July from across their sion of the Swedish Bofors (GPS) based gun recording Umer Farooq in connection fiction, in English as well 2018 and June 2019 will imprints. Publishers gun procured in the 1980s. and auto­laying, an en­ with a case of “funding terror as other Indian also be eligible for the should also send a list of “Indigenisation to the ex­ hanced tactical computer groups and separatist languages, and competition. The original their published titles to organisations” in Jammu and tent of about 81%, has alrea­ for onboard ballistic compu­ encouraging writers of work should have been enable the judges call in Kashmir, officials said. PTI dy been achieved. By the The indigenously developed Dhanush artillery guns. tations, an onboard muzzle promise in all fields and published not earlier for additional books. end of 2019, the indigenisa­ velocity recording, an auto­ languages. than August 1947. ● The books/manuscripts tion level of the gun will go (BPC) to manufacture 114 tic Treaty Organisation (NA­ mated gun sighting system The Hindu Prize for ● Only works of literary should have been Vice Admiral Verma up to 91%,” the Defence Mi­ guns from the Army on Fe­ TO) 155 mm ammunition equipped with camera, ther­ Fiction was instituted in merit will be considered. published between July moves tribunal nistry said in a statement. bruary 18, 2019. system. mal imaging and laser range NEW DELHI 2010 to recognise and ● Publishers may enter a 2018 and June 2019. Six guns were handed over Dhanush is a 155 mm, 45­ finder Vice Admiral Bimal Verma, encourage Indian fiction maximum of five books ● Entries must be at a ceremony at Gun Car­ calibre towed artillery gun Conducting of trials All 114 guns are expected who currently heads the written in English. from across their research­based and riage Factory, Jabalpur. with a range of 36 km and The first phase of trials were to be delivered within four Andaman and Nicobar-based Originally limited to imprints. scholarly works with “The first Dhanush regi­ has demonstrated a range of conducted between July and years. The OFB has already tri-service command, on fiction in English, the ● Publishers are asked to literary merit. ment with 18 guns is expect­ 38 km with specialised am­ September 2016 at Pokhran undertaken capacity aug­ Monday moved the Armed competition has since send a list of all their ● Translations of works of ed to be ready by the end of munition. It is an upgrade of and Babina ranges and the mentation to manufacture Forces Tribunal over the been extended to include published titles to The non­fiction from regional next year,” an Army source the existing 155m, 39 calibre second phase was held bet­ over 400 barrels and 250 appointment of Vice Admiral translations of literary Hindu. This will enable languages published said. The GCF received the Bofors FH 77 gun. It is com­ ween October and Decem­ ordnances for large calibre Karambir Singh as the next fiction from the regional the judges to nominate between July 2018 and Bulk Production Clearance patible with all North Atlan­ ber 2016 at the Siachen base weapon systems. Chief of Naval Staff. languages into English. additional books if they June 2019 will also be The prize is awarded to a wish. eligible. The original novel or short story work should have been Assam man SC: why should collection that published post exemplifies the best work Independence i.e. not assaulted for govt. officers of fiction in each year. earlier than August 1947. The Hindu Prize for ● Publishers must send selling ‘beef’ head temples? Nonfiction, introduced in eight (8) copies of each 2018, is awarded to the book. Only hard copies best work of non­fiction will be accepted. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Legal Correspondent in English or regional ● Publishers are required Electronic copies will not GUWAHATI NEW DELHI languages (in translation). to send eight (hardcover) be accepted. The police in north­eastern Justice S.A. Bobde on Mon­ The winners in both copies of each title they Assam’s Biswanath district day wondered aloud why categories, fiction and submit. Paperbacks and Eligibility criteria for picked up five people after government officials non­fiction, will receive electronic copies are not both categories a mob assaulted a 68­year­ should be in charge of ma­ ₹5 lakh each in cash, a acceptable. ● The author must be an old man for allegedly sell­ naging temples in a secular trophy and a citation. In ● Entries must be in Indian citizen, or an NRI ing beef at his restaurant. country. the case of a translated prose. holding a valid Indian The incident happened The oral observations work being the winner, ● Self­published or passport, or an Overseas on Sunday afternoon but came in the backdrop of al­ the prize money will be electronically published Citizen of India, or a came to light on Monday af­ legations raised that devo­ divided equally between books are not eligible. domiciled resident of ter a video of the assault tees were subject to harass­ the translator and the ● Children’s books, Young India. It is the publisher’s was uploaded on social me­ ment at the hands of author. Adult fiction or non­ responsibility to verify dia. The man, identified as staffers at the Jagannath There will be separate fiction, graphic and the author’s eligibility Shaukat Ali, sustained inju­ IIT­Madras tops Centre’s temple in Puri. jury panels for the two pictorial publications are before submitting the ries and was taken to a lo­ “I do not know why go­ categories of awards. Jury not eligible. book. cal hospital for treatment. vernment officials should members will be drawn ● Publishers may not ● Employees of The “We picked up five peo­ manage temples,” Justice higher education rankings from a pool of prominent submit books written by Hindu and their family ple, including two market Bobde asked. writers, academics, book members of the jury. members are not eligible. committee leaders, in a bid Special Correspondent Questioning the efficien­ on Monday, President Ram rent categories of the NIRF critics, and experts in ● Books that were All entries must reach to disperse the mob. They NEW DELHI cy of government officials Nath Kovind said “Recent ex­ this year. different fields. submitted for The Hindu The Hindu on or before were allowed to go after manning posts in temple The Indian Institute of Tech­ pansion in higher education With regard to engineer­ A shortlist of the best Prize 2018 will not be May 31, 2019. All entries signing a good behaviour administration bodies, Jus­ nology, Madras (IIT­Madras) has widened access and im­ ing, apart from the IITs, An­ five books in each accepted. must be marked The bond under Section 107 of tice Bobde pointed to the has topped the Centre’s proved equity. Even so, qual­ na University, Chennai, and category will be Hindu Prize 2019 Fiction/ Code of Criminal Proce­ ranking of higher education ity remains a concern ” NIT, Tiruchi, also make it to idol theft case in Tamil Na­ #70929 announced in October The Hindu Prize: Non Non Fiction and should dure,” a district administra­ du. “These idols, apart institutions, followed by the The rankings, published the top 10. Management 2019, and the winners Fiction be sent to Shalini Arun, tion official said. He added from the religious senti­ Indian Institute of Science, annually since 2016, are rankings are topped by IIM­ will be announced at The ● Publishers can submit Sr. Associate Editor, The that some locals had been ments, are priceless,” Jus­ Bengaluru, and IIT­Delhi. Se­ based on multiple parame­ Bangalore, while XLRI, Jam­ Hindu Lit for Life in their best works in the Hindu, Kasturi Buildings, warning Mr. Ali not to sell tice Bobde observed orally. ven IITs appear in the top 10 ters, including teaching, shedpur, is the only institute Chennai in January 2020. following categories: 859­860, Anna Salai, what they believed was The comments have list of the National Institu­ learning and resources; re­ apart from IIMs in the top 10. ● Biography/Memoirs/ Chennai 600002. beef. Things came to a head come even as a separate tion Ranking Framework search and professional Delhi’s Miranda House tops HOW TO ENTER Autobiography, Travel For more details , when a group went to in­ petition filed by BJP MP (NIRF) for 2019, while Jawa­ practice; graduation out­ the list of colleges, followed The Hindu Prize:Fiction Writing, History, Arts, contact R. Krithika@0422 spect his eatery on Sunday. Subramanian Swamy seek­ harlal Nehru University, Del­ comes; outreach and inclu­ by Hindu College, Delhi, and ● Publishers may submit Culture, Polity and 2212572 (extension 334) Mohammed Sahabud­ ing temples to be made in­ hi and Banares Hindu Un­ sivity; and the perception of Presidency College, Chen­ novels or short­stories Economy, Investigative or email to din, the brother of Mr. Ali, dependent of government iversity, Varanasi, take the the public, academics and nai. VIT, Vellore, tops the list collections by a single Journalism/reportage, [email protected] later filed an FIR at the lo­ remaining places. employers. Overall, 3,127 in­ of private or self­financed in­ control is pending in the cal police station. Announcing the rankings stitutions applied for diffe­ stitutions. Supreme Court. Slow, steady campaign peaks for Jagan SC may consider plea against order on TikTok Legal Correspondent made before a Bench presid­ dia houses to refrain from te­ ing used in jest, it pointed NEW DELHI Meetings, mass vam for example, a goal of 11 ed over by the Chief Justice, lecasting TikTok videos. A out how the application party workers per booth was Chief Justice of India Ranjan senior advocate A.M. Singh­ Division Bench of Justices N. could be used for crude hu­ contact lend fillip fixed, which led to a huge to­ Gogoi on Monday indicated vi said the order violated the Kirubakaran and S.S. Sundar mour against innocent par­ to YSRCP leader tal of over five lakh booth that the Supreme Court right to free speech and ex­ asked the Centre whether a ties, leading to violation of workers with each booth would look into a petition pression and did not factor law similar to the Children’s the fundamental right to pri­ having one convenor at the challenging an interim order in the protection given to in­ Online Privacy Protection vacy. Nistula Hebbar top. of the Madras High Court to termediaries under the In­ Act (COPPA) of the U.S. The High Court said inap­ NEW DELHI During the “Jagan Anna the Centre to prohibit down­ formation Technology Act. could be brought in to shield propriate contents were be­ The heart of the high pitched Pilippu” outreach, over load of TikTok, a mobile In April, the Madurai children from cybercrimes. ing made available to chil­ campaign being waged by 60,000 plus village level application. Bench of the Madras High Though the High Court dren and this could expose the YSRCP in Andhra Pra­ “neutral” influencers were In an urgent mention Court even ordered the me­ did not object to TikTok be­ them to sexual predators. desh beats in a small build­ identified and received per­ ing in the Banjara Hills local­ sonalised letters from Mr. ity of Hyderabad — the office Reddy. They were then invit­ of the Indian Political Action ed for an interaction with Committee (IPAC) which has him and provided an email been with the campaign for address and phone number the better part of two years. for suggestions for campaign The “war room” of the YSRCP. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT and governance goals. Maintaining momentum From providing the logistical Janata Dal (U) vice presi­ According to Asba Faroo­ Several defections wherewithal for party leader dent Prashant Kishor, the qui, who joined the team on As a measure of the efficacy Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s founder of IPAC is now a this particular assignment af­ of the campaign, the team mammoth 3,684 km Praja mentor with the organisa­ ter a stint as a management cites the fact that there have Sankalpa Yatra to Samara tion, after his entry into for­ consultant in the corporate been a total of 1,400 defec­ Shankaravam (booth­cadre mal politics. sector, the mini campaigns tions to the YSRCP from oth­ meetings) to the Jagan Anna Scattered across the four were necessary building er parties, including two Pilippu ( Jagan Anna (elder floors of the building are not blocks for the concerted TDP men whose names had brother) is calling you) mini just publicity materials, but strategy. “From booth level been announced as candi­ campaigns in the midst, the white boards that track the build up of party workers to dates for the Assembly poll, build up has been to give a campaigns of Mr. Reddy, his at least two direct mass con­ all in the last one month. specific direction to the par­ sister Sharmila and their tact programmes between Political campaigns are ty’s message across Andhra mother Y.S. Vijayamma, as Mr. Reddy (referred by the tricky things, but the team is Pradesh and to ensure that well as every day trackers for team as JMR) and the public hoping their professional the momentum is both Assembly and Lok Sab­ were held,” he said. management of the party’s maintained. ha constituencies. In the Samara Shankara­ affair is here to stay. High Court orders release of Manipur television journalist in sedition case

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT more than four months after Wangkhem’s wife Ranjita GUWAHATI he was lodged in the Sajiwa Elangbam said on Monday. The Manipur High Court has Central Jail on the outskirts Mr Wangkhem had taken ordered the release of televi­ of Imphal on November 27 to Facebook to condemn the sion anchor Kishorechandra last year and days ahead of Chief Minister – with some Wangkhem who was the election to the Inner Ma­ incendiary words – for orga­ charged with sedition under nipur Lok Sabha seat on nising a function to mark Ra­ the National Security Act April 18. ni of Jhansi's battle against (NSA) for criticising Chief Mi­ “The court has released the British and linking it to nister N.Biren Singh on so­ my husband’s after revoking Manipur’s freedom move­ cial media. NSA. We expect him to be re­ ment. He had said the CM The release order came leased from jail soon,” Mr was the “Centre’s puppet”. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamYK https://t.me/Banking4Exam https://t.me/UPSC4Exam