https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2019 NATION 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 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 reflect the July 2018 and June 2019. works with a social handed over the first batch year. NEW DELHI newspaper’s ● Translations of works science orientation. of six Dhanush artillery guns The gun is fitted 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 five of their best titles indigenously upgraded ver­ global positioning system­ Conference chairman Mirwaiz fiction as well as non­ published between July from across their sion of the Swedish Bofors (GPS) based gun recording Umer Farooq in connection fiction, 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 fields 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 finder Vice Admiral Bimal Verma, encourage Indian fiction maximum of five 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 first phase of trials were to be delivered within four Andaman and Nicobar-based Originally limited to imprints. scholarly works with “The first Dhanush regi­ has demonstrated a range of conducted between July and years. The OFB has already tri-service command, on fiction 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 non­fiction 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 fiction 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 exemplifies the best work Independence i.e. not assaulted for govt. officers of fiction in each year. earlier than August 1947. The Hindu Prize for ● Publishers must send selling ‘beef’ head temples? Nonfiction, introduced in eight (8) copies of each 2018, is awarded to the book. Only hard copies best work of non­fiction 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, fiction and submit. Paperbacks and Eligibility criteria for picked up five people after government officials non­fiction, 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 fiction or non­ responsibility to verify dia. The man, identified as staffers at the Jagannath There will be separate fiction, 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 officials should members will be drawn ● Publishers may not ● Employees of The “We picked up five 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 efficien­ 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 officials Nath Kovind said “Recent ex­ this year. different fields. 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 five 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 official 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