Day: September 1, 2020

35 children's books in Parag Honour List for 2021

Women writers dominate JCB Prize for Literature longlist

7:25 pm September 1, 2020

Wadiad-Dawasir: Having authored six out of the ten books selected for the JCB Prize for Literature longlist, women writers dominated the list announced on Tuesday. The women writers on the list include Deepa Anappara for “Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line”, Manjul Bajaj for “In Search for Heer”, Jahnavi Barua for “Undertow”, Dharini Bhaskar for “These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light”, Megha Majumdar for “A Burning” and Annie […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

UN agency laments summer’s ‘deep wound’ to Earth’s ice cover

7:22 pm September 1, 2020

Geneva: The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere — the planet’s frozen parts — amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf. The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday that temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as the global […]

R-Day: Noida Metro trains to run at 15 min interval

Unlock 4: Urban Affairs Ministry to issue SOPs for functioning of metro trains

7:10 pm September 1, 2020

New Delhi: The Union Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) ministry is likely to issue detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) on Wednesday for the functioning of metro trains allowed under the ‘Unlock 4’ guidelines, an official said. Ministry secretary Durga Shanker Mishra held a meeting with all managing directors of metro rail corporations on Tuesday to finalise the SOPs. Metro […]

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

Masks, gloves, face-shields, sanitisers and tea bags: Parliament gets pandemic-ready

7:09 pm September 1, 2020

New Delhi: Thousands of masks and gloves, hundreds of sanitiser bottles and face shields, touch-free operation of doors, and COVID-19 tests for an estimated 4,000 people including MPs and staff members — several arrangements have been made for the 18-day Parliament session from September 14 that would be held under the shadow of a pandemic for the first time […]

China blocks Australian supplier’s barley amid trade spats

7:04 pm September 1, 2020

Beijing: China suspended barley imports from an Australian supplier on Tuesday amid spreading trade disputes between the two sides. Shipments from CBH Grain Pty Ltd. were found to be contaminated by pests, the customs agency announced. Chinese authorities have told Australia “to improve its plant export quarantine supervision system,” the customs agency said on its social media […]