Sri Lankan author ShehanKarunatilaka has been named the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, described by the judges as a whodunnit and a race against time, full of ghosts, gags and deep humanity. Karunatilaka, 47, became only the second Sri …

Pakistan is expected to be taken off the Financial Action Task Force grey list at the global watchdog body’s plenary session in Paris this week, although it will be asked to update members on its actions to counter terror financing and money laundering on a regular basis, in a decision …

A genome sequencing study was conducted on 10 giraffes in Kolkata’s Alipore Zoological Garden. PTISwapan Mahapatra About 150 years ago, British colonialists brought batches of what they thought were a single species of the northern giraffe to India, from their other colonial possessions in Africa. These now comprise a captive …

India does not believe in a hierarchical world order where a few countries are considered superior to others, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, addressing the 2nd India-Africa Defence Dialogue (IADD) at the DefExpo 2022. He invited African countries to explore Indian defence equipment and technologies, stating that India has emerged …

Citizens belonging to different religions and denominations follow different property and matrimonial laws which is an “affront to the nation’s unity”, the government said in the Supreme Court. Article 44 (Uniform Civil Code) divests religion from social relations and personal law, it maintained. The preliminary submissions are part of recent …

Chief Justice of India (CJI) U.U. Lalit on Tuesday showered rich encomiums on the country’s much-celebrated constitutional lawyer M.K. Nambyar for having propounded theories that were not accepted immediately in the 1950s but ended up gaining acceptance over the years and were also found to be fundamental. Delivering the second …

The Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, has filed an application seeking Geographical Indication (GI) tag for nihonshu/Japanese sake, an alcoholic beverage. It is learnt that this is the first time a product from Japan has filed for a tag at the Geographical Indication Registry in Chennai. According to details provided …

Launches Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan UrvarakPariyojana – One Nation One Fertiliser Dr Mansukh Mandaviya says PM has always worked with ‘Total Approach’ for Agriculture sector The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated PM KisanSammanSammelan 2022 at Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi today. The Prime Minister also inaugurated 600 …

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will review the site work progress of the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat on 18th October 2022 at around 5 PM via video conferencing. This will be followed by his address on the occasion. Lothal was one of the prominent cities of the …

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated the tokenisation of credit/debit cards for online merchants from October 1. Tokenisation “refers to the replacement of actual card details with an alternative code called the ‘token’, which shall be unique for a combination of card and the token requestor (i.e. the …