The Hindu Best Fiction Award

The Hindu Literary Prize or The Hindu Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by The Hindu Literary Review which is part of theThe Hindu paper.^[1] It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation. The first year, 2010, the award was called The Hindu Best Fiction Award.

[edit]Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner.

2010^[2][3]

•  Serious Men, Manu Joseph ^{(DEBUT NOVEL)}
• Eunuch Park, Palash Krishna Mehrotra
• The Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
• Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan
• Come, Before Evening Falls, Manjul Bajaj
• Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph
• If I Could Tell You, Soumya Bhattacharya
• The Thing About Thugs, Tabish Khair
• The To-Let House, Daisy Hasan
• Way to Go, Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Neti, Neti, Anjum Hasan

2011^[6]

•  The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya^[7][8]
• Bharathipura, translated work of U. R. Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha
• The Fakir, translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra
• River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
• Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan
• The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
• The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

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Centre plans to set up 1500 ITIs through PPP mode
• Aiming to achieve the target of skilling 100 million people by 2022, the Government plans to establish
1,500 industrial training institutes and 5,000 skill development centres through the public-private
partnership mode in the next 5 years.




Text messaging turns 20
• On December 3rd the “Text messaging” turned 20. The first SMS was sent on 3rd December 1992 as the
Christmas greeting.
• Neil Papworth, a Software Programmer, sent the first message to his friend Richard Jarvis. Over the years
text messaging has undergone significant changes to include text poetry, text adverts and text prayers.







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ICT, right from web presence to delivery of citizen services to public participation
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Government of Bihar to hold Bandi Drabar in Jail for redressal of Complaints by Prisoners

Government of Bihar in the month of December announced that that it is going to hold bandi darbars in jails across the state for on-the-spot resolution of complaints by jail inmates related to food, health and other civic facilities.

As Per the new jail manual 2012, notified by the state government, the darbars is supposed to be held once in two months by the concerned district magistrates.

The basic motive behind holding such a darbar is to establish direct connect between the prisoners and the district magistrate who is the highest official at the district level.

The district magistrate would also identify old and helpless prisoners and provide them legal assistance for early release. The cases of prisoners afflicted with serious diseases would also be reviewed for early release.
The entire proceedings would be videographed and details would also be entered in the record book.

Another significant thing is that a grievance box would be kept in all the prisons in which inmates can drop their written complaints without the fear of inviting the anger of the superintendent of the concerned jail. The key of the box would be with the district magistrate who would open it during his visit for the 'bandi darbar'.

The Bihar Cabinet on 11 December 2012 approved the Jail Manual 2012 which would replace similar followed manual for the last 88 years which was formulated in 1924.

The new manual was suggested by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and was notified on 12 December 2012.

Bihar has a total of 56 jails - 8 central jails, 31 district jails and 17 sub jails. The total capacity of the jails was 33119 with 32027 male and 1092 women in 2010.

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Switzerland has proposed a new bill to prevent its banks and other institutions from accepting black money from their clients and put in place a stricter due diligence regime.

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The Seventh East Asia Summit concluded in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The seventh East Asia Summit(EAS) was held at Peace Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 19 November 2012. Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen chaired the meeting. The Leaders of East Asia Summit adopted a joint declaration for the 7th East Asia Summit following the regional responses to control Malaria and address the resistance to anti-malarial medicines.

The Phnom Penh Declaration of the East Asia Summit Development Initiative was also taken on this occasion. Discussions and exchange of views on different regional and international issues was also done between the leaders of the member-nations.

Apart from the 10 members of the ASEAN representatives from eight different countries namely Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia and United States of America also participated in the summit.

Issues Discussed 

The leaders of the East India Summit discussed on a variety of issues to seek mutual cooperation for growth and to decide the future direction of the member nations.

Priority Areas 

1.    Environment and energy
2.    Education
3.    Finance
4.    Global health issues and pandemic diseases
5.    Natural disaster mitigation
6.    ASEAN connectivity

Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh is the capital city of Cambodia and the largest city of the country. It is located on the bank of River Mekong. Phnom Penh is the centre for all types of economic and industrial activities in the nation.

Other summits that concluded at Peace Palace

1.    4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders’ Meeting Peace Palace, 19 November 2012
2.    15th ASEAN-ROK Summit Peace Palace, 19 November 2012
3.    ASEAN Plus Three Commemorative Summit Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 19 November 2012
4.    15TH ASEAN-JAPAN SUMMIT Phnom Penh, 19 November 2012
5.    15TH ASEAN-China Summit Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 19 November 2012
6.    7th East Asia Summit (EAS) Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 20 November 2012