Noted Marathi poet Mangesh Padgaonkar passes away
Noted Marathi poet and litterateur Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar passed away after brief illness at his residence in Mumbai today. He was 86. A much celebrated poet, Padgaonkar has received several…
Gujarati Litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary gets Jnanpith Award
AMN / Eminent Gujarati litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary has been selected for Jnanpith Award. The Jnanpith Selection Board today announced that 51st Jnanpith Award will go to Raghuveer Chaudhary. The decision…
Special Force to Protect Monuments
AMN / A committee of Ministry of Culture has recommended a Special Force along with the help of tools and electronic gadgets for protection of Monuments and art installations as…
Sahitya Akademi announces Award for 2015
AMN // NEW DELHI: Amid the controversy over the returning of awards, Sahitya Akademi Thursday announced its annual Awards for different languages. Six books of short stories, six of poetry,…
8th International Urdu Conference begins in Karachi
The 8th International Urdu Conference began in Karachi on Tuesday with two illuminating keynote speeches on the pitfalls and benefits of making Urdu the official language of Pakistan. Renowned Indian…
Authors urge Sahitya Akademi to reinvent itself
TIA NEWS / A group of 41 authors including those who had returned their Sahitya Akademi awards, today urged the Academy of Letters to build on the resolution passed during…
FTII protest: Filmmakers return National Awards
At a time when the students of Film and Television Institute (FTII) were announcing the end of their 139-day strike, 10 filmmakers including Dibakar Banejee and Anand Patwardhan, expressing solidarity…
Prez confers Sangeet Natak Akademi awards
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2014 at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. President Pranab Mukherjee on…
Google pays tributes to eminent cartoonist R K Laxman
Google today paid tributes to eminent cartoonist R K Laxman on his 95th birth anniversary with a doodle. The doodle depicts, the cartoonist himself, seated in front of the easel…
Sahitya Akademi condemns Intolerance, killing of M M Kalburgi
AMN / Following protest from writers and scholars, Sahitya Akademi finally condemned the killing of Kannad writer M M Kalburgi and passed an unanimous resolution appealing to states and central…