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  • Amnesty schemes by Modi govt are designed to honour dishonest: Cong
  • Oppn should desist from petty politics in the name of freedom fighters : Khattar
  • India-Bangladesh border trade to resume through Meghalaya's Dawki land port
  • Containment zone in four villages in East Khasi Hills due to African Swine Flu
  • Guv extends greetings on I-Day eve
  • Meghalaya CM to unfurl Tri-colour in Shillong
  • India expects China to sincerely work towards complete de-escalation
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  • Amarinder extends 9 PM - 5 AM curfew to all cities
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  • Meghalaya ‘quick to response’ to COVID-19 pandemic: Governor
  • Mock drill exercise conducted ahead of I-Day at Jammu Tawi Railway Station
  • BJP MLA Randhir Singh & other family members test positive for Covid-19
  • Rijiju virtually launches the Fit India Freedom Run
StatesPosted at: Jun 24 2018 8:23PM


Nagaland author Easterine to get Bal Sahitya Puraskar

Kohima, Jun 24 (UNI) Noted poet and author of Nagaland Easterine Kire has been selected for the Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2018 for her novel ‘Son of the Thundercloud'.

According to report received today the award was announced by India’s national academy of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, after its executive board met on Friday last in Guwahati.
It has approved 23 writers of various Indian languages for the award. Kire was selected for the best author award in the English category. The Bal Sahitya Puraskar, comprising a casket containing an engraved copper plaque and a cheque of Rs 50, 000, will be given away at a function on November 14, 2018.
Easterine Kire’s book had won the Book of the Year Award for fiction at the Tata Literature Live Awards 2017.
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