No Indian author has made the list for the Booker Prize this year. Indian author Aravind Adiga won the Booker prize for his debut novel The White Tiger in 2008, the last time an Indian author won the award.

Altamas Ahmed-trained An Acquired Taste looks set to win the Bangalore St Leger, the highlight of the races to be held here on Wednesday.

Arjun Mangalorkar trained-Mantra was given a neat ride by Pradeep Chouhan to claim the Karnataka Sub-Area Trophy, the feature event of the races held here on Tuesday.

Javed-Khan trained Carnival Point is the best bet to win the Retort Handicap, the main event of the races to be held here on Wednesday.

Vijays Pride, Havok, Golden Arrow and Aegis impressed when the following horses were exercised at the Malakpet Race Course on Tuesday.

Following are the runners for the opening day’s races of the Hyderabad Monsoon Season to be held here on Thursday.

Indian Premier League 2013 champions Mumbai Indians take on third-place finishers Rajasthan Royals in the opening match of the $6 million Champions League T20 2013 on September 21 at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur, home of the Royals.

Sudhanshu Grover pipped Abhishek Yadav 4-3 (11-9, 9-11, 10-12, 12-10, 11-9, 7-11, 11-7) to emerge the junior boys’ singles champion while it was another new face, Suthirtha Mukherjee, who won the junior girls’ singles crown beating the experienced Manika Batra 4-2 (11-9, 11-7, 7-11, 12-14, 11-9, 11-6) on the concluding day of the South Asian junior table tennis championships here on Monday.

LGBT community activist Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi has recently been honoured with National Legal Services Authority Award of Excellence for working in legal services and is the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Academy Award for Queens as a token of appreciation for inclusion of transgender and sex workers in the women’s policy.

Thirty instruments, 60 minutes and a world record; the agenda was set for siblings B. Sai Teja (19) and B. Kalyani Gupta (18). But they did just one thing differently — the terrific duo accomplished the feat in 10 minutes less than the scheduled time!