Emerging wr-iter Ashwin Sanghi has won the Vodafone Cross-word Book Award 2010 in the popular fiction category for Chanakya’s Chant. The award, decided by readers’ votes online, went to the contemporary political drama for logging the highest sales in 2010.
Sanghi, who also wrote the bestselling The Rozbal Line, was given the prize in Mumbai on Saturday, a statement said.
The award for the fiction category was shared by Omair Ahmad for Jimmy The Terrorist and Anjali Joseph for Saraswati Park. V.S. Ramachandran won the award in the non-fiction category for The Tell Tale Brain, while Ranjit Lal won the award for the best children’s book, Faces in the Water.
In the translation category, N.S. Madhavan and Rajesh Rajmohan were awarded for Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated from Malayalam.
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Giant chunk of greenland ice set to break off
Washington: New findings have suggested that a huge chunk of ice from a Greenland glacier, almost double the size of Manhattan, is on the brink of breaking away.
Jason Box, a climatologist with Ohio State Unversity’s Byrd Polar Research Centre said it’s not clear when the 62-square-mile ice shelf, which is dangling from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, will detach from the mainland. “I don’t know exactly when,” Live Science quoted him as telling OurAmazingPlanet. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened today — or if it happened next summer. I think it’s more likely to occur during periods of melt, and that’s coming to an end, so I’m losing confidence it’s going to break this year,” Box said. — ANI