24.01.2015 Jhumpa Lahiri wins the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her celebrated novel The Lowland. • The $50,000 prize - introduced in 2011 - is awarded annually to authors writing about South Asia in the discipline of culture, politics, history, or people. • Previous winners: Pakistani author HM Naqvi (for Homeboy), Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka (Chinaman), and Indian Jeet Thayil (Narcopolis) and Cyrus Mistry (Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer). India and US have signed a Joint Declaration of Intent for cooperation in the field of Information & Communications Technology and Electronics (ICTE). • The 5-year agreement would help in strengthening industrial, technological, research & innovation and economic cooperation between India and US in the ICTE sector. • It would lead to US companies exploring opportunities for collaboration in Indias ambitious Digital India programme, Electronics manufacturing and Human Resource Development, through cooperation among private and public entities in a focused manner under the umbrella of the ongoing India-US ICT Dialogue. Indian academician Saraswathi Menon, is one of the seven experts appointed by UN on advisory panel to review UN peace-building architecture. • The 7-member panel will conduct a policy and institutional review to offer recommendations to the world body on the same. • The other 6 experts are: Anis Bajwa (Pakistan), Funmi Olonisakin (Nigeria), Sahel Sahara Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (Mauritania), Charles Petrie¬ (France), Gert Rosenthal (Guatemala) and Edith Grace Ssempala (Uganda). The Election Commission of India is celebrating 5th National Voters Day ( NVD) across the country with Easy Registration, Easy Correction as the theme. • 25th January is the foundation day of the Commission and the observance promotes awareness among voters regarding effective participation in the electoral process. 9 crore LPG consumers - 60% of total 15 crore - joins the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme PAHAL. • The Scheme aims to transfer the subsidy on LPG directly into the bank accounts of over 15 crore LPG consumers. Sunil Sood is set to be the 1st Indian CEO of telecom major Vodafone for its India operation. • He, currently the Chief Operating Officer, will replace incumbent CEO Martin Pieters on 1 April 2015. 10th India-Mongolia Joint Training Exercise kick off at Gwalior with counter insurgency and anti-terror operation as focus point.
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