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Noted litterateur URAnanthamurthy has been shortlisted as one of the ten finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013 that is given away in recognition of the winner's achievement in fiction and comes with a cash reward of £60,000. The ...

Browse more on » Publishing/Information Services, Awards Oxford University Press (OUP), the world's largest university press proudly announces two OUP authors U R Ananthamurthy and Intizar Husain as the finalist for Man Booker International Prize ...

PAKISTANI WRITER INTIZAR HUSAIN SHORTLISTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE Well-known Pakistani writer Intizar Husain, besides being nominated for the prestigious Booker Prize (BP), has made it to the list of BP's nine shortlisted writers. The list was ...

Under new laws, Russia's non-governmental organizations are increasingly coming under pressure. Courts are being used as the government's instrument of choice. For NGOs in Russia, it's a fight for survival. In a courtroom at the District Court of ...

MANCHESTER, England Russia expects to welcome more than a million foreigners to the 2018 World Cup and the "Fans Law" guaranteeing their safety has taken a step closer to the statute books, a top official said Thursday. Under the proposed law there ...

BRASILIA, April 11, (RTRS): Visitors to Brazil for the 2014 soccer World Cup will not be able to use the latest wireless technology operating on a frequency used widely in the United States and Europe, the head of telecom regulator Anatel told ...

Rosenthal's Children, a contentious new opera that has already drawn the ire of lawmakers and the pro-Putin youth group "Moving Together" for what they claim is the state-subsidized staging of pornography, receives its world premiere tonight at ...

Pro-Kremlin MPs in the Russian parliament have reportedly voted 226 to 12 to commence an inquiry into the opera Rosenthal's Children, which was slated to premiere at the state-funded Bolshoi Theater later this month, after MP Sergei Neverov claimed ...

1. Dmitry Butrin article headlined "Islands of revealed treasures" says that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has got access to information about some 120,000 offshore companies on the British Virgin Islands and looks at the ...