BAL SAHITYA PURASKAR 2018

ON JUNE 23, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

Naresh Kumar Sagar

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Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi which met today at Guwahati, under the Chairmanship of its President, Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar approved selection of 23 writers (as given at Annexure ‘A’ attached) for the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2018. The books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by the Jury comprising of three members each in the concerned language in accordance with the rules and procedure laid down for the purpose.

According to the procedure, the Executive Board declared the Awards on the basis of unanimous/majority vote by the Jury. The Awards relate to books first published during the five years immediately preceding the year of Award (i.e. between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2016). However, during the initial ten years i.e. from 2010 to 2019, the award may also be given to an author based on his/her total contribution to Children Literature.The name of the Jury members on whose recommendations the Bal Sahitya
Puraskar were declared are given language wise at Annexure ‘B’ attached.The Award in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque and a cheque of Rs. 50,000/- will be presented to the awardees at a special function to be held on 14 November 2018.

POETRY DOMINATES SAHITYA AKADEMI YUVA PURASKAR 2018
Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Yuva Puraskar in 22 languages today.Tenbooks of poetry, seven of short stories, three of novel and one of play have won the SahityaAkademiYuvaPuraskar 2018.
The Awards were recommended by distinguished Jury members representing 22 Indian languages and approved by the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi which met today
under the Chairmanship of Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar, President, Sahitya Akademi. Those who have won the Awards for their collection of poetry include Samragnee
Bandyopadhyay(Bengali), Esha Dadawala(Gujarati), Aasteek Vajpeyi(Hindi), Wilma Bantwal (Konkani), Umesh Paswan (Maithili), Tongbram Amarjit Singh (Manipuri),Jayadratha Suna (Odia), Dushyant Joshi (Rajasthani),Muni Rajsundar Vijay (Sanskrit), Bala SudhakarMouli (Telugu).
Those who have won the Awards for their collection of short stories include Bipasha Bora (Assamese), PadmanabhaBhat(Kannada), DheebaNazir (Kashmiri), ChhudenKabimu (Nepali), Rani Murmu (Santali), Suneel Krishnan (Tamil), ShahnazRahman (Urdu).
Those who have won the Awards for their collection of Novel include Amal (Malayalam), Navnath Gore (Marathi), GurpreetSehji (Punjabi) and for Play,ChampaChetnani (Sindhi).According to the procedure, the Executive Board declared the Awards on the basis of unanimous or selection on the basis of majority vote made by the Jury. The Award relates to books published by an author of the age of 35 and below as on 1 st January of the year of the award.The Award in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque and a cheque of Rs.50,000/- will be presented to the awardees at a special function to be held at a later date.
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Encls: List of Award-winners
List of Jury members
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 Latest track of Meet Bros ‘Nachdi Firaangi’ labelled under ‘MB Music’

ON JUNE 23, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

   The power-packed music directors & singer of Bollywood Industry, the Meet Bros are again all set to keep stage on fire by their latest peppy track ‘Nachdi Firaangi’. As recently, the duos Manmeet & Harmeet Singh were witnessed in New Delhi for the launch of their song. The event took place at Lounge the Lord of the Drinks in Connaught Place. Along with them the talented singer Kanika Kapoor and beautiful Elli EvrRam were also present to grace the event.

   While launching the brand new music label ‘MB Music’ with their latest track ‘Nachdi Firaangi’, the Meet Bros also interacted with media peeps and shared the uniqueness of their party number. As the first ever single track is featured under the label of ‘MB Music’, sung by Meet Bros & Kanika Kapoor and it’s the very first time they are together for a single apart from a Bollywood song. The song is packed with clubbing elements and video also featuring the moves of gorgeous Elli EvrRam.

  Well, talking about the same, Manmeet stated, “this song is special and unique for us because it’s not for a film, this song is for everyone. It holds dependent music.” Talking about the idea of the song, he said, “One day Kanika came to our studio, she scold us like an elder sister and charged us to make this single, our first single apart from film, she motivated and charged us, then on the same night within one hour we prepared ‘Nachdi Firaangi’. We called Kanika and shared our song and we started working together for the same.” On the other hand Harmeet added, “All the girls who wanna dance, and groove on our latest single can make their videos and forward it to us, we will select one of the best video and when it will get viral, its earning will also be shared with them. So guys keep pouring your videos of ‘Nachdi Firaangi’, this song is just for you all.”

   Whereas, Kanika said, “Me and meet Bros are family, we have different equation, I feel highly comfortable and confident while working with them as in studio I can sing openly without any fear in front of them, and we have a great bond.” And, talking about her experience, working in the song Elli EvrRam in Punjabi said ‘Menu Bohot Maza aya.’ Further she added, “It was a wonderful experience, definitely I would love to work again with them. When I got this offer I was so happy and I was happier when I got to know that Kanika Kapoor is also a part of this project, it was really a great time with them all.”

Police Expo 2018:

ON JUNE 23, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

Police Expo 2018: Predictive Policing & Contemporary Challenges for Indian Police Forces

July 26-27, 2018; BPR&D Hqrs, Mahipalpur, New Delhi 

Greetings from FICCI ! 

I am pleased to inform you that FICCI in partnership with Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India is organising a two-day Police Expo 2018, with the theme ‘Predictive Policing & Contemporary Challenges for Indian Police Forces’ on July 26-27, 2018 at BPR&D Hqrs, Mahipalpur, New Delhi. The objective of this exposition is not limited to showcasing of technologies & solutions, but to go beyond that, and helpindustry in getting their products & technologies evaluated from an expert Screening Committee for subsequent trails / pilot project.

We are in process of setting-up Bureau’s Expert Screening Committee which will evaluate products and technologiesof the exhibiting companies and facilitate meetings between Industry/ Solution Providers and user organisations(CAPFs & State Police Forces) to undertake field trials and pilot projects for better customisation and adoption.

The programme also aims at creating awareness among young Superintendents of Police from States and Commandants from CAPFs, regarding latest technologies in areas such as Artificial Intelligence; Predictive Policing / Crime Analytics / Big data Analytics; Geospatial Technologies; Cyber Crime; Surveillance Tracking & UAVs; CCTV Equipment, for effective delivery of Police Services to citizens. Some of the focus areas of the conference are as follows :

·         Technologies for Predicting Offenders, Predicting Perpetrator Identities & Predicting Crime Victims

·         Public Procurement in Internal Security – Way Ahead

·         Innovations in Homeland Security – Presentations by Young Minds

·         Next Generation Technologies for Homeland Security

·         Safe cities V/s Smart Cities

·         Talk by visionary Superintendent of Police officers

·         Predicting Cyber Crime Against Women

Enclosed are the following files for your reference:

• Brochure of the Police Expo
• Exhibition Form (In case you would like to exhibit during the Expo)
• Product Form (To be shared with the Screening Committee and to be filled by the Exhibiting Companies)
• Delegate Form (In case you would like to participate as a delegate)

There are limited partnership opportunities available; your office may contact us for further information / queries.

Look forward to your kind participation.

Best,

Sumeet Gupta

Senior Director