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Pak announces
schedule for talks ‘The Line of Beauty’
wins Booker Prize Alan Hollinghurst, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for fiction, poses for the cameras after getting the award in London late on Tuesday. Hollinghurst's book entitled ‘The LIne of Beauty’ won the prize of £ 50,000 from a shortlist of six.
— AP\PTI photo NRIs with UK passport can apply for dual citizenship Heading Censor Board
challenging, says Sharmila 2 schoolgirls expelled over
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Pak announces
schedule for talks
Islamabad, October 20 Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan told newspersons that the talks could be held in New Delhi and Islamabad from November 29 to December 15, ahead of a meeting between foreign secretaries of the two nations. We have proposed holding of Foreign Secretary-level talks in third or fourth week of December and hope India will respond positively to our proposal, Mr Khan said, adding that these talks will wrap up ongoing cycle of negotiations under the composite dialogue. According to the agreed schedule, meeting between narcotics control authorities will be held in New Delhi from November 29 to 30 followed by meetings between the railway authorities on the Munnabao-Khokharapar rail link in Islamabad from December 2 to 3. Officials of Indian Coast Guards and Pakistan Maritime Security Agency will meet in New Delhi from December 3 to 4 to discuss signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish communication links. Talks on commencement of bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad and trade links will be held in New Delhi from December 7 to 8 and December 9 to 10 respectively, followed by meetings on nuclear and conventional confidence building measures in Islamabad from December 14 to 15 and December 15 to 16 respectively. The talks on joint survey of the boundary pillars on horizontal segment in the Sir Creek area will be held in Karachi, Pakistan, on December 14-15. Expert-level meeting on NCBMs will discuss the draft agreement on advance notification of missile tests by the two countries. Solution to the outstanding problems of both countries should be the objective of the talks, Mr Khan said.
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‘The Line of Beauty’
wins Booker Prize The jury for the Man Booker Prize for fiction ignored the hottest favourite for years and delighted the bookies last night by making Alan Hollinghurst the £ 50,000 winner. He lifted the prestigious prize for The Line of Beauty, a tale of gay love in Thatcherite Britain, from under the nose of the hotly tipped David Mitchell with his audacious novel Cloud Atlas. But sources close to the jury, which deliberated for two hours and 15 minutes, said that both books battled it out with the third heavyweight contender for the prize, Colm Toibin’s book The Master, inspired by the life of the American author Henry James. The jury was chaired by Chris Smith, the former Culture Secretary, and included Tibor Fischer, the novelist, and Rowan Pelling, ex-Editor of the Exotic Review. Mr Smith said it had been “an incredibly difficult and close decision”. He went on: “It has resulted in a winning novel that is exciting, brilliantly written and goes deep under the skin of the Thatcherite Eighties. The search for love, sex and beauty is rarely this exquisitely done.” The Line of Beauty chronicles the story of Nick Guest, a young gay postgraduate student who is studying Henry James. Lodging in the home of an ambitious Conservative MP in Notting Hill, west London, Guest embarks on his first love affair with a young black clerk before moving onto an affair with a millionaire that changes his life. Critics praised the book for the stylistic elegance which has been a feature of Hollinghurst’s work since his debut with The Swimming Pool Library, set in the early years of Thatcher’s reign. Tibor Fischer said the novel was “extremely elegant. There are very few people who can use the English language as daintily as he can”. Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1954, the son of a bank manager who encouraged a passionate love of classical music which informs his work. After Oxford, he became Deputy Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. His first novel, The Swimming Pool Library, won the Somerset Maugham Award - and a strong gay audience for his work. He was one of Granta magazine’s prestigious list of best young British novelists in 1993. But it was always Hollinghurst, Toibin and Mitchell who were on everybody’s list of contenders from very early on in the process. The other final shortlisted authors were Achmat Dango with Bitter Fruit, Sarah Hall with The Electric Michelangelo and Gerard Woodward with I’ll Go to Bed at Noon. The prize ceremony was held in London last
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NRIs with UK passport can apply for dual citizenship
London, October 20 “As of now, the NRIs here holding British passports can apply for dual citizenship as early as November 1,” S K Krishna Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indians Affairs said addressing a gathering of NRIs at the India House here last evening. He said the Third ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Divas’ would be held in Mumbai for three days from January 7.
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Heading Censor Board
challenging, says Sharmila London, October 20 "I am completely apolitical person. I see it (the offer to head the CBFC) as a challenge and opportunity. I took my own time before I said yes," she said. Asked whether she had any plans to reorganise the board, Sharmila said, "I am not in a position to talk about it. It carries certain responsibilities with it." "We should start working on it, understand it and let one's work speak for itself."
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2 schoolgirls expelled over
headscarf law
Mulhouse, France, October 20 The two seventh-grade pupils, aged 12 and 13, had refused to remove their headscarves since school resumed in September despite repeated meetings teachers held with them and their parents, said the school principal yesterday in this eastern French city. The law barred what it called conspicuous signs of faith such as the headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses but left some leeway -- such as for discreet jewellery -- because a complete ban would have violated European human rights laws. Three Sikh boys in a Paris suburb are also fighting the ban because it would mean taking off their turbans, he said, adding: ''The law applies to everybody.''
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The jury for the Man Booker Prize for fiction ignored the hottest favourite for years and delighted the bookies last night by making Alan Hollinghurst the £ 50,000 winner.
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