British-Indian professor knighted in New Year's honours.

Shankar Balasubramanian, an Indian-origin British professor of chemistry and DNA expert at Cambridge University, has received a Knighthood along with Olympic stars Andy Murray and Mo Farah among others by Queen Elizabeth II for their contributions.He has been recognised for his work as a co-inventor of Next Generation DNA sequencing, described as the most transformational advance in biology and medicine for decades.

Bharatiya Jananpith announces Navlekhan award 2016.

Two new Hindi writers Shraddha and Ghyansham Kumar Devansh have been chosen for Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award for the year 2016, the literary organisation announced.The decision to confer the award on Shraddha for her short story, Hawa Mein Phadphadati Chitthi and on Devansh for his poem Akash Mein Deh was taken unanimously by a selection panel chaired by eminent poet Vishnu Nagar.