Indian-origin author shortlisted for UK prize

London: Indian-origin author Mahmood Mamdani is among four writers to be shortlisted for the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding on Tuesday. The 75-year-old Mumbai-born Ugandan academic and writer is in the running for the GBP 25,000 non-fiction prize for ‘Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities’. PTI

160 climbers get permit to scale 2 Nepal peaks

Kathmandu: In all, 160 mountaineers have received permits to climb two Himalayan mountains inside Nepal in the fall season despite the continued threat posed by the Covid. The data shows that 157 climbers from 15 teams have got permits for Mt Manaslu, while a three-member team was given the nod for Mt Kanchenjunga. Ians