Book on UAE founder published in Malayalam

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - American writer Dan Brown's new book 'The Lost Symbol' is said to have broken sales record in the first 36 hours of its release in the UK, after it sold more copies than any other adult hardback novel. The book, which went on sale on September 15, has sold more than 300,000 copies in the UK.

September 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Eminent litterateur and Sahitya Akademi winner Meenakshi Mukherjee died here Wednesday. She was 72. Mukherjee, a professor at the University of Hyderabad, fainted and collapsed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here while preparing to board a flight to New Delhi, where she was to release one of her books.

September 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Indian government has allowed expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh to visit Pakistan Sep 26 to promote his book Jinnah: India, Partition and Independence, a media report said. He will arrive in Karachi Sep 26, before heading to the Pakistani capital Sep 27 to attend a launching ceremony of the book at the Islamabad Press Club.

August 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Senator Ted Kennedy's autobiography, "True Compass," will hit shelves next month, but the talking point is the publisher, who has announced a 1,000 price tag for a limited number of pre-signed books. According to Politico, standard editions of "True Compass" will sell for 35 dollars and will hit stores on September 14.

August 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jaswant Singh's book that got him expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now creating fissures in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with many key allies opposing the idea of banning the book. BJP-ruled Gujarat has already banned the book "Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence", which says that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been demonised in India and holds country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and home minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel also responsible for the partition.

August 19th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government late Wednesday decided to ban expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on partition for his criticism of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. "Making any references to his (Patel's) role during those critical times without any evidence is an insult to the people of Gujarat, which we will not take lying down," state government spokesman and Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas told the NDTV news channel.

August 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Pakistan's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah was consigned to flames by Uttar Pradesh Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pramod Tiwari here Tuesday afternoon. A large number of Congressmen cheered him as he made a bonfire of the book, "Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence", which has already sparked off a debate in the corridors of power in New Delhi.

August 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Vice President Hamid Ansari Saturday released a new edition of "Muraqqa-e-Chughtai", a rare combination of poetry by Urdu great Mirza Ghalib and paintings by eminent artist Abdul Rahman Chughtai. Considered as a masterpiece, it was first published here in 1928 and has now been reprinted by Andhra Pradesh Urdu Academy.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The marketing campaign for the Man Booker winning novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, has bagged the 'Excellence Award (best book)' of the Asian Multimedia Publishing Award 2009. The campaign was adjudged the best for using multimedia marketing by a publisher in the most effective way.

June 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Money, power and even sex are corrupting the church and anybody who dares speak up is gagged, says a Kerala nun who left her congregation last year amid much controversy and whose autobiography has just been published in English. "The rot in the church has set in because of affluence and power.

June 17th, 2009 NEW YORK - PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has confessed that she once loved to wear fur and eat meat. "There was nothing I loved more than my fur jacket," the New York Post quoted her writing in a new book 'The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights'.

June 16th, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama's half-brother, George Obama, is working on a book to be published by Simon & Schuster, the US publishing giant said in a statement Monday. George Obama, 27, is the youngest of the seven children born to Obama's father in Kenya and was recently arrested there for marijuana possession.

June 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - A book on the life of Mahatma Gandhi "Bahuroopi Gandhi" will be published in Sindhi language in Pakistan next month, according to the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal (BSM). The book, first published in India in 1948, is authored by Anu Bandopadhyaya and is translated into Sindhi by litterateur Zaffar Junejo, a BSM statement here said Wednesday.

May 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A memoir chronicling both Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's political and personal life will be published in spring 2010, publishing sources said. Even after her rocky run as last year's Republican vice presidential candidate, Palin has continued to be media's favourite topic.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - It may take several months for an average reader to complete 'Crime and Punishment', but a copy of the book can be printed in just nine minutes, thanks to Britain's first 'book vending machine'. The Daily Telegraph ordered a freshly bound edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic, which was one of the first tomes to drop out of the Espresso Book Machine when it opened for business for the first time yesterday.