JCB

News

JCB NEWS

Viral video shows JCB being used to stir dal makhni, sparks food safety concerns; netizens say 'America kuch nahi kahega ab'

September 20, 2025 12:05 pm

The video shows the JCB's arm dipping into a mammoth vessel of lentils, swirling the creamy mixture as if it were cement.

India’s most expensive literary award, JCB Prize for Literature, discontinued

July 17, 2025 2:05 pm

The annual award carried a prize of Rs 25 lakh and was a pioneer in celebrating Indian writing, particularly works of translation

Fabulist writer Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih wins Shakti Bhatt award

October 07, 2024 9:28 am

Nongkynrih is a veteran poet, fictioneer, and critic, who has often drawn from the folk tales and legends of Khasi tribe.

‘I don’t think Indian politics is interested in serious literature’: Khalid Jawed

April 15, 2023 12:08 pm

Khalid Jawed, the winner of JCB Prize for Literature 2022, on finding new metaphors in the kitchen in his award-winning book and how the intelligent readers of Urdu are vanishing

Translators, playwrights, journalists: Meet the 2023 jury of JCB Prize for Literature

April 11, 2023 5:58 pm

The longlist of 10 books will be announced in September, the shortlist of five in October, and the winner in November

JCB Prize for Literature announces 2022's longlist of 10 'incredible' books

September 03, 2022 3:14 pm

"All the longlisted books have a common denominator -- a rich and varied story, and language that surprises and delights. By creating new and engrossing realities they took us back to when we were younger and just discovering the world," said Mita Kapur, JCB's literary director.

M Mukundan, JCB Book Prize 2021, JCB Book Prize 2021 winner

Malayalam author M Mukundan wins Rs 25-lakh JCB Book Prize 2021 for his book Delhi: A Soliloquy

November 13, 2021 11:26 pm

Before Mukundan, Benyamin won the prize in 2018 for Jasmine Days (Juggernaut) and S Hareesh got the prize for his book Moustache (Harper Perennial), in 2020.

Of faultlines and universal childhood experiences: Bureaucrat-author Daribha Lyndem on her JCB shortlisted book

November 10, 2021 2:20 pm

Set in the Meghalaya capital in the late 90s and early 2000s, the book is her way of highlighting the universality of childhood experiences.

Debut works and translations in 2021 JCB Prize shortlist

October 04, 2021 1:11 pm

The final winner of the Rs 25 lakh Prize will be announced on November 13. In case the winning entry is a translation, the translator will be awarded Rs 10 lakh

2021 JCB Prize for Literature longlist is announced

September 06, 2021 2:33 pm

This year’s list has six debut authors and three works of translation

Chaitanyananda Saraswati, accused of sexually harassing 17 women, held in Agra

Cities2 hr ago

A self-proclaimed 'godman' was arrested in Agra for sexual harassment and misappropriation of funds. He was accused of sending inappropriate messages and photoshopping pictures with politicians. The Delhi Police traced him to Agra and froze his accounts and fixed deposits. He was previously booked for harassing 19 women at a private institute.

View all shorts