लाटरी संबाद old छटाIn October 2015 Dalip Kaur Tiwana, the leading novelist and short story writer in contemporary Punjabi literature, announced that she was returning her Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award. Tiwana was the first to give up the Padma Award, expressing “Solidarity with other writers who are protesting against the increasing cultural intolerance in our society and politics and the threat to free speech and creative freedom.” Tiwana had received the Padma Shri in 2004 for Literature and Education, as well as the Sahitya Akademi Award and had said, “I had something big to give up, for a cause I believe in and which is close to my heart, and this is my way of protest. Minorities are being crushed, and writers and rationalists are being murdered, and no one is allowed to speak,” she has spoken freely.Solar geo-engineering can be applied to save the Arctic ice cap if targeted at specific regions of the planet,rather than cooling everywhere equally,a new study has found.The broader NSE Nifty fell 37.50 points or 0.21 per cent to close at 17,858.20.