Paul Beatty won Man Booker Prize 2016

* Paul Beatty became the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize — the world's most prestigious English-language literary award — for his novel "The Sellout" on 25 October 2016.

* Beatty got this award for his novel "The Sellout"

* The jury said the novel was a "shocking and unexpectedly funny" portrayal of his native Los Angeles, using satire to explore racial equality in a fictional neighbourhood.

* The award was announced at a glitzy black-tie ceremony with leading authors in London's historic Guildhall building.

* The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £52,500, ($64,100, 59,000 euros), although greater sums come from the huge sales prompted the moment judges announce their decision.

* The Man Booker was launched in 1969.

* It was only opened to non-Commonwealth authors from 2013 — a decision that was highly controversial in Britain. No US author had won it until now, despite concerns that writers from the United States would dominate the prize.

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List of Union Ministers and portfolios updated as on 5 July 2016 - PDF Download

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his second cabinet expansion and reshuffle exercise since his government came to power in 2014, on 5 July 2016. In the cabinet reshuffle he inducted 19 new faces. Five ministers have been dropped from the Union Council of Ministers. These are Nihalchand, Ram Shankar Katheria, Sanwar Lal Jat, Manuskhbhai D Vasva and M K Kundariya. Here is the complete updated list of ministers and their portfolios.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi

Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space All important policy issues, and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

CABINET MINISTERS

1.	Shri Raj Nath Singh	Home Affairs
2.	Smt. Sushma Swaraj	External Affairs
3.	Shri Arun Jaitley	Finance Corporate Affairs
4.	Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu	Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Information  & Broadcasting
5.	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Road Transport and Highways Shipping
6.	Shri Manohar Parrikar	Defence
7.	Shri Suresh Prabhu	Railways
8.	Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda	Statistics & Programme Implementation
9.	Sushri Uma Bharati	Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10.	Dr. Najma A. Heptulla	Minority Affairs
11.	Shri Ramvilas Paswan	Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
12.	Shri Kalraj Mishra	Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13.	Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Women and Child Development
14.	Shri Ananthkumar	Chemicals and Fertilizers Parliamentary Affairs
15.	Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad	Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
16.	Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda	Health & Family Welfare
17.	Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Civil Aviation
18.	Shri Anant Geete	Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
19.	Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Food Processing Industries
20.	Shri Narendra Singh Tomar	Rural Development Panchayati Raj Drinking Water and Sanitation
21.	Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh	Steel
22.	Shri Jual Oram	Tribal Affairs
23.	Shri Radha Mohan Singh	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
24.	Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Social Justice and Empowerment
25.	Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani	Textiles
26.	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Science and Technology Earth Sciences
27.	Shri Prakash Javadekar	Human Resource Development

MINISTERS OF STATE

1.	Shri Rao Inderjit Singh	Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
2.	Shri Bandaru Dattatreya	Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
3.	Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
4.	Shri Vijay Goel	Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
5.	Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
6.	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan	Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
7.	Shri Piyush Goyal	Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)
8.	Dr. Jitendra Singh	Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) Prime Minister’s Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
9.	Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman	Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
10.	Dr. Mahesh Sharma	Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
11.	Shri Manoj Sinha	Communications (Independent Charge) Railways
12.	Shri Anil Madhav Dave	Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
13.	General V.K. Singh	External Affairs
14.	Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Finance
15.	Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste	Health & Family Welfare
16.	Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minority Affairs Parliamentary Affairs
17.	Shri S.S. Ahluwalia	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Parliamentary Affairs
18.	Shri Ramdas Athawale	Social Justice & Empowerment
19.	Shri Ram Kripal Yadav	Rural Development
20.	Shri Haribhai Parthbhai Chaudhary	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
21.	Shri Giriraj Singh	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
22.	Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir	Home Affairs
23.	Shri G.M. Siddeshwara	Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
24.	Shri Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	Drinking Water & Sanitation
25.	Shri Rajen Gohain	Railways
26.	Shri Parshottam Rupala	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Panchayati Raj
27.	Shri M.J. Akbar	External Affairs
28.	Shri Upendra Kushwaha	Human Resources Development
29.	Shri Radhakrishnan P.	Road Transport & Highways Shipping
30.	Shri Kiren Rijiju	Home Affairs
31.	Shri Krishan Pal	Social Justice & Empowerment
32.	Shri Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor	Tribal Affairs
33.	Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
34.	Shri Vishnu Deo Sai	Steel
35.	Shri Sudarshan Bhagat	Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
36.	Shri Y.S. Chowdary	Science and Technology Earth Science
37.	Shri Jayant Sinha	Civil Aviation
38.	Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Information & Broadcasting
39.	Shri Babul Supriyo	Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
40.	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Food Processing Industries
41.	Shri Vijay Sampla	Social Justice & Empowerment
42.	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	Finance Corporate Affairs
43.	Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey	Human Resource Development
44.	Shri Ajay Tamta	Textiles
45.	Smt. Krishna Raj	Women & Child Development
46.	Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
47.	Smt. Anupriya Patel	Health & Family Welfare
48.	Shri C.R. Chaudhary	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
49.	Shri P.P. Chaudhary	Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
50.	Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre	Defence

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