Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.
An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.
Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.
France became the first country in the world to use drones for national mail service.
India's banking behemoth -- the State Bank of India -- has set up the world's first-ever floating ATM on a boat in Kerala. The boat with the ATM on board will berth at jetties in Kerala's huge backwaters through which thousands of people travel daily.
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