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Journalism

Breaking news : Staff of the East Bay Times, for their coverage of the Ghost Ship fire

Breaking news photography : Daniel Berehulak, freelancer, for his photography of government assault on drug dealers and users in the Philippines

Commentary : Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, for her coverage of the election season

Criticism : Hilton Als of the New Yorker, for his theater reviews

Editorial cartooning : Jim Morin of the Miami Herald, for his political cartoons

Editorial writing : Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times, for his coverage of Iowa’s corporate agricultural interests

Explanatory reporting : International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald, for the Panama Papers

Feature photography : E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune, for his photo essay on a child who survived a shooting in Chicago

Feature writing : C.J. Chivers of the New York Times, for his feature on a Marine’s life after the war

International reporting : Staff of the New York Times, for reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Russia’s power abroad

Investigative reporting : Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette-Mail, for his coverage of the West Virginia opioid epidemic

Local reporting : Staff of the Salt Lake Tribune, for their coverage of sexual assault at Brigham Young University

National reporting : David A. Fahrenthold of the Washington Post, for his coverage of the question of Donald Trump’s philanthropy

Public service : New York Daily News and ProPublica, for Sarah Ryley’s series on NYPD-led evictions


Arts and letters

Biography : The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, by Hisham Matar

Drama : Sweat, by Lynn Nottage

Fiction : The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

General nonfiction : Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond

History : Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971, by Heather Ann Thompson

Music : Angel’s Bone, by Du Yun

Poetry : Olio, by Tyehimba Jess

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What is Bitcoin and How it Works

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Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. It allows you to move money without being traced because all transactions are anonymous. Bitcoins are just lines of computer code that hold monetary value. Those lines of code are created by electricity and computers. Bitcoin was the first crypto coin currency ever invented. Bitcoin’s “creator” is known as Satoshi Nakamoto. They have never been identified.

Bitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. The Bitcoin idea was to produce a currency independent of any central authority, transferable electronically, more or less instantly, with very low transaction fees. .

How a Bitcoin Transaction Works .

If Alice sends some bitcoins to Bob, that transaction will have three pieces of information:.

An input. This is a record of which bitcoin address was used to send the bitcoins to Alice in the first place (she received them from her fr...

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The Supreme Court of India

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The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India. Consisting of the Chief Justice of India and 30 other judges, it has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions. As the final court of appeal of the country, it takes up appeals primarily against verdicts of the High Courts of various states of the Union and other courts and tribunals. It safeguards fundamental rights of citizens and settles disputes between various governments in the country. As an advisory court, it hears matters which may specifically be referred to it under the Constitution by the President of India. .


PSC Questions related to Supreme Court. 1. സുപ്രീം കോടതി നിലവിൽ വന്നത് ?.

1950 ജനുവരി 26.

2. സുപ്രീം കോടതി സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്നത...

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Simple and Compound Interest

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P - Principal, the sum of money lent or borrowed. .

R - Rate of interest: Annual interest, often expressed as a percentage. .

T - Time period for which the money is lent or borrowed. .


Simple Interest = Principal * Time * Rate of interest / 100 .

  SI = P * T * R .


For example, Principal is 4000, Rate of Interest is 8% and Time period is 4 years.

SI = 4000× 8% × 4 =  4000× 0.08 × 4.

= 1280. .


In compound interest , the principal amount with interest after the first time period becomes the part of principal for the next time period.


CI =   [P (1 + R/100)^T] – P .

Total amount = [P (1 + R/100)^T] .


If time period is half-yearly, .

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