Bengaluru: The 20th Prestigious Amma Award in Kannada Literature has been conferred to young poet Nadim Sanadi for his poetry collection ‘Huliya Nettige Neralu’. Nadim Sanadi hails from Belagavi.

Amma award is given away to the best book published in the respective year by Munnur Pratishthana in the memory of late Mahadevamma Munnur from the last 20 years.

‘Huliya Nettige Neralu’ is a compilation of poems in Kannada published by Kannada book authority. The poems speak about how love and humanity alone can win over all the evils of the world. The book also deals with complex issues depicted in simple language.

The collection has received praises and appreciations from the critic and readers. It was regarded as one of the best poetry collections of 2019 by Vishwavani daily.

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Ratlam (MP) (PTI): Five railway staffers were injured, one of them critically, when their van carrying repair equipment to the site of a Rajdhani Express fire overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district on Sunday, officials said.

The blaze erupted in an AC coach of the Delhi-bound Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota division of the railways in Ratlam at 5.15 am.

It disrupted the movement of several trains on the Mumbai-Delhi route, as per the officials.

A van carrying necessary equipment to Alot overturned on the way when a cow suddenly strayed into the middle of the road, they said.

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Five railwaymen were injured, one of them critically, the officials said.

The incident took place when the van carrying essential equipment for overhead electric line repair, among other things, was on its way to Alot from Shyamnagar in Ratlam, West Central Railway's chief public relations officer Harshit Shrivastava told PTI.

The injured persons were rushed to the hospital and were subsequently referred to Kota in Rajasthan, officials said.

No casualties were reported in the train fire.