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The Hindu
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Book festival in Coimbatore from July 18 to 27
The Coimbatore district administration, School Education Department, and the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association will organise the ninth edition of Coimbatore Book Festival at the CodissiaA Trade Fair Complex from July 18 to 27. The fair, which will be spread over three halls at the Trade Fair Complex, will have publishers from nearly 10 States, including Maharashtra, Haryana, Assam and New Delhi. More than 170 exhibitors will display books in over 320 stalls. The organisers have planned special programmes in the evenings. On July 18, 'Young Writers' Award' will be presented to three literary personalities - Award for Fiction (Alaiyathi Senthil), Award for Non - Fiction (Venba), and Award for Poetry (S. Priya). Poet Thangam Moorthi will felicitate the winners. There will be competitions for students in Tamil and English, debates, and talks during the exhibition days. Further, the 10-day expo will include book releases, narration of short stories, screening of short films, and poetry workshop. Coimbatore MP P. Rajkumar will inaugurate the fair on July 18 at 6 p.m. and it will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visitors can register online by logging on to or scan the QR code at the venue, said a press release.
Engadget
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Amazon unveils its Prime Gaming freebies for July 2025
Amazon announced a fresh batch of games that it's giving away for free or nearly free in July. The company's cloud gaming platform, Amazon Luna, has a few notable standouts on its lineup of free titles this month for Prime members in regions where the service is available. However, you'll want to play quick. Resident Evil 2 is available on Amazon Luna now through 11:59PM PT on July 12. Need for Speed Unbound is only free for July 5-6, while EA Sports FC 25 is getting two free weekends on July 19-20 and July 26-27. The director's cut of Death Stranding and the excellent metroidvania Hollow Knight are also on the July roster for Luna, alongside mainstay titles such as Fortnite , Rainbow Six Siege and a few Fallout games. Amazon also gives away game codes outside of Luna to Prime members each month. The big standout in the July batch is Venba , a lovely bite-sized game about cooking, family and the immigrant experience. Here's the full rundown of free games available through Amazon this month: Boxes: Lost Fragments (Epic Games Store) Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (Epic Games Store) ENDLESS Space 2 Definitive Edition (Amazon Games App) Besiege: The Splintered Sea DLC (Amazon Games App) Venba (GOG) I Love Finding Wild Friends Collector's Edition (Legacy Games) Heroes of Loot (GOG) July is shaping up to be a busy month for gaming at Amazon, with the retailer's Prime Day 2025 kicking off in about a week. Amazon has already made a handful of extra game codes available for free ahead of the big deals spree, and if it continues the trend from last year, expect to see a couple more freebies given out once Prime Day begins.
