Page-112 of Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Aruna Bahuguna – First women special DG CRPF

April 20, 2013

Aruna Bahuguna, Senior IPS Officer (1979-batch Andhra Pradesh cadre officer) appointed Special Director General of CRPF, India’s largest paramilitary force. She became the first women officer to be appointed to the top position. Her husband S. Jayaraman is also an IPS ..

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2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners

April 20, 2013

 “The Orphan Master’s Son” – a novel based on North Korea by author Adam Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. List of 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners Letters, Drama and Music FICTION – "The Orphan Master’s Son" by Adam Johnson ..

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Nicolas Maduro declared president-elect Venezuela

April 20, 2013

Nicolás Maduro Moros, the acting President of Venezuela after the death of late leader Hugo Chavez has been declared as the winner of a special election held in Venezuela for the post of the President. The results of the election ..

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India's first and ONLY Women Chief Election Commissioner Ramadevi passed away

April 18, 2013

Ms. V.S. Ramadevi (79), former Governor of Karnataka and former Chief Election Commissioner of India, passed away. Ms. V.S. Ramadevi First woman to became Chief Election Commissioner of India. Chief Election Commissioner from November 26, 1990 to December 11, 1990. ..

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Fact Box: K. Kasturirangan High-Level Working Group

April 18, 2013

K. Kasturirangan-led 10-member panel High-Level Working Group (HLWG) Presented its report on Western Ghats to MoEF (Ministry of Environment and Forests) K. Kasturirangan-led 10-member panel High-Level Working Group (HLWG) has prepared a report on Western Ghats which suggests for ban ..

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'Baby Nobel' or Won John Bates Clark Medal for Delhi-born US economist Raj Chetty

April 17, 2013

33 year old Delhi-born Raj Chetty, a professor in the Department of Economy at the Harvard University whose ground-breaking work was quoted by US President Barack Obama in his 2012’s State of the Union Address, has won the esteemed John ..

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Pioneering Polio Vaccine Developer Hilary Koprowski passes away

April 17, 2013

Dr. Hilary Koprowski (96), the Polish-born virologist who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio. Albeit not as famous as his companion researchers Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, Koprowski’s 1950 clinical trial was the first to demonstrate it was ..

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Fact Box: "SNOW LION" Flag of Tibet

April 17, 2013

China allows the showcase of banned Tibetan “snow lion” flag in film “Rockstar” screened in China Surprisingly, Chinese censors have permitted the blackballed Tibetan “Snow Lion” flag which is a representation for the Tibet independence movement to be showcased in ..

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President appoints two new judges to Supreme Court

April 16, 2013

The President elevated PUNJAB and Haryana HC Chief Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri and Madhya Pradesh HC Chief Justice Arvind Bobde as judges of the Supreme Court. Thus, total strength of judges in Supreme Court is now : 30 The approved strength ..

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Vice President Releases Book ‘Religion, Law & Society-Across the Globe’

April 15, 2013

“Religion, Law & Society- Across the Globe”, a book authored by Prof. Tahir Mahmood was released by The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari. The book provides insights into a range of complex and inter-linked matters of constitutional ..

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