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President Pranab Mukherjee presents 63rd National Film Awards 2015
President Pranab Mukherjee has conferred 63rd National Film Awards for the year 2015 in various categories at the function held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Legendry actor Manoj Kumar was conferred 2015 Dada Saheb Phalke Award, highest official recognition (award) ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2016
Three Indian Scientists elected as Fellows of The Royal Society
Three Indian Scientist have been elected as the as Fellows of The Royal Society, a premier scientific academy of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Their names had appeared on the list of 50 new fellows and 10 new Foreign ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2016
Indian-American journalist Neela Banerjee felicitated with Edgar A Poe award
An Indian-American journalist Neela Banerjee was felicitated with a prestigious Edgar A Poe award along with of her colleagues from Inside Climate News. They were felicitated by US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle during the annual White House ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2016
Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider honoured with Mongolia’s highest award
The two noted Indian scholars Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider have been honoured with the “North Star”, Mongolia’s highest award. They were awarded for their contribution to the development of friendly relations between India and Mongolia and promotion of Mongolian ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2016
Former bureaucrat NK Singh selected for Japan’s highest civilian award
Former bureaucrat and parliamentarian Nand Kishore Singh has been selected for prestigious ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver’, Japan’s highest civilian award. He was chosen for this prestigious award for promoting economic, educational and cultural ties between India ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2016
Swat activist Tabassum Adnan wins 2016 Nelson Mandela Award
Pakistani women’s rights activist from Swat valley Tabassum Adnan has won prestigious 2016 Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Award. She won the award for the individual activist category on the concluding day of the International Civil Society Week (ICSW) held ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2016
IIT scholar K Ashok Kumar wins International Plant Nutrition Scholar Award
K Ashok Kumar, a research food engineer scholar from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has won the prestigious 2016 International Plant Nutrition Scholar Award (IPNSA). He was bestowed with this award for his research on nutrition management of rice-chickpea ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2016
Riyad Mahrez becomes first African footballer to win PFA Player of the Year
Riyad Mahrez (Algerian origin) became the first African footballer to win the Professional Footballers Association’s (PFA) Player of the Year award. He was presented the award for the 2015–16 season at the Professional Footballers’ Association awards ceremony organised in London. ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2016
2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Sympathizer, a debut novel of Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. While, Associated Press has won two prestigious Pulitzer prize in Public Service for coverage for an investigation of severe labour abuses ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2016
2016 Laureus World Sports Awards
World No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic from Serbia has won the 2016 Laureus Sportsman of the Year Award. He has won it for second time after winning it in 2012. US tennis legend Serene Williams has won the 2016 ..