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Mariyappan Thangavelu wins India’s first Gold medal at 2016 Rio Paralympic Games

September 10, 2016

Mariyappan Thangavelu has won India’s first gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. He won the gold medal in the Men’s High Jump T-42 event with jump of 1.89 metres. With this, Thangavelu became the first Indian high-jumper to win ..

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Haryana wins Best Horticulture State award

September 10, 2016

Haryana has won ‘Best Horticulture State’ award of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA). The award was bestowed upon the state for its concerted efforts made to increase the income of the farmers in horticulture. The award was ..

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Novel on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh wins MM Bennetts Award

September 9, 2016

Novel based on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh titled Into the Hidden Valley has won 2016 MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction in the United Kingdom. The novel is authored by Stuart Blackburn. He was presented with this award at ..

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Indian film Thithi wins best film award at BRICS Film Festival

September 7, 2016

Indian film Thithi has won the best film award at the first BRICS Film Festival concluded in New Delhi. The film festival had opened in New Delhi on 2nd September 2016. Thithi is a dramatic comedy Kannada film co-written and ..

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Ecologist Bibhuti Lahkar wins IUCN's Heritage Heroes Award 2016

September 6, 2016

Assam-based ecologist and conservation activist Bibhuti Lahkar has won prestigious ‘Heritage Heroes Award’ of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). With this, he became the first Asian to win this prestigious environmental award. He was presented this award ..

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Kiran M Shaw appointed Knight of Legion of Honor by France

September 3, 2016

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon Limited was appointed Knight of the National Order of the French Legion of Honour (Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur). Shaw was bestowed with this prestigious award for her ..

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Bezwada Wilson, TM Krishna receive 2016 Magsaysay Award

September 1, 2016

Two Indians TM Krishna and Bezwada Wilson have received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay prize for the year 2016. They were among six persons/organisations who received the prestigious award, often regarded as Asia’s Nobel Prize. The award ceremony was held at ..

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Padma Sachdev awarded 2015 Saraswati Samman

August 30, 2016

Eminent Dogri language Poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev was awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015. She was bestowed with this prestigious award for her autobiography ‘Chitt-Chete’ (published in 2007) written in Dogri language. She was felicitated by ..

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