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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Dec 09, 2021

Konkani Novelist Receive Jnanpith Award

Konkani novelist Damodar Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith Award. The country's highest literary award, the Jnanpith is bestowed on writers for "their outstanding contribution to literature". Jnanpith Award is a literary award presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organization to Indian writers every year. This was instituted in 1961 and is given only to Indian writers who write in Indian languages and English.
Mauzo is based out of Majorda, Goa, and has previously won the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is known for his novels, such as Karmelin, and Tsunami Simon, and short stories Teresa's Man and Other Stories from Goa. This is the second Jnanpith Award for a Konkani writer— the first being Ravindra Kelekar in 2006.

Dec 06, 2021

Ciprian Foias Prize

Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.
Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava was jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize for the highly original work in Operator Theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Along with Prof. Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, the two other awardees were Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.

Dec 05, 2021

Assam Confers Highest Award to Ratan Tata

Assam government confered its highest civilian award 'Assam Baibhav' on Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata for his contribution to build cancer treatment facilities in the state.
The Assam government and Tata Trust are collaborating for setting up 19 Cancer Care Units in the state. The foundation stone for the project was laid in June 2018 in presence of Ratan Tata.
Tata Trusts had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Assam government during the Advantage Assam - Global Investment Summit 2018, held in February that year, giving a formal shape to the project.

Dec 04, 2021

HP Police Awarded with 'President's Colour

Himachal Pradesh Police has conducted the 'President's Colour Award' ceremony at Shimla's historic Ridge Ground. The Governor bestowed the 'President's Color Award' to the State Police on this occasion. Director-General of Police Sanjay Kundu received the award on the behalf of state police. The Chief Guest was Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, while Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur was also there as a special guest. Himachal Pradesh Police is India's eighth state police force to receive this honour.
'President Colour' is a special achievement, demonstrating that the state police ranks highly in the service of humanity, as well as performance, professionalism, integrity, human rights protection, and other factors.

Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre founder Bags National Award

K. Sridhar Acharya, founder president of Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre, Tirupati, received the 'National award for the empowerment of persons with disabilities (Divyangjan)' for the year 2020 from President Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi.
The award comes in recognition of Mr. Acharya's 44 years of selfless service to the cause of the visually-challenged people.
Started as Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre, it expanded into several charitable institutions like Navajeevan eye hospital, orphan home, home for senior citizens, Veda Patashala, Goshala, that also started handling self employment schemes and hunger elimination programmes under 'Navajeevan Annalakshmi Pathakam' in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.

Dec 03, 2021

Nizamuddin Basti Project Gets Two UNESCO Heritage Awards

The UNESCO presented two Heritage Awards to the Nizamuddin Basti Project. The project was awarded for its conservation efforts. It was awarded with the Special Recognition for Sustainable Award and Award of Excellence.
The project restored more than 20 historic monuments located around 14th century Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya.
The Nizamuddin Basti Project is an Urban Renewal Project. It successfully unified the segregated zones of the seven-century old settlement of the Nizamuddin Basti and its surrounding 70 acres.
It integrated socio – economic development, conservation and environmental development objectives in these areas.
It unified three major sites namely Sundar Nursery, Nizamuddin Basti and Humayun Tomb.

Infosys Prize 2021

Three of six winners of the Infosys Prize 2021 announced by the Infosys Science Foundation are based in Bengaluru. The prizes were awarded to the winners for their contributions to science and research in six fields - Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Chandrasekhar Nair, CTO of Molbio Diagnostics in Bengaluru; Mahesh Sankaran from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru; and Neeraj Kayal of Microsoft Research lab, Bengaluru were among the winners.
The award comprises a pure gold medal, a citation, and a prize-purse of USD 100,000, tax-free in India.

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