A total of 425 cadets passed out of the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun with the coveted Sword of Honour being awarded to Battalion Under Officer Mukesh Kumar, who is alumnus of the Rashtriya Military School, Ajmer.
There are five such schools under the Ministry of Defence and besides Ajmer, they are located at Bengaluru, Belgaum, Chail, and Dholpur.
The gold medal for the Cadet First in the order of merit was awarded to Academy Under Officer Deepak Singh, the silver medal was awarded to Battalion Under Officer Mukesh Kumar, the bronze medal went to Academy Cadet Adjutant Loveneet Singh. In the technical stream the first in the Order of Merit was Junior Under Officer Daksh Kumar Pant, while Junior Under Officer Kinley Norbu from Bhutan is first in the Order of Merit among Foreign cadets. The Chief of Army Staff Banner for standing Overall First amongst 16 'companies' was awarded to 'Dograi Company'. Western Army Commander Lt Gen RP Singh reviewed the parade, keeping Covid protocols in mind.
Jun 12, 2021
Tillotama Shome Wins Best Actor Award at UK Asian Film Festival
Tillotama won the award for her film Raahgir: The Wayfarers, which is directed by Goutam Ghose.
Shot in Jharkhand, the film also stars Adil Hussain and Neeraj Kabi. It revolves around three strangers, who live on a daily wage basis.
Raahgir: The Wayfarers was earlier screened at several film festivals -- including Busan International Film Festival, MAMI - Mumbai Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival and Cinemasia Film Festival.
Tillotama is best known for her intense roles in movies like Qissa, Shadows of Time, The Waiting City and Children of War.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer, won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2021. The annual award is given to an author who, the website specifies, must have a significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English.
Established in 2009, PEN Pinter prize is given in memory of Nobel-laureate playwright Harold Pinter.
Jun 05, 2021
Novelist David Diop Wins International Booker Prize
French novelist David Diop won the prestigious International Booker Prize for books translated into English with his World War I-set novel, 'At Night All Blood is Black'.
The Paris-born writer became the first French winner of the prize, awarded for a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, in a ceremony broadcast online from Coventry Cathedral in central England.
The book's translator Anna Moschovakis won half the £50,000 ($70,850) prize, which recognises the major role of translators.
Diop's novel tells the story of two Senegalese soldiers fighting for France in the trenches of World War I. When one, Mademba, is killed, the other, Alfa, descends into ever greater violence and madness.
The International Booker Prize, formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize, has been awarded since 2005, when it was won by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.
It is a sister prize to the Booker Prize, awarded to a novel written in English.
Jun 02, 2021
Winners of Apple 'WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge
Abinaya Dinesh, an Indian-origin girl, is among three winners of the annual WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge, a platform for the young brains willing to demonstrate their coding and problem-solving skills.
Passionate about the intersection of medicine and technology, something that became personal for her last year, Dinesh created an app called Gastro at Home, which she plans to launch on the App Store this summer.
The app offers people with gastrointestinal disorders a way to access information and resources, especially because those types of conditions can sometimes be sensitive to talk about.
The idea of creating such an app came in the mind of Dinesh after she herself suffered from gastrointestinal problems.
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