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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

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Dec 20, 2020

KIIT Bags 13th QCI-DL Shah Quality Silver Award

KIIT a deemed to be university, was conferred the 13th Quality Council of India (QCI) - DL Shah Quality Silver Award.
The institute was accorded the recognition at the inaugural ceremony of the 3rd Virtual Quality Conclave.
KIIT pro vice-chancellor Professor Sasmita Samanta received the award given for successful implementation of System Analysis Program Development.
Apart from KIIT, CMC Vellore, KG Hospital and Post Graduate Medical Institute, Coimbatore and Chitkara University, Punjab, featured in this list of awardees across different categories.
KIIT is incidentally the first university in the country to implement SAP in all schools and processes at a time in 2013.

Dec 19, 2020

Shankar Mahadevan and Raghavendra Rathore Winners of UK's Icon Awards

Musician Shankar Mahadevan and fashion designer Raghavendra Rathore have been named among 15 winners of the annual 21st Century Icon Awards, unveiled virtually from London.
The awards, devised as a celebration of dynamic entrepreneurs and successful individuals chosen from hundreds of nominations from around the world, are organised by Squared Watermelon Limited in partnership with ELITE, the London Stock Exchange Group's international business support and capital raising programme, with other supporters named as Bentley, Stefano Ricci, KPMG and Coca-Cola.
Among some of the other 2020 winners included the Dedicated Stalwart Award for Mohit Burman, Vice-Chairman of Dabur India Ltd, and Competitive Sports Awards for Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle and Argentinian polo player Adolfo Cambiaso.

Ratan Tata to be Honoured with ''Global Visionary of Sustainable Business and Peace'' Award

Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata will be honoured by the Indo-Israel Chambers of Commerce for promoting innovation that supports sustainability and peace in the region, including with the Palestinians.
The chairman emeritus of the Tata Group will be honoured with ''Global Visionary of Sustainable Business and Peace'' award during the launch of the Federation of Indo-Israel Chamber of Commerce''s international chapter in Dubai on December 21.
The virtual ceremony will be attended by senior officials from Israel, India and UAE.
The industrialist and philanthropist is the recipient of two of India''s highest civilian awards - Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan.

Dec 18, 2020

UNEP's 2020 Young Champions of the Earth Award

The United Nations Environment Programme named seven dynamic environmentalists as its Young Champions of the Earth.
The following seven people won the UNEP 2020 Young Championships of the Earth Award: Nzambi Matee of Kenya, Xiaoyuan Ren of China, Vidyut Mohan of India, Lefteris Arapakis of Greece, Niria Alicia Garcia of USA, Fatehmah Alzelzela of Kuwait and Max Hidalgo Quinto of Peru.
The Young Champions of the Earth prize is awarded every year to seven entrepreneurs under the age of thirty. These entrepreneurs should have bold ideas for sustainable environmental change. The winners of the award receive mentoring, seed funding, communications support to amplify their efforts.
The Young Champions award aims to inspire more young people to get closer to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26, that is to be held in Glasgow in November 2021) and the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (to be held in Kunming in May 2021).

Dec 17, 2020

Korean Lantern Festival Gets UNESCO Heritage Honours

South Koreas Lantern Festival has won the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage status.
It's an annual festival that dates back centuries and it marks the birthday of Buddha. All across the country you find colourful lanterns decorating temples, houses and streets and there also are large parades with elaborate floats.
UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage status aims to protect traditions, knowledge and skills which are often inherited through generations, so they are not lost or forgotten as time moves on.

Dec 16, 2020

Kylie Jenner Tops Forbes 2020 List for Highest-paid Celebrities

American media personality and reality TV star Kylie Jenner was crowned the highest-paid celebrity of 2020 by Forbes.
The top-earning stars in the world earned a combined of USD 6.1 billion in 2020 with Kylie Jenner and Kanye West at the top of the list. Setting aside Kylie's history with Forbes, the financial experts there calculated her earning this year to be at USD 590 million after she sold a majority of her beauty brand's stake to Coty Inc.
Ranked at No. 2, on the list by making USD 170 million was American rapper and record producer Kanye West, who is also coincidentally Kylie's brother-in-law. The aspiring politician has his Adidas partnership to thank for this hefty payday.

UNESCO to Launch Prize on Creative Economy

UNESCO is to launch an international prize in the creative economy field in the name of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International prize is to be launched from November 2021.
2021 has been declared as 'International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development' by UNESCO. Currently, there are only twenty-three UNESCO International Awards in the name of international celebrities and organisations. For the age of the organisations, the numbers are very few. Thus, the UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International prize has its own significance.
The prize will create a knowledge sharing mechanism by capturing, celebrating and communicating the best practice in developing creative entrepreneurship. The prize will be fifty thousand USD and is to be given once in every two years.

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