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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Aug 19, 2020

Cricketer Rohit Sharma, Wrestler Vinesh Phogat among 4 Picked For Khel Ratna Award

Cricketer Rohit Sharma and woman wrestler Vinesh Phogat were among the four athletes recommended for this year's Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award -- the country's highest sporting honour. Women's table tennis star Manika Batra and Rio Paralympic gold-winning high jumper Mariappan Thangavelu were the other two sportspersons recommended for the prestigious award by a 12-member selection committee of the Sports Ministry. This is only the second time that four athletes have been recommended for the top sporting accolade.
In 2016, star shuttler P. V. Sindhu, gymnast Dipa Karmakar, shooter Jitu Rai and wrestler Sakshi Malik were collectively given this award.
Rohit will only be the fourth cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and current skipper Virat Kohli to be conferred with the Khel Ratna.

Aug 16, 2020

Soumya Swaminathan Honoured with TN CM's Special Award

Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation, Soumya Swaminathan was conferred with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's special award, in recognition of her advisory role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
Swaminathan received the award from Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on the 74th Independence Day celebration at Fort St George.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister's Best Practices award was bagged by the department of treasuries, while the Greater Chennai Corporation received the second prize for conducting fever clinics across the city to break the transmission chain of COVID-19.
Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation received the certificate of appreciation for various steps undertaken to ensure uninterrupted availability of drugs for combating coronavirus.

Aug 15, 2020

CRPF's Naresh Kumar Bags his 7th Police Medal for Gallantry

Assistant Commandant (AC) Naresh Kumar scripted history by receiving the Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) for the seventh time in a short span of four years.
Kumar got his first medal in 2017 for an operation conducted in Srinagar in 2016, during which he neutralised two foreign terrorists. In 2018, he was awarded two PMGs for neutralising two Hizbul Mujahideen commanders in a fierce operation, which lasted for three days.

Aug 14, 2020

MS Swaminathan Award for Environment Protection

The Rotary Club of Madras East has conferred the MS Swaminathan Award for Environment Protection 2019 upon R. S. Paroda the Founder Chairman of the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS), New Delhi for his enormous contributions in the field of plant breeding and genetic resource management and his leadership in establishing over 20 institutions in the field of crops, horticulture, livestock, natural resource management, fisheries, agricultural engineering and social science sectors.
A Padma Bhushan awardee, Paroda was a former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Government of India.

Aug 10, 2020

Nitin Sethi Bags ACJ Investigative Journalism Award

Nitin Sethi of The Huffington Post India and Shiv Sahay Singh of The Hindu bagged the prestigious Asian College of Journalism's Award for Investigative Journalism and the K. P. Narayana Kumar Memorial Award for Social Impact Journalism, respectively.
While Sethi won the award for his six-part series titled 'Paisa Politics' on electoral bonds, Singh's story titled 'Death by digital exclusion: On faculty, public distribution system in Jharkhand' earned him the inaugural version of the social impact journalism award.
The awards were presented at a ceremony conducted online due to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. The final jury comprising Senthil Changalvarayan, Vidya Subrahmaniam and Jose Martin Tharakan chose the winners from ten shortlisted entries in each category.

Food Vision 2050 Prize for Naandi Foundation's Arakunomics

Rockefeller Foundation selected Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad-based non-profit, as one of the 'Top 10 Visionaries' in the world for the Food Vision 2050 Prize, announced in New York. The recognition fetches Naandi a prize money of $200,000.
The award recognised the application of Arakunomics model in regions of Araku, Wardha and New Delhi, leading to the Food Vision 2050 that follows an "ABCDEFGH" framework centring on: Agriculture, Biology, Compost, Decentralised decision-making, Entrepreneurs, Families, Global Markets, and 'Headstands', or turning current approaches on their head.
Naandi competed with over 1,300 entries in a two-level contest that was spread over almost a year.

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