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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jul 22, 2020

Greta Thunberg Receives 1 million-euro Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in Portugal

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the million-euro prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.
Greta said that all the prize money will be donated, through my foundation, to different organisations and projects who are working to help people on the front line, affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis.
She was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for the way she has been able to mobilise younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists.
The million euros ($1.1 million) is the largest prize won by the 17-year-old environmental campaigner who has also won Amnesty International's top human rights prize and the Swedish Right Livelihood Award, often presented as an alternative Nobel.

Jul 20, 2020

Narendra Singh Tomar Declares the 2019 ICAR Awards

Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare inaugurated the Virtual celebration of the 92nd Foundation day of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and declared the 2019 ICAR Awards.
Books on Calves of Cloned Buffaloes, Technological Products, Diagnostic Kits, ICAR Publication and Rajbhasha Magazines were released during the virtual event.
Around 161 awards under 20 categories were presented during the virtual event.
The National Academy of Agriculture Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad, received 4 awards in different categories
Under the Natural Resources Management & Agricultural Engineering category, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award for outstanding Research in Agricultural Sciences and Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director, NAARM received the awards in the virtual ceremony.
Dr. Bharat Shankar Sontakki, Head, Extension Systems Management Division, NAARM received the Swamy Sahajananda Saraswati Outstanding Extension Scientist Award.
Under the Cash Awards Scheme 2019 Administrative Category, N. Vijayalakshmi received the award.
Under the Cash Awards Scheme 2019 Support Staff Category, S. N. Rasool received the award.

Jul 18, 2020

Oscar Winner Kate Winslet will Receive 2020 TIFF Tribute Actor Award

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet will receive the 2020 TIFF Tribute Actor Award at the Toronto Film Festival, headed mostly online this September amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Winslet's online-only tribute comes as her latest film, Francis Lee's Ammonite, in which she plays fossil hunter Mary Anning alongside Saoirse Ronan, is booked for Toronto's reimagined 45th edition in September. TIFF plans to screen a slimmed-down program of 50 film titles during its first five days in physical theaters, pending a greenlight from city and provincial health and safety authorities.

Jul 17, 2020

The Committee to Protect Journalists Announces 2020 International Press Freedom Awardees

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced that 4 journalists, Shahidul Alam from Bangladesh, Mohammad Mosaed from Iran, Dapo Olorunyomi from Nigeria and Svetlana Prokopyeva from Russia would be honoured with the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards for their courageous act. In addition to them lawyer Amal Clooney would be honoured with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award 2020.
The award will be conferred to them on November 19, 2020, at CPJ's annual benefit gala which will be virtually held. The annual benefit gala will be chaired by Patrick Gaspard, President of Open Society Foundations and hosted by veteran broadcast journalist Lester Holt of NBC News.
Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award is an annual award given by CPJ's board of directors to recognize extraordinary and sustained commitment to press freedom.
Earlier this award was named as Burton Benjamin Memorial Award. In order to honor the veteran journalist and former CPJ board member, who died in 2016, the name was changed as Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award in 2017.

Jul 15, 2020

Ashok Kumar, Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award of Mohun Bagan Football Club

Legendary Hockey Player Ashok Kumar, key player of the 1975 World Cup winning Indian Hockey team was honoured with the Lifetime achievement award by the city football club – Mohun Bagan Athletic Club on its foundation day over a virtual ceremony.
Ashok Kumar is the son of Hockey wizard Dhyan Chand.
He represented Bengal in the late 1960 and was later selected to the Indian Hockey team.
He won silver medals in the three consecutive Asian Games of 1970, 1974 and 1978.
He won the bronze medal in the Munich Olympic Games in 1972.

Chandrasekaran and Taiclet to Receive USIBC Global Leadership Award

Business advocacy group USIBC said that Tata group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran and Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet will receive the USIBC Global Leadership Award this year (2020). "Every year, the USIBC Global Leadership Awards are conferred upon executives in recognition of outstanding leadership and for promoting Indo-US trade and business.
The earlier receivers of this award include Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Google CEO Adena Friedman, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Sun Pharmaceuticals Founder and Managing Director Dilip Shanghvi.

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