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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Oct 03, 2019

Viola Davis To Receive Lifetime Achievement Honour At Rome Film Festival

Viola Davis is set to be honoured with the Career Award at the Rome Film Festival.
Davis, who is the first African American actress to win an Academy Award, Emmy and Tony each, will also participate in an event titled "Close Encounter", in which she will discuss her work with festival head Antonio Monda.

Sachin Tendulkar Gets Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador Award

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the most effective Swachchta Ambassador award to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Addressing the India Today Safaigiri Summit in New Delhi, he said, in the past five years, the sanitation drive launched in the country had truly become a mass movement.
He said everyone from the Prime Minister to Gram Pradhan participated directly or indirectly in the cleanliness campaign to make it a success.
He said this historic success could not have been achieved without the participation of every citizen.

Kyrgyz Human Rights Lawyer Wins UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award

A lawyer whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to end statelessness has been selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency's Nansen Refugee Award.
Azizbek Ashurov, through his organization Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders (FVLWB), has helped well over 10,000 people to gain Kyrgyz nationality after they became stateless following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Among them, some 2,000 children will now have the right to an education and a future with the freedom to travel, marry and work.

Oct 02, 2019

Elgi Equipments Wins 2019 Deming Prize For Total Quality Management

Elgi Equipments has won the coveted 2019 Deming Prize for the sustained application and leverage of TQM (Total Quality Management) across the organization.
The Deming Prize is one of the highest awards on TQM (Total Quality Management) in the world and since its establishment in 1951, has been awarded to 251 organizations worldwide.
Elgi is the first globally established, industrial air compressor manufacturer, outside of Japan, to win the prestigious award in over 60 years and will formally receive the prize on the 6th of November 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.

Oct 01, 2019

President Kovind Confered Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019

President Ram Nath Kovind confered the Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019 on the eminent senior citizens and institutions in recognition of their services towards the cause of the elderly persons. The award will be given at a function in New Delhi.
The Vayoshreshtha Samman is a Scheme of awards instituted by the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry and gradually upgraded to the status of National Awards for institutions involved in rendering distinguished service for the cause of elderly persons.
These awards were presented as part of the celebration of the International Day of Older Persons on 1st October, 2019.

Sep 30, 2019

Scientist Thanu Padmanabhan Gets M. P. Birla Memorial Award

Physicist Thanu Padmanabhan received the M. P. Birla Memorial Award 2019 for his contributions to the world of cosmology.
Padmanabhan, a professor of Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, received the award at a programme held at M. P. Birla Planetarium.
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu presents the 28th Saraswati Samman to Dr. K. Siva Reddy in New Delhi. He lauded the KK Birla Foundation for creating a framework to adjudge the creative output in literature of different languages of our vast country to honour the most deserving.
Padmanabhan, a visiting faculty to several institutes in the US and the UK, has contributed to the fields of general relativity, gravitation and cosmology.

Ayushmann Named Actor of the Year at GQ Men of the Year Awards 2019

The GQ Men of the Year awards 2019 took place in Mumbai on September 28, 2019 and a plethora of Bollywood celebrities turned up for the event in their fashion A-game. The red carpet saw charming tuxedoes, stylish gowns and more. Ayushmann Khurrana won the Actor of the year award while Sara Ali Khan received the Breakthrough Artist honour.

Sep 29, 2019

Minor Planet Named After Pandit Jasraj, First Indian Musician to Receive This Honour

A minor planet, between Mars and Jupiter, was named after 'Pandit Jasraj', the doyen of Indian classical vocal music.
International Astronomical Union (IAU) named minor planet 2006 VP32 (number -300128), discovered on November 11, 2006, as 'Panditjasraj'.
'Panditjasraj' traverses the cosmos between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
With this honour, Padma Vibhushan recepient Pandit Jasraj became the first Indian musician to join the galaxy of immortal composers like Mozart, Beethoven and Tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

James's Work 'Nireeswaran' Bags Vayalar Award

Writer V. J. James's novel 'Nireeswaran' (Atheist) was selected for the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literature Award in 2019.
The novel, revolving around the concepts of God and faith, was among the latest works by the author, who is working as an engineer in the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
'Purappadinte Pusthakam', 'Dathapaharam' and 'Chorashatram' were some of the works by James.
The award, instituted by the Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Trust in memory of poet and lyricist Vayalar Ramavarma, comprises a cash prize of Rs. one lakh, a statuette and a citation.
The author would be presented with the honour at a function held on October 27, 2019 the death anniversary of the late Ramavarma.

Corps of Army Air Defence Honoured with President's Colours Award

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the prestigious President's Colours to the Corps of Army Air Defence at a function in Gopalpur in Ganjam district of Odisha.
The award was given to the Corps on the occasion of 25 years of Army Air Defence College, AADC. It was received by Army AD Centre on behalf of the Corps of Army Air Defence.
The President's Colours is the highest military honour for the armed forces bestowed in recognition of exceptional services rendered to the nation, both during the war and in peace times.
One of the youngest corps of Army, the Army Air Defence Corps bifurcated from the Regiment of Artillery in 1989 and established the Army Air Defence College. The AADC is the training school for the personnel of the Air Defence Corps.

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