General Awareness

AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jun 21, 2019

Ralph Lauren Receives Honorary Knighthood

Ralph Lauren collected an accolade from Prince Charles and it's a doozy: Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Services to Fashion.
The designer was presented with the insignia, bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II, in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Lauren is the first American designer to be recognised with an honorary knighthood.

Jun 16, 2019

Rajasthan Girl Crowned Miss India

In a grand ceremony held in Mumbai, Rajasthan's Suman Rao was crowned fbb Colors Femina Miss India World 2019; Chhattisgarh's Shivani Jadhav was declared fbb Colors Femina Miss Grand India 2019 and Bihar's Shreya Shanker won fbb Colors Femina Miss India United Continents 2019.

Dhanoa Gifts his 'Wings' to New Flying Officer

Flying Officer G Navin Kumar Reddy, who joined the Indian Air Force topping his course and winning the "Sword of Honour", received one of its kind gift – the wings of Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa.
Wings are a badge worn by IAF pilots who fly fighter and transport aircraft.
Flying Officer Reddy is a second generation soldier. His father, Subedar G Pulla Reddy, is from the Signals Regiment of the Indian Army and is currently serving.
Dhanoa, a MiG-21 fighter pilot, flew repeated sorties during the Kargil war destroying several Pakistani ammunition and supply dumps.
Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa was the Reviewing Officer for the Combined Graduation Parade at the Air Force Academy located in Telangana.
With Flying Officer Reddy, 151 cadets were awarded the President's Commission.

Jun 15, 2019

Indian-origin Man Honoured with Star of Jerusalem Award

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has conferred Indian-origin Sheikh Mohammad Munir Ansari with the Star of Jerusalem medal - one of the highest honours given to foreign nationals by the Palestinian Authority - for strengthening Indo-Palestine ties.
Ansari, 91, is the Director of Indian Hospice, a unique and historic monument in the heart of Jerusalem, which has become a symbol of India's heritage and presence in the third holiest city for Muslims going back to over 800 years.
Abbas said the Ansari family's presence in the old city of Jerusalem reflects the strong traditional ties between Indian and Palestinian people. He called upon for strengthening people-to-people contact between the two sides.
In 2011, India honoured Ansari with the Pravasi Divas Samman, the highest honour conferred on overseas Indians.

Akshaya Patra Wins BBC Award

Akshaya Patra, a non-profit organisation running one of the world's largest school meals project in India, was awarded the BBC World Service Global Champion Award for the programme.
The award, presented at the BBC Food and Farming Awards in Bristol, recognises a person or project that is changing the way the world produces, processes, consumes or thinks about food for the better.
The Bengaluru-based NGO was selected by an international panel of judges from nominations sent in by the World Service audience around the world.
Other projects on the shortlist included UK charity WRAP and Food 4 Education working in Kenya.

Jun 13, 2019

JNU's Alumni Award

Jawaharlal Nehru University would confer its Distinguished Alumni Award to Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
The award will be presented at JNU's third convocation to be held in August.
They will be the first recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award to be conferred by the university.

Amitav Ghosh Conferred Jnanpith Award

Author Amitav Ghosh was felicitated with the 54th Jnanpith Award for his outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian Literature in English.
Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who was the chief guest at the event, presented the award to the author. Mr. Ghosh is the first English language writer to become a Jnanpith laureate.
The Jnanpith award is the highest literary award in India and can only be conferred upon an Indian citizen. English language was added to the list of languages for consideration after the 49th Jnanpith Award.

Jun 11, 2019

Microsoft's AI for Earth Grant 2019

Mumbai's computer science professor Dr. Nupur Giri was awarded Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth Grant 2019 for working on predicting how airborne diseases can propagate based on climate conditions, air quality, and population density in an area.
Dr. Giri, professor and head of department of computer engineering at the Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology (VESIT), Chembur, and her team started the project in 2018 to find the correlation between these seemingly disparate factors to predict the propagation of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) in India.
Dr.Giri hopes their AI-based model can help predict areas of spread of TB and help agencies tackling the disease focus their efforts in those areas.

Share on

TCY Analytics (View Subscription Plans)

Subscribe to GK Updates

I want to receive

GK Tags

October GK, September GK, August GK, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, ENVIRONMENT, BUSINESS AND ECONOMY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, PERSONS IN NEWS, DAYS AND EVENTS, AWARDS AND HONOURS, GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES, GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION, ART AND CULTURE, BOOKS AND AUTHORS, TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS, ART AND CULTURE, LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS

Start Discussion

On any topic

Take Tests

Compiled from GK updates

Login

Sign Up

Forgot Password

Download TCY App

Unlock All Services and Enjoy The Premium Benefits

US$ 10

US$ 13

US$ 15

US$ 17

US$ 19

US$ 20

US$ 21

US$ 22

US$ 23

US$ 24

US$ 25

US$ 26