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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jan 01, 2019

Best Supporting Organisation Award

NMDC Ltd., Hyderabad, has been conferred with "Best Supporting Organisation Award in Public Sector" by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI) at its 32nd national convention on quality concepts held at Gwalior.
NMDC has been the main stay of Hyderabad chapter of Quality Circle Forum of India in taking the QC movement forward.
D. Sunil Kumar, GM (Production), NMDC, Donimalai, and GE Reeta Reddy, DGM (HRD), NMDC, Hyderabad, received the award on behalf of NMDC from A. K. Mittal, president emeritus, QCFI.

Dec 20, 2018

UN Human Rights Award

Renowned Pakistani social activist Asma Jahangir was posthumously honoured by the UN with a prestigious human rights award.
Jahangir, an outspoken critic of Pakistan's powerful military establishment, fought against religious extremism and for the rights of oppressed minorities in Pakistan.
She was honoured with the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize, an award given every five years since 1968.
Jahangir's daughter Munizae Jahangir received the award on her behalf from President of the UN General Assembly María Fernanda Espinosa.

Dec 15, 2018

Amitav Ghosh Honoured with 54th Jnanpith Award

Eminent novelist Amitav Ghosh has been chosen for this year's Jnanpith Award as per the announcement made by Bharatiya Jnanpith. The award is given to an author for "outstanding contribution towards literature".
Mr. Ghosh's novels include Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the Ibis trilogy — Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire — discussing the opium trade between India and China run by the East India Company.
He is is also recipient of the Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi Award.

Dec 10, 2018

Mexico's Vanessa Ponce De Leon Cras Miss World 2018

India's Manushi Chhillar, who won the Miss World pageant last year, passed the baton to Mexico's Vanessa Ponce De Leon.
The first runner-up title went to Thailand's representative.Femina Miss India 2018 Anukreethy Vas failed to make it even to the top 12.

Dec 06, 2018

Sahitya Akademi Award

Tamil writer, traveller, essayist and scriptwriter S. Ramakrishnan has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2018 for his novel 'Sancharam,' which captures the lives of nagaswaram players in karisal bhoomi, the arid land, of Tamil Nadu.

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