Pratham, the NGO working to expand the scope for education in India, was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2021.
The 2021 price is awarded to Pratham for its pioneering work over more than a quarter century in seeking to ensure that every child has access to quality education, for its innovative use of digital technology to deliver education, for its regular evaluation of the quality of education, and for its timely response in enabling children to learn during the Covid-19-related school closures.
Nov 20, 2021
Jason Mott Wins US Literary Prize for 'Masterful' Novel 'Hell of a Book'
The North Carolina writer Jason Mott won the National Book Foundation's 2021 prize for fiction, for his novel Hell of a Book.
The US foundation's 72nd annual awards were presented online only due to Covid-19.
Mott is best known for his 2013 bestselling debut novel The Returned, about the reappearance of dead residents in a Missouri town, which was later adapted into the US TV series Resurrection.
Nov 19, 2021
Hema Malini, Prasoon Joshi Awarded Film Personalities of the Year at IFFI
Actor and BJP leader Hema Malini, and lyricist and former CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi were facilitated with the Indian Film Personality of the Year award at the International Film Festival of India 2021.
Their contributions to the field of Indian cinema spread over decades and their body of work has enthralled audiences across generations. They are Indian cinematic icons who are admired and respected the world over.
Nov 18, 2021
Patrick Radden Keefe Wins 50,000 Pounds Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction
Patrick Radden Keefe's "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" was awarded the 50,000 pound ($67,000) Baillie Gifford Prize during a ceremony at London's Science Museum.
Keefe's book chronicles the billionaire Sackler clan, owner of Purdue Pharma, whose members used their fortune to fund museums and art galleries around the world. A reckoning has come with the revelation that much of that fortune was based on OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller that the company developed in the 1990s and marketed aggressively to doctors.
Nov 17, 2021
M. Mukundan Bags 2021 JCB Prize for His Book 'Delhi: A Soliloquy'
Author M. Mukundan won the 2021 JCB prize for Literature, for his book 'Delhi: A Soliloquy'. The book, which has originally been written in Malayalam was translated into English by Fathima EV and Nandakumar K. The novel, published by Westland, is a story about Delhi through the eyes of its Malayali youth protagonists.
BRO Gets Guinness Recognition for Building Road at 19,024 ft in Ladakh
The Border Roads Organisation has made a Guinness World Record for constructing and blacktopping the world's highest motorable road at 19,024 feet at Umlingla Pass in Ladakh.
Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, Director General of the Border Roads Organization (BRO), received the Guinness World Records certificate.
The Umlingla Pass road was constructed at an altitude higher than the North and South Base Camps of Mount Everest which are at an altitude of 16,900 feet and 17,598 feet, respectively.
The Hindu Gets Project SIREN Award
The Hindu was awarded the Project SIREN Award for Newspapers 2021 for "its consistent high performance on Project SIREN's scorecards measuring responsible reporting on suicide between June 2020 and June 2021."
Project SIREN is an initiative of the India Mental Health Observatory (IMHO) under the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy (CMHLP), which systematically tracks and scores media reports on suicide from major English newspapers and online news publications to promote responsible reporting on suicide among the media.
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