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AWARDS AND HONOURS - January 2019

Jan 2019

Sep 28, 2020

Gurpreet Sandhu and Sanju Yadav Win AIFF's Best Footballer of the Year Award

Indian national team goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu won the 2019-20 AIFF Men's Footballer of the Year Award, while Sanju Yadav got the AIFF Women's Footballer of the Year Award.
Sandhu hails from Chandigarh while Sanju Yadav is a native of Alakhpura, Haryana.
This is the first time Sandhu has received the prestigious award. He also became the second goalkeeper after Subrata Paul in 2009 to be named the AIFF Player of the Year.
The Blue Tigers custodian was elected as the winner on the basis of votes from Indian Super League and I-League club coaches.
Sanju plays as a forward for the Indian team and Gokulam Kerala in the Indian Women's league.

HAL Designer Bags Prestigious IETE Award

HAL's Deputy General Manager (Design) Ajay Khare has been bestowed with the prestigious The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) award for the year 2020 for his outstanding work in Full Life Cycle Development of Indigenous Mission and Safety Critical Avionics Systems starting from conceptualization and design to certification and production.
Khare received the award at the digital event on the occasion of the 63rd IETE Convention.
The award consists of a citation, a medal and a plaque.
The annual award instituted by Dr. R. K. Tyagi, former Chairman of HAL in memory of his late father Devi Singh Tyagi in 2016 is given to an eligible technocrat or a scientist or an engineer or an academician for outstanding contribution in the field of avionics and defence electronics that results in strategic and commercial advantage towards meeting
the national objective of `Make in India'.
Khare's remarkable contribution has resulted in establishing two successful avionics product lines (Mission Computers & Solid State Flight Data Recorders) in HAL. The variants of indigenously designed and developed Mission Computers and Solid State Flight Data Recorders have been deployed in different aircraft platforms.
Khare works at Mission and Combat System (MCSRDC), HAL's R & D Centre in Bengaluru.
The awardee list includes P. Balasubramanian (2019, Scientist F, DRDO), Amit Tiwari (2018, BEL), Dr. Jayakumar M (2017, Scientist G, ISRO) and Ms. T. S. Padma Priya (2016, HAL).

Sep 27, 2020

Ritesh Agarwal Gets Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

Dr. Ritesh Agarwal, Professor in Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, has been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for the year 2020 in the medical sciences category, for his significant contributions in the field of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA).
The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the late Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. The prize is given each year for outstanding contributions in science and technology.
Dr. Agarwal is the first faculty from the PGI, Chandigarh, to be honoured with this award.

Sep 26, 2020

Kerala Wins UN Award for Outstanding Contribution Towards Prevention, Control of Non-communicable...

Kerala won the UN Interagency Task Force Award 2020 for its "outstanding contribution" towards the non-communicable diseases-related sustainable development goals.
Kerala Health Minister K. K. Shailaja said that the award was a recognition of the tireless service of Kerala in the health sector.
The state government has arranged facilities from the basic public health centres to hospitals at all levels to treat the lifestyle diseases.
Shailaja congratulated all the health workers for the achievement of the state.
The UN Interagency Task Force (UNIATF) award this year on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases was announced by World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The award recognises achievements during 2019 on the multisectoral action in the prevention and control of NCDs, mental health and the wider NCD-related sustainable development goals (SDGs).
This is the first time the state has been recognised for this annual award by the UN. Kerala is among the seven ministries of health across the world.

Sep 25, 2020

Magawa the Mine-detecting Rat Wins PDSA Gold Medal

An African giant pouched rat was awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines.
Magawa has sniffed out 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in his career.
The UK veterinary charity PDSA has presented him with its Gold Medal for "life-saving devotion to duty, in the location and clearance of deadly landmines in Cambodia".
There are thought to be up to six million landmines in the southeast Asian country.
PDSA's Gold Medal is inscribed with the words "For animal gallantry or devotion to duty". Of the 30 animal recipients of the award, Magawa is the first rat.
The seven-year-old rodent was trained by the Belgium-registered charity Apopo, which is based in Tanzania and has been raising the animals - known as HeroRATs - to detect landmines and tuberculosis since the 1990s. The animals are certified after a year of training.

Sep 24, 2020

MIT Professor Wins Top AI Award for Cancer, Drug Research

Regina Barzilay , a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor using computer science to detect cancer and discover new drugs won a new $1 million award for artificial intelligence.
The world's biggest AI society awarded its top prize to Regina Barzilay, a professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Barzilay is a breast cancer survivor whose 2014 diagnosis led her to shift her AI work to creating systems for drug development and early cancer diagnosis.
Her early diagnosis tool has been tested in multiple hospitals, including Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and others in Taiwan and Sweden.
She's the inaugural winner of the new annual award given by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and funded by Chinese online education company Squirrel AI.
It's meant to elevate AI advancements to the level of a Nobel Prize or computer science's Turing Award, while also highlighting AI research that benefits society.

Nobel Winners to Get $110,000 More as Prize Money Increased

Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said.
Prize money will increase to 10 million crowns this year.
"The decision has been made due to the fact that our costs and capital are in a stable relation in a completely different way than previously," said the head of the Nobel Foundation Lars Heikensten.
Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel left around 31 million crowns - about 1.8 billion crowns in today's money according to the Foundation - to fund the prizes, which have been awarded since 1901.
The prize amount has varied over time, starting at 150,000 crowns and reaching 1 million crowns in 1981.

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