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AWARDS AND HONOURS - January 2019

Jan 2019

Jul 23, 2020

Indian-origin Nurse in Singapore Conferred with President's Award

Kala Narayanasamy an Indian-origin nurse in Singapore was conferred with the prestigious President's Award for Nurses for serving on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kala was among the five nurses given the award.
Each recipient was awarded a trophy, a certificate signed by President Halimah Yacob and SGD 10,000 (USD 7,228).
Narayanasamy, who is the Deputy Director of Nursing at Woodlands Health Campus, was awarded for using infection control practices, which she learned during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, in the current pandemic.
She has been involved with the modernisation of nursing in Singapore, with her past projects including the implementation of a self-checkout inventory management vending machine to track the usage of items.

Jul 22, 2020

Greta Thunberg Receives 1 million-euro Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in Portugal

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the million-euro prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.
Greta said that all the prize money will be donated, through my foundation, to different organisations and projects who are working to help people on the front line, affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis.
She was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for the way she has been able to mobilise younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists.
The million euros ($1.1 million) is the largest prize won by the 17-year-old environmental campaigner who has also won Amnesty International's top human rights prize and the Swedish Right Livelihood Award, often presented as an alternative Nobel.

Jul 20, 2020

Narendra Singh Tomar Declares the 2019 ICAR Awards

Narendra Singh Tomar, the Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare inaugurated the Virtual celebration of the 92nd Foundation day of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and declared the 2019 ICAR Awards.
Books on Calves of Cloned Buffaloes, Technological Products, Diagnostic Kits, ICAR Publication and Rajbhasha Magazines were released during the virtual event.
Around 161 awards under 20 categories were presented during the virtual event.
The National Academy of Agriculture Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad, received 4 awards in different categories
Under the Natural Resources Management & Agricultural Engineering category, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award for outstanding Research in Agricultural Sciences and Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director, NAARM received the awards in the virtual ceremony.
Dr. Bharat Shankar Sontakki, Head, Extension Systems Management Division, NAARM received the Swamy Sahajananda Saraswati Outstanding Extension Scientist Award.
Under the Cash Awards Scheme 2019 Administrative Category, N. Vijayalakshmi received the award.
Under the Cash Awards Scheme 2019 Support Staff Category, S. N. Rasool received the award.

Jul 18, 2020

Oscar Winner Kate Winslet will Receive 2020 TIFF Tribute Actor Award

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet will receive the 2020 TIFF Tribute Actor Award at the Toronto Film Festival, headed mostly online this September amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Winslet's online-only tribute comes as her latest film, Francis Lee's Ammonite, in which she plays fossil hunter Mary Anning alongside Saoirse Ronan, is booked for Toronto's reimagined 45th edition in September. TIFF plans to screen a slimmed-down program of 50 film titles during its first five days in physical theaters, pending a greenlight from city and provincial health and safety authorities.

Jul 17, 2020

The Committee to Protect Journalists Announces 2020 International Press Freedom Awardees

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced that 4 journalists, Shahidul Alam from Bangladesh, Mohammad Mosaed from Iran, Dapo Olorunyomi from Nigeria and Svetlana Prokopyeva from Russia would be honoured with the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards for their courageous act. In addition to them lawyer Amal Clooney would be honoured with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award 2020.
The award will be conferred to them on November 19, 2020, at CPJ's annual benefit gala which will be virtually held. The annual benefit gala will be chaired by Patrick Gaspard, President of Open Society Foundations and hosted by veteran broadcast journalist Lester Holt of NBC News.
Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award is an annual award given by CPJ's board of directors to recognize extraordinary and sustained commitment to press freedom.
Earlier this award was named as Burton Benjamin Memorial Award. In order to honor the veteran journalist and former CPJ board member, who died in 2016, the name was changed as Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award in 2017.

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