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Jan 2019

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.

Jul 15, 2020

Ashok Kumar, Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award of Mohun Bagan Football Club

Legendary Hockey Player Ashok Kumar, key player of the 1975 World Cup winning Indian Hockey team was honoured with the Lifetime achievement award by the city football club – Mohun Bagan Athletic Club on its foundation day over a virtual ceremony.
Ashok Kumar is the son of Hockey wizard Dhyan Chand.
He represented Bengal in the late 1960 and was later selected to the Indian Hockey team.
He won silver medals in the three consecutive Asian Games of 1970, 1974 and 1978.
He won the bronze medal in the Munich Olympic Games in 1972.

Chandrasekaran and Taiclet to Receive USIBC Global Leadership Award

Business advocacy group USIBC said that Tata group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran and Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet will receive the USIBC Global Leadership Award this year (2020). "Every year, the USIBC Global Leadership Awards are conferred upon executives in recognition of outstanding leadership and for promoting Indo-US trade and business.
The earlier receivers of this award include Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Google CEO Adena Friedman, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Sun Pharmaceuticals Founder and Managing Director Dilip Shanghvi.

Jul 14, 2020

Elites Excellence Awards 2020

The Chief Minister Darpan Portal and Mobile app, which contains the details of the schemes of the Government of Chhattisgarh like Suraji Gaon Yojana, received the Elites Excellence Awards 2020 under the government category for the innovation for monitoring important schemes of the government by the IT institution Elites Technomedia under the Digital India Initiative.
The e-certificate was presented during the three-day virtual conference from 10th July to 12th July organised to encourage innovation in the IT Sector of the Government.
The conference was inaugurated on 10th July 2020 by Nitin Gadgari, Union Minister of MSME.
The portal and the mobile application for the Chief Minister Darpan were developed by the Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS).
The portal was released on 10th June 2020 by Bhupesh Baghel, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.

IAA Names ISRO Chief K. Sivan as the Recipient of 2020 Von Karman Award

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) announced Dr. Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Chief of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as the recipient of the 2020 Von Karman Award, the highest distinction of the IAA. The award will be presented to Dr. K. Sivan in March 2021 at Paris.
The premier award of IAA was instituted in 1982 in the memory of Dr. Theodore Von Karman, renowned aerospace scientist and the founder and the first President of IAA.
The Award is annually presented to recognise the distinguished contributions and lifetime achievements in any branch of science.

Jul 13, 2020

TN CM Edappadi K. Palaniswami with Paul Harris Fellow Recognition

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Chicago, honoured Tamil Nadu (TN) Chief Minister (CM) Edappadi K Palaniswami with Paul Harris Fellow recognition.
The recognition is in the honour of Rotary founder, Paul Harris who contributed to The Rotary Foundation.
The Paul Harris Fellow recognition is conferred to honour the efficient service of people who provide drinking water, sanitation, prevention of diseases, environment, world peace etc. to its people.
It also acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of USD 1,000 to The Rotary Foundation.

NTPC Wins Prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019

National Thermal Power Corporation, NTPC Limited, a Central PSU under Ministry of Power won the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019, under Outstanding Accomplishment in Corporate Excellence Category.
The company also received Commendation for Significant Achievement in the category of CSR. Power Ministry said that NTPC always strives for sustainable development of its communities around the power stations. CII-ITC Sustainability Awards recognize and reward excellence in sustainability practices. It is considered to be the most credible platform for sustainability recognition in the country.
NTPCs flagship CSR program Girl Empowerment Mission, a four weeks residential programme has been institutionalised in the vicinity of its power stations for the benefit of school going girls to support in their overall development. NTPC has also initiated Contractors' Labour Information Management System through which payment to contract labourers is paid on the last day of the month at project sites.

IHD India Receives 'Development Marketplace Award 2020'

Institute for Human Development (IHD), an Indian non-profit institution was conferred with 'Development Marketplace Award 2020: Innovations to Address Gender-Based Violence' from World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) for the project alcohol, intimate partner violence and household economy: an assessment of liquor ban in Bihar. Apart from India, other 8 non-profit organisations from various countries also received this award.
Development Marketplace is to address Gender-Based Violence (GBV). This award was first launched in 2016 to honour GBV victims and survivors.
World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) joint hands to support and provide fund for researchers and innovators in low- and middle-income countries to study the violence against women and to reduce the violence against them.
This was held in memory of Hannah Graham, daughter of long time World Bank Group employee John Graham.

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