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AWARDS AND HONOURS - January 2019

Jan 2019

Jul 09, 2020

Rajagiri Media Announces Awards for Innovation in Education

Two national awards in the field of education have been launched by Rajagiri Media to promote outstanding contributions by start-ups in education sector and the schools who have come up with innovative practices during the lockdown.
The Pallikkutam National Award for Innovation in Education 2020 is meant to recognise the disruptive innovations in education. Among the activities of schools assessed include content creation, e-learning pedagogy, teaching-learning, online assessments and management. The award carries a total prize money of Rs. 1,75,000 with the winner getting Rs. 100,000 and second and third prize winners getting Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 25,000, respectively.
The entries will be evaluated by a team of experts at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.
The Pallikkutam National Award for start-ups in education 2020 is meant to for DPIIT-recognised start-ups who have implemented disruptive and frugal solutions in education technology sector. The award is being given in collaboration with Kerala Start-up Mission.
The awards carry a total prize money of Rs. 1,75,000 and the winner gets Rs. 1 lakh.
According to Varghese Panthalookaran, Director of Rajagiri Media, the lockdown has thrown up immense challenges caused by disruptions in traditional learning and the need to incorporate new methods of virtual learning for extended periods. The two awards are meant to motivate stakeholders in education to come up with new technologies and systems to convert the crisis into an opportunity for a paradigm shift in education.

Hittakkal Group Wins Titles at the Golden Leaf India Award

For the 16th successive year, the Hittakkal group has won bagful of titles at The Golden Leaf India Award: Southern Tea Competition (TGLIA), a joint initiative of Tea Board and the UPASI.
The group won five titles this year – three in CTC and two in Orthodox.

Jul 04, 2020

Freya Thakral Named among 2020's Diana Award Roll of Honours

Freya Thakral, a 13 year old student of the British School New Delhi received the 2020 Diana Award for her Recycler App, which she developed to connect users with waste-handlers as a measure to help the ragpickers of Delhi .The award is presented annually on the birth anniversary of Princess Diana.
The Diana Award was established in 1999 in memory of Princess Diana, to recognise the social work and humanitarian efforts of youngsters across the United Kingdom and around the world.
The Diana Awards has a 13 member judge panel representing each nation of the UK and 3 panels representing other countries, each panel representing an education or youth work professional and a business or government.

Jul 03, 2020

Siddhartha Mukherjee and Raj Chetty Named among '2020 Great Immigrants' Honourees

Carnegie Corporation of New York has named 2 renowned Indian-Americans, Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Raj Chetty, Economics Professor at Harvard University among '2020 Great Immigrants' honourees.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a noted biologist, oncologist, and the author of several acclaimed books. He has been a faculty of Columbia University since 2009.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' in 2011. He received the Padma Shri in 2014. Among other honours this book was listed in the Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books".
Raj Chetty served as a economics professor in University of California, Berkeley in 2003, Stanford in 2015.
He has helped to launch a resource to monitor the real-time economic impact of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities across the United States.
He received the Padma Shri in 2015, the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 2013 & Young Labor Economist Award in 2010.
He has been named a MacArthur Fellow (2012) and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2019).
Carnegie Corporation of New York every 4th of July since 2006, recognises an extraordinary group of immigrants who have made exemplary contributions to the progress of American society.

Jul 02, 2020

Kritika Pandey Wins 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Kritika Pandey won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The 29-year-old received the coveted honour for her short story, 'The Great Indian Tee and Snakes', which centres around an unlikely friendship struck at the background of a tea stall.
She is a 2020 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Master of Fine Arts for Poets and Writers.
Every year, The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best unpublished short fiction. It should range from 2,000-5000 words in English. Any Commonwealth citizens aged 18 years and above is eligible for it. This year, the prize received over 5000 entries from 49 countries. The judging panel is well represented, with each representing five regions of the Commonwealth.

Government to Release Commemorative Stamp of Former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao

Government announced that it will release commemorative stamp to honour former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao after celebrating his 100th birth anniversary. He is regarded as the 'Father of Indian Economic Reforms'.
P. V. Narasimha Rao served as 9th Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996.
He is the only non-Gandhi who completed a full term as Prime Minister. He was also the 1st Prime Minister of the country to hail from South India.
It is a limited-issue postal stamp to commemorate a place, event, person, or object of historical importance. This stamp is owned by collectors and sold privately through auctions and online.

Jul 01, 2020

MyGov Corona Helpdesk Bags Two Awards at CogX 2020

AI enabled MyGov Corona Helpdesk bagged two awards under categories (1) "Best Innovation for Covid-19 – Society" and (2) "People's Choice Covid-19 Overall Winner", at the CogX 2020, which is a prestigious Global Leadership Summit and Festival of AI & Emerging Technology held annually in London. The awards were won by Technical Partner of MyGov, JioHaptik Technologies Limited.
MyGov is the world's largest citizen engagement platform, which facilitates two-ways communication between the government and citizen and facilitates participatory governance in India, the world's largest democracy. In the fight against Covid-19, MyGov, JioHaptik Technologies Limited and WhatsApp team collaborated to develop AI enabled MyGov Corona Helpdesk in the record time of 5 days including weekend.
CogX is one of the world's largest events on AI, held annually in London with over 15,000 participants in attendance from the highest levels of business, government, industry, and research. The Cogx Awards are given out to the best-of-the-best in AI and emerging technologies across the world. After a rigorous evaluation, Indian chatbot 'MyGov Corona Helpdesk' was chosen among hundreds of entries that made a difference to society during the pandemic.

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