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AWARDS AND HONOURS - May 2019

May 2019

Nov 07, 2021

Ayodhya's 'Deepotsav' Enters Guinness World Records

Uttar Pradesh's Department of Tourism and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University jointly entered in Guinness World Records for the largest display of oil lamps during Deepotsava at Ram ki Paidi ghats in Ayodhya.
"Today we have lit up 9 lakh earthen lamps. I want to extend my greetings to everyone on this Deepotsav program," Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said at an event of Deepotsava celebrations in Ayodhya.
The 'Deepotsav' celebrations in Ayodhya last year had set the Guinness World records for 'the largest display of oil lamps' after 5,84,572 earthen lamps were lit on the banks of River Saryu.

Nov 06, 2021

South African Author Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize

South African playwright and novelist, Damon Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's presidency. Spanning several decades, the book shows the family's growing disintegration as the country emerges into democracy.
Mr. Galgut took the prize on his third time as a finalist, for a book the judges called a "tour de force." He was previously shortlisted for "The Good Doctor" in 2003 and "In a Strange Room" in 2010, but lost both times.

Nov 05, 2021

New Zealand's Annual Bird of The Year Award

An independent conservation organisation in New Zealand, Forest & Bird, organised its annual Bird of The Year Award.
In the year 2021, the annual bird of the year award was won by Pekapeka-tou-roa, which is a native bat species of New Zealand.
The species was made the winner in competition, despite not being a bird.
Pekapeka-tou-roa is also known as long-tailed bat. It is one among New Zealand's two land mammals. This species of bat was added to the Bird of the Year list by Forest and Bird as these species of bat as well as native birds are threatened by the same problems like habitat loss, predators and climate change. Thus, the first time in 2021, the organisation has let a native mammal to enter the competition.

Nov 04, 2021

National Sports Awards

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award winners: Neeraj Chopra: Athletics, Ravi Kumar: Wrestling, Lovlina Borgohain: Boxing, Sreejesh P.R: Hockey, Avani Lekhara: Para Shooting, Pramod Bhagat: Para Badminton, Krishna Nagar: Para Badminton, Manish Narwal: Para Shooting, Mithali Raj: Cricket, Sunil Chhetri: Football, Manpreet Singh: Hockey
Arjuna Award winners include Arpinder Singh: Athletics and Simranjit Kaur: Boxing
Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches winners include T. P. Ouseph: Athletics and Sarkar Talwar: Cricket in Life-Time Category. In Regular Category, winners include Radhakrishnan Nair P: Athletics and Sandhya Gurung: Boxing.
Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement winners include Lekha K.C.: Boxing and Abhijeet Kunte: Chess.

Nov 02, 2021

International Recognition for ANU Professor

Acharya Nagarjuna University's physics professor(UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow) N. Veeraiah featured in the top 2% ranks of scientists announced by Stanford University.
Among the 2,69,833 names of scientists identified as rankers in the physics and astronomy segment worldwide, Prof. Veeraiah was ranked 3,867. Among Indian scientists, he is ranked 49th and first in Andhra Pradesh.
Equipped with 40 years of research and 34 years of teaching experience, Prof. Veeraiah has published around 350 research articles in various internationally reputed journals and has handled research projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He is a visiting Professor of Jan Dlugosz University, Poland and has visited several foreign Universities in Itay, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Germany on academic assignments.

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