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AWARDS AND HONOURS - June 2019

Jun 2019

Nov 25, 2020

Para-athlete among Indian Women on BBC's Top 100

Indian para-athlete and current para-badminton world champion Manasi Joshi and climate activist Ridhima Pandey are among four Indian women to be included in the BBC 100 Women 2020 list.
The list, which celebrates inspirational and influential women across the globe from high profile names to unsung heroes, also includes 82-year-old Bilkis Bano for leading a peaceful protest against the new citizenship law and Isaivani for breaking male domination in the field of Tamil Nadu's Gaana singing.
In a year of unprecedented turbulence, this year's theme is 'How Women Led Change in 2020'.
The worldwide list includes Sanna Marin, who leads Finland's all-female coalition government; Michelle Yeoh, star of the new Avatar and Marvel films; and Sarah Gilbert, who heads the Oxford University research into a coronavirus vaccine; as well as Jane Fonda, a climate activist and actress.
For the first time, this year's list will see the 100th spot left blank to honour all the women who made an impact and a sacrifice in this extraordinary year and allow our audiences to fill it with someone meaningful to them.

Global Award for Pilibhit Tiger for Doubling Tiger Population

The Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) and the Uttar Pradesh Forest department have bagged the first-ever international award, TX2, for doubling the number of tigers in four years against a target of 10 years.
PTR was the first to receive the award among 13 tiger range countries.
It achieved this goal in just four years from 2014, when it had 25 tigers which went up to 65 in 2018.
The award was virtually presented to the principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) of the state, Sunil Pandey, by UNDP's (United Nations Development Program) head of ecosystems and biodiversity, Mindori Paxton.

Nov 23, 2020

Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has been awarded the Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award, on November 21, 2020.
The Vatayan award has been given to Pokhriyal for his excellent contribution to the literary works of India.
The Education Minister has been a recipient of many respected awards in the field of literature and administration including the Sahitya Bharati Award by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Sahitya Gaurav Samman by Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, among others.
The Vatayan International Awards are presented by the Vatayan-UK organisation in London to honour poets, writers, and artists for their works in the respective fields.

Nov 22, 2020

Indo-Japan Cooperation Wins OECD Mutual Agreement Procedure 2019 Award

India-Japan cooperation has won the OECD Mutual Agreement Procedure 2019 Award.
Finance Ministry sources said that India with Japan has won the 2019 Award on Co-operation for highest agreement ratio for a pair of jurisdictions for transfer pricing cases. The Award to India-Japan Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) Cooperation demonstrates India's commitment to provide tax certainty and efficacious dispute resolution mechanism for the Japanese companies doing business in India. There is large number of Japanese companies doing business in India in manufacturing as well as trading sectors.

Nov 21, 2020

Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize 2020

The Booker Prize of the year 2020 was won by Douglas Stuart for his debut novel "Shuggie Bain". The shortlist of Booker Prize consisted of five more titles such as Burnt Sugar. The Burnt Sugar was published in India as "Girl in White Cotton". It also included "The New Wilderness" by Diane Cook, "The Shadow King" by Maaza Mengiste, "This Mournable Body" by Tsitsi Dangarembga, "Real Life" by Brandon Taylor and "The Shadow King" by Maaza Mengiste.
Apart from these authors, the event also witnessed the participation of former US President Barack Obama. He recently published the first volume of his book "A Promised Land".
The Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best novel. The prize is awarded to novels written in English and published in Ireland or UK. It was formerly known as "Booker-McConnell Prize" (1969-2001) and Man Booker Prize (2002-2019). In 1997, Arundati Roy of India won the Booker Prize for her Novel "The God of Small Things".
The Booker Prize carries 50,000 pounds of cash money.
Douglas Stuart who won the 2020 Booker Prize was the only British author on the US-dominated shortlist.

Nov 20, 2020

National Book Award for Fiction

Charles Yu's 'Interior Chinatown', a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction.
Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne's Malcolm X biography, 'The Dead Are Arising', was cited for nonfiction and Kacen Callender's 'King and the Dragonflies' for young people's literature. The poetry prize went to Don Mee Choi's 'DMZ Colony' and the winner for best translated work was Yu Miri's "Tokyo Ueno Station,'' translated from Japanese by Morgan Giles.
Honorary medals were given Wednesday night to mystery novelist Walter Mosley and to the late CEO of Simon & Schuster, Carolyn Reidy.

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