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AWARDS AND HONOURS - June 2019

Jun 2019

Oct 28, 2020

Indian Outfit Wins UN Award for Efforts to Combat Climate Change amid Covid

An Indian organisation that leverages tourism and technology to help remote communities access solar energy has won a prestigious UN award for its efforts to combat climate change amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) is among the winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Award.
GHE is one of the world's first organisations using tourism and technology to bring solar energy to remote communities.
The recipients of the 2020 United Nations Global Climate Action Awards, bring focus to the best examples of what people across the globe are doing "to combat climate change in a year that has cast darkness upon so many."
GHE is one of the world's first outfit using tourism and technology to bring solar energy to remote communities as recognised by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).

Oct 27, 2020

Polish City Wroclaw Names Square after Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan shared that Polish city Wroclaw has named a square after his father, poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
It is a moment of pride for their family and the Indian community in Wroclaw. Earlier in July, students of the University of Wroclaw had paid tribute to the veteran Hindi poet by reciting his popular poem Madhushala.

Oct 26, 2020

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Prize

Alessandra Korap of the Munduruku tribe in the Amazon was awarded the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights prize for her work defending the rights, ancestral lands and culture of Indigenous people in Brazil.
The $30,000 award was presented to her by the former U.S. senator's daughter, Kerry Kennedy, in a virtual ceremony from Washington at which keynote speaker former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised her courage.
The award draws attention to the struggle of her tribe to stop the building of hydroelectric dams on the Tapajos River, where the Munduruku live, and gain recognition for their reservation lands.

Oct 23, 2020

Top Human Rights Award to Belarus Opposition

The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko's long, hard-line regime.
The prize will be presented in a ceremony in Strasbourg, France, on Dec 16.

Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project Wins Top UK Engineers Body Award

The Mangdechhu Hydroelectric project in Bhutan, constructed by India has been awarded the Brunel Medal 2020 conferred by UK's top engineering body — Institute of Civil Engineers.
The award, named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel who is known as 19th century engineering giant, was announced on October 5.
The Indian and Bhutanese Prime Ministers had jointly inaugurated the 720MW Project on August 17, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called the project a crucial milestone celebrating India-Bhutan ties and this project shows how the two nations working together can bring immense positivity in the lives of people.

Oct 22, 2020

Founders of Zomato, PolicyBazaar Win IIT Delhi Alumni Awards 2020

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) announced this year's alumni award in various domains including Distinguished Alumni Award, Distinguished Alumni Service Award and Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award. The Distinguished Alumni Award under Entrepreneurship were presented to co-founder and group CEO of Policy Bazaar Mr. Yashish Dahiya and founder and CEO of Zomato Mr. Deepinder Goyal.
IIT Delhi presented the Distinguished Alumni Award to Professor HV Jagadish of Bernard A Galler Collegiate. The Distinguished Alumni Award was also presented to 1982 batch's Mr. Nemkumar Banthia of Canada Research Chair. Professor Jagadesh and Professor Banthia received the Distinguished Alumni Award for excelling in Teaching and Research.

IGNOU Gets Five Star Rating For Innovations and Startup

The Indira Gandhi National Open University, or IGNOU, has been awarded Five Star Rating for Innovation and Startups by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell (MIC) for the year 2019-2020. Out of more than a thousand Universities, Institutes and Colleges including Technical Institutes, only 110 have been awarded Five Star rating.
IGNOU, Prof. Nageshwar Rao, Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU congratulated all the faculty and staff of the University particularly the NCIDE faculty for taking up several innovative initiatives and said that it is a great achievement for an Open and Distance Learning University.

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