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AWARDS AND HONOURS - June 2019

Jun 2019

Aug 15, 2020

CRPF's Naresh Kumar Bags his 7th Police Medal for Gallantry

Assistant Commandant (AC) Naresh Kumar scripted history by receiving the Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) for the seventh time in a short span of four years.
Kumar got his first medal in 2017 for an operation conducted in Srinagar in 2016, during which he neutralised two foreign terrorists. In 2018, he was awarded two PMGs for neutralising two Hizbul Mujahideen commanders in a fierce operation, which lasted for three days.

Aug 14, 2020

MS Swaminathan Award for Environment Protection

The Rotary Club of Madras East has conferred the MS Swaminathan Award for Environment Protection 2019 upon R. S. Paroda the Founder Chairman of the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS), New Delhi for his enormous contributions in the field of plant breeding and genetic resource management and his leadership in establishing over 20 institutions in the field of crops, horticulture, livestock, natural resource management, fisheries, agricultural engineering and social science sectors.
A Padma Bhushan awardee, Paroda was a former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Government of India.

Aug 10, 2020

Nitin Sethi Bags ACJ Investigative Journalism Award

Nitin Sethi of The Huffington Post India and Shiv Sahay Singh of The Hindu bagged the prestigious Asian College of Journalism's Award for Investigative Journalism and the K. P. Narayana Kumar Memorial Award for Social Impact Journalism, respectively.
While Sethi won the award for his six-part series titled 'Paisa Politics' on electoral bonds, Singh's story titled 'Death by digital exclusion: On faculty, public distribution system in Jharkhand' earned him the inaugural version of the social impact journalism award.
The awards were presented at a ceremony conducted online due to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. The final jury comprising Senthil Changalvarayan, Vidya Subrahmaniam and Jose Martin Tharakan chose the winners from ten shortlisted entries in each category.

Food Vision 2050 Prize for Naandi Foundation's Arakunomics

Rockefeller Foundation selected Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad-based non-profit, as one of the 'Top 10 Visionaries' in the world for the Food Vision 2050 Prize, announced in New York. The recognition fetches Naandi a prize money of $200,000.
The award recognised the application of Arakunomics model in regions of Araku, Wardha and New Delhi, leading to the Food Vision 2050 that follows an "ABCDEFGH" framework centring on: Agriculture, Biology, Compost, Decentralised decision-making, Entrepreneurs, Families, Global Markets, and 'Headstands', or turning current approaches on their head.
Naandi competed with over 1,300 entries in a two-level contest that was spread over almost a year.

Aug 08, 2020

UNESCO Recognises Venkatraipur and Noliasahi of Odisha as Tsunami Ready

In a first, two coastal villages of Odisha were recognised as being "Tsunami Ready" by UNESCO for their overall preparedness to face the calamity.
With it Odisha became the first state in the country to have such villages and the country the first in the Indian Ocean region to achieve the honour from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
The two coastal villages are Venkatraipur (Boxipalli) village of Rangeilunda block in Ganjam district and Noliasahi village of Ersama block in Jagatsinghpur district.
The certificate of recognition was handed over to the communities of Venkatraipur and Noliasahi in a virtual event.
This recognition has made Odisha a role model for tsunami preparedness. With this award, the state is motivated to make the 326 villages and urban local bodies tsunami ready in one year's time.

Winners of the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge

Winners of a challenge envisaged to showcase India as one of the leading app developing countries globally were announced in nine categories that saw short video app Chingari, news app Logically and health app StepSetGo emerge as top players in their categories, among others.
The "AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge" was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2020 which saw participation from 6,940 tech entrepreneurs and start-ups across the country.
The challenge had entries for nine different categories namely Business, eLearning, Entertainment, Games, Health, News, Office and Work from Home, Others and Social. A mega hackathon was organised on Friday where the top finalists selected under the challenge across categories showcased their apps.
In the Social category, Chingari emerged as the top winner, followed by writing app Your Quote and Koo which allows people to follow top Indians and news in Indian languages.
In the Business category, the top three winners were Zoho Invoice, Books & Expense; Mall 91; and GimBooks -- Easy Invoice Manager, respectively. The E-Learning category also had three winners with Disprz; Kutuki Kids Learning app; and Hello English: Learn English, taking the first, second and third positions respectively.
In the News category, Logically was followed by IsEqualTo which offers daily news, quiz and general knowledge for students. In the Entertainment category, the top three winners were CaptionPlus; Meme Chat; and FTC Talent, respectively.
In the Games category, the top three winners were Hitwicket Superstars - 3D cricket Strategy Game; ScarFall-- The Royale Combat; and World Cricket Championship 2a" WCC2, respectively.
The Office category had two winners Zoho Workplace & Cliq followed by SureMDM. The health category also had two winners StepSetGo (SSG) followed by iMumz - week by week pregnancy programme. The Other category had three winners -- MapmyIndia Move - Maps, Navigation and Tracking; Ask Sarkar; myitreturn in top positions respectively.

Aug 07, 2020

DIAT, Pune Wins First Prize in Smart India Hackathon-2020

Pune-based Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) won the first prize in the Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2020, a national-level digital product building competition.
DIAT's team of six members provided a solution titled "DRISHTI" to recognise face, expression and gesture using artificial intelligence (AI).
The team, led by Dr. Sunita Dhavale, won the first prize of Rs. 1 lakh for solving problem statement MS331 in the category of software posed by the Madhya Pradesh government.
DIAT is a deemed university under the ministry's Department of Defence Research and Development.
The SIH-2020 is a 36-hour non-stop digital product building competition for software edition organised jointly by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and All India Council for Technical Education.

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