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AWARDS AND HONOURS - July 2019

Jul 2019

Jan 18, 2020

Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award to Prof. M. S. Swaminathan

  • Agricultural Scientist Prof. M. S. Swaminathan was awarded the "Muppavarapu Venenkaiah Naidu" National award. The award was also presented to Mr. Muniratnam. Mr. Muniratnam was the first person to receive the award four days back.
  • The award carried cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh. During the celebrations, the professor was titled as "Father of Green Revolution and the Doyen of Agricultural Science".
  • Muppavarapu foundation is a non-profit organisation started by Mr. Muppavarapu Harshavardhan, son of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu.

Jan 17, 2020

Mohi Selected for Saraswati Samman 19

  • Acclaimed Sindhi poet and writer Vasdev Mohi was selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2019, a literary recognition given annually by the K. K. Birla Foundation. The award is for his work 'Chequebook', a collection of short stories in Sindhi, published in 2012.
  • 'Chequebook' highlights the life of a domestic helper, facing ill-treatment from her husband and hardships because of poverty.

Jan 16, 2020

Crossword Book Awards

  • The 17th edition of Crossword Book Awards was held in Mumbai, where Twinkle Khanna won the Popular Best Fiction Award for her novel 'Pyjamas Are Forgiving,' while Gaur Gopal Das took home the trophy for best book in the Non-fiction category for Life's Amazing Secrets: How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life.
  • The popular awards category for both fiction and non-fiction had heavyweight nominees like Raghuram Rajan, Shashi Tharoor, Amish Tripathi and Durjoy Dutta vying for the top prizes.
  • For his perceptive and analytical portrait of music composer AR Rahman, Krishna Trilok was handed the trophy in the Biography category for Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of AR Rahman.
  • The jury award for Best Fiction went to The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, and Shanta Gokhale won the trophy in Non-fiction category for her book One Foot on the Ground: A Life Told Through the Body.
  • Richa Jha (Author, Editor) and Sumanta Dey (Illustrator) won for their children's book MachherJhol: Fish Curry in the jury category, while Sudha Murty won for her children's book The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales About Rama and Krishna in the popular awards category.
  • Jayasree Kalathil and N Prabhakaran bagged the best book in the Indian Language Translation category for Diary of a Malayali Madman.
  • The jury of Crossword Book Awards comprised of a twelve-member team.

ICC awards 2019

  • ICC Awards 2019: England all-rounder Ben Stokes won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Player of the Year after a stunning 2019. Indian opener Rohit Sharma was awarded the ODI player of the year. Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins has been named the Test Player of the Year.
  • Here is the full list of ICC Award winners:
                 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Best Cricketer of the Year – Ben Stokes (England)
                 Test Cricketer of the Year – Pat Cummins (Australia)
                 ODI Cricketer of the Year – Rohit Sharma (India)
                 T20I Performance of the Year – Deepak Chahar (India, 6-7 v Bangladesh)
                 Emerging Cricketer of the Year – Marnus Labuschagne (Australia)
                 Associate Cricketer of the Year – Kyle Coetzer (Scotland)
                 Spirit of Cricket Award – Virat Kohli stopping the fans booing Steve Smith at the Oval
                 David Shepherd Trophy for Umpire of the Year – Richard Illingworth

Nitin Gadkari presents National Highways Excellence Awards 2019

  • National Highway Excellence Awards were instituted in the year 2018 to recognize the well-performing companies in the field of construction, operations, maintenance, toll collection and road safety on National Highways.
  • The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari presented the 'National Highways Excellence Awards 2019' to 12 outstanding performers in NH sector on 14 January 2020 in New Delhi.
  •  The award is given in seven categories namely:
              1. Excellence in Project Management,
              2. Excellence in Operation and Maintenance
              3. Excellence in Toll Management,
             4. Excellence in Highway Safety
             5. Innovation
             6. Outstanding Work in Challenging Conditions
             7. Green Highway

Crossword Book Awards

  • The 17th edition of Crossword Book Awards was held in Mumbai, where Twinkle Khanna won the Popular Best Fiction Award for her novel 'Pyjamas Are Forgiving,' while Gaur Gopal Das took home the trophy for best book in the Non-fiction category for Life's Amazing Secrets: How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life.
  • The popular awards category for both fiction and non-fiction had heavyweight nominees like Raghuram Rajan, Shashi Tharoor, Amish Tripathi and Durjoy Dutta vying for the top prizes.
  • For his perceptive and analytical portrait of music composer AR Rahman, Krishna Trilok was handed the trophy in the Biography category for Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of AR Rahman.
  • The jury award for Best Fiction went to The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, and Shanta Gokhale won the trophy in Non-fiction category for her book One Foot on the Ground: A Life Told Through the Body.
  • Richa Jha (Author, Editor) and Sumanta Dey (Illustrator) won for their children's book MachherJhol: Fish Curry in the jury category, while Sudha Murty won for her children's book The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales About Rama and Krishna in the popular awards category.
  • Jayasree Kalathil and N Prabhakaran bagged the best book in the Indian Language Translation category for Diary of a Malayali Madman.
  • The jury of Crossword Book Awards comprised of a twelve-member team.

Jan 14, 2020

NASA Awards Contract For Aircraft Operations Support

  •  NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for aircraft operations support at the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and other NASA centers, as needed.
  • The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a value of $150 million and begins March 1, 2020.
  • Vertex will support all NASA-assigned aircraft operations, including maintenance, modification, and flight line operations.

Corvette Wins North American Car Of The Year Award

  •  The Chevrolet Corvette won the North American Car of the Year Award at an event in Detroit. In addition, the Kia Telluride was named SUV of the Year and the Jeep Gladiator won Truck of the Year.
  • The awards, voted on by a jury of 50 automotive journalists, are considered to be among the most prestigious automotive honors. To be eligible, a vehicle had to be either completely new for the 2020 model year or be substantially redesigned.
  • The Corvette and the Telluride also both received the MotorTrend Car and SUV of the Year awards in November in Los Angeles.

Indian Test Team, Punia Win Top Honours In Sportstar Awards

  •  The Indian Test side was named the Team of the Year while star wrestler Bajrang Punia was chosen as the Sportsman of the Year in individual category at the Sportstar Aces Awards.
  • Chess ace Koneru Humpy and star shooter Apurvi Chandela jointly won the Sportswoman of the Year (Individual Sports) Award.
  • Batsman Rohit Sharma bagged the Cricketer of the Year Award (Male) while Smriti Mandhana was named the top player in the women''s category.
  • World champion shuttler P V Sindhu won the Sportswoman of the Year (racquet sports) Award while legendary tennis player Leander Paes, who is set to retire this year, bagged the Special Recognition Award at a glittering function.
  • Indian men''s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh won the Sportsman of the Year (Team Sports) Award. Shooter Mehuli Ghosh was named as the female Young Athlete of the Year.

Jan 13, 2020

Nitin Gadkari Confer National Highways Excellence Awards

  •  The National Highways Excellence Awards will be conferred by the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Shri Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on 14 January 2020. The award by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways acknowledges the exceptional work that is done in various aspects of highway management.
  • Award:
  • ♦ It recognizes the agencies that go beyond the scope of their work to deliver the finest quality of services.
  • ♦ The 7 categories of the award is:
  • 1) Excellence in Project Management
  • 2) Excellence in Operation and Maintenance
  • 3) Excellence in Toll Management
  • 4) Excellence in Highway Safety
  • 5) Innovation
  • 6) Outstanding Work in Challenging Conditions
  • 7) Green Highway

Jennifer Doudna Awarded 2020 Wolf Prize In Medicine

  •  Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry, has won the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine, a prestigious international prize awarded in Israel for unique contributions to humanity.
  • Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, shared the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, for their 2012 invention of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology.

Dibrugarh Awarded With Plastic Waste Management Award 2020

  •  Dibrugarh district has been awarded the Plastic Waste Management Award -2020 for being the best district of India in plastic waste management category during Swachhta Hi Sewa 2019.
  • Dibrugarh Deputy Commissioner Pallav Gopal Jha received the award from renowned Bollywood actor Amir Khan at a function in Delhi as recognition of the innovative and effective efforts taken by the district in managing plastic waste in rural areas of the district. The function was organized by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt of India.
  • Swachhta hi Seva 2019, a massive nationwide awareness and mobilization campaign on Swachhta, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mathura on September 11, 2019.

British Indian Yoga Champion Wins Global Child Prodigy Award

  •  A 10-year-old schoolboy and under-11 yoga champion from the UK has been honoured with the Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 for achievements in spiritual discipline yoga.
  • Ishwar Sharma, based in Kent in south-eastern England, was chosen from the UK for the awards which honour child prodigies from across 45 countries and 30 different categories such as palaeontology, biking, choreography, fitness and martial arts, among others.
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