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AWARDS AND HONOURS - July 2019

Jul 2019

Oct 04, 2019

President Kovind presents Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019

President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019 on the eminent senior citizens and institutions in New Delhi in recognition of their services towards the cause of the elderly persons.
Vayoshreshtha awards are instituted by the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry and are presented as part of the celebration of the International Day of Older Persons on 1st October.

Oct 03, 2019

Viola Davis To Receive Lifetime Achievement Honour At Rome Film Festival

Viola Davis is set to be honoured with the Career Award at the Rome Film Festival.
Davis, who is the first African American actress to win an Academy Award, Emmy and Tony each, will also participate in an event titled "Close Encounter", in which she will discuss her work with festival head Antonio Monda.

Sachin Tendulkar Gets Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador Award

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the most effective Swachchta Ambassador award to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Addressing the India Today Safaigiri Summit in New Delhi, he said, in the past five years, the sanitation drive launched in the country had truly become a mass movement.
He said everyone from the Prime Minister to Gram Pradhan participated directly or indirectly in the cleanliness campaign to make it a success.
He said this historic success could not have been achieved without the participation of every citizen.

Kyrgyz Human Rights Lawyer Wins UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award

A lawyer whose work has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic in becoming the first country in the world to end statelessness has been selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency's Nansen Refugee Award.
Azizbek Ashurov, through his organization Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders (FVLWB), has helped well over 10,000 people to gain Kyrgyz nationality after they became stateless following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Among them, some 2,000 children will now have the right to an education and a future with the freedom to travel, marry and work.

Oct 02, 2019

Elgi Equipments Wins 2019 Deming Prize For Total Quality Management

Elgi Equipments has won the coveted 2019 Deming Prize for the sustained application and leverage of TQM (Total Quality Management) across the organization.
The Deming Prize is one of the highest awards on TQM (Total Quality Management) in the world and since its establishment in 1951, has been awarded to 251 organizations worldwide.
Elgi is the first globally established, industrial air compressor manufacturer, outside of Japan, to win the prestigious award in over 60 years and will formally receive the prize on the 6th of November 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.

Oct 01, 2019

President Kovind Confered Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019

President Ram Nath Kovind confered the Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019 on the eminent senior citizens and institutions in recognition of their services towards the cause of the elderly persons. The award will be given at a function in New Delhi.
The Vayoshreshtha Samman is a Scheme of awards instituted by the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry and gradually upgraded to the status of National Awards for institutions involved in rendering distinguished service for the cause of elderly persons.
These awards were presented as part of the celebration of the International Day of Older Persons on 1st October, 2019.

Sep 30, 2019

Scientist Thanu Padmanabhan Gets M. P. Birla Memorial Award

Physicist Thanu Padmanabhan received the M. P. Birla Memorial Award 2019 for his contributions to the world of cosmology.
Padmanabhan, a professor of Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, received the award at a programme held at M. P. Birla Planetarium.
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu presents the 28th Saraswati Samman to Dr. K. Siva Reddy in New Delhi. He lauded the KK Birla Foundation for creating a framework to adjudge the creative output in literature of different languages of our vast country to honour the most deserving.
Padmanabhan, a visiting faculty to several institutes in the US and the UK, has contributed to the fields of general relativity, gravitation and cosmology.

Ayushmann Named Actor of the Year at GQ Men of the Year Awards 2019

The GQ Men of the Year awards 2019 took place in Mumbai on September 28, 2019 and a plethora of Bollywood celebrities turned up for the event in their fashion A-game. The red carpet saw charming tuxedoes, stylish gowns and more. Ayushmann Khurrana won the Actor of the year award while Sara Ali Khan received the Breakthrough Artist honour.

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