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AWARDS AND HONOURS - January 2020

Jan 2020

Jun 10, 2020

NASA Honours Renjith Kumar with "NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal"

Renjith Kumar, Engineer from Kerala and Indian Entrepreneur based in Virginia is honoured with NASA's highest form of recognition for a non-governmental individual "NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal" for his service to NASA through executive leadership, engineering contribution, technical excellence and customer satisfaction.
The "NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal" is given for the non-governmental individuals or individuals who are not a part of government employees during the performed service who provide a level of excellence supporting or impacting the success of NASA's missions and contribution in NASA's advancement of United States interests.
R. K. Chetty Pandipati was the first Indian to win this award in 2002.

Asia's Version of Nobel Prize Awards Cancelled

The Ramon Magsaysay awards, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, have been cancelled this year due to the global pandemic. This is time third time that the annual awards have been disrupted in six decades.
The Manila-based foundation that hands out the awards said that it has no choice but to cancel the awards this year "with the COVID-19 pandemic practically immobilising the world." The awards were also cancelled due to a financial crisis in 1970 and a disastrous earthquake that hit the Philippines in 1990.
The awards are named after a popular Philippine president who died in a 1957 plane crash and honour "greatness of spirit in selfless service to the peoples of Asia."

Jun 09, 2020

Hindu Group Wins Two International Media Awards

The Hindu Group has won two awards at the International News Media Association (INMA) Global Media Awards 2020. This year, the competition received 922 entries for 16 categories from 262 news brands in 44 countries. The winners were announced in a global broadcast recently. The awards were given under Group 1 representing regional/local brands and Group 2 representing global/national brands.
In Group 1, The Hindu secured the first place for its campaign 'Cadbury Sweet Kondattam' for Client Mondelez India for 'Best Idea to Acquire or Retain Advertising Clients'. In Group 2, The Hindu Group secured the second place for its 'Stay home. Stay vigilant.' campaign for 'Best Initiative in Response to Covid-19'.

Jun 08, 2020

Javed Akhtar Wins 2020 Richard Dawkins Award

Veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar won the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values.
Akhtar has become the first Indian to be given the honour, which recognises distinguished individual from the field of science, scholarship, education, or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism and upholding scientific truth.
The award is named after world-renowned English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Actor-comedian Ricky Gervais received the honour last year.

Jun 07, 2020

Forbes 100 World's Highest-paid Celebrities 2020

According to the Forbes 100 world's highest-paid celebrities 2020, Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar ranked 52nd with estimated earnings of USD 48.5 million (M) and is the only Indian featured on the list.
The list is topped by Kylie Jenner, model who earned USD 590M and also topped in the women category, followed by American rapper Kanye West (2nd rank, USD 170M), tennis player Roger Federer (3rd rank, USD 106 M) and football player Cristiano Ronaldo (4th rank , USD 105 M).
The youngest on the list is the 18 year old American Pop musician Billie Eilish(43rd rank, USD 53 M) who is also a newcomer in 2020.
The oldest on the list is 77 years old Musician Paul McCartney (91st rank, USD 37 M.

Jun 06, 2020

Platinum Recognition in ACI Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2020

In Asia-Pacific Annual Green Airport Recognition 2020 Airports Council International (ACI) awarded the highest Platinum Recognition to GMR led Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad International Airport (RGHIA) for their effective water management under the 15-35 Million Passengers per annum (MPPA) category.
The Green Airport Recognition Programme of ACI promotes the environmental practices that minimise the impacts of the aviation sector on the environment and recognises a member of the ACI Asia-Pacific for their achievement in the projects related to the environment.
The focus of Green Airport Recognition 2020 is Water Management.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Wins EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Award

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson of Biocon Ltd, was named the EY World Entrepreneur of The Year at a virtual award ceremony.
Mazumdar-Shaw was picked from among 46 award winners from 41 countries and territories vying for the world title. In the 20-year history of the award, she became the third EY World Entrepreneur of The Year Award winner from India, after Uday Kotak of Kotak Mahindra Bank (2014) and Narayana Murthy of Infosys Technologies Ltd (2005).

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