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AWARDS AND HONOURS - August 2020

Aug 2020

Feb 19, 2022

Bill Gates conferred Hilal-e-Pakistan Honour for Efforts to Eradicate Polio

Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates visited Pakistan for the first time to step up efforts to eradicate polio from the country. Pakistan is said to be one of the two remaining countries in the world where the poliovirus is still endemic, the only other nation being neighbouring Afghanistan.
Bill Gates was conferred with Hilal-e-Pakistan, the second highest civilian honour in the country, for his efforts to help eradicate polio in Pakistan.

Feb 12, 2022

RailTel Gets ICAI Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting

RailTel bagged the ICAI award for excellence in financial reporting for the year 2020-21 in Public Sector Entities Category.
The award was given by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the premier accounting body which has been holding the annual competition for these awards since 1958.
This award was instituted with a view to promote better standards in the preparation and presentation of information in the financial statements.

Feb 11, 2022

Nitin Gadkari Received 18th Late Madhavrao Limaye Award

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari was facilitated with the 18th late Madhavrao Limaye award in the category of Karyakram Khaasdar (Efficient Member of Parliament) for the year 2020-21. This award was facilitated by Nashik Public Library, Sarvajanik Vachanalay. Earlier, the award was given to Karyaksham Aamdaar, an efficient Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Maharashtra.
The Sarvajanik Vachanalay annually selects one of the members of Vidhan Parishad (Lok Sabha), Vidhan Sabha (Rajya Sabha) for the Efficient MLA or Member of Parliament (MP) Award. The award was instituted in the memory of Limaye by his daughter Dr. Shobha Nerlikar. The award consists of Rs. 50,000 in cash and a memento.

Feb 07, 2022

Jamia Millia Islamia Faculty Bags 'Sir CV Raman Young Scientist Award 2021'

Dr. Ufana Riaz, Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia was conferred with 'Sir CV Raman Young Scientist Award 2021' along with the award Rs. 25000/- in recognition of her outstanding contribution in the field of Materials Chemistry by the St. Peters Institute of Higher Education and Research, Avadi Chennai. The award and citation were presented at the 12th convocation of the Institute.
Dr. Ufana Riaz published more than 140 research papers in the field of conducting polymers, co-authored 3 books and 25 book chapters. Her research work has been published in renowned and highly reputed international journals.

Feb 05, 2022

Karnataka Bank Gets Digital Transformation Award, 'DX 2021 Awards'

Karnataka Bank was awarded the digital transformation award, 'DX 2021 Awards', in recognition of the "innovative" best practice 'KBL VIKAAS', by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for Best Practice in Digital Transformation.
KBL VIKAAS, a wholistic transformation journey, launched by the bank in 2017, has enabled the bank in implementation of digital capabilities, namely, digital journeys for assets and liability products, enhancement in customer experience under ADC products and bringing in a strong culture of sales and marketing. The bank recently launched the digital transformation journey 'KBL NxT' as part of wave 2.0 of 'KBL VIKAAS', with an objective of taking the digital initiatives to the next level and eventually emerge as 'the digital bank of future.

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