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AWARDS AND HONOURS - January 2021

Jan 2021

May 27, 2022

Nawazuddin Siddiqui Honoured with Excellence in Cinema Award at the French Riviera Film Festival

After making a splash on the Cannes red carpet, Nawazuddin Siddiqui was honoured with the Excellence in Cinema award at the French Riviera Film Festival. Nawazuddin Siddiqui was presented the award at the French Riviera Film Festival by Emmy-winning star Vincent De Paul.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui made headlines earlier at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was a part of the Indian contingent. He walked the red carpet alongside the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Anurag Thakur, musician Ricky Kej, CBFC Chief Prasoon Joshi and more. He was also snapped alongside R Madhavan, Kamal Haasan and AR Rahman.

Indian Novel 'Tomb of Sand' Wins International Booker Prize

Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize for "Tomb of Sand," a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine. Originally written in Hindi, it's the first book in any Indian language to win the high-profile award, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English. The 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize money will be split between New Delhi-based Shree and Rockwell, who lives in Vermont.
The book tells the story of an octogenarian widow who dares to cast off convention and confront the ghosts of her experiences during the subcontinent's tumultuous 1947 partition into India and Pakistan.

May 25, 2022

Kishore Jayaraman Receives Honorary British Award by Her Majesty The Queen

Kishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia for Rolls-Royce, received an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen. He received the award for services to international trade and investment, with a key focus on promotion of India-U.K. trade. Mr. Jayaraman is a board member of the U.K.-India Business Council, which supports U.K. businesses set-up in India. He has also been instrumental in promoting bilateral ties by setting up a strategic ecosystem for boosting manufacturing in India enabled by U.K.'s technology.
Under his leadership, the company set up the 'Engineering Centre' in Bengaluru in 2015, 'Digital Centre of Excellence' with over 60 digital technologists in 2017, and its first 'Start-up Accelerator Programme' in India in 2019.

May 24, 2022

Anjali Pandey Bags the CII EXCON Committed Leader Award

Anjali Pandey, Engines and Components Business Unit Leader at Cummins India was awarded with the Committed Leader Award at CII EXCON 2022 in Bengaluru for her efforts to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.
Cummins India has taken active measures to increase its female representation over the past few years resulting in an increase in gender diversity ratio from 5 to 32 per cent over the last two decades, which is a significant achievement for a manufacturing organization.
Cummins drives various initiatives to provide equal opportunities to women, including Women in Technology, gender balance during recruitment, ensuring pay parity, gender-neutral workstations, Cummins Women& Empowerment Network, flexible work arrangements, and award-winning breastfeeding-friendly facilities for new mothers, all of which are strongly supported by leadership.
Diversity & Inclusion is one of Cummins & core values and the organization has an unwavering commitment to building a more dynamic workplace where all employees are inspired and encouraged to achieve their full potential.

May 23, 2022

WHO Honours India's ASHA Volunteers

India's one million all-women ASHA volunteers were honoured by the World Health Organisation for their "crucial role" in providing direct access to healthcare facilities in rural areas and their indefatigable efforts to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Accredited Social Health Activists - or ASHA volunteers - are Indian government's affiliated health workers who are the first point of contact in rural India
Most of them gained spotlight during the peak of the pandemic in India for conducting door-to-door checks to trace coronavirus patients.
ASHA volunteers have also worked to provide maternal care and immunisation for children against vaccine-preventable diseases; community health care; treatment for hypertension and tuberculosis; and core areas of health promotion for nutrition, sanitation and healthy living.

May 21, 2022

Wesley Morgan Wins Colby Award for 'The Hardest Place'

Author and journalist Wesley Morgan was the 2022 winner of the William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing. He was cited for his book The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley. The Colby award, a $5,000 prize named for the former ambassador and CIA director, is given for "a major contribution to the understanding of military history, intelligence operations or international affairs."
Morgan was still a college student when he began embedding with military units in Afghanistan, more than a decade ago. He has since reported on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times, the Washington Post and other outlets. The Colby Award is presented by Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. Previous winners include Dexter Filkins, Karl Marlantes and Adam Higginbotham.

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