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AWARDS AND HONOURS - June 2021

Jun 2021

Sep 09, 2022

West Bengal Bags International Travel Award 2023 for 'Best Destination for Culture'

West Bengal was accredited the International Travel Award 2023 for Best Destination for Culture by the Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA), an affiliate member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The award would be presented at the World Tourism and Aviation Leaders' Summit in Berlin, Germany, on March 9, 2023. For the second year in a row, World Travel Awards selected the Republic of Cuba as the Caribbean's Leading Cultural Destination in 2022.
The Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA) is a professional travel writers organisation established in 1998. It collaborates with the public and private sectors to encourage sustainable development and enhance the quality of travel and tourism. PATWA upholds the fundamental principles of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations (UN), and the UNWTO.

Sep 08, 2022

IISc Bangalore Students Declared Winners of James Dyson Award (National Category)

Two engineering students from the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore were announced as the national winners of the James Dyson Award for the year 2022. They innovated 'EpiSHOT' — a single hand-operated autoinjector to deliver emergency medicine intramuscularly or subcutaneously to treat life-threatening situations like anaphylaxis (or allergic reaction) with the provision for reloading and sterilisation for reuse within two minutes of first use.
Arjun and Krishnan would receive prize money of approximately Rs. 4.6 lakh and would get to represent India in the international round where the final winners will be picked up by Sir James Dyson himself. The international shortlist would be announced on October 12, and the international winners on November 16.

Sep 06, 2022

45 Teachers Awarded National Teachers' Award 2022 by President Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Teachers' Award 2022 to 45 teachers selected for their remarkable work in the field of education ranging from introducing innovative teaching methods in classrooms and encouraging students to take up kitchen gardening to enhancing enrolments among girls through community support.
President Murmu presented the awards at an event in New Delhi to mark Teachers' Day observed to mark the birthday of the first Vice-President Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Sep 05, 2022

Barack Obama Wins Emmy Award for his Narration in Netflix Documentary

Former President Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.
The Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, is behind the five-part series on national parks around the world.
The Emmy joins Mr. Obama's two Grammy awards putting him halfway to becoming an Egot - someone with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
He became only the second US President in history to win an Emmy.
The Netflix series showcases natural beauty spanning five continents, and features locations including Chilean Patagonia and Indonesia.
Other contenders in the category for best narrator included David Attenborough, Lupita Nyong'o and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Sep 04, 2022

Cambodian, Japanese among Winners of Magsaysay Awards 2022

A Filipino children's rights advocate was named among the recipients for this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize.
The awardees are Sotheara Chhim, a mental health advocate from Cambodia; Gary Bencheghib, an anti-plastic pollution warrior from Indonesia, Tadashi Hattori, a sight-saving humanitarian from Japan and Bernadette J. Madrid from Philippines.
Bernadette J. Madrid, together with her fellow Asian honourees, will be conferred with the continent's premier prize and highest honour in formal Presentation Ceremonies to be held at the Ramon Magsaysay Centre in Manila on November 30.
Each will receive a certificate and a medallion bearing the likeness of the seventh Philippine president, who was posthumously referred to by the people as the "Idol of the Masses."
Incepted in 1958, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, named after the late Philippine president, celebrates his legacy and leadership example. This accolade is bestowed annually to individuals or organizations in Asia who possess the same selfless service and transformative influence of the late and beloved Filipino leader.

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