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AWARDS AND HONOURS - August 2021

Aug 2021

Nov 18, 2021

Patrick Radden Keefe Wins 50,000 Pounds Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction

Patrick Radden Keefe's "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" was awarded the 50,000 pound ($67,000) Baillie Gifford Prize during a ceremony at London's Science Museum.
Keefe's book chronicles the billionaire Sackler clan, owner of Purdue Pharma, whose members used their fortune to fund museums and art galleries around the world. A reckoning has come with the revelation that much of that fortune was based on OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller that the company developed in the 1990s and marketed aggressively to doctors.

Nov 17, 2021

M. Mukundan Bags 2021 JCB Prize for His Book 'Delhi: A Soliloquy'

Author M. Mukundan won the 2021 JCB prize for Literature, for his book 'Delhi: A Soliloquy'. The book, which has originally been written in Malayalam was translated into English by Fathima EV and Nandakumar K. The novel, published by Westland, is a story about Delhi through the eyes of its Malayali youth protagonists.

BRO Gets Guinness Recognition for Building Road at 19,024 ft in Ladakh

The Border Roads Organisation has made a Guinness World Record for constructing and blacktopping the world's highest motorable road at 19,024 feet at Umlingla Pass in Ladakh.
Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, Director General of the Border Roads Organization (BRO), received the Guinness World Records certificate.
The Umlingla Pass road was constructed at an altitude higher than the North and South Base Camps of Mount Everest which are at an altitude of 16,900 feet and 17,598 feet, respectively.

The Hindu Gets Project SIREN Award

The Hindu was awarded the Project SIREN Award for Newspapers 2021 for "its consistent high performance on Project SIREN's scorecards measuring responsible reporting on suicide between June 2020 and June 2021."
Project SIREN is an initiative of the India Mental Health Observatory (IMHO) under the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy (CMHLP), which systematically tracks and scores media reports on suicide from major English newspapers and online news publications to promote responsible reporting on suicide among the media.

Nov 16, 2021

IIT Gandhinagar Research Scholars Win Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2021

In a twin achievement by the research scholars at IIT Gandhinagar, Harini Gunda, a PhD student of Chemical Engineering, has won SRISTI-GYTI Award 2021, and Dr. Chandan Kumar Jha, a PhD alumnus and now a postdoctoral fellow in Electrical Engineering, has won BIRAC SITARE-GYTI Appreciation Award 2021.
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards celebrate the spirit of student innovation in all the fields of engineering, science, technology and design through extremely affordable/frugal solutions or the ones that push the technological edge for various areas of social and industrial applications.
The awards are announced every year under two categories, 1) SITAREGYTI given by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and 2) SRISTI-GYTI given by SRISTI.
Harini received this award for developing 'Novel Boron Nano-additives for Improving the Performance of Solid Propellants'.
Chandan received the award for developing 'An Intelligent Hand Rehabilitation and Assessment System for Stroke Patients'.

Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank Gets ASSOCHAM Award

The Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) was adjudged the best regional rural bank (RRB) under the 'Regional Rural Banks' category, in recognition of its initiatives in the sphere of digital financial services by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), Mumbai.
Bank chairman P. Gopikrishna received the award from Reserve Bank of India Regional Director R. Gurumurthy.
Mr. Gopikrishna said that nearly 40 villages under KVGB's jurisdiction are converted to 100% digital villages because of the bank's efforts. Those villages have round-the-clock access to Internet banking, mobile banking, micro ATMs, AEPS (Aadhar Enabled Payment Systems), IMPS, and UPI.

Nov 13, 2021

Kashmiri Singer Qaisar Nizami Gets Grammys 2022 Nomination

Acclaimed Kashmiri musician and singer Qaisar Nizami, best known for his song 'Harmukh Bartal Zagai' has been nominated for the prestigious Grammy award, one of the highest honours in the musical category. The artist was nominated for his song `Nazninay` (O Beauty), which was composed in collaboration with a US-based music composer and santoor player Ehsaan Matoori`s multinational `The Voice and Bridges` project.
Nizami's Grammy nomination marks the first time for a Kashmiri singer to find a place in nominations for the prestigious honour.

Nov 10, 2021

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan Awarded Padma Bhushan

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was awarded the Padma Bhushan by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Veteran politician Mahajan was the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019.
Padma Bhushan is the country's third-highest civilian award, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.

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