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AWARDS AND HONOURS - May 2022

May 2022

Jun 01, 2022

R. J. Umar Receives the Immunisation Champion Award by UNICEF

Radio Jockey Umar Nisar (R.J. Umar) from South Kashmir, was awarded the '01 Best Content Award' and the Immunization Champion award by United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) at the annual Radio4Child 2022 Awards in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The award was presented by multi-Grammy Award-winning music composer, environmentalist, and UNICEF celebrity supporter Ricky Kej, OIC UNICEF, UP Dr. Zafrin Chowdhury, chief of communications and advocacy and partnerships, UNICEF India.
The award was conferred to Umar for his work of providing awareness and countering rumours to reach audiences during the pandemic. The Radio4Child felicitated radio professionals from private FM and All India Radio from across the country for their commendable work during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as for routine vaccination. These radio professionals highlighted the importance of routine vaccination among people.

IAF Officer Killed in CDS Chopper Crash Awarded Shaurya Chakra

Indian Air Force pilot Group Captain Varun Singh, who died after suffering serious injuries in the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) chopper crash, was posthumously awarded Shaurya Chakra, the country's third-highest peacetime gallantry medal, by President Ram Nath Kovind for a previous act of valour. His wife Geetanjali Singh and mother Uma Singh received the award. Group Captain Varun Singh was posted to a Light Combat Aircraft squadron when on October 2020 he had taken off from Air Force Station Hindan near Delhi.
One Kirti Chakra (Posthumous) and 14 Shaurya Chakras, including eight posthumous, were awarded at a defence investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

May 31, 2022

Sanjit Narwekar Gets V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award at MIFF 2022

The 17th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival of India (MIFF 2022) conferred V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award on noted author and documentary filmmaker Sanjit Narwekar to commemorate his exquisitely deep, remarkably diverse and inspiring body of work. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal presented the award to Sanjit Narwekar along with a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh, Golden Conch and a citation.
Narwekar is a National award-winning film historian, author, publisher and documentary filmmaker with more than four decades of cross-media experience in Journalism, Public Relations, Publishing and Filmmaking.

May 30, 2022

Shaunak Sen's Documentary 'All That Breathes' Wins L'�'il D'or Award at Cannes

Filmmaker Shaunak Sen's documentary All That Breathes, India's only entry at Cannes Film Festival 2022, has won the 2022 L'Oeil d'Or, the festival's top prize for documentaries. All That Breathes follows the lives of siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad who, working out of their derelict basement in Delhi's Wazirabad, rescue and treat injured birds, especially the black kites. It recently had its premiere at Cannes in the Special Screening segment.
The 90-minute long film was chosen the winner by the jury, comprising Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, Ukrainian writer-director Iryna Tsilyk, French actor Pierre Deladonchamps, journalist Alex Vicente, and Moroccan writer-filmmaker Hicham Falah. The L'Oeil d'Or documentary award, also known as The Golden Eye award, was created in 2015 by the French-speaking authors' society LaScam in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival.

May 29, 2022

A. Gopalakrishnan Wins VASVIK industrial Research Award 2020

A. Gopalakrishnan, Director of the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute won the VASVIK (Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra) Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the category of Agricultural Sciences and Technology. The award, which carries a cash prize of Rs. 1.51 lakh and citation, is in recognition of his significant contribution towards the research works related to fish genetics. The research works related to fish genetics which is relevant for conserving many commercially important and endangered species.
The VASVIK research award is presented to scientists and researchers who have excelled in various fields including agricultural sciences. His research works include the Genetic Stock Identification (GSI), species inventory, taxonomy, breeding and seed production of threatened and commercially important species for mariculture which has helped in improving scientific knowledge on Indian fishery and the conservative measures.

May 28, 2022

Coveted Award for Former PM Manmohan Singh

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will be honoured with prestigious Anuvrat Puraskar. Sanchay Jain, president, Anuvrat Vishwa Bharati Society, said this was the top award of the Anuvrat movement.
The award will be given to Dr. Manmohan Singh soon for simplicity and purity in personal life and for his constructive contribution in upgrade of moral and human values. As many as 26 distinguished persons, including former PM Gulzarilal Nanda, Dr Atmaram, Jainendra Kumar, Shivaji Bhave, L.K. Advani, Shivraj Patil, T.N. Seshan and Prakash Amte, were honoured with the Anuvrat Puraskar.
Acharya Tulsi had founded the Anuvrat Andolan after Independence and its aim was to motivate citizens to experience real freedom by adopting restraint, purity and non-violence in their lives.

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