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AWARDS AND HONOURS - November 2022

Nov 2022

Sep 27, 2023

Legendary Actor Waheeda Rehman to Receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur announced that veteran actor Waheeda Rehman has been chosen for Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award 2023.
The actress has been critically acclaimed for her roles in Hindi films like Pyaasa, Kaagaz ke Phool and several others.
A Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee, she has exemplified dedication, commitment and the strength of a Bharatiya Nari who can achieve the highest level of professional excellence.

Sep 26, 2023

IIM Lucknow Sets up Radhakrishnan Gopalan Young Faculty Researcher Award

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow announced the setting up of the Radhakrishnan Gopalan Young Faculty Researcher endowment. The award is initiated by the IIM Lucknow Batch of 1996. The Young Faculty Researcher Award will be announced on September 25 every year marking the birthday of Late Radhakrishnan Gopalan.
The award comes with an initial corpus of around Rs. 75 lakh and an annual award value of Rs. 7 lakh. This award aims to recognise and encourage young faculty researchers at IIM Lucknow. The tenure of the endowment is 11 years.

Sep 23, 2023

Indian Scientist Swati Nayak Named World Food Prize's Norman E Borlaug Award Winner

Swati Nayak, an Indian scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), was named the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, with the World Food Prize Foundation describing her as an outstanding young scientist. Nayak is the South Asia Lead for Seed System and Product Management at the IRRI in New Delhi.
She is the third Indian and first Odia to receive the award.
The award is given to exceptional scientists under 40 and someone who works in the field of food and nutrition security, hunger eradication in memory of the Nobel awardee and Green Revolution's chief architect Dr. Norman Borlaug.
In Odisha, Nayak and her team formulated a strategy for introducing the drought-tolerant rice variety 'Shahabhagi Dhan' which remains an integral part of every farm family's diet and crop rotation. For this, she is referred to by the local communities as 'Bihana Didi'.

Sep 22, 2023

Science Awards to Get Makeover as Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar

On the lines of civilian awards, Government of India will now recognise scientists with Rashtriya Vigyan Puruskar under four categories — Vigyan Ratna, Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva–Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, and Vigyan Team — said Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh.
This came days after the government released the finalised list of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardees that was held back for a year. The highest honour for young scientists retains the name Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.
Vigyan Ratna recognises the lifetime achievement of scientists, Vigyan Shri recognises distinguished contributions to a field, Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar encourages young scientists who have made exceptional contributions in their field, and Vigyan Team recognises teams of three or more. The awards will commence in 2024.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards, given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research since 1958 across seven domains, will now be given across 13 categories to young scientists up to the age of 45 for exceptional contributions in any field of science and technology.

Sep 20, 2023

Breakthrough Prize Foundation Announces the Winners of the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes, honouring an esteemed group of the world's most brilliant minds for impactful scientific discoveries, including a subset responsible for substantial progress in the understanding and treatment of major diseases.
The Breakthrough Prize, popularly known as the 'Oscars of Science', was created to celebrate the wonders of scientific age by founding sponsors Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.
The Prize's latest slate of laureates include 11 winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics, sharing five $3 million prizes between them; 12 early-career physicists and mathematicians sharing six $100,000 New Horizons in Physics Prizes; and three women mathematicians who recently completed their PhDs, each receiving a $50,000 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize. This year's prize money comes to a total of $15.75 million, bringing the amount conferred over the thirteen years of the Breakthrough Prize to $308 million.
Carl June and Michel Sadelain were named winners of Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov were named winners of Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Simon Brendle was named winner of Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.

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