President’s Colours Award: The Chief of Army Staff recently presented the prestigious ‘President’s Colours’ to the Third Battalion of the Naga Regiment. President’s Colours Award is the highest honor that can be awarded to any military unit, military training establishments, or state/UT Police Forces of India. It is bestowed upon a military unit in recognition […]
Category: Important Awards
Saraswati Samman Award 2022
Saraswati Samman Award 2022: Tamil writer Sivasankari was presented with the ‘Saraswati Samman’ 2022 for her book of memoirs Surya Vamsam. Saraswati Samman Award is given annually for outstanding literary works in 22 Indian languages in the last 10 years. It is among the highest recognitions in the field of Indian literature. The selection follows […]
2023 Economics Nobel Prize
2023 Economics Nobel Prize: US labour economist Claudia Goldin was recently awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her contributions to understanding women’s labor market outcomes. She provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries. Her research reveals the causes of change as well as the […]
Nobel Peace Prize 2023
Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran […]
Nobel Prize In Literature 2023
Nobel Prize In Literature 2023: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize amount for 2023 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11.0 million […]
Nobel Prize In Chemistry For 2023
Nobel Prize In Chemistry For 2023: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023 has been conferred upon Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov for their groundbreaking work on quantum dots. These tiny nanoparticles have far-reaching applications in various fields, from electronics to medical diagnostics. Quantum dots are nanoparticles with unique properties, […]
National Service Scheme Awards
National Service Scheme Awards: The President of India presented the National Service Scheme Awards for the year 2021-2022 at Rashtrapati Bhavan. These awards were instituted in the years 1993-1994. Since then, these awards are given away every year at various levels. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Department of Youth Affairs, confers every year the […]
2023 Nobel Prize In Physics
2023 Nobel Prize In Physics: The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 has been awarded to Ferenc Krausz, Pierre Agostini, and Anne L’Huillier for their groundbreaking experiments that have led to the creation of attosecond pulses of light. The three Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023 are being recognised for their experiments, which have given humanity […]
Nobel Prize In Medicine 2023
Nobel Prize In Medicine 2023: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2023 has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their groundbreaking research on nucleoside base modifications that played a pivotal role in the development of highly effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Kariko and Weissman identified a key problem: dendritic cells […]
2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize: Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA will be awarded with the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions in mathematics. Ruixiang Zhang is a young mathematician whose fundamental work spans from analytic number theory, combinatorics, and Euclidean Harmonic Analysis to geometry. Building on his Princeton PhD thesis, […]