Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Legendary actress Asha Parekh will be honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2020. Asha Parekh is a renowned film actress, director and producer and an accomplished Indian classical dancer. She is also a winner of Padma Shri, which was awarded to her in 1992. She has also served as the […]
Category: Important Awards
INSPIRE Awards 2022
INSPIRE Awards 2022: The 9th National Level Exhibition and Project Competition (NLEPC) for the INSPIRE Awards – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge), has commenced. The INSPIRE Awards were presented to 60 Start-Ups and financial support was provided to 53,021 students. It touched an unparalleled level of inclusivity by representing ideas and innovations […]
Diamond League Trophy
Diamond League Trophy: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Neeraj Chopra for scripting history yet again by becoming the first Indian to win the prestigious Diamond League Trophy. Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win the Dimond Trophy, the prestigious title in the finale of the Diamond League series in men’s javelin. The 24-year-old, […]
Ramon Magsaysay Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award: Former Kerala Health Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] central committee member K.K. Shailaja, MLA, has declined the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation’s offer to consider her for the international honour in 2022. The foundation wanted to honour her for the public service and community leadership during the Nipah outbreak and […]
Smart Solutions Challenge And Inclusive Cities Awards 2022
Smart Solutions Challenge And Inclusive Cities Awards 2022: Smart Solutions Challenge and Inclusive Cities Awards 2022 were awarded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. In the category of early-stage innovations, the winner was a wearable technology product, Fifth Sense by Glovatrix Pvt. Ltd. This product translates sign language gestures to speech and text […]
Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Stockholm Junior Water Prize: Annabelle M. Rayson, a student from Canada received the prestigious 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for her research on how to treat and prevent harmful algae blooms. Harmful Algal Blooms, or HABs, occur when colonies of algae grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, […]
National Gopal Ratna Awards -2022
National Gopal Ratna Awards -2022: Gopal Ratna Award is one of the highest National Award in the field of livestock and dairy sector. Given by: Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Objective: to encourage all individuals and Dairy cooperative societies / Milk Producer Company / Dairy […]
Fields Medal
Fields Medal: Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, chair of Number Theory at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, was named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, an honour that is often described the Nobel Prize in mathematics. The other winners were French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin of the University of Geneva; […]
UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize : Central Institute Of Educational Technology
UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize : Central Institute Of Educational Technology: Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) wins UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the year 2021. CIET is a constituent unit of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) under Department of School Education & Literacy. CIET has been […]
Martin Ennals Award
Martin Ennals Award: This year it was awarded posthumously to pay homage to Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist from Jharkhand who had been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case. Given by the Martin Ennals Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is regarded as the Nobel Prize for human rights defenders. […]
