GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) headquarters in New Delhi has won the prestigious GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022. Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA): UIDAI believes in and promotes the idea of recycling and reusing to reduce carbon footprint. It has been harnessing solar power to meet […]
Category: Important Awards
Digital India Awards 2022
Digital India Awards 2022: The Smart Cities Mission recently won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “Data Smart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”. Digital India Awards 2022: The Smart Cities Mission won the award under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category. This category ‘emphasizes on sharing […]
25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES)
25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES): Former vice president Venkaiah Naidu has been conferred with the 25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES). Other awardees in various categories included the Governor of Kerala Arif Mohammed Khan, eminent industrialist Ratan Tata, renowned cardiologist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Dr Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valianathan, Scientific […]
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards For Cultural Heritage Conservation 2022
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards For Cultural Heritage Conservation 2022: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) was recently conferred with the ‘Award of Excellence’ at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation-2022. The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation is supported by a partnership between UNESCO and Ng […]
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award (TNNAA) 2021
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award (TNNAA) 2021: The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India recently announced the National Adventure Awards called “Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award” (TNNAA) for the year 2021. Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards are given every year. It aims to recognize the achievements of persons in the fields of […]
Indira Gandhi Prize For Peace, Disarmament And Development 2021
Indira Gandhi Prize For Peace, Disarmament And Development 2021: 2021 award has been given to NGO Pratham, working in the field of education The award is in recognition of Pratham’s work in ensuring quality education for children of the country, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pratham also used digital technology to deliver education so […]
Gandhi Mandela Award 2022
Gandhi Mandela Award 2022: The 14th Dalai Lama was recently conferred the Gandhi Mandela Award 2022 at Thekchen Choeling in Dharamshala’s McleodGanj by Himachal Pradesh governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar. Government of India registered Trust, the Gandhi Mandela Foundation is a non-profit organisation, formed with the motive to promote Mahatma Gandhi’s and former President of South […]
India Agribusiness Awards 2022
India Agribusiness Awards 2022: National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), was one of the organizations to be awarded the “India Agribusiness Awards 2022” for the best Agribusiness Award under the Fisheries Sector. National Fisheries Development Board(NFDB): The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) was established in 2006. It is an autonomous organization under the administrative control […]
Bailey K. Ashford Medal For 2022
Bailey K. Ashford Medal For 2022: Indian physician and scientist Dr Subhash Babu have received the prestigious Bailey K. Ashford Medal for 2022. In its 82-year history, the award has never been given to an Indian scientist or an Indian institution for work. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), the largest scientific […]
National Florence Nightingale Awards 2021
National Florence Nightingale Awards 2021: President presented the award to the nursing profession. Florence Nightingale was a British Nurse, Statistician and social reformer, born in Florence, Taly (1820). Her effort during Crimean War (1854-56), by curing patients, calculating mortality data and showing how improvements made in sanitary methods would reduce the number of deaths, won […]