Category: Important Awards

Booker Prize: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been named the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and the Man Booker Prize, is a literary prize. Objective: To promote the finest in fiction by […]

World Green City Award 2022: Hyderabad City has overall won “World Green City Award 2022” in the category “Living Green for Economic Recovery and Inclusive Growth”, at the International Association of Horticulture Producers (AIPH) 2022 World Green Cities Awards which was organised in Jeju, South Korea. The six categories of award are Living Green for […]

Nobel Prize In Economics 2022: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig. Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics for research on banks and financial crises. According to […]

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 has been awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Ales Bialiatski, who is in jail since 2021, is a vocal critic of Putin’s ally, President Alexander Lukashenko […]

Nobel Prize In Literature 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux ”for“the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. Her more than 20 books, many of which have been school texts in France for decades, offer one […]

Nobel Prize In chemistry 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” Sharpless was the first scientist to work on ‘click chemistry’ – a branch of science that explores the assembly of molecules. Meldal and […]

Nansen Award: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently received the Nansen Refugee Award. Ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the UNHCR Nansen Award for providing asylum for refugees while in office. While Merkel was the Chancellor in 2015 and 2016, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers, especially from Syria. The UNHCR recognized […]

Nobel Prize In Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Two of the laureates—John Clauser and Alain Aspect—worked on firming up the concept of quantum entanglement and developing more […]

Nobel Prize For Physiology: Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for the year 2022 “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. He has spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins […]