Dag Hammarskjold Medal: Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh, who served with the UN Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), was posthumously honoured with the prestigious Dag Hammarskjold medal. Naik Singh’s valour and sacrifice were honoured during a solemn ceremony when the UN commemorated the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. He was among […]
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Dag Hammarskjold Medal : Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh
Dag Hammarskjold Medal : Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh will be honoured posthumously with the Dag Hammarskjold medal during a solemn ceremony when the UN commemorates the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. Dag Hammarskjold medal was established in 1997 and it is the highest honour awarded to UN peacekeepers. It is […]
Grand Prix prize : All We Imagine As Light
Grand Prix prize : All We Imagine As Light Indian director Payal Kapadia’s debut film “All We Imagine As Light” won the Grand Prix prize All We Imagine As Light is an Indo-French production about a nurse, Prabha, and her friend, Anu, who embark on a transformative road trip. Kapadia’s previous documentary, A Night of […]
International Booker Prize 2024
International Booker Prize 2024: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, has won the International Booker Prize 2024. International Booker Prizeis awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English. This prize began life in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize. It was […]
ATD BEST Awards 2024
ATD BEST Awards 2024: India’s biggest energy company, NTPC Limited, won third place at the ATD BEST Awards 2024, making it the best-performing Indian company in this prestigious foreign event. Ms. Rachana Singh Bhal, CGM (Strategic HR & Talent Management), got the award on May 21, 2024, at a ceremony in New Orleans, USA. The […]
Shaw Prize : Astronomy
Shaw Prize : Astronomy Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, an astronomy professor with Indian roots who now lives in the US, has been given the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2024. He is known for being one of the first people to study millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other changing celestial events. In 2002, the […]
Whitley Gold Award 2024
Whitley Gold Award 2024: Dr Purnima Devi Barman from India has been awarded the 2024 Whitley Gold Award (dubbed ‘Green Oscar’) by the UK charity Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) for her efforts to save the Greater Adjutant Stork (Hargila). Barman’s campaign has increased the stork population in Assam from 450 to over 1,800. She […]
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Award
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Award: The prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship has been given to Ruskin Bond, a renowned British-Indian author. This honor was given to him on a Saturday at his home in Mussoorie. At first, Bond was named the winner of this prestigious award in September 2021. The official presentation had to be pushed back […]
Goldman Environmental Prize 2024
Goldman Environmental Prize 2024: Alok Shukla, a forest and tribal rights activist, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize 2024 for his successful campaign that saved 4.45 lakh acres of biodiversity-rich forests from 21 planned coal mines in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Aranya region. The forest of the Hasdeo Aranya is spread over 1.70 lakh hectares […]
Padma Awards 2024
Padma Awards 2024: President Droupadi Murmu presented the prestigious Padma Awards of 2024 to a distinguished group of people. The group included former Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, actor and politician Mithun Chakraborty, singer Usha Uthup, and tennis player Rohan Bopanna and others. The founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak and Bharatanatyam dancer Padma Subrahmanyam were […]
