Category: Important Awards

Water And Heritage Shield Award: A sacred Hopi site in Arizona was awarded the ICOMOS Water and Heritage Shield The purpose of the Shield is to help the public become aware of the significance of water and indigenous sacred sites all over the world and the right to cultural and historical memory. The Sípàapu is […]

Abel Prize: Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize for his contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations, including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation. The Abel Prize is a prestigious award in mathematics that recognizes pioneering scientific achievements in mathematics. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. The Norwegian […]

President’s Colour Award : INS Dronacharya The President of India presented the President’s Colour to INS Dronacharya in Kochi INS Dronacharya is the gunnery school of the Indian Navy. It is located in Kochi, Kerala. It is responsible for training 820 officers and 2100 ratings per year in small-arms, naval missiles, artillery, radar and defensive […]

Oscars 2023: Indians erupted in celebration on Monday after ‘Naatu Naatu’, the breakout hit from the action movie ‘RRR’, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, brought home the Best Documentary Short award. Producer Guneet Monga and director Kartiki Gonsalves won the Oscar in the Best Documentary Short Film category […]

Women Icons Leading Swachhata (WINS) Awards 2023: To highlight the impact of women in sanitation and waste management, the Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) announced the ‘Women Icons Leading Swachhata’ (WINS) Awards 2023 on the eve of International Women’s Day. It aims to recognize celebrate and disseminate inspiring and exemplary initiatives in […]

Porter Prize 2023: The Union Health Ministry has been awarded the Porter Prize 2023 for successfully combating the COVID-19 crisis. The prize was announced at The India Dialog, organized by Institute for Competitiveness (IFC) and US Asia Technology Management Center (USATMC) at Stanford University on February 23-24, The award was presented to the Ministry of […]

GSMA Government Leadership Award 2023: GSM Association (GSMA) has conferred Government Leadership Award 2023 to India for implementing best practices in telecom policy and regulation. The Minister for Communications, Electronics & IT and Railways, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw said “GSMA Awards represent global recognition of the telecom reforms carried out by PM Shri Narendra Modi ji. […]