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Rajiv Joshi won NYIPLA Inventor of the year Award 2020
Rajiv Joshi won NYIPLA Inventor of the year Award 2020
Rajiv Joshi won the prestigious NYIPLA Inventor of the Year Award 2020 for his contribution to advancing the electronic industry and improving artificial intelligence (AI) c....

Published On : 28 May 2020

Indian Naval Hydrographic Vinay Badhwar won 2019 Alexander Dalrymple Award
Indian Naval Hydrographic Vinay Badhwar won 2019 Alexander Dalrymple Award
Indian Naval Hydrographic Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar has won the 2019 Alexander Dalrymple Award for his contribution to Indian hydrography and across the Indian Ocean region....

Published On : 20 May 2020

2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize Announced
2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize Announced
Joseph J. Landsberg, Richard H. Waring, and Nicholas C. Coops share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for a model to predict forest growth in a changing clim....

Published On : 06 May 2020

Saurabh Lodha won Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for 2020
Saurabh Lodha won Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for 2020
Saurabh Lodha is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the IIT Bombay, who has won the 2020 Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for Advanced Trans....

Published On : 06 May 2020

Thalappil Pradeep elected for the 2020 Nikkei Asia Prize
Thalappil Pradeep elected for the 2020 Nikkei Asia Prize
Padma Shree awardee Thalappil Pradeep (age 56 years) has been elected for the 2020 Nikkei Asia Prize in the Science and Technology category. He is a Chemistry Professor in t....

Published On : 04 May 2020

2020 ANZ New Zealand Cricket Awards
2020 ANZ New Zealand Cricket Awards
New Zealand Cricket Board has announced the 2020 Annual New Zealand (ANZ) Cricket Awards. The 2020 ANZ New Zealand Cricket Awards were presented for the first time due to th....

Published On : 04 May 2020

Tennis star Sania Mirza to Nominated for Fed Cup Heart Award
Tennis star Sania Mirza to Nominated for Fed Cup Heart Award
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza (age 33 years) & Indonesian tennis player Priska Madelyn Nugroho (age 16 years) to be nominated for the Fed Cup Heart Awa....

Published On : 02 May 2020

Shobhana Narasimhan elected as International Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Shobhana Narasimhan elected as International Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
JNCASR Professor Shobhana Narasimhan has been elected as the International Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shobhana Narasimha....

Published On : 02 May 2020

Adam Higginbotham awarded the William E. Colby Award for Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham awarded the William E. Colby Award for Midnight in Chernobyl
The book of Adam Higginbotham - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster won the William E. Colby Award. 52 years old Adam was ....

Published On : 23 Apr 2020

Abdelouahab Aissaoui won International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel 'The Spartan Court'
Abdelouahab Aissaoui won International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel 'The Spartan Court'
Abdelouahab Aissaoui won the 13th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel 'The Spartan Court'. With this....

Published On : 17 Apr 2020

CM Naveen Patnaik gets PETA Hero to Animals Award
CM Naveen Patnaik gets PETA Hero to Animals Award
The 14th Chief Minister of Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik (age 73 years) has been awarded the 'Hero to Animals Award' by PETA India for allocat....

Published On : 06 Apr 2020

Ruchika Tomar wins 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her novel 'A Prayer for Travelers'
Ruchika Tomar wins 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her novel 'A Prayer for Travelers'
American writer Ruchika Tomar won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her novel 'A Prayer for Travelers'. Ruchika has done a ....

Published On : 25 Mar 2020

2020 Abel Prize awarded to Hillel Furstenberg & Gregory Margulis
2020 Abel Prize awarded to Hillel Furstenberg & Gregory Margulis
The Abel Prize for 2020 awarded to the Mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for 'pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynami....

Published On : 24 Mar 2020

Dr. V. Praveen Rao won 7th M. S. Swaminathan Award
Dr. V. Praveen Rao won 7th M. S. Swaminathan Award
The Vice-Chancellor of Telangana State Agricultural University Dr. V. Praveen Rao won the 7th M. S. Swaminathan Award for the 2017-19 year. He rec....

Published On : 11 Mar 2020

15-Women's awarded prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar 2019
15-Women's awarded prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar 2019
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the 14th President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind honored the 15-Women's with prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar 2019....

Published On : 07 Mar 2020

List of Winners of 2020 KPIT Sparkle
List of Winners of 2020 KPIT Sparkle
On 3rd March 2020, KPIT has announced the winners of 2020 KPIT Sparkle among 30 select teams who presented their ideas on transformative solutions in mobility and energy.....

Published On : 05 Mar 2020

Scientist Dr. Shalini Gupta & Shweta Rawat won National Award
Scientist Dr. Shalini Gupta & Shweta Rawat won National Award
DRDO Scientist Dr. Shweta Rawat and Dr. Shalini Gupta (IIT Delhi) won the National Award for Young Women Showing Excellence through Applica....

Published On : 04 Mar 2020

Sarbananda Sonowal awarded with Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee award
Sarbananda Sonowal awarded with Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee award
The 14th Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal (age 58 years) awarded the prestigious Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee Award for Politics. The abov....

Published On : 02 Mar 2020

Dr. Niti Kumar awarded with 2020 SERB Women Excellence Award
Dr. Niti Kumar awarded with 2020 SERB Women Excellence Award
Dr. Niti Kumar, Senior Scientist from Division of Molecular Parasitology and Immunology, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow has received SERB Women Excellence Award-2020.....

Published On : 24 Feb 2020

P. V. Sindhu won ESPN Female Sportsperson of the Year award
P. V. Sindhu won ESPN Female Sportsperson of the Year award
World No. 2 badminton player P. V. Sindhu won the ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year award in the Women's category for a third consecutive time. ....

Published On : 20 Feb 2020