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Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2025
Three Indian Doctors Honoured with Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers Champions Award
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British PM Starmer gets ‘Living Bridge’ honour for role in concluding India-UK FTA
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Anuparna Roy Wins Best Director in Orizzonti Section at Venice Film Festival
Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy has won the Best Director award in the Orizzonti (Horizons) section Read More …
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Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Dies
NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the Read More …
Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, an annual award for outstanding women mathematicians who have Read More …
International Booker Prize 2025
Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection in Kannada Hridaya Deepa (Heart Lamp), translated into English by Read More …
Dr Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
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World Food Prize 2025
Mariangela Hungria, a Brazilian microbiologist and veteran researcher at Brazil’s state-run agricultural agency Embrapa, has Read More …
Mati Carbon wins $50million XPRIZE
Mati Carbon, an Indian-led climate initiative has secured the $50 million grand prize in the Read More …
Dr. K Kasturirangan
Former ISRO chairman Dr. K Kasturirangan passed away in Bengaluru on April 25. He was Read More …
2025 Laureus World Sports Awards
Former tennis player Rafael Nadal and Paris 2024 Olympic champions Armand Duplantis, Simone Biles, and Read More …
MacGregor Memorial Medal Award
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan felicitated four individuals from the Armed Forces for Read More …
Bose Institute scientists receive Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) group at Bose Institute (BI), Kolkata has received global Read More …
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2025
The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to 13,508 physicists across four collaborative Read More …
Sudarsan Pattnaik Becomes First Indian to Win Fred Darrington Sand Art Award
Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has become the first Indian to receive the prestigious Fred Read More …
PM Modi conferred ‘Mithra Vibhushana’ medal by Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on April 5 conferred with the Sri Lanka Mitra Vibhushana, Read More …
Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2025
The Music Academy, Chennai, has chosen violinist and composer Rudrapatna Krishnamurthy Shriramkumar for the prestigious Read More …
Kyoto University’s Masaki Kashiwara Wins 2025 Abel Prize for Algebraic Analysis
Japan’s Masaki Kashiwara has been awarded the 2025 Abel Prize, often called the Nobel Prize Read More …
Vinod Kumar Shukla Selected For 59th Jnanpith Award
Vinod Kumar Shukla has been named the recipient of the 59th Jnanpith Award, marking a Read More …
Stockholm Water Prize 2025
Renowned hydrologist Günter Blöschl has been awarded the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize 2025 for his Read More …
UNESCO TWAS Award
Suman Chakraborty, Institute Chair Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at IIT Kharagpur, has been Read More …
Krishna Ella receives INSA Fellowship for 2025
Dr. Krishna Ella, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Bharat Biotech International, has been awarded the Read More …
Nuclear scientist, R Chidambaram passes away at 88
Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram (88), former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, died at Jaslok Hospital Read More …