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Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan on April 4, 2021 addressed the 40th anniversary of AGE-CARE India and the Elders Day celebrations at the India International Centre. During address, Dr Harsh Vardhan also informed that the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare already has a programme dedicated to addressing the various health related problems of the elderly called the “National Programme for the Health Care of Elderly” Read More …

Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan has been conferred the ‘Kalinga Ratna’ award for the year 2021. The award was presented to Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan by M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, during the 600th Birth Anniversary of Adikabi Sarala Das and 40th Annual Celebrations of Sarala Sahitya Sansad during the programme held at Sarala Bhawan in Cuttack . The ‘Kalinga Ratna’ award was instituted by Sarala Sahitya Read More …

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri Prakash Javadekar on April 1, 2021 announced the recipient of the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The award for 2019 will be conferred to legendary actor Shri Rajinikanth. The name of the Rajinikanth was selected by a jury comprising Ms Asha Bhosle, Shri Mohanlal, Shri Biswajit Chatterjee, Shri Shankar Mahadevan and Shri Subhash Ghai. In 2018, the award was presented to Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood Read More …

Noted Marathi writer Dr Sharankumar Limbale was selected for the 2020 Saraswati Samman (the 30th edition of the prize) for his book Sanatan. Dr Limbale’s Sanatan has been published in 2018. The book is an important social and historical document of dalit struggle. The Saraswati Samman, instituted in 1991, is given every year to an outstanding literary work written in any Indian language mentioned in Schedule VIII to the Constitution Read More …

Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde has recommended Justice N.V. Ramana, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, as the next Chief Justice. He will take over as the 48th Chief Justice of India from April 24, 2021. The Supreme Court also issued a short statement on March 24, 2021, informing that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s October 6, 2020 complaint to the CJI naming Justice Read More …

Hindi writer Prof. Sharad Pagare will be conferred with the prestigious Vyas Samman – 2020 for his novel ‘Patliputru Ki Samragi.’ Started in 1991, the Vyas Samman, is given by K K Birla Foundation for an outstanding literary work in Hindi authored by an Indian citizen published during the last 10 years. The Vyas Samman carries an award of four lakh rupees along with a citation and plaque. In 2019, Read More …

A team of four undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur emerged as winners at the CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 6.0, sponsored by Cushman and Wakefield, KI and IA: Interior Architects. The team from IIT Kharagpur was one of the four teams to progress into the final round out of 1300 teams all over the world and were pitted against the University of Washington, New York University and Read More …

The name of the winners of the 67th National Film Awards – 2019 was announced on March 22, 2021. The awards were announced by Shri N. Chandra, Chairman of the jury. Best Feature Film: MARAKKAR-ARABIKKADALINTE-SIMHAM (Malayalam) Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director: Helen (Malayalam) Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: MAHARSHI (Telugu) Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration: TAJMAL (Marathi) Read More …

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman- Bangladesh’s father of the nation, has been named for the Gandhi Peace Prize 2020. The decision to confer the award for 2020 on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh, his first foreign trip since the outbreak of Covid-19. Tungipara is the place of birth of Mujibur Rahman. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been awarded to recognizes the immense and unparalleled contribution in Read More …

The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2019 has been conferred on late Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman. The late Sultan has been conferred with the award in recognition of his outstanding contributions for social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods. The Gandhi Peace Prize carries an amount of one crore rupees, a citation, a plaque and an exquisite traditional handicraft item. It Read More …

NTPC Ltd , a Public Sector Undertaking under Ministry of Power has been conferred the prestigious ‘Role Model’ Award at the  11th CII National HR Excellence Award 2020-21. The award was presented in the virtual conference “Learn from the Achievers” held on March 18, 2021. This award is the highest level of recognition in the field of Human Resources by Confederation of Indian Industry. Since the institutionalization of CII National HR Read More …

Architects duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, founders of French studio Lacaton & Vassal, have been named the 2021 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. They were named the winners of the award for their body of work that “reflects architecture’s democratic spirit” and their “commitment to a restorative architecture”. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal were recognised for the numerous social housing projects they have undertaken as principals of the Paris-based studio Lacaton & Read More …

The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration. Each year on March 14 all countries are invited to participate through activities for both students and the general public in schools, museums, libraries and other spaces. The theme for 2021 was ‘Mathematics for a Better World‘. On March 14, 2020, the International Day of Mathematics had its first edition. The International Day of Mathematics is a project led by the International Read More …