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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has constituted a committee to improve quality of data released by the Central Government. The 28-member Standing Committee on Statistics (SCES) is chaired by former Chief Statistician Pronab Sen. The committee will have as members experts from a wide variety of institutions, including the Reserve Bank of India, finance ministry, Niti Aayog, and the United Nations. In recent years, doubts have been cast Read More …
Amitabha Bagchi was awarded DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 for his novel “Half the Night is Gone”, published in 2018. Pradeep Gawali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal presented the award to Mr. Bagchi at the Eighth edition of the IME Nepal Literature Festival, held from December 13-16. It was presented in the presence of Surina Narula, founder of the DSC Prize, and the four-member jury, headed by Read More …
Government has decided to appoint Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, as the next Chief of the Army Staff after the retirement of General Bipin Rawat on December 31, 2019. Lt Gen Naravane will take over as Chief of the Army Staff in the substantive rank of General with effect from the afternoon of December 31, 2019. Lt Gen Naravane did his Read More …
Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, known as the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” has received Right Livelihood Award 2019. This award is also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa has led his people’s 20-year campaign to protect their Amazonian territory. Combined with the Yanomami territory in Venezuela, it is the largest area of rainforest under indigenous control anywhere in the world. Davi Kopenawa is the President of Read More …
Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. In 2018, she started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that became popular with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture. Since then, she has become a strong voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world. Earlier Read More …
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Florence Nightingale Awards to 36 awardees at a ceremony in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on December 5, 2019. While the award to Late Smt. Lini Sajeesh from Kozhikode, Kerala was conferred posthumously and received by her husband Shri Sajeesh, 35 other awardees [Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), Lady Health Visitors (LHVs), and nurses] from different States and UTs were Read More …
A batch of three trainee officers of the 7th Dornier Conversion Course (DOCC) including a lady officer qualified as Dornier pilots and were awarded the coveted golden “Wings” ata simple and solemnceremony held at INS Garuda on 02 Dec 19. The FOC-in-C South Rolling Trophy for standing first in overall order of merit was awarded to Lieutenant Shivam Pandey. Sub Lieutenant (SLt) Shivangi created history as the first woman pilot Read More …
Smt. Soma Roy Burman, a 1986-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer, took charge as the new Controller General of Accounts on December 1, 2019. Smt. Burman is the 24th Controller General of Accounts (CGA) and is the seventh woman to hold this coveted position. The Government of India appointed Smt. Burman, as the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure with effect from December 1, 2019. Read More …
Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award (2019). About Akkitham Akkitham, as he is popularly known, was born in 1926. He has authored 55 books out of which 45 are collections of poems including “Khanda Kavyas”, “Katha Kavyas”, “Charitha Kavyas” and songs. Some of his celebrated creations include “Veeravadam”, “Balidarsanam”, “Nimisha Kshethram”, “Amrita Khatika”, “Akkitham Kavithaka”, “Epic of Twentieth Century” and “Antimahakalam”. Apart from Read More …
Rajasthani poet Dr. Aidan Singh Bhati will be awarded KK Birla Foundation’s 29th Bihari Puraskar. He was chosen by a selection committee chaired by Om Thanvi. He will be awarded for his poetry collection, ‘Aankh Heeyae Ra Hariyal Sapna’. Dr. Bhati, who was born on December 10, 1952, in Jaisalmer’s Nokh village, is a noted poet and scholar in the Rajasthani language. His poetry collection, Hanstoda Hotan Rau Saanch is Read More …
Particles’ directed by Blaise Harrison and produced by Estelle Fialon has won the coveted Golden Peacock Award at the 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which concluded in Goa on November 28, 2019. The Golden Peacock Award carries a cash prize ofRs 40 lakhs to be shared equally between the Director and the Producer, Trophy and the citation. ‘Particles’ is an “ambitious yet modest film about the mysteries of being a teenager,” Read More …
The Central Government on November 19, 2019 conferred the Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019 awards to top ranked states, union territories, and districts in the various categories on the occasion of World Toilet Day (November 19) at Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra, New Delhi. Top ranked states The top ranked state – Tamil Nadu, and the top ranked district – Peddapalli (Telangana), along with the state with the maximum citizen participation – Uttar Read More …
The “Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development” for 2019 would be conferred on renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. It was announced by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust (IGMT) on November 19, 2019. His name was selected for the prize by an international jury chaired by former president Pranab Mukherjee, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust . The 2019 prize, it added, is awarded to Attenborough for a Read More …
Noted Hindi author and Sahitya Akademi awardee Nasira Sharma will be conferred with the 29th Vyas Samman. She will be awarded for her novel ‘Kaagaz Ki Naav’ published in 2014. She won a Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Paarijat in 2016. About Nasira Sharma She was born in 1948 in Allahabad, and has a master’s degree in Persian language and literature; and has a command over Hindi, Urdu, English and Pashto. She Read More …
One of the most famous and most popular French actor of her generation Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Jubilee edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2019. Lifetime Achievement Award The Lifetime Achievement Award, IFFI, is the highest honour and the most prestigious award of the festival. The award carries a cash prize of INR 10,000,00/- .The French actor will be conferred Read More …