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The World Health Organization (WHO) has conferred the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) with the Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion for 2024.

Major Radhika Sen-an Indian military peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), will receive the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.

“Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know,” has won the prestigious Cannes’ La Cinef Award for Best Short at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in France.

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction 2024 for “Kairos.” International Booker Prize

Shrinivas R Kulkarni, an Indian-origin professor of astronomy from the US will be bestowed the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2024. Shaw Prize

Eminent author Ruskin Bond has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour given by the literary organisation.

Palestinian journalists covering Gaza have been named as laureates of the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

British-American author Salman Rushdie has released his much-awaited memoir “Knife”.

India has been elected to several key bodies at the United Nations, including a significant victory by its nominee Jagjit Pavadia who was re-elected for a third term to the International Narcotics Control Board after garnering the highest number of votes.

The ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission team was honoured with the 2024 John L ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. award for space exploration, by the Space Foundation based in the US.

Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work on probability theory and describing randomness. Key points

Poet Prabha Varma has been selected for the Saraswati Samman for the year 2023 for his work in Malayalam language.

The Maharashtra cabinet on March 13 decided to ask the Ministry of Railways to rename Mumbai Central station after Nana Jagannath Shankarseth. Key points

Author Amitav Ghosh has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024 for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’ for bringing forth the global crisis of climate change through the written word.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a 125-foot bronze statue of Ahom general Lachit Borphukan at his burial site in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district on 9 March 2024.