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Azim Premji, founding president of Wipro Limited and founder of Azim Premji Foundation is this year’s recipient 10th Annual Dr. Ida S. Scudder Humanitarian Oration, Established jointly by Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC) and US-based Vellore CMC Foundation. This award is given to Shri Premji in recognition of his contribution to society through the foundation. Established in 2001, the Foundation […]

Ahmedabad-based Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the world’s highest honour for architecture. At 94, Doshi is being recognised for his career spanning seven decades, with over 100 built projects, across India.  The distinction, approved by Her Majesty The Queen and awarded each year

Assamese Poet Nilmani Phookan and Damodar Mauzo, a Konkani novelist, received the 56th and 57th Jnanpith Awards for their contributions to Indian literature.  The 56th Jnanpith Award went to eminent Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr., while the 57th Jnanpith Award went to Konkani novelist Damodar Mauzo. The country’s highest literary award, the Jnanpith is bestowed on writers for “their outstanding contribution to literature”. Jnanpith Award is a

Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize. They were selected for the “highly original work” in Operator Theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Other winners are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. The award recognizes their “highly original work” that introduced and developed methods for understanding the characteristic polynomial of matrices.

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 received the Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Award for his contributions in the fields of Agricultural Research, Teaching, Extension, and Administration. Praveen Rao handled 13 research and 6 consultancy projects on micro-irrigation in India, Israel and South Africa.