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Anita Desai conferred with 2021 Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award

Anita Desai has been awarded the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 to recognize her long literary career which spans over 50 years. Meanwhile, the Poet Laureate award for 2021 has been conferred upon Indian poet Adil Jussawala. Anita Desai is India’s one of the best-selling authors. Both these awards are presented to recognize exceptional […]

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Andhra Pradesh Bags Best Marine State Award

Andhra Pradesh has been named as the best marine state in the country by the Department of Fisheries. Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying Parshottam Rupala announced the awards at a programme to celebrate World Fisheries Day in Bhubaneswar. The Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying awarded best performing States for 2021-22 on

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Indian Teenage brothers win 2021 International Children’s Peace Prize for waste project

Two teenage brothers from India urged world leaders to act against climate change after winning a prestigious global children’s award for tackling pollution from household waste in New Delhi. The duo received the prestigious award by Indian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi on November 14, 2021. Vihaan and Nav have developed an “One Step Greener” initiative for

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Neeraj Chopra receives Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award

Tokyo Olympics gold medal-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, along with eleven other athletes, received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. He became the only second individual gold medalist from India at the Olympics and the first in athletics. The awards are given every

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Swarna Jayanti Fellowships Award 2020-21 conferred on 17 scientist

Dept of Science & Technology (DST) has selected 17 scientists for the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowships 2020-21 award for their innovative research ideas and the potential of creating an impact on R&D. 1 Siddhesh Kamat 2 Mousomi Bhakta 3 Sakya Singha Sen 4 Sridharan Devarajan 5 Niti Kumar 6 Nitin Gupta 7 Modhu Sudan Maji 8 Chandramouli Subramaniam The

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Puneeth Rajkumar honoured posthumously with Basavashree Award 2021

Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar will be posthumously conferred the Basavashree award 2021 by the Bruhanmutt. Fondly called Appu, Puneeth, who was born in Chennai on March 17, 1975, was an actor, playback singer, television presenter, and producer. Puneeth, son of Matinee Idol Rajkumar, was a lead actor in 29 films and as a child and appeared in many films.

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President Ram Nath Kovind confers Padma awards in Rashtrapati Bhawan

President Ram Nath Kovind presents the Padma Awards in the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar were among the attendees. The Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian honors of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in 3categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan,

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Priyanka Mohite to Receive 2020’s Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award

Maharashtra-based mountaineer Priyanka Mohite will be bestowed with the prestigious ‘Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2020’ for her outstanding contribution in the field of land adventure. She scaled the world’s highest peak Mt Everest, Mt Lhotse, and Mt.Makalu. She is the 1st Indian woman to climb Mt Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain peak in the world.Mohite, who hails

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Damon Galgut wins 2021 Booker Prize for “The Promise”

South African writer Damon Galgut has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction on November 3, 2021. He’s the winner of the 2021 award for The Promise, a mordant, realist look at the Swarts family, white descendants of Boer settlers during the aftermath of apartheid in the latter half of the 20th century. The

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Harbhajan Singh & Javagal Srinath awarded MCC life membership

India’s Harbhajan Singh and Javagal Srinath have been awarded life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and this club has released the list of 18 Cricketers who were selected for the MCC awards Honorary Life Membership of the Club. The list witnessed the names of 2 former Indian cricketers – Harbhajan Singh and Javagal Srinath. This year’s list

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