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Young women entrepreneur, Rashmi Sahoo wins Times Business Award 2022

Director of Ruchi Foodline, Rashmi Sahoo has been awarded the Third Times Business Award 2022 in the category of Eastern India’s Leading READY -TO-EAT brand. She was given the award by renowned Bollywood actor and social activist Sonu Sood. She has established Frozit, which is Odisha’s first frozen food company. Sahoo and Frozit have won various recognition across the world for […]

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Former West Indies skipper, Darren Sammy received Sitara-e-Pakistan award

Former skipper of West Indies, Darren Sammy has conferred with the civil honour of Sitara-e-Pakistan award. It is considered as the third-highest civil award conferred by Pakistan. Sammy has represented West Indies in Tests (38), ODIs (126), and T20Is (68). Last year, he received the highest civilian medal of Pakistan (Nishan-e-Pakistan) for his part in helping bring international

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Sanjit Narwekar conferred with V Shantaram Lifetime achievement award at MIFF 2022

17th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival of India (MIFF 2022) confers Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award on noted author and documentary filmmaker Shri Sanjit Narwekar to commemorate his exquisitely deep, remarkably diverse and inspiring body of work. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal

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RJ Umar receives Immunisation Champion award by UNICEF

A Radio Jockey from south Kashmir, Umar Nisar, also known as RJ Umar, has been awarded the ’01 Best Content Award’ and the Immunisation Champion award by UNICEF at the annual Radio4Child 2022 Awards in Mumbai. The Radio4Child felicitated radio professionals from All India Radio and private FM channels across India for their work during

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‘Tomb of Sand’ becomes 1st Hindi novel to win 2022 Booker Prize

Indian author Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the 2022 International Booker Prize for “Tomb of Sand”. The book “Tomb of Sand’ was originally written in Hindi, it is the first book in any Indian language to win such a prestigious award. The prize money of 50,000 pound will be split between Shree and Rockwell. The book is about a widow who

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CMFRI director wins VASVIK industrial research award

A Gopalakrishnan (Director of the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute) has received the VASVIK (Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra) Industrial Research Award in the category of Agricultural Sciences and Technology for the year 2020. The award includes a cash prize of 1.51 lakh and a citation. The VASVIK research award is given to scientists and researchers who have demonstrated excellence in eight categories

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Rolls-Royce India president Kishore Jayaraman Receives British honour

Kishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia for Rolls-Royce, has received an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen, British Deputy HighCommission. Jayaraman is a board member of the U.K.-India Business Council, which supports U.K. businesses set up in India. He has also been instrumental in promoting bilateral ties by setting up a strategic

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Ajay Piramal receives Order of the British Empire award

Ajay Piramal, Chairman of the Piramal Group, has received an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) award from Queen Elizabeth II. He received the award for his services to the UK-India trade relationship as the Indian Co-Chair of the UK-India CEO Forum. As co-chair of the India-UK CEO forum since 2016,

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Drake wins Billboard Music Awards 2022 in Top Artist category

Drake has won the Billboard Music Awards 2022 in the top artist, male artist, rap artist, rap male artist and rap album (for Certified Lover Boy) category. BTS has also won three awards in the Top Duo/Group, Top Selling Song, and Top Song Sales Artist categories. Top New Artist: Olivia Rodrigo Top Female Artist: Olivia Rodrigo Top Billboard 200 Artist: Taylor Swift Top

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Frank Wilczek receives the 2022 Templeton Prize

Noble Prize laureate, theoretical physicist and author, and professor at four universities Frank Wilczek is awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize. He received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David J. Gross, and H. David Politzer for his 1973 breakthrough in explaining the unusual properties of the strong force. Templeton Prize was established in 1972 by the

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