{"id":3035,"date":"2019-07-02T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2019-07-12T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:44:08","slug":"sir-mark-tully-was-conferred-with-lifetime-achievement-award-2019-at-uk-india-awards-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sir-mark-tully-was-conferred-with-lifetime-achievement-award-2019-at-uk-india-awards-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Mark Tully was conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 at UK-India Awards in London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Veteran British journalist&nbsp;<strong>Sir\nMark Tully<\/strong>&nbsp;was conferred with&nbsp;<strong>Lifetime\nAchievement Award 2019&nbsp;<\/strong>at&nbsp;<strong>UK-India Awards<\/strong>&nbsp;in London. The\naward&nbsp;celebrate special talents and organisations who use their worldwide\ninfluence to strengthen UK-India ties.<br>\n<br>\n<strong>Sir William Mark Tully:<\/strong><br>\nSir William Mark Tully, KBE is the former Bureau Chief of the\nBBC, New Delhi. He worked with the BBC for a period of 30 years before\nresigning in July 1994. He held the position of Chief of Bureau, BBC, Delhi,\nfor 20 years. He has received awards and written books. He is a member of the\nOriental Club. He has been previously<strong>&nbsp;knighted\nby Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong>&nbsp;in the UK and conferred with the<strong>&nbsp;Padma\nBhushan in India.<\/strong><br>\n<br>\n<strong>UK-Indian Awards:<\/strong><br>\nThe<strong>&nbsp;UK-India Awards 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;now in its\nthird year. The Awards brings together over 300 senior leaders from the world\nof business, politics, diplomacy, media, arts &amp; culture to recognise\nindividuals and organisations. All nominees and winners are inspirational\nfigures at cutting edge of business, technology, innovation, international relations\nand culture.<br>\n<br>\n<strong>Other Awardees:<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Market\nEntrant of the Year category<\/strong>\u2013 Oyo, Indian\nhospitality<br>\n<strong>Social\nImpact category<\/strong>\u2013 British Telecom\n(BT)<br>\n<strong>Global\nIndian Icon of the Year<\/strong>\u2013 Kunnal Nayyar,\nbest known for his role as Rajesh Koothrappali on US sitcom<br>\n<strong>The Big\nBang Theory Special Significant Contribution to UK-India Relations Award<\/strong>&#8211; To Indian-origin peer and Cobra Beer founder<br>\n<strong>Lord Karan\nBilimoria Start-up of the Year Award<\/strong>&#8211; Maanch, a new\nplatform that matches up funders and receivers to accelerate global sustainable\ndevelopment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran British journalist&nbsp;Sir Mark Tully&nbsp;was conferred with&nbsp;Lifetime Achievement Award 2019&nbsp;at&nbsp;UK-India Awards&nbsp;in London. The award&nbsp;celebrate special talents and organisations who use their worldwide influence to strengthen UK-India ties. Sir William Mark Tully: Sir William Mark Tully, KBE is the former Bureau Chief of the BBC, New Delhi. He worked with the BBC for a period of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}