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Novelist Ruchika Tomar receives Pen/Hemingway Award 2020

March 25, 2020
Ruchika Tomar
  • Ruchika Tomar has honored the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her Debut Novel, for “A Prayer for Travelers”.
  • The Novel states about the friendship of 2 women which grows complicated until the relationship splits apart and one of the friends disappears.

Zoya Akhtar conferred with IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020

March 28, 2020
Zoya Akhtar

  • Indian filmmaker Zoya Akhtar has been conferred with IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 for her excellent contribution to world tourism by her movies.
  • The 8th India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC) was organized in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Odisha CM Naveen Patnayak honored by PETA for feeding animals

April 6, 2020
naveen patnayak
  • Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnayak has been honored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA)  with the “Hero to Animals Award“
  • He has been conferred with this award by PETA for feeding animals during the period of COVID-19  pandemic with a total cost of Rs. 54 Lakh.

Abdelouahab Aissaoui wins 13th International Arab fiction prize 2020

April 16, 2020
Abdelouahab Aissaoui
  • Algerian writer Abdelouahab Aissaoui has been honored with the 13th International Arab fiction prize 2020 for his novel ‘The Spartan Court’ published by Dar Min in 2018.
  • ‘The Spartan Court’ is a historical novel that links the power struggle between Ottoman and French colonial powers in Algeria.

Tata Power gets Edison Award for its social innovation campaign

April 16, 2020
Edison Award
  • Tata Power is being honored with the Edison Award for its social innovation campaign ‘Club Enerji #Switchoff2SwitchOn’.
  • Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power company. The Edison Awards is conferred to honor the world’s best innovations and innovators.

William E. Colby award won by Adam Higginbotham

April 22, 2020
midnight in chernobyl
  • William E. Colby award has been won by Adam Higginbotham for his book ” Midnight in Chernobyl:The untold story of the World’s greatest nuclear disaster”. 
  • Chernobyl disaster took place on 26 April 1986  at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. Chernobyl.
  • The United Nations (UN) has proclaimed April 26 International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day. The day was first observed in 2016,

Nikkei Asia Prize 2020 award to IIT madras professor T. Pradeep

May 1, 2020
T. Pradeep Nikkei Asia Prize 2020
  • IIT Madras professor, Thalappil Pradeep has been conferred with the prestigious Nikkei Asia prize for his contribution to the development of nanotechnology based water filters. 
  • He received this award under “Science and technology” category.

Nicholas C. Coops, Joseph J. Landsberg and Richard H. Waring receives the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020

May 6, 2020
  • Professors Nicholas C. Coops of the University of British Columbia(UBC), Vancouver, Canada,  Richard H. Waring of Oregon State University, United States of America(USA) & Joseph J. Landsberg of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization(CSIRO) Australia receives the ‘Marcus Wallenberg Prize(MWP) 2020’ or ‘the Nobel Prize for forest sector’ for 3-PG (Physiological Principles Predicting Growth), a model to foretell forest growth in a changing climate.
Nicholas C. Coops, Joseph J. Landsberg and Richard H. Waring receives the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020

Bengaluru doctor Hema Divakar wins “Global Asian award”

May 24, 2020
Hema Divakar
  • Bengaluru-based medical doctor Hema Divakar was respected with the ‘Global Asian of the Year 2018-19’ award in Dubai recently for her yeomen services and contributions to the women’s healthcare ecosystem, in India, stated its organizer ‘Asia One’ magazine’s publisher on 19th May.

Rajiv Joshi gets NYIPLA Inventor of the year Award 2020

May 27, 2020
Rajiv Joshi
  • Rajiv Joshi has received the prestigious NYIPLA “Inventor of the Year award” for the year 2020 for his contribution to developing the electronic industry and enhancing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

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