Awards - Focus Merit

October 9, 2020

Nityanand Nayak will be conferred the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his poetry work ‘Setebelaku Nathiba’ which was published in 2017. The poet will be felicitated with a cash award of `5 lakh and a citation.
For the contribution to fields of music and art, Ranjit Kumar Nag and Shyamsundar Pattanaik will be felicitated.

October 9, 2020

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) which is the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

October 9, 2020

The first female poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Wislawa Szymborska in 1996 is Louise Gluck for her poetry. Other women who have received the prize in the literature category were all writers and not poets.

Other winners of 2020 Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2020 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna for “Development of a method for Genome Editing”.
The Nobel Prize, 2020 for Physics has been awarded to Andrea M Ghez, Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel for their research on black holes. They discovered the existence of a supergiant black hole in the centre of Milky Way.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology has been jointly awarded to Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice and Michael Houhgton. The prize was awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C.

October 8, 2020

The Nobel Prize awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

List of Nobel Prize 2020 winners:

Physiology or Medicine:

Harvey J. Alter(America), Charles M. Rice (America) and Michael Houghton (Britain) for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.

Physics:

Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.

Chemistry:

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

Literature:

Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

October 7, 2020

Roger Penrose was honored for the discovery that black hole formation is robust prediction of theory of relativity
Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel have been honored for the discovery of a supermassive object at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.

October 5, 2020

The Right Livelihood Award Foundation has announced the four winners of the 2020 Right Livelihood Award 2020.
The four activists Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Nasrin Sotoudeh of Iran, Bryan Stevenson of the United States(US) and Lottie Cunningham Wren of Nicaragua shared the 2020 award for their contribution towards equality, democracy, justice and freedom.

October 4, 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded to Harvey J. Alter(America), Charles M. Rice (America) and Michael Houghton (Britain) for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.

October 4, 2020

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri. Harsh Vardhan announced India Today Healthgiri Award. Kerala received an award from the Union health minister for best state combating COVID-19.

October 4, 2020

The Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Skekhawat presented the Swachh Bharat Awards, 2020.
The awards were presented under three categories namely Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya, Gandagi Mukth Bharat and Samudayik Shouchalaya Abhiyan.
The following states and blocks won first prize under Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category
Gujarat won the first prize under Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category at state level.
The Tirunelveli of Tamil Nadu got the first prize at district level
Kharchrod block in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh received the first position at block level
The Chinnanur village of Tamil Nadu bagged the first prize a Gram Panchayat level
Under the Samudayik Shouchalya category, the following won the prizes
Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh were the best performing states under this category
Prayagraj and Bareilly won the best performing districts
Under the Gandagi Mukt Bharat Mission, Telangana and Haryana were awarded the first prizes.

October 1, 2020

The Union science and technology minister Dr Harsh Vardhan announced the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2020 at the Foundation Day celebration of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). 14 Scientists awarded with the prize.

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