Posted on 20 November 2012 by admin
Tessy Thomas, the key defence scientist in the Agni series of missiles, has been conferred the award for her outstanding contribution for making India self-reliant in the field of missile technology. The award is given annually for excellence in public administration, academics and management. It carries a cash award of Rs 5 lakh, a plaque and a citation.
Posted on 02 November 2012 by admin
Mantel, 60, won the prestigious £50,000 ($81,000) literary prize Tuesday for her novel “Bring up the Bodies,” the second in a historical trilogy set during the reign of King Henry VIII.
She also won the prize in 2009 for “Wolf Hall,” the first novel in the trilogy.
“You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize and then two come along at once,” she told reporters, adding, “I feel a bit weak at the knees to be honest.”
This year, she overcome competition from 144 other entries, including the shortlisted, “Narcopolis” by Jeet Thayil(India),”Umbrella” by Will Self, “Swimming Home” by Deborah Levy, “The Lighthouse” by Alison Moore, and “The Garden of Evening Mists” by Tan Twan Eng.
Hilary Mantel becomes first woman to win Man Booker Prize twice
Posted on 13 October 2012 by admin
“Saraswati Samman”
It is an annual award given for extraordinary works in any Indian language
listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India. The honor was instituted in the year 1991 by KK Birla Foundation and is a renowned award in the field of literature. The award consists of a citation, a plaque and a cash prize of 7.5 lakhs .
News realted to Saraswati Samman
Saraswati Samman awarded to A A Manavalan for his comparative study on Ramayana
The esteemed Sarasati Samman was conferred on A A Manavalan for his work, Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum .
The work Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum is a comparative study of epic Ramayana in 48 different languages . The characters, plot and individual insertions of the book deals ith the alterations that occurred in the due course of migration.This book tries to explain the effect of Ramayana over the South East Asia, its language and culture. The comparative study of Ramayana is written in different languages over a certain period of time and some of the languages include Pali, Tibetan, Prakirt, Tamil, Japanese, Old Javanese, Assamese, Thai, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Odisi, Hindi, Malay, Persian, Maranao, Burmese, Laotian and Kashmiri.
Posted on 29 September 2012 by admin
Sandeep Patil appointed as the Chief for BCCI Senior Selection Committee
Former Cricketer and all-rounder, Sandeep Patil was appointed as the Chairman of the five member senior selection committee of BCCI on 27 September 2012
Virat Kohli became the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year
.The Vice-Captain of Indian Cricket team, Virat Kohli was named as the ODI Cricketer of the year at ICC Awards Function held at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 September 2012
Double Trap Shooter, Ronjan Sodhi won Silver at ISSF World Cup
Sports Current Affairs September 2012. Ronjan Sodhi, the double trap shooter on 24 September 2012 won Silver medal at the ISSF World Cup in Maribor, Slovania
Mary com became the brand ambassador of Super Fight League (SPL)
Indian boxer and London Olympic bronze medalist M C Mary Kom on 24 September 2012 named as the brand ambassador of super fight league
Mariamma Koshy appointed as the full-time President of Hockey India
Hockey India on 17 September 2012 appointed Mariamma Koshy of Hockey Kerala as its new full-time President
Posted on 31 August 2012 by admin
Aditi Mukherjee, a Delhi based scientist, won the prestigious Norman Borlaug Award in Field Research and Application. Mukherjee was picked for the award for her work in transforming access to water for thousands of farmers in West Bengal. The award will be formally presented to Mukherji on 17 October 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa, US.
Mukherji, 37, is a senior researcher at the Delhi office of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). As alumnus of Presidency College (Kolkata), JNU (Delhi), she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge.
The international award is conferred by the World Food Prize Foundation, which was started by Norman Borlogue, the father of Green Revolution in India. The award carries 10000 dollar cash prize. The Borlaug Award is restricted to scientists under 40.
Posted on 21 March 2012 by admin
New Delhi: Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee will receive the 2011 Dada Saheb Phalke Award for lifetime contribution to cinema. Chatterjee, 77, who has won a National Award in 2008 for his film ‘Podokkhep’, is an iconic actor in Bengali cinema with a career spanning over half a century.
He has worked alongside most of the stalwarts of the industry, including legendary actor Uttam Kumar, and some of the best directors of the country.
His best work includes films with honorary Academy Award winning director Satyajit Ray and Tapan Sinha. Apur Sansar, Devi, Teen Kanya, Abhijan, Ashani Sanket, Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath are some of the films he shot with Ray.
“This award means a lot to me. I am grateful to my viewers,” Chatterjee said on Wednesday.
The Dada Saheb Phalke Award is the highest honour in Indian cinema given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution.
Posted on 21 March 2012 by admin
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| Pradeep – Lyricist, Poet | 1998 | ||||||||
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Posted on 08 March 2012 by admin
Best Feature Film : Deool (Marathi) & Byari (Kannada)
Best Actor : Girish Kulkarni (Deool)
Best Actress : Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
Best Film Critic : Manoj P Pujari
Special Jury Award : Anjan Dutta
Best Book Award : Anirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal for the title (R.D. Burman The Man, The Music)
Best Music Direction : Neel Dutt (Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona)
Best Background Score : Mayookh Bhaumik (Bengali film Laptop)
Best Lyrics : Amitabh Bhattacharya (I AM)
Best Playback Singer – FEMALE : Rupa Ganguly
Best Playback Singer – MALE : Anand Bhate (Bal Gandharva)
Best Costume : Neeta Lulla (Bal Gandharva – Marathi) & Niharika Khan (The Dirty Picture – Hindi)
Best Choreography : Bosco & Ceaser (Zindagi Naa Milegi Doobara)
Best Special Effects : RA.One
Best Editing : Praveen KL (Aaranya Kaandam)
Best Marathi Film : Shala
Best Hindi Film : I AM directed by Onir
Best Bengali Film : Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na directed by Anjan Dutta
Best Dogri Film : Dille Ch Vasya Koi
Best Kannada Film : Kurmavatara
Best Manipuri Film : Phijigee Mani
Best Punjabi Film : Anhe Ghorey Da Daan
Best Tamil Film : Vaagai Sooda Va
Best Non Feature Film : And We Play On
Best Debut Film of a Director : The Silent Poet (Manipuri)
Best Film on Social Issues : Mindscapes…of Love and Longing shared with Inshallah, Football (Kashmiri, Urdu & English)
Best Film On Family Values : Red Building Where the Sun Sets (English)
Best Screenplay : Vikas Behl & Nitish Tiwari (Chillar Party)
Best Adapted Screenplay Writer : Avinash Deshpande
Best Dialogue : Girish Kulkarni
Best Child Artist : Partho Gupte (Stanley ka Dabba) & the Chillar Party Group
Best Children’s Film : Chillar Party
Indira Gandhi Award for Debut Film Director : Thiagarajan Kumararaja (Aaranya Kaandam)
Special Mention: Director Shari (Adi Madhyantam – Malayalam Film) and Mallika (Byari – Kannada Film)
Posted on 26 January 2012 by admin
Ronald Ross (Medicine, 1902),Born in Almora.
Rudyard Kipling (Literature, 1907), Born in Bombay.
Rabindranath Tagore (Literature, 1913)
C.V. Raman (Physics, 1930)
Hargobind Khorana (Medicine, 1968)
S. Chandrashekhar (Physics, 1983)
Amartya Sen (Economics, 1998),
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Chemistry, 2009).
Posted on 26 January 2012 by admin
Between 1901 and 2011, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 549 times to 853 people and organizations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 826 individuals and 20 organizations. Below, you can view the full list of Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates.
Posted on 08 December 2011 by admin
For Peace: Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression. Africa’s first freely elected female head of State Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf shares the prize with compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who led a “sex strike” among her efforts against Liberia’s civil war and Arab activist Tawakul Karman, who hailed the award as a victory for democracy in Yemen.
For Literature: Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II. His works have been translated into more than 50 languages and influenced poets around the globe, particularly in North America. Born in Stockholm in 1931, Transtromer started writing poetry while studying at the Sodra Latin school in Stockholm.
For Medicine: American Bruce Beutler and French biologist Jules Hoffmann, who studied the first stages of immune responses to attack, share the award with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, whose discovery of dendritic cells in the 1970s is key to understanding the body’s next line of defence against disease. Their work has opened up new avenues for the development of prevention and therapy against infections, cancer and inflammatory diseases
For Physics: American Saul Perlmutter shares the award with US-Australian Brian Schmidt and US scientist Adam Riess, for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Working in two separate research teams during the 1990s, Perlmutter in one and Schmidt and Riess in the other, the scientists raced to map the universe’s expansion by analysing a particular type of supernovas, or exploding stars. They found that the light emitted by more than 50 distant supernovas was weaker than expected, a sign that the universe was expanding at an accelerating rate.
For Chemistry: Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman, for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible. Shechtman’s discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter. Contrary to the previous belief that atoms were packed inside crystals in symmetrical patterns, Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that could not be repeated. Since then, quasicrystals have been produced in laboratories and a Swedish company found them in one of the most durable kinds of steel, which is now used in products such as razor blades and thin needles made specifically for eye surgery.
For Literature: Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims share the prize for work that helps governments and central banks weigh up responses to crises, though it offers no immediate answer to current global problems.
For Economics: Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims shared the Nobel prize in economics, for work that helps governments and central banks weigh up responses to crises, though it offers no immediate answer to current global problems.
The economics prize is the only one of the six Nobels that was not originally included in the 1895 will of the creator of the prize, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. It was created by the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, in 1968, to commemorate its tercentenary and was first handed out in the year 1969.
Posted on 08 December 2011 by admin
Vinayak Lohani, a graduate from IIT Kharagpur and an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, is the recipient of Sanskriti Award for social achievement. Inspired by the ideals of Swami Vivekananda, Lohani had set up an organisation in 2003 to take care of destitute and street children.
Murad Ali, a sixth generation Sarangi player from Moradabad, hailed as one of the most promising Sarangi players in the country, has been chosen for the award in the category of performing arts.
Bangalore-based Abhishek Hazra (Art), an assistant editor with the periodical ‘Tehelka’, Rana Ayyub (Journalism) and a Kashmiri poetess and short story writer Shahida Shabnum (Literature) are the other recipients of the award.
Sanskriti Awards are given to people in the 25-35 years age group, in the fields of literature, journalism, art, performing arts and social achievement.
Posted on 08 December 2011 by admin
Julian Barnes has won the award for his latest novel “The Sense of an Ending”, which is a tale of childhood friendship and the imperfections of memory.
Posted on 04 December 2011 by admin
The Columbian film ‘Porfirio’ directed by Alejandro Landes and produced by Franciso Aljure has bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 42nd International Film Festival of India 2011, while the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Director went to Asghar Farhadi for his film ‘Nader and Simin-A Seperation’. The Indian film ‘Adaminte Makan Abu’ won the Special Jury Award.
Director of the film Salim Ahamed received the award which consists of a Silver Peacock, Certificate and a Cash Prize of Rs. 15 Lakhs, in the presence of the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Choudhury Mohan Jatua, the Chief Minister of Goa, Digambar Kamat and the famous actor Suriya best known for his roles in films like ‘Kaakha Kaakha’, ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ who was the Chief Guest of the closing function held on Saturday.
The Best Actor award of Rs. 10 lakh went to the Israeli actor Sasson Gabay for his role in the film ‘Restoration’ whereas the Best Actress Award was won by Nadezhda Markina for her role in ‘Elena’. The above films were chosen by a five member Competition Jury comprising Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Laurence Kardish, Lee Yong Kwan, Tahmineh Milani and Dan Wolman.
Posted on 06 October 2011 by admin
The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II.
The Swedish Academy said it recognized the 80-year-old poet “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.”
Transtromer has been a perennial favorite for the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award, and in recent years Swedish journalists have waited outside his apartment in Stockholm on the day the literature prize was announced.
Transtromer’s most famous works include the 1966 “Windows and Stones,” in which he depicts themes from his many travels and “Baltics” from 1974.
His works have been translated into more than 50 languages and influenced poets around the globe, particularly in North America.
Posted on 16 August 2011 by admin
Two Indians – Pulitzer winner Siddhartha Mukherjee and writer-journalist Manu Joseph – figure in the 2011 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards programme in the US.
While Mukherjee won the E O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for his The Emperor of All Maladies, Joseph’s Serious Men was selected for the PEN Open Book Award for an exceptional work of literature by an author of colour published in 2010.
The Wilson Literary Science award was given for a book of literary non-fiction on the subject of the physical and biological sciences published in 2010. Instituted this year, the award carries a cash amount of USD 10,000. David Abram was the runner-up in the category for Becoming Animal.
The winners and runners-up of the 17 awards, given by the PEN American Center, will be honoured on October 12 in New York City.
“PEN’s literary awards program is at the heart of what we do. What ties all our work together – whether we are defending free expression or supporting translation or sustaining literacy – is the aim of nurturing literary culture,” PEN president Anthony Appiah said in a statement.
“By publicly honouring the writers, editors, and translators who create the works we read, we celebrate the connections between readers and writers that shape our literary community.”
Alice Quinn, PEN Awards committee chair, said, “The PEN Literary Awards convey something very specific and marvelous to the winners and finalists – the high regard of their peers and heroes.”
Posted on 06 July 2011 by admin
The French government has conferred its highest civilian award ‘Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour’ to Indian businessmen Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of Bajaj Auto, and Baba Kalyani, MD of Bharat Forge Ltd.
Posted on 19 May 2011 by admin
1: BEST FEATURE FILM : Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
Producer: Salim Ahamed
Director : Salim Ahamed
Swarna Kamal
Rs 2,50,000/-
Each
Theme Story of the film : For a simple yet evocative articulation of humanist values that frees matters of faith from the constrictions of narrow parochialism.
The concerns of Abu, son of Adam, are timeless and universal in their scope.
2 : INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR
Baboo Band Baaja(Marathi)
Producer: Nita Jadhav
Director : Rajesh Pinjani
Swarna Kamal
Rs 1,25,000/- Each
Theme story of the film : For a riveting tale of a father reluctant to educate his son, a mother who fiercely believes in its liberatory value, and the son who is caught in the crossfire,
‘Baboo’ is an outstanding debut project by director.
3 : AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT
Dabangg (Hindi)
Producer: Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora Khan & Dhilin Mehta
Director : Abhinav Singh Kashyap
Swarna Kamal
Rs 2,00,000/-Each
Theme story of the film : Answers the need of cinegoers for entertainment rooted in Indian soil.
4 : NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION
Moner Manush(Bengali)
Producer: Gautam Kundu
Director : Goutam Ghose
Rajat Kamal
Rs 1,50,000/-Each
Theme story of the film : For celebrating the union of the human spirit through the life and song of Sufi poets in the Baul tradition.
5 : BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES
Champions(Marathi)
Producer: Aishwarya Narkar
Director : Ramesh More
Rajat Kamal
Rs 1,50,000/-Each
Theme story of the film :In a world of deprivation, the thirst for an education surpasses the hunger for food amongst two young brothers fending for each other and their mother.
6 :BEST FILM ON ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION/PRESERVATION
Bettada Jeeva(Kannada)
Producer: Basantkumar Patil
Director : P. Sheshadri
Rajat Kamal
Rs 1,50,000/- Each
Theme story of the film :An old couple steeped in the soil of their environment yearn for the return of their son while nurturing the growth of their young plantation against all odds.
7 : BEST CHILDREN’S FILM
Hejjegalu(Kannada)
Producer: Basantkumar Patil
Director : P.R. Ramadas Naidu
Swarna Kamal
Rs 1,50,000/- Each
Theme story of the film : A little girl cheerfully takes on the challenge to preserve the fabric of her family.
8 : BEST DIRECTION
Vetrimaran: film Aadukalam (Tamil)
Swarna Kamal
Rs 2,50,000/-
Theme story of the film : For a gritty tale of love, jealousy and betrayal in the midst of bloodsport and violence, in the manner of realistic cinema.
9: BEST ACTOR
Dhanush : Film : Aadukalam (Tamil)
Salim Kumar : Film : Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
10: BEST ACTRESS
Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)
Saranya Ponvannan (Malayalam)
11: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
J. Thambi Ramaiah : Mynaa (Tamil)
12 : BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sukumari : Namma Gramam (Tamil)
14: BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER
Suresh Wadkar : Fim Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
15 : BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER
Rekha Bhardwaj : Film Ishqiya (Hindi)
Posted on 10 May 2011 by admin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been chosen for the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for her enormous efforts toward sustainable and equitable development, it was announced here on Monday.
The jury, chaired by Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, has decided to confer the award for 2009 on Dr. Merkel, an External Affairs Ministry release said here on Monday.
The 57-year-old German leader is known for her efforts for good governance and understanding and for the creation of a world better positioned to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century, it said.
She has been sympathetic to developing countries and our own developmental imperatives and has led the search for a balanced solution based on principles of equity and sensitivity to the interests of the developing world, it said.
The award carries prize money of Rs.1 crore besides a trophy and citation.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Mother Teresa, Kenneth Kaunda, Aung San Suu Kyi, Hosni Mubarak, Josip Broz Tito and Nelson Mandela are some of past recipients of the award.
Posted on 21 April 2011 by admin
PUBLIC SERVICE – Los Angeles Times
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING – No Award
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING – Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
EXPLANATORY REPORTING – Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
LOCAL REPORTING – Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times
NATIONAL REPORTING – Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING – Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times
FEATURE WRITING – Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
COMMENTARY – David Leonhardt of The New York Times
CRITICISM – Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe
EDITORIAL WRITING – Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal
EDITORIAL CARTOONING – Mike Keefe of The Denver Post
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY – Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY – Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times
FICTION – “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)
DRAMA – “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris
HISTORY – “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)
BIOGRAPHY – “Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
POETRY – “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems” by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
GENERAL NONFICTION – “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
MUSIC – “Madame White Snake’” by Zhou Long, premiered on February 26, 2010 by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.
