AWARDS/HONOURS/DISTINCTIONS
Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2015 announced: CSIR on 26
September 2015 announced Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and Technology 2015 for eleven scientists
in recognition of their work.
Ratan Tata
honoured by Coventry:
The city of Coventry, on 1 October 2015, honoured Ratan Tata, chairman Emeritus
of Tata sons, with its highest award in recognition of his contributions to the
West Midlands region of central England. Tata took oath as an Honorary Freeman
of the City of Coventry. Since 1914, only 13 people have been conferred with
the honour.
Forbes India
Leadership Awards-2015 presented: Forbes India Leadership Awards-2015 was
presented on 30 September 2015 in Mumbai. The winners of the award were as
follow
· Outstanding
Start-up for the Year: BhavishAggarwal and AnkitBhati of Ola
· NextGen
Enterpreneur for the Year: Siddhartha Lal of Eicher Motors Ltd
· Entrepreneur
with Social Impact: SamitGhosh, Ujjivan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd
· Conscious
Capitalist Company for the year: Godrej Consumer Products Ltd and Gujarat
Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (Amul)
· Best CEO
Multinational Company: Uday Shankar, Star India Pvt. Ltd
· Best CEO –
Public Sector: Arundhati Bhattacharya, State Bank of India
· Best CEO – Private
Sector: CP Gurnani, Tech Mahindra Ltd
· Lifetime
Achievement Award for the Year: RC Bhargava of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd
· Entrepreneur for
the Year: UdayKotak of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd
24th
Vyaas Samman conferred on Kamal Kishore Goenka: Eminent Hindi
writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka was
conferred with 24th Vyaas
Samman for the year 2014 and 22 September 2015. He was awarded for his work
‘Premchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal
Kramanusaar Adhyayan’. Goenka’s work is a critical analysis of the work by
Munshi Premchand.
IndraNooyi,
ShobhanaBhartia awarded with 2015 Global Leadership Award of USIBC: PepsiCo
Chairman IndraNooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson ShobhanaBharatia were
on 22 September 2015 awarded with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US-India Business Council (USIBC). Besides,
renowned Indian-American artist NatvarBhavsar was awarded with the Artistic
Achievement Award.
EPFO wins Skoch
Award for Smart Governance Initiatives: Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation
(EPFO)
on 23 September 2015 won the Skoch Award for Smart Governance. It was awarded
at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi for its initiatives on UAN Programme and
Transformation of Social Security Agenda in India.
Jacob Tsimerman
wins 2015 SASTRA Ramanujam Prize: Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman of the
University of Toronto, Canada on 28 September 2015 was chosen for the
prestigious 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. Tsimerman is currently working as an
Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto. He primarily conducts
research in Number Theory.
CSIR-CIMAP wins
CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development, 2014: Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants (CSIR-CIMAP),
Lucknow on 26 September 2015 won the CSIR
Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) 2014.
CSIR-CIMAP was awarded for enhancing incomes of farm communities through
Vetiver based Technological Interventions.
Indo-British van
driver honoured with Pride of Britain Award: Prince Charles of Britain on 28
September 2015 awarded Indo-British van driver Dee Patel with the Pride of
Britain Award. Patel had risked his life to save others.
Indian-American
environmental engineer named as MacArthur Fellow: KartikChandran,
an Indian-American associate professor of earth and environmental engineering
at Columbia Engineering, on 29 September 2015 was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow
for transforming wastewater from a pollutant requiring disposal to a resource
for useful products.
Laureates of
2015 Right Livelihood Awards announced: Laureates of 2015 Right Livelihood
Awards were announced on 1 October 2015. Tony de Brum& the People of the
Marshall Islands, Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada), Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
(Uganda) and Gino Strada& his organization ‘Emergency’ (Italy) were chosen
for the prestigious award that it also known as Alternative Nobel Prize.
NOBEL PRIZE
WINNER 2015
Arthur B
McDonald and Takaaki Kajita share 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics: Japan’s
TakaakiKajita
and American Arthur B. McDonald on 6
October 2015 jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of
neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. Kajita belongs to
the University of Tokyo while McDonald is from Queen’s University, Canada.
Three
researchers share 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrichand
Aziz Sancar were
on 7 October 2015 jointly awarded with the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
having mapped how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic
information at a molecular level.
Svetlana
Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature: Belarusian
author Svetlana Alexievich was on 8 October 2015 awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize
in Literature for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage
in our time.
4 researchers
share Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-2015: The Nobel
Committee for Physiology or Medicine on 5 October 2015 announced the recipients
of the 2015 award. The 2015 prize was divided, one half jointly to William C
Campbell (Ireland) and Satoshi Omura (Japan) for their discoveries concerning a
novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other
half to YouyouTu (China) for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against
Malaria.
Tunisian
National Dialogue Quartet wins the Nobel Peace Prize 2015: Tunisian
National Dialogue Quarter won the Nobel Peace Prize 2015 for its decisive
contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake
of Jasmine revolution of 2011. The winner of the award was announced by the
KaciKullman Five, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 9 October 2015.
Angus
Deaton wins 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics: British-born economist Angus
Deaton, on 11 October 2015, won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for “his
analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare”. Deaton’s work had been a major influence
on policy making, helping for example to determine which social groups are
affected by an increase of value-added tax on food. He also spearheaded the use
of household survey data in developing countries, especially data on
consumption, to measure living standards and poverty.
· Deaton, who was
born in Edinburgh and holds both British and U.S. citizenship, is professor of
Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the United
States.
· The economics
prize, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968. It was not part of the
original group of awards set out in dynamite tycoon Nobel’s 1895 will.
Raif Badawi and
James Fenton share 2015 PEN Pinter Prize: Saudi blogger and activist
RaifBadawi and British poet and critic James Fenton were on 6 October 2015
awarded with the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize. Badawi was named as the 2015
International Writer of Courage by Fenton himself during a public event held at
the British Library in London.
Popular Choice
Award for Indian firm: Nualgi, an Indian company with entirely Indian
technology in the field of nano biotechnology, on 7 October 2015 won the
Popular Choice Awards at the Climate CoLab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. With this,
Nualgi became the first Indian company
to win the annual MIT contest.
2015 Hridaynath
Mangeshkar Award for Rehman: A R Rehman was on 8 October 2015 chosen
for the 2015 Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award. The Academy award winning music
composer and singer was chosen by the Hridayesh Art for his contribution to the
Indian music in his career spanning over two decades.
J.C. Daniel
Award for Malayalam film maker: Renowned Malayalam filmmaker I.V. Sasi
was, on 12 October 2015, awarded with the prestigious J.C. Daniel Award for the
year 2014 for his contributions towards the Malayalam entertainment industry.
In 1982, his film Aaroodam won the NargisDutt Award for the best feature film
on National Integration.
Honorary
Doctrate for President Pranab Mukherjee: The Al-Quds University, on 13 October
2015, conferred honorary doctorate on President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony
held in Ramallah. Al-Quds University is a Palestinian university with campuses
in Jerusalem, Abu Dis, and al-Bireh.
Jaitley chosen
‘Finance Minister of the Year, Asia’: Union Finance Minister ArunJaitley was
chosen as ‘Finance Minister of the Year, Asia’ by London-based publication Emerging
Markets in October 2015. Besides, AtiurRahman, the Governor of Bangladesh Bank
was named as the Central Bank Governor of the Year, Asia 2015.
Marlon James
wins the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Jamaican writer Marlon James on
13 October 2015 won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel A Brief
History of Seven Killings. With this, James became the first Jamaican author to
win the prize in its 47-years of history.
Tibetan PM
Sangay honoured with Presidential Medal for promoting peace: Tibetan Prime
Minister LobsangSangay was, on 14 October 2015, awarded with the prestigious
Presidential Medal by Salisbury University in Maryland, US for promoting peace
and understanding. Sangay dedicated the medal to the sufferings of the Tibetan
people and the non-violent Tibetan movement to reinstate freedom and dignity
inside Tibet.
Harvard
University’s 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award: Nobel Peace
Prize winner of 2014 KailashSatyarthi was on 16 October 2015 conferred with the
2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award for contribution to the cause of child
rights and abolition of child slavery. Satyarthi was successful in getting the
issue of child protection included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
that was adopted by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2015.
Miss Diva 2015: Model-actress UrvashiRautela was, on 18 October 2015,
crowned as Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2015 at a star-studded event in Mumbai.
With this, she became India’s representative for the Miss Universe pageant.
Paul H Appleby
Award:
Noted criminologist K Chockalingam was in October 2015 conferred with the
prestigious Paul H Appleby Award given by the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA).
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