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GOLden GLOBeS AwARdS

69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The award ceremony was hosted by British comedian, Ricky Gervais, who hosted the show for te second consecutive year. The Golden Globe Awards are sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognise excellence in film, television both domestic and foreign. The Artist, the French-made black-and-white silent movie about Hollywood in the '20s, directed by Michel Hazanavicius won three awards at the 69th annual Golden Globes Awards including statues for best comedy or musical and best actor comedy or musical for Jean Dujardin. The Descendants directed by Alexander Payne won for best drama. George Clooney won the Golden Globe in the category of Best actor-drama for his performance in the film- The Descendants. Meryl Streep's turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady earned her the best actress drama award and her eighth Golden Globe.

Other acting winners were Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer, and Martin Scorsese earned the directing honor for Hugo. Michelle Williams won for actress in a musical or comedy as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn, 52 years after Monroe's win for the same prize at the Globes for Some Like It Hot. Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin won for best animated film, and the Iranian tale A Separation was named the foreign-language winner.

List of Winners of the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards is as follows:

Best Picture: Drama: The Descendants

Best Actor: Drama: George Clooney (The Descendants)

Best Actress: Drama- Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

Best supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer (The Help)

Best Screenplay: Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)

Best Picture: Comedy or Musical- The Artist

Best Actor: Comedy or Musical- Jean Dujardin (The Artist)

Best Actress: Comedy or Musical- Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn)

Best Director: Martin Scorsese (Hugo)

Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation (Iran)

Best Animated Film: The Adventures of Tintin

Best Original Score: Ludovic Bource, The Artist

PAdMA AwARdS fOR The yeAR 2012

The Padma awards for the year 2012 were announced on the eve of Indias 63rd Republic Day. The President approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. The Padma Awards 2012 comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 ladies among

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the awardees. The late cartoonist Mario Miranda and the late musician Bhupen Hazarika were amongst the five people awarded the Padma Vibhushan. Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi were confirmed for Padma Bhushan along with 25 more awardees. Indias highest civilian awards, Padma Awards are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan

and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service, Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of high order and Padma Shri for

distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan around March/ April.

The list of winners for Padma Awards 2012 in the three different categories is as follows:

AwARdeeS Of PAdMA ShRI

name discipline State/ domicileShri Vanraj Bhatia Art - Music MaharashtraShri Zia Fariduddin Dagar Art - Music - vocal MaharashtraSmt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi Art - Music- Khongjom Parba ManipurShri Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani

Art - Yakshagana dance drama Karnataka

Shri Moti Lal Kemmu Art - Playwright Jammu and KashmirShri Shahid Parvez Khan Art - Instrumental Music-Sitar MaharashtraShri Mohan Lal Kumhar Art - Terracotta RajasthanShri Sakar Khan Manganiar Art - Rajasthani Folk Music Rajasthan Smt. Joy Michael Art - Theatre DelhiDr. Minati Mishra Art - Indian Classical Dance- Odissi. OrissaShri Natesan Muthuswamy Art - Theatre. Tamil NaduSmt. R. Nagarathnamma Art - Theatre KarnatakaShri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri Art - Indian Classical Dance-

KutiyattamKerala

Smt. Yamunabai Waikar Art - Indian Folk Music-Lavani. MaharashtraShri Satish Alekar Art - Playwright MaharashtraPandit Gopal Prasad Dubey Art - Chhau dance and choreography JharkhandShri Ramakant Gundecha #

Shri Umakant Gundecha #Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal

Art - Indian Classical Music- Vocal

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh

Shri Anup Jalota Art-Indian Classical Music- Vocal Maharashtra

Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan Art - Cinema- Direction KeralaShri Sunil Janah Art-Photography AssamMs. Laila Tyebji Art-Handicrafts DelhiShri Vijay Sharma Art-Painting Himachal PradeshSmt. Shamshad Begum Social Work ChattisgarhSmt. Reeta Devi Social Work DelhiDr. P.K. Gopal Social Work Tamil Nadu



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Smt. Phoolbasan Bai Yadav Social Work ChattisgarhDr. G. Muniratnam Social Work Andhra PradeshShri Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya Social Work MaharashtraDr. Uma Tuli Social Work DelhiShri Sat Paul Varma Social Work Jammu and KashmirSmt. Binny Yanga Social Work Arunachal Pradesh Shri Yezdi Hirji Malegam Public Affairs Maharashtra Shri Pravin H. Parekh Pubic Affairs Delhi Dr. V. Adimurthy Science and Engineering Kerala Dr. Krishna Lal Chadha Science and Engineering - Agriculture Delhi Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan Science and Engineering Delhi Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai Science and Engineering Jammu and Kashmir Dr. Vijaypal Singh Science and Engineering - Agricultural

ResearchUttar Pradesh

Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal Science and Engineering Punjab Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan Science and Engineering Karnataka Prof. Jagadish Shukla Science and Engineering USAMs. Priya Paul Trade and Industry Delhi Shri Shoji Shiba Trade and Industry Japan Shri Gopinath Pillai Trade and Industry Singapore Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia Trade and Industry Maharashtra Dr. Swati A. Piramal Trade and Industry Maharashtra Prof. Mahdi Hasan Medicine-Anatomy Uttar Pradesh Dr. Viswanathan Mohan Medicine - Diabetology Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Hareendran Nair Medicine - Ayurveda Kerala Dr. Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan

Medicine - Geriatrics Tamil Nadu

Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh Medicine - Oncology Bihar Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya Medicine-Healthcare Daman and DiuDr. Nitya Anand Medicine - Drugs Research Uttar PradeshLate Dr. Jugal Kishore Medicine - Homoeopathy Delhi Dr. Mukesh Batra Medicine-Homeopathy MaharashtraDr. Eberhard Fischer Literature and Education SwitzerlandShri Kedar Gurung Literature and Education SikkimShri Surjit Singh Patar Literature and Education - Poetry PunjabShri Vijay Dutt Shridhar Literature and Education - Journalism Madhya PradeshShri Irwin Allan Sealy Literature and Education UttarakhandMs. Geeta Dharmarajan Literature and Education Delhi Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai Literature and Education Haryana Smt. Pepita Seth Literature and Education Kerala



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Dr. Ralte L. Thanmawia Literature and Education Mizoram Shri Ajeet Bajaj Sports - Skiing Delhi Smt. Jhulan Goswami Sports - Women's Cricket West Bengal Shri Zafar Iqbal Sports-Hockey Uttar Pradesh Shri Devendra Jhajrija Sports - Athletics- Paralympics Rajasthan Shri Limba Ram Sports - Archery Rajasthan Shri Syed Mohammed Arif Sports - Badminton Andhra Pradesh Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi Sports- Commentary Delhi Shri Prabhakar Vaidya Sports-Physical Education Maharashtra Shri T. Venkatapathi Reddiar Others-Horticulture Puducherry Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth Others-Wildlife Conservation and

Environment Protection Karnataka

Shri K Paddayya Others-Archaeology Maharashtra Shri Swapan Guha Others-Ceramics Rajasthan Dr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai Others - Environmental Education Gujarat

AwARdeeS Of PAdMA BhUShAn

name discipline State/ domicileSmt. Shabana Azmi Art - Cinema MaharashtraShri Khaled Choudhury Art - Theatre West BengalShri Jatin Das Art - Painting DelhiPandit Buddhadev Das Gupta Art - Instrumental Music - Sarod West BengalShri Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra

Art - Cinema Maharashtra

Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan

Art - Classical vocal and instrumental music

Tamil Nadu

Ms. Mira Nair Art - Cinema DelhiShri M.S. Gopalakrishnan Art - Instrumental Music-Violin Tamil NaduShri Anish Kapoor Art - Sculpture UKShri Satya Narayan Goenka Social Work MaharashtraDr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao

Public Affairs Germany

Shri George Yong-Boon Yeo Public Affairs SingaporeProf. Shashikumar Chitre Science and Engineering MaharashtraDr. M S Raghunathan Science and Engineering MaharashtraShri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan Trade and Industry Tamil NaduShri Balasubramanian Muthuraman Trade and Industry MaharashtraDr. Suresh H. Advani Medicine - Oncology MaharashtraDr. Noshir H Wadia Medicine-Neurology MaharashtraDr. Devi Prasad Shetty Medicine-Cardiology Karnataka



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Prof. (Dr.) Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar

Literature and Education Maharashtra

Prof. Vidya Dehejia Literature and Education USAProf. Arvind Panagariya Literature and Education USADr. Jose Pereira Literature and Education USADr. Homi K. Bhabha Literature and Education UK Shri N Vittal Civil Service KeralaShri Mata Prasad Civil Service Uttar PradeshShri Ronen Sen Civil Service West Bengal

AwARdeeS Of PAdMA vIBhUShAnname discipline State/ domicileShri K G Subramanyan Art-Painting & Sculpture West BengalLate Shri Mario De Miranda Art-Cartoonist GoaLate (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika Art- Vocal Music AssamDr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine Orthopedic MaharashtraShri T V Rajeswar Civil Service Delhi

MALLIKARJUn MAnSUR AwARd

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was presented the Mallikarjun Mansur award in recognition of his achievements on 3 January 2012. He has enthralled audience worldwide with his unique style of playing the instrument with his finger nails. Khan is the first north Indian artiste to have performed in honour of saint composer Thyagaraja at his birth place at Thiruvaiyur in Tamil Nadu. He is also a recipient of many awards like Sangeet Natak academy award, Tansen Award, UNESCO Award, UNICEF National Ambassadorship and International Music Forum Award. The award, instituted by the Karnataka government, carries a cash prize of Rs one lakh and a citation. Vocalist Kishori Amonkar, Pandit Jasraj and Dr Balamuralikrishna were the earlier recipients of the award.

AShOKA ChAKRA

President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil conferred the Ashoka

Chakra on Lt. Navdeep Singh (posthumous) on the occasion of the

63rd Republic Day Parade 2012 in New Delhi. Lt. Navdeep Singh was awarded the Ashoka Chakra for single-handedly eliminating four infiltrating terrorists on 20 August 20 2011. Lieutenant Navdeep Singh was Ghatak Platoon Commander of 15 Maratha Light Infantry deployed in the High Altitude Area near the Line of Control. On receiving information about the infiltration of a group of terrorists he laid an ambush at the appropriate spot. When the terrorists were spotted, the ambush was sprung by the officer himself. An exchange of intense fire ensued. the officer

eliminated three terrorists at close range. On seeing another terrorist approaching their position, he swiftly changed his firing position. While doing so, he got hit by a bullet on his head. Further, displaying utmost bravery and comradeship, he pulled an injured fellow-soldier to safety and kept firing till he became unconscious due to excessive blood loss.

OTheR GALLAnTRy AwARdS

Besides the President also approved the award of three Kirti Chakra. Lt. Col. Kamaldeep Singh (Rajputana Rifles / 18TH Battalion the Rashtriya Rifles), Capt. Ashutosh Kumar (5th Battalion the Rajputana Rifles) and Lt. Sushil Khajuria (Army Service Corps / 18th battalion The Grenadiers) were the three Kirti Chakra awardees. Of the three, Lt. Khajuria was conferred the award posthumously for his gallantry during an encounter with terrorists in the Kupwara region of Jammu and Kashmir.



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Sixteen persons were awarded the Shaurya Chakra, the nations third-highest gallantry award in peacetime. While most of the Shaurya Chakra awardees are Armymen, the awardees also include a Jammu and Kashmir Special Police Officer (SPO) Barket Ali, who was conferred the award posthumously.

President Pratibha Patil approved conferring of 368 gallantry awards, including 28 Param Vishisht Seva Medals and 45 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals. The Armys additional director-general (public information) Maj. Gen. S.L. Narasimhan was awarded an Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for his leadership in relief and rescue efforts in the wake of the Sikkim earthquake in 2010.

AwARd fOR exCeLLenCe In IndIAn fOReIGn SeRvICe

D Bala Venkatesh Verma, Joint Secretary Disarmament in the Ministry of External Affairs was conferred with the first S K Singh Award for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service on 6 January 2012. The award was presented to him by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in recognition of his extradordinary efforts to strengthen India's position during the Indo-US nuclear deal. Senior Indian diplomat D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, a key member of the negotiating team that saw the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal through from the first agreement of July 2005 to the Additional Protocol in 2010. Varma, a 1988 batch officer of the foreign service, is an expert in nuclear matters and is currently posted as Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security Affairs) at the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi. Following the adoption of the NSG's decision in September 2008, Verma played a crucial role in ensuring that

the text of an Additional Protocol was finalised to India's satisfaction. Also, Varma's negotiating skills were applied in concluding the India-specific Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA.

The award for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service is named after the former foreign secretary and Governor, Shailendra Kumar Singh, a diplomat widely respected within the IFS community for his acumen, professionalism and leadership. Varma was selected as the first recipient of the prestigious award by a top-drawer jury consisting of Vice President Hamid Ansari, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, Ms Gandhi and Congress M.P. Rahul Gandhi.

v. ShAnTARAM LIfe TIMe AChIeveMenT AwARd

Veteran environmental filmmaker Mike Pandey was honoured with the prestigious V. Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2012 on 3 February 2012. The award was presented by Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan. He received the award for his documentaries on wildlife conservation and environment. Mike Pandey is one of Indias foremost wildlife and environmental filmmakers. He hasd won over 300 national and international awards. His list of films include Shores of Silence, The Last Migration, Broken Wings and The Timeless Traveller.

The award carries a citation, a trophy and a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh. It was instituted in 1996 in memory of the legendary filmmaker V. Shantaram. The award is given with an objective to recognise the multi-faceted contributions of an Indian for the documentary film movement.

RAMnATh GOenKA AwARdS fOR exCeLLenCe

In JOURnALISM

Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2012 was held at Taj Palace, New Delhi on 16 January 2012. Vice President of India, Hamid ansari was the graced the occasion as Chief Guest. 30 awards in total were given away for outstanding work done in print and broadcast media in various categories. The Pioneers J Gopikrishnan and CNBC-TV18s Udayan Mukherjee were adjudged Journalist of the Year at the 5th Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism. At the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2012, CNN-IBN bagged three prestigious awards in various categories. Journalists Anubha Bhonsle, Preeti Singh and Arijit Sen of CNN-IBN were honoured with the prominent award.

Anubha Bhonsle won the Best Political Reporter award for her show Paisa Power Politics exposing the relationship between those who fight elections and those who fund it. Preeti Singh won Best on the spot Reporter of the year for her coverage of the flood affected areas inside the Karnool district of Andhra Pradesh. Arijit Sen was awarded the Best reporter from North East for his reports on fake encounters in Manipur and the plight of people caught between militants and the state. The Prakash Kardaley Memorial Award for Civic Journalism went to Tripti Lahiri of Tehelka. The Indian Express Raghav Ohri bagged the Priya Chandrasekhar Memorial Award for Excellence in Editing, while Daksh Panwar of The Indian Express won the Sanjiv Sinha Memorial Award for Excellence in Editing.



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The award celebrates the values that stand for good journalism: excellence & enterprise, courage & fairness. The awards will cover the entire gamut of Indian media, Print & Broadcast, in English & Indian languages. The Ramnath Goenka foundation was set up in 1992 in the memory of late Ramnath Goenka, founder of The Indian Express, freedom fighter and doyen of Indian journalism, to encourage and propagate high-quality, objective journalism. The Awards aim to celebrate excellence in journalism, recognize courage and commitment and showcase outstanding contributions and individuals every year.

GReen GLOBe AwARd

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan received a Green Globe for Outstanding Efforts by a Celebrity for his efforts toward a greener future at the fourth edition of the Panasonic Green Globe Foundation Awards on 2 february 2012. He received the award from Hollywood actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. The award is conferred to honour the efforts of organisations and individuals fighting climate change through their work in environment preservation and regeneration. The Terminator star, Schwarzenegger was the guest of honour at the event. This was the first time that Arnie, as fans fondly call him, visited India. During his visit Schwarzenegger also attended the day-long Delhi Sustainable Development Summit presided over by the Indian Prime Minister.

PRIde Of IndIA AwARd

Visiting union minister for labour and employment Mallikarjun Kharge was presented with Pride of India award

by the Indian-American community in Washington on 1 February 2012. He was honoured with the award for his over four decades of public service. The award was presented jointly by the Indian American Friendship Council (IAFC) and India Association of North Texas (IANT) at a reception hosted in honour of the visiting union minister, Kharge in Dallas. In his address, Kharge provided an update on various bilateral memoranda on items of mutual interest, such as mining safety, employment, social security and said that India's GDP is poised to grow at a faster pace than most of the nations.

dSC PRIze fOR SOUTh ASIA LITeRATURe

Singapore-based Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka was awarded the DSC Prize for South Asia Literature 2012, at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan on 21 January 2012. Karunatilka won $50,000 for his book Chinaman. The novel explores cricket as a metaphor to uncover a lost life and a lost history. The title of the novel, published by Random House, refers to a left-arm unorthodox spinner in cricket, often described as the chinaman. The legend of a Sri Lankan bowler Pradeep Sivanathan Mathew and the sport of cricket form the crux of this book. The jury for the 2012 $ 50,000 prize included renowned literary figures Dr Alastair Niven, Dr Fakrul Alam, Faiza S Khan and Marie Brenner.

The prize was instituted in January 2010 to celebrate writing that highlights the South Asian region, its people, culture and diaspora. Envisioned as a unique and prestigious award, the award recognizes theliterary works of authors across the globe writing on South Asia. DSC Prize for South Asia Literature

2011 was to HM Naqvi for his debut novel Home Boy (HarperCollins India).

InfOSyS PRIze

Six researchers from five science streams were honoured with the Infosys Prize-2011 by the former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Bangalore on 9 January 2012. The prize winners include Kalyanmoy Deb, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (engineering and computer science); Imran Siddiqi, scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (life sciences); Kannan Soundarajan, director, Mathematics Research Centre, Stanford University, U.S. (mathematical sciences); Sriram Ramaswamy, Professor, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Indian

Institute of SciencesBangalore (physical sciences); Raghuram G. Rajan, Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business (social sciences-economics); and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi (social sciences-political science and international relations). President of the Board of Trustees of Infosys Science Foundation,



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T.V. Mohandas Pai, announced on the occasion that a new award category in humanities would be introduced from 2012. It would cover philosophy, history, archaeology, linguistics and literary sciences.

The Infosys Prize, into its third year, carries a cash component of Rs. 50 lakh, a gold medallion and a citation. The Infosys Prize is amongst the highest in terms of money given for any award in India.The noted scientists were selected by the Foundation trustees and the eminent jury panels comprising Nobel laureate Amartya Sen for Social Sciences, Shrinivas Kulkarni (physical sciences), Pradeep K. Khosla

(engineering and computer science), S.R. Varadhan (mathematical sciences) and Inder Verma (life sciences). The Foundation is funded by a corpus of Rs.100 crore (Rs.10 billion), contributed by the trustees and an annual grant from the global software major.

MAhATMA GAndhI InTeRnATIOnAL AwARd

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was presented the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation on 4 January 2011, the fourth day of the ten-day Kalachakra initiations. The grand daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Ila Gandhi, presented

the award, instituted in 2003, to the Dalai Lama at the Kalachakra ground. Ila Gandhi, who is based in South Africa, is chairman of the Gandhi Development Trust that gives the award.

The Dalai Lama was supposed to have received the award in October 2011 as part of a much anticipated visit to South Africa. The visit however had to be called off following a five-week wait for a visa to be issued. Former recipients of the Mahatma Gandhi International Award include Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, South African leader Nelson Mandela and Tanzanias Julius Nyerere.

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Sahitya AkademiAwards

Twenty-two writers selected on 21December for the prestigious SahityaAkademi awards for2011. Eightbooks of poetry, seven novels, threeessays and one each short stories,narrative history, biography and playwere selected for the awards. Writ-ers in 23 languages are recongisedevery year by the Akademi.The bookswere selected on the basis of rec-ommendations made by a jury ofthree members in each language.The awards that are given every yearand contain an engraved cooperplaque, a shawl and a cheque of Rs1 lakh.

Sahitya Akademi awards for Po-etry Poets chosen for the awardincludes: Late Kabin Phukan(Assamese), Manindra Gupta(Bengali), Premananda Mosahari(Bodo), Naseem Shafaie (Kashmiri),Melvyn Rodrigues (Konkani),Harekrishna Satapathy (Sanskrit),Aditya Kumar Mandi (Santali) andKhaleel Mamoon (Urdu).

Sahitya Akademi awards for Nov-els Novelists who won the awardinclude: Kashinath Singh (Hindi),Kshetri Bira (Manipuri),Kalpanakumari Devi (Odia), BaldevSingh (Punjabi) and Atul Kanakk(Rajasthani).

Award & PrizesTamil novelist Su Venkatesan's , de-but novel Kaval Kottam earned himthe coveted Sahitya Akademi Awardin Tamil section. The book is aboutthe 600-year old history of the cityof Madurai and a security systemthat prevailed there

Awardees in Essays CategoryLalit Magotra (Dogri), Grace(Marathi) and Samala Sadasiva(Telugu) received the award for theirbooks on essays.

Awardees in Other SectionsHistorian Ramachandra Guha waschosen for the award for his book ofnarrative history - India AfterGandhi. Mohan Parmar (Gujarati)was chosen for his short stories, M.K.Sanu (Malayalam) for his biographyand Mohan Gehani (Sindhi) for hisbook on plays.

Bharatendu HarishChandra Awards

Fourteen persons (Leading writersand journalists) were givenBharatendu Harish Chandra Awardsfor 2009 and 2010 by Minister ofState for Information and Broadcast-ing, S Jagathrakshakan on 28 De-cember 2011.

2009 WinnersThe first prize in the Journalism andMass Communication category forthe year 2009 was awarded to DilipChandra Mandal for his

manuscript Corporate, Loktantra aurPaid News. Kumud Sharmasbook Samachar Bazar kiNaitikta bagged the second prize.The third prize went jointly toShivananda Kamde for his book Car-toon Patrakarita and Dr. Akela Bhaifor his book Radio Sahitya aurPatrakarita. In the Womens issuescategory, the first prize for 2009 wasgiven to Lata Kot for hermanuscript Adha Asmaan Hamara.The first prize in Childrens Litera-ture category for 2009 was given toGhamandi Lal Agrawal for his bookGeet Gyan Vigyan Ke and the sec-ond prize to Renu Saini for her manu-script Bachpan ka Safar.

2010 WinnersFor 2010 the second prize in Jour-nalism and Mass Communicationcategory was awarded to PranjalDhars manuscript SamkaleenVaishwik Patrakarita Mei Akhbaar.No one was awarded first prize for2010 in this category. In Womensissues category for 2010, SumanRais book Gharelu Hinsa meinMahila Sanrakshan Adhiniyam 2005,2006 got the first prize. SanjeevJaiswal Sanjays book Dooba HuaQila and the book Cycle Par ThaaKavva by Prabhat received the firstand second prize respectively in theChildrens Literature category. In theNational Integration category for2010, Shiv Kumar Rais manuscriptMeri Jati Bhartiya was given thefirst prize.

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About Bharatendu Harish ChandraAwards: The BhartenduHarishchandra Awards are given topublished or unpublished books infour categories- Journalism andMass Communication, Womens Is-sues, Childrens Literature and Na-tional Integration. The awards wereinstituted in 1983 to encourage origi-nal Hindi writings on topics relatedto journalism and mass communica-tion. Awards for writings on womensissues, childrens literature and na-tional integration were included infrom 1992-93. The Awards schemeis coordinated by Publications Divi-sion, Ministry of Information andBroadcasting, Government of India.The Ministry of Information & Broad-casting, increased the BhartenduHarishchandra award money fromthe year 2009.

For journalism and mass communi-cation categories, the first prize nowcarries an award of Rs 75000, upfrom Rs 35000 earlier. The amountfor the second prize was increasedfrom Rs 25000 to Rs.50000 and thethird from Rs.20000 to Rs.40000. Forbooks in category of Womens Issues,Childrens Literature and NationalIntegration, the first prize carries anaward of Rs 40000 instead ofRs.15000 and the second prizeRs.20000 instead of Rs.10000.

Mahatma GandhiInternational Award

Tibetan spiritual leader, the DalaiLama was presented the MahatmaGandhi International Award forPeace and Reconciliation on 4 Janu-ary 2011, the fourth day of the ten-day Kalachakra initiations. The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, IlaGandhi, presented the award, insti-

tuted in 2003, to the Dalai Lama atthe Kalachakra ground. Ila Gandhi,who is based in South Africa, ischairman of the Gandhi Develop-ment Trust that gives the award. Ti-betan Nobel Peace Laureate on theoccasion encouraged everyone touse human intelligence in challeng-ing and overcoming negative emo-tions with positive emotions. Hementioned in his speech that disar-mament is needed to attain com-plete non-violence. He also men-tioned that mental peace results innon-violent actions and mental un-rest causest he opposite. He con-cluded by stating that the real pathto a happy life is not through moneyn power but through honesty andcompassion. The Dalai Lama wassupposed to have received theaward in October 2011 as part of amuch anticipated visit to South Af-rica. The visit however had to becalled off following a five-week waitfor a visa to be issued. Former re-cipients of the Mahatma Gandhi In-ternational Award include Burmesepro-democracy leader Aung San SuuKyi, South African leader NelsonMandela and Tanzanias JuliusNyerere.

Justice P.N. BhagwatiAward

Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalampresented the Justice P.N. BhagwatiAward to O.P. Jindal Global Univer-sity chancellor and managing direc-tor of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd,Naveen Jindal on 6 December 2011.The award was conferred upon Jindalfor his outstanding contribution tolegal education and corporate phi-lanthropy. Justice P.N. BhagwatiAward has been instituted by theCapital Foundation. Naveen Jindal is

the Founding Chancellor of the O.P.Jindal Global University. He is alsoa Member of Parliament, the Chair-man and Managing Director ofJindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL),and a sports enthusiast. The O.P.Jindal Global University has fourschools: Jindal Global Law School(JGLS), Jindal Global Business School(JGBS), Jindal School of Interna-tional Affairs (JSIA) and Jindal Schoolof Government and Public Policy (JGSP). The Bhagwati Award wasalso given to Arun Mohan, a senioradvocate in the Supreme Court, inrecognition of his outstanding con-tribution to access to justice. HumanResource Development MinisterKapil Sibal and Law and Justice Min-ister Salman Khurshid were con-ferred the Justice V.R. Krishna IyerAward on the occassion.

Life Time AchievementAward

Lord Swraj Paul, leading NRI indus-trialist was conferred with the LifeTime Achievement award for hisoutstanding contributions in variousfields. The award, instituted by anIndian company Powerbrands, waspresented to Lord Paul on 12 De-cember 2011 by Subrata Roy, chiefof the Sahara Group.

Lord Paul, Chairman of the CaparoGroup, dedicated the award to theordinary people of India who he fellshave little, but never complains. Phi-lanthropist and Labour politician,Lord Paul is the chancellor of theUniversity of Wolverhampton andthe University of Westminster. Paulwas awarded the Padma Bhushan bythe Government of India in 1983. Hewas elevated to the British Peeragein 1996. Raghupati Singhania of J K

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Tyres was earlier given thePowerbrands Hall of Fame Award.

42nd International FilmFestival of India (IFFI)

The 42nd edition of InternationalFilm Festival of India (IFFI) was heldin Panaji, Goa from 23 November to3 December 2011. Film star ShahRukh Khan inaugurated the 42ndedition of IFFI. The inaugural cer-emony was marked by presentationof Life Time Achievement award,which was revived after almost 10years to French film maker BertrandTavernier by Shah Rukh Khan. Theopening film of the festival was TheConsul of Bordeaux, directed byFrancisco Manso and Joao Correa.The 42nd IFFI came to an end withthe Asia premiere of the film TheLady directed by Luc Besson. For thefirst time, the inauguration ceremonywas held 30 km away from the mainaction point. There was a first-everopen screen on a football ground forfree display of soccer films. The fes-tival was the first to feature the newsections like 3D, Animation(Sketches on Screen) and FestivalKaleidoscope films.

Awards presented during the Fes-tival: The 42nd International FilmFestival of India come to an end atthe Kala Academy in Panaji with thepresentation of awards in five dif-ferent segments. The Golden Pea-cock Award for the Best Film wasgiven to a Columbian Film Porfirio.The Chief Guest of the closing cer-emony, Southern Superstar, Suriyapresented the award to the DirectorAlejandro Landes and Producer,Francisco Aljure. The Silver PeacockAward for Best Actor (Female) cat-egory was given to the actor

Nadezhda Markina for her role in theRussian film Elena. Whereas, theSilver Peacock Award for Best Actor(Male) category was won by SassonGabey for his role in an Israeli filmRestoration. The Special Jury Awardwas presented to Salim Ahamed fordirecting Malayalam film AdaminteMakan Abu meaning Abu, Son ofAdam. The Special Jury Award car-ries a Silver Peacock Trophy, a cer-tificate and Rs. 15 lakh. The fivemembers Jury under the chairman-ship of Adoor Gopalakrishnan hadscreened 14 films from as manycountries and unanimously decidedthe awards.

Gomant Vibhushan

World renowned architect and Goa'sson-of-the-soil Charles Correa wasbestowed with Goa's highest civil-ian honour, the Gomant Vibhushan,on the eve of the Golden Jubiliee ofGoa's Liberation on 18 December2011. The award was presented tohim by Goa governor KShankaranarayanan. Goa governorpresented Correa with the over half-metre high, glass-encased brass rep-lica of Goa's state symbol along witha cash award of Rs 5 lakh and a ci-tation in one of Correa's own archi-tectural creations, the Kala Academyat Panaji. Correa's architectural ge-nius and projects dotsnot only Indiancities but also cities around theworld, including Boston and Lisbon.Correa is the second recipient of theGomant Vibhushan, the first beingeminent nuclear scientist AnilKakodkar, who was awarded theGomant Vibhushan in 2010. Correahas earlier been conferred withIndia's Padma Shri and PadmaVibhushan.

Clean DevelopmentMechanism Project

Award

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC)won a green award for reducingemissions of polluting gases in thenational capital by 6.3 lakh tons ev-ery year. The best Clean Develop-ment Mechanism (CDM) projectaward was presented at Urban Mo-bility Conference, 2011 which con-cluded in New Delhi on 7 December2011. The best CDM award wasgiven to Delhi Metro for for its ModalShift Project under which it becamethe first Metro rail and rail-basedsystem in the world to be certifiedby United Nations for getting carboncredits for reducing green housegas(GHG) emissions. Delhi Metro,which ferries around 18 lakh peopledaily, helped to reduce pollution lev-els in the city by 6.3 lakh tonnes ev-ery year, thus helping in reducingglobal warming. DMRC director(Works) Mangu Singh received theaward on the organisation's behalf.This is the second CDM project fromDMRC to be registered with the UNin the last three years. DMRC's firstCDM project on regenerative brak-ing had also achieved many inter-national firsts apart from earningvaluable foreign exchange for thecountry.

Grammy Award

The Academy of Recording Arts andSciences on 21 December 2011chose Apple co-founder Steve Jobsto be posthumously honoured witha Grammy award for his contributionto music technology. Jobs is to behonoured as a creative visionary. Heis one of 11 people who will be

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honoured with special awards. Jobs,who died on 5 October 2011 of pan-creatic cancer, will receive a Trust-ees Award on 13 February 2012 forhelping create products that trans-formed the way music, TV, moviesand books are consumed. Apple Com-puter Inc first received a TechnicalGrammy Award in 2002 for contri-butions of outstanding technical sig-nificance to the recording field.Bandleader and composer DaveBartholomew, recording engineerRudy Van Gelder will also receive theaward along with Jobs. The academyalso picked the Allman Brothers,Glen Campbell, Diana Ross and Bra-zilian pianist/singer/guitarist Anto-nio Carlos Jobim as recipients of Life-time Achievement Awards. Jobimwas known for composing The Girlfrom Ipanema, a worldwide hit in themid-1960s which won a Grammy forRecord of the Year in 1965. Trumpeter Wayne Jackson, saxo-phonist Andrew Love of the Mem-phis Horns, country legend GeorgeJones, and the late Gil Scott-Heronwere also named as recipients. Ger-man sound-technology firmCelemony and the late audio engi-neer Roger Nichols, who worked withartists including Ross, PlacidoDomingo, James Taylor and StevieWonder, were also recognised withGrammy Technical Awards. TheTrustees Awards are given to peoplewho make a contribution to musicbeyond performance. The Academyof Recording Arts and Sciences alsochose seven performers to receiveLifetime Achievement Awards: TheAllman Brothers Band, GlenCampbell, Antonio Carlos Jobim,George Jones, The Memphis Horns,Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron.

Shakti BhattFirst Book Prize

Jamil Ahmad was declared the win-ner of the Shakti Bhatt First BookPrize for his book The WanderingFalcon at the British Council in NewDelhi on 21 December 2011. TheWandering Falcon, is a narrativeabout the lives of tribal people alongthe borders of Afghanistan, Pakistanand Iran. The book contained per-sonal sights, sounds, actual facesand conversations. The book thathas won critical acclaim worldwidewas written decades ago and thenwent into hibernation for 40 years.He started writing the book in 1971,it was completed by 1973 and thenit hibernated for 40 years.

Born in Jalandhar in 1933, JamilAhmad is a Pakistani national. Hehad not agreed to the demands ofthe publishers, which eventually ledto the book being locked away forfour decades. The book was pub-lished by Hamish Hamilton animprint of Penguin earlier in 2011.Ahmad was posted in Quetta in 1959where he first came into contactwith tribals and was fascinated bytheir lives and their stories.The former civil servant from Paki-stan, Ahmad gave away the prizemoney of Rs. 1 lakh to St. Columba'sSchool, where he was enrolled from1941 to 1944. The prize is set up inmemory of writer and editor ShaktiBhatt. A shortlist of six books wasannounced ahead of the prize cer-emony. The shortlist included TheCollaborator by Mirza Waheed, TheTruth About Me by A. Revathi,Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka,A Free Man by Aman Sethi and R.D.Burman: The Man, The Music byAnirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji

Vittal. The winner was chosen by ajury comprising graphic novelist andillustrator Sarnath Bannerjee, writerand blogger Jai Arjun Singh, and nov-elist Palash Krishna Mehrotra.

Sangita Kalanidhi M.S.Subbulakshmi Award

S.R. Nathan, former President of theRepublic of Singaporepresented theSangita Kalanidhi M.S.Subbulakshmi Award to SangitaKalanidhi-elect Trichy Sankaran atthe inauguration of the 85th annualconference of the Music Academy inChennai on 15 December 2011. S.R.Nathan also inaugurated the 85thannual conference of the MusicAcademy. On the occassion the sec-ond volume of the SangitaSampradaya Pradarsini waslaunched. The Music Academy andthe Singapore Indian Fine Arts Soci-ety (SIFAS) exchanged a memoran-dum of understanding on educationand training in Carnatic music, draft-ing of syllabus and training of teach-ers during the inaugral ceremony.The Music Academy pioneered theMargazhi music festival in Chennai,which had evolved into a wondrousphenomenon that greatly enrichedthe cultural underpinning of the cityover the last eight decades. The fes-tival remains unparalleled for itssheer size, aesthetics, quality andundiluted classicism.

Trichy Sankaran:Trichy Sankaran isthe mridangam maestro and flag-bearer of the Pudukottai' percussivetradition. Trichy is 2011s designatefor the Academy's Sangita Kalanidhi.Trichy Sankaran, who is based inToronto became the first recipient ofthe Sangita Kalanidhi title in thePudukkottai parampara of his guru

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G. D. Birla Award forScientific Research

Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri of Indian Instituteof Technology-Mumbai was selected for the pres-tigious G. D. Birla Award for ScientificResearch.Prof. Chaudhuri who works in the De-partment of Electrical Engineering was chosen forthe award for his important contributions in thearea of electronic communications. He made origi-nal and substantive contributions in the specificareas of depth recovery from defocused observa-tions and generation of super resolutionimages.Prof. Chaudhury joined IIT-Mumbai in1990 and is currently serving as an Institute ChairProfessor and Dean of International Relations. Healso works in the area of computer vision and im-age processing.The award, constituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation, carries a cash prize of Rs.1.50lakh and is given to scientists below the age of 50.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Director K. Balachander was declared the winnerof Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 bythe Information and Broadcasting Ministry.K.Balachander born in July 1930 is one of the influ-ential filmmakers and trendsetters in Indian cin-ema. Most of his movies are directed in Tamilthough he has directed movies in other languageslike Hindi and Kannada languages as well. Hecame to prominence in 1960 as an amateur play-wright with his dynamic plays like MajorChandrakanth, Server Sundaram, Neerkumizhi,Mezhuguvarthi, Naanal and Navagraham.

Anuvrat AhimsaInternational Peace Award

Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot gave awaythe Anuvrat Ahimsa international peace award tonoted Gandhian philosophy exponent ThomasClough Daffern. The award consisted of a me-mento, a cheque for Rs.1 lakh and a certificate ofmerit.Dr. Daffern is a Director of London-basedInternational Institute of Peace Studies and Glo-bal Philosophy. The institute works across severalacademic fields for study and application of peaceand philosophy to various spheres of life.

Crans Montana Forum Award

Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar be-came the first Indian to receive the Crans Mon-tana Forum Award. The Crans Montana ForumAward was conferred upon him at a ceremony inBrussels on 24 June 2011.Ravi Shankar usuallyknown as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was born asbornRavi Shankar Ratnam on 13 May 1956. He is aspiritual leader and founder of the Art of LivingFoundation (1982) which aims at relieving bothindividual stress and societal problems and vio-lence, and which is an NGO with UNESCO con-sultative status. He also established in 1997 aGeneva-based charity, International Association forHuman Values along with the 14th Dalai Lama.International Association for Human Values is anNGO that engages in relief work and rural devel-opment and aims to foster shared globalvalues.According to him, science and spiritualityare linked and compatible, both springing from theurge to know.

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Winners of the Past: The award has been mainlyconferred on politicians in the past. The recipientsin the past include Angela Merkel, Chancellor ofGermany, Shimon Peres, President of Israel, YasserArafat, former leader of Palestine LiberationOrganisation, Jose Manuel Barroso, President ofthe European Commission and Mikhail Gorbachev,Former President of the Soviet Union.

Meghdoot Awards

Minster of Communications & Information Tech-nology and Human Resource Development con-ferred the Meghdoot Awards on postal employeesfor 2009 and 2010. Fifteen individuals includingfive women bagged the award. The Best Post Of-fice award was given to Chandragiri Head PostOffice, Andhra Pradesh.The scheme of Nationalawards known as Meghdoot Awards was institutedin the year 1984 to provide encouragement to thepostal employees by recognizing performance ofhigh standard.

The awards given for outstanding contribution inthe sphere of official work were earlier given insix individual categories.In order to motivate thepersonnel in the field of technology, a new cat-egory namely, For Technology Excellence was in-troduced for the year 2006. For the years 2009and2010 another category, Best Woman Employeewas introduced for the first time. Meghdootawardees in individual category were given amedal, a scroll and cash award of Rs. 11000 (Ru-pees eleven thousand). The awards are given ev-ery year to the officials selected from amongst thenominations received from various postal circles

Jawaharlal Nehru Awardfor International

Understanding for 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was chosen forthe prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Inter-national Understanding for 2009 for her enormousefforts toward sustainable and equitable develop-ment. The External Affairs Ministry release re-vealed that that the jury chaired by Vice-President

Mohammad Hamid Ansari, has decided to conferthe award for 2009 on Dr. Merkel.

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Under-standing founded in 1965 is an international awardpresented by the Government of India. The awardis administered by the Indian Council for CulturalRelations (ICCR) to people for their outstandingcontribution to the promotion of international un-derstanding, goodwill and friendship among peopleof the world. The award carries prize money ofRs.1 crore besides a trophy and citation.OlafurRagnar Grimsson was the winner of JawaharlalNehru Award for International Understanding for2007.Martin Luther King, Jr., Khan Abdul GaffarKhan, Mother Teresa, Kenneth Kaunda, Aung SanSuu Kyi, Hosni Mubarak, Josip Broz Tito andNelson Mandela are some of past recipients of theaward.

Hindi AcademyShalaka Samman

Eminent Hindi litterateur Arvind Kumar was pre-sented the Hindi Academy Shalaka Samman bywell known poet and former bureaucrat Dr. SitaKant Mahapatra at Delhi Secretariat on 24 June2011. The award carried a citation, shawl, mementoand a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh.Arvind Kumar startedhis career as a child labour in a publishing housein Delhi in 1945 but with his dedication and workhe become editor of magzines like Madhuri,Sarvottam. He has also created several dictionar-ies and thesaurus in Hindi-English and Hindi-Sanskrit.Shalaka Samman is the highest honourof Delhi state in the field of Hindi literature.

Novelist Aminatta Forna won 2011 Common-wealth Writers' Prize for The Memory of LoveBritish-born Sierra Leonean novelist AminattaForna won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prizefor her novel, The Memory of Love. AminattaForna's The Memory of Love was praised by thejudges for its powerful portrayal of human resil-ience. Forna won a prize of 10,000 for the award.First published in April 2010, Memory of Lovewas shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction



2011.The prize for the Best First Book was givento Craig Cliff of New Zealand for A Man Melting,a collection of short stories. The prize money forthe Best First Book is 5,000.

12th IIFA Awards

12th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA)awards ceremony was organised in Toronto on 25June 2011. Salman Khan starrer Dabangg directedby Abhinav Kashyap bagged seven major awardsat the IIFA including the Best Film. ManeeshSharma's Band Baaja Baaraat won three IIFAawards. My Name is Khan starring Shah RukhKhan and Kajol also won accolades. Shah RukhKhan won the Best Actor Award for his perfor-mance in the film.The hottest pair award went toAnushka Sharma and Ranvir Singh. The first everGreen IIFA Award by Panasonic went to actressPriyanka Chopra.Special honours were conferredon veteran actor Dharmendra and singer AshaBhosle. Veteran actor Dharmendra was presentedwith a lifetime achievement award for his 50 yearsof acting in Bollywood. Sharmila Tagore, who haswon several Indian National Film Awards, was alsopresented an award for outstanding achievement.

The list of winners in the different categories isas follows: Best Film: Dabangg Best Direction: Karan Johar for My Name isKhan Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan for My Name isKhan Best Actress: Anushka Sharma for Band BaajaBaaraat Best Supporting Actor: Arjun Rampal forRajneeti Best Supporting Actress: Prachi Desai for Onceupon a time in Mumbai Outstanding achievement in internationalcinema: Irrfan khan Best performance in a Negative role: Sonusood for Dabangg Best comic role: Riteish Deshmukh forHousefull

Best Debut (female): Sonakshi Sinha Best Debut (male): Ranveer Sing

Debuting in 2000 in London, the IIFA's have beenheld on four continents in cities including Dubai,Bangkok, Colombo, Singapore, Macau andJohannesburg but never in India.

Education in ExcellenceAward-2011

Super 30 founder Anand Kumar, whose initiativehelped several students from underprivileged fami-lies make it to the IIT-JEE was chosen for the Edu-cation in Excellence Award-2011 to be awardedon Doha on 13 May 2011. Anand Kumar consis-tently worked to raise a ray of hope in the under-privileged lot and helping them join Indias pre-miere institutions.On the occasion of Bihars 100thyear of foundation the award will be given by theBihar Foundation, Doha chapter and the IndianAssociation for Bihar and Jharkhand at a functionEk Shaam Bihar ke Naam.Bihar Foundation is aBihar government initiative set up in 2008. It hasseven chapters across the world.

International Merlin Award

India's ace magician Gopinath Muthukad receivedthe International Merlin Award also known as themagicians' Oscar for the year 2011 from TonyHassini, President of the US based InternationalMagicians Society. Gopinath Muthukad is the sec-ond Indian to be chosen to receive the MerlinAward after PC Sorkar Jr.Muthukad held that theaward will definitely add to the popularity of theart and attract more young people to pick it up.Muthukad had ventured into the world of magic atthe age of 10.Muthukads motto is Magic with amission. His aim is to use magic as a tool for so-cial upliftment. He mentioned that the he conductsshows to promote national integration and fightagainst social evils like alcoholism, tobacco andterrorism.



INSEADHonoured Sunil Bharti Mittal

Leading international business school INSEADhonoured Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairmanand Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, with itsBusiness Leader for the World Award. Sunil BhartiMittal was given the award for his success in hav-ing grown Bharti Enterprises from a manufacturerof push button phones to India's leading businessconglomerate. He was recognised for his vision ofdeveloping businesses that have a transformationalimpact on the regions in which Bharti ispresent.The award is given to business leaders whohave set new standards in building successful, sus-tainable, global enterprises that span multiple cul-tures, embrace diversity, and contribute to eco-nomic and social prosperity.

Man BookerInternational Prize

Philip Roth was announced as the winner of thefourth Man Booker International Prize at a pressconference at the Sydney Opera House. Roth waschosen from a list of 13 eminentcontenders.American novelist Philip Roth is a lit-erary giant and one of the world's most prolific,celebrated - and controversial - writers. Born inMarch 1933 in New Jersey, Roth is best knownfor his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint, and forhis late-1990s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997),I Married aCommunist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000).The Man Booker International Prize, worth60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fictionon the world stage. The prize is once every twoyears to a living author for a body of work pub-lished either originally in English or widely avail-able in translation in the English language. It haspreviously been awarded to Ismail Kadar in 2005,Chinua Achebe in 2007 and Alice Munro in 2009.58th National Film Awards

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry an-nounced the list of awardees for the 58th NationalFilm Awards. Feature Films jury was headed by

J.P. Dutta, Non-Feature Films jury was headed byA.K. Bir and Best Writing on Cinema jury washeaded by Ashok Vajpeyi.The movie AdaminteMakan Abu directed by Salim Ahamed was ad-judged best Feature Film. Adaminte Makan Abushows humanist values freeing matters of faithfrom the constrictions of narrow parochialism.

The film bagged four awards. The list of theawardess is as follows: Best Feature Film: Adaminte Makan Abu di-rected by Salim Ahamed

Best Direction: Vetrimaran for Aadukalam(Tamil)

Best Actor: Dhanush for Aadukalam (Tamil) &Salim Kumar for Adaminte makan Abu

(Malayalam)

Best Actress: Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar for BabooBand Baaja (Marathi) & Saranya Ponvannan for

Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)

Best Supporting Actor: J Thambi Ramaiah forMynaa (Tamil)

Best Supporting Actress: Sukumari for NammaGramam (Tamil)

Best Cinematography: Madhu Ambat forAdaminte Makan Abu

Best Screenplay Original: etrimaran forAadukalam

Best Screenplay Adapted: Anant Mahadevan& Sanjay for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)

Best Editing: T E Kishore for Aadukalam Best Music direction: Vishal Bhardwaj forIshqiya & issak Thomas Kottakapally for Adaminte

Makan Abu

Best Lyrics: Vairamuthu for ThenmerkkuParuvakkatru



Best Male Playback Singer: Suresh Wadkar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal Best Playback Singer Female: Rekha Bhardwaj: Ishqiya Best Special Effects: V. Srinivas & M Mohan for Enthiran (Tamil) Special Jury Award: Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) directed by Anant Narayan Mahadevan

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2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2011 NobelPrize in Physicsis awarded forthe discovery ofthe acceleratingexpansion ofthe Universe

through observations of distantsupernovae. The Royal SwedishAcademy of Sciences has decided toaward the Nobel Prize in Physics for2011 with one half to SaulPerlmutter, The SupernovaCosmology Project(LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory andUniversity of California),and the otherhalf jointly to Brian P. Schmidt, TheHigh-z Supernova Search Team(Australian National University), andAdam G. Riess, The High-zSupernova Search Team (JohnsHopkins University and SpaceTelescope Science Institute.

2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry isawarded for the discovery ofquasicrystals. The Royal SwedishAcademy of Sciences has decided toaward the Nobel Prize in Chemistryfor 2011 to Dan Shechtman Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,Israel

2011 Nobel Prize in Physiologyor Medicine

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology orMedicine was divided, one half jointlyto Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A.Hoffmann for their discoveriesconcerning the activation of innateimmunity and the other half to RalphM. Steinman for his discovery ofthe dendritic cell and its role inadaptive immunity.

2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 isawarded to Tomas Transtrmerbecause, through his condensed,translucent images, he gives usfresh access to reality.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011

The Norwegian Nobel Committee hasdecided that the Nobel Peace Prizefor 2011 is to be divided in three equalparts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,Leymah Gbowee and TawakkulKarman for their non-violent strugglefor the safety of women and forwomens rights to full participation inpeace-building work. We cannotachieve democracy and lasting peacein the world unless women obtain thesame opportunities as men to influencedevelopments at all levels of society.In October 2000, the UN SecurityCouncil adopted Resolution 1325. The

resolution for the first time madeviolence against women in armedconflict an international security issue. It underlined the need for women tobecome participants on an equalfooting with men in peace processesand in peace work in general.Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Africas firstdemocratically elected femalepresident. Since her inauguration in2006, she has contributed to securingpeace in Liberia, to promotingeconomic and social development, andto strengthening the position ofwomen. Leymah Gbowee mobilizedand organized women across ethnicand religious dividing lines to bring anend to the long war in Liberia, and toensure womens participation inelections. She has since worked toenhance the influence of women inWest Africa during and after war. Inthe most trying circumstances, bothbefore and during the Arab spring,Tawakkul Karman has played aleading part in the struggle forwomens rights and for democracyand peace in Yemen.

Man Booker

One of the most acrimonious run-upsto the Man Booker Prize in recentyears had a happy ending as Britishnovelist Julian Barnes was declaredthe unanimous winner of this years50,000 prize for his novella, TheSense of an Ending, hailed as an

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exquisite meditation on growing old,the nature of memory andrelationships. The choice wasapplauded across the literary dividethough the judges still appeared to besmarting from the attacks they hadendured in recent weeks as theirselection for the shortlist had drawnaccusations of dumbing down. Mr.Barnes, who had been shortlistedthree times before without everwinning the prize.One of Britains most admirednovelists, Mr. Barnes had been thefavourite of bookies and critics alike.At 150 pages, The Sense of anEnding, is his shortest novel but therecord for the shortest book ever towin a Booker remains PenelopeFitzgeralds Offshore which won in1979. The judges said The Sense ofan Ending was exquisitely written,subtly plotted and reveals new depthswith each reading.The othercontenders were: Carol Birch(Jamrachs Menagerie); PatrickdeWitt (The Sisters Brothers), EsiEdugyan (Half Blood Blues); anddebut authors Stephen Kelman(Pigeon English) and AD Miller(Snowdrops).

ICRC Award

The Hindu s Chhattisgarhcorrespondent, Aman Sethi, has wonthe International Committee of theRed Cross award for the best Indianprint media article on humanitarianissues. His article on threeChhattisgarh villages ruthlesslytorched by police commandos inMarch 2011 was selected as the bestof nearly 80 entries from across thecountry. About 300 homes andgranaries were burnt in the five-daypolice operation which left three mendead, and three women sexuallyassaulted. Based on interviews witheyewitnesses and police sources, Mr.Sethis coverage spurred the local

administration to probe the incidentand send aid to the affected villages.Tehelka s Umar Baba took thesecond place, while the third prizewent to Reji Joseph of RashtraDeepika and the consolation prize toAnup Sharma of The Times of India..

STPI Award

Infosys has bagged the SoftwareTechnology Parks of India (STPI)Award for the Highest Exporter in theIT sector, while multinational bankGoldman Sachs Services got theHighest Exporter Award in the IT-enabled services (ITeS) sector.Infosyswas also named the highestemployer, while Hewlett PackardGlobalsoft was recognised for creatingthe highest number of new jobs.Meanwhile, the highest growth in ITexports was recorded by IntelTechnology, even as Goldman Sachsretained the title for ITeS in thiscategory too. Qualcomm India andGoldman Sachs bagged the awardsfor the highest exports per employeein the IT and ITeS category.

Schlingel International FilmFestival

Actor/director Amol Guptes sonPartho Gupte, who delivered anexcellent performance as the quick-witted Stanley in his fathers StanleyKa Dabba won the best actor awardat the Schlingel International FilmFestival that concluded in Chmnitz,Germany.Partho won the best actor award,beating 130 young contenders from allacross the world. Stanley Ka Dabbahas beenso far screened at fourfestivals, including Mumbai FilmFestival. Schlingel is the only filmfestival in the world devoted to filmsfor and about children. Its a veryevolved film festival. The quality offilms and principal performances are

at par with some of the most complexfilms for adult audiences. There wereover 130 films in the competition.

Rajah Sir Annamalai ChettiarAward

Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar BirthdayCommemoration Award for 2011 waspresented to noted vocalist SudhaRaghunathan. The award carried acitation, a plaque and a cash purse ofRs.1 lakh.Speaking after distributingthe award Doraiswamy Raju, formerJudge, Supreme Court, said Rajah SirAnnamalai Chettiar was known for hisphilanthropy. Even on the logo of theChettinad it has been inscribed StriveSave Serve. Rajah Sir AnnamalaiChettiar served for both social andreligious causes. In her acceptancespeech Sudha Raghunathan said thepresentation of award had inspired herto sing more songs in Tamil, she said.

IIPC Honour

The international honours panel andthe honours committee of the IndiaInternational Photographic Council hasadmitted city-based photo journalist T.Srinivasa Reddy to the fellowship ofthe council. He is the first man in thefellowship in journalism section, said astatement from the IIPC.

IPI-India Award

The International Press Institute(IPI) India award for excellence injournalism, 2011, has been awardedjointly to Tehelka and The Week fortheir outstanding journalistic work in2010. In a release here, the IPI Indiachapter announced that Tehelka wasselected for its expose of the rent ariot tactics of the Sree Rama Senein Karnataka, which admitted takingmoney to organise attacks on innocentpersons and institutions. Aninvestigation by Pushp Sharmaexposed the leadership of Sree Rama

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Sene, who readily agreed to launch amob attack and incite a riot in favourof payment.The Week was selected for aninvestigation by Gunjan Sharma intosham medical and dental colleges thathad no doctors, no patients and nofacilities and yet were permitted toaward medical and dental degrees tothousands of students, the releasesaid. The awardees were selected bya distinguished jury of editors andpublishers headed by the former ChiefJustice of India, A. S. Anand.

Obama Honours Indian-American Activist

U.S. PresidentBarack Obamahas honouredIndian-Americanactivist VijayaLakshmi Emanipos thumou s lywith the

Presidential Citizens Medal for hercourage in overcoming and speakingout against domestic abuse in theIndian-American community.Breaking long-held taboos, VijayaEmani lent her voice to protect Indian-American women from domesticviolence, Mr. Obama said whilepresenting the nations second-highestcivilian honour to Emanis daughters Sujata and Nirmala in the EastRoom of the White House onThursday. She was a trailblazer whoshared her personal story to help otherbattered women overcome abusiverelationships, Mr. Obama said ofEmani, who was killed on January 15,2009 at the age of 51 when she washit by a truck in Ohio.

Dhanvantari Award

M.K. Mani, pioneer in nephrology inthe country and Chief Nephrologist atApollo Hospital, Chennai, has beenhonoured with the 40th Dhanvantari

Award. Dr. Mani pioneered innovativetechniques and a new regimen in themanagement of kidney disorders. Heis the recipient of many awards,including the Padma Bhushan and theRabindranath Tagore Award and hasmore than 125 publications to hiscredit. He has been awarded thehonorary Doctorate of Science byseveral universities. Dr. Mani becamewell-known after he gave a freshlease of life to Jayaprakash Narayan,who was suffering from a kidneyailment and had a cardiac arrest atthe Jaslok Hospital. The prestigiousaward, which recognises contributionin medical science, is awardedannually since 1972. The recipientsinclude Denton A Cooley of Houstonand pioneer heart transplant surgeonChristiaan Neethling Barnard of SouthAfrica.

Swiss Award

Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata hasbeen honoured with SwissAmbassadors Award for ExceptionalLeadership, which recognisesindividuals who have contributed tothe promotion of Indo-Swiss bilateralrelations or have stood out for theirexceptional role in the society andindustry.After conferring the award onMr. Tata on Sunday, SwissAmbassador Philippe Weltiacknowledged Mr. Tatas contributionto not just Indian but global businessworld.

World Food Prize

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Former President of Brazil, LuizInacio Lula Da Silva, dual recipientsof the 2011 World Food Prize

Laureate, congratulate each otherduring the World Food Prizeceremony at the Capitol in DesMoines, Iowa. Even as the worldspoor continue to suffer daily underadded pressure from the globaleconomic downturn, this week twoformer Presidents were awarded the2011 World Food Prize for theirsuccess in tackling chronic hunger intheir countries.The award, which wasinstituted in 1987 by Nobel PeacePrize winner and father of the GreenRevolution Norman Borlaug, has inthe past been given to agriculturalscientists such as M.S. Swaminathanof India the winner of the first everWFP award. It has also sometimesgone to social entrepreneurs such asMuhammad Yunus of the GrameenBank, Bangladesh.

Governance Prize

A $5-million prize for good Africangovernance was awarded to theformer President of Cape Verde, citedfor turning his small island nation intoa model of democracy, stability andprosperity. In an announcement madein London and broadcast acrossAfrica, the Mo Ibrahim prizecommittee said during his 10 years inpower, Pedro Verona Pires helpedlead the nation of 200,000 off WestAfricas coast out of poverty and wonrecognition for his human rightsrecord. In citing Pires, the committeethat included Nobel peace laureateMohamed ElBaradei of Egypt andformer Ibrahim prize winner FestusMogae of Botswana said the CapeVerde leader, at the end of his secondterm, dismissed suggestions theconstitution be changed to allow himto run again. Mr. Pires (77) retiredfrom political life last month so hecould write his memoirs, according toLusa.

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Indira Gandhi Award

Environmentalist, lawyer and formerUnion Minister, Mohan Dharia, hasbeen selected as the winner of the26th Indira Gandhi Award for NationalIntegration. The 86-year-old PadmaVibhushan awardee, who currentlyruns the Vanrai NGO in Pune, wasselected for the 2010 award, whichcarries a citation and cash prize of Rs.5 lakh. It will be presented by awardcommittee chair and Congress chiefSonia Gandhi on October 31, theanniversary of Indira Gandhis death.

Akshaya Mohanty Samman

Playback singer Asha Bhosle, whosemelodies have enchanted severalgenerations of music lovers in thecountry, has been selected for theprestigious Akshaya MohantySamman for 2011 in recognition of heroutstanding contribution in the field ofmusic. The award, comprising a cashprize of Rs. 1 lakh and a letter ofappreciation, would be presented at afunction here on October 12, the birthanniversary of legendary Oriya singerand musician Akshaya Mohanty. Thiswas announced by Akashya MohantyFoundation, which gives the award.Earlier recipients of the honourincluded Manna Dey, Gulzar andIlayaraja.

Ramineni Award

United States- based RamineniFoundation presented the 11th AnnualRamineni Ayyanna Chowdarymemorial puraskarams to four eminentpersons.The foundation ChairmanRamineni Dharmap-racharak,comedian A.V. Subrahma-nyam andGuntur Zilla Parishad formerChairman Pathuri Nagabhush-anam ata joint press conference said that theyhad moved out the awardspresentation function from Hyderabadand would organise it in Vijayawada

for the first time since its inception 11years ago.

B.M. Birla Science Prizes

The B.M. Birla Science Centre,Hyderabad, announced B.M. Birlascience prizes in Physics and Biologyfor the year 2010. While MandarDeshmukh of Tata Institute ofFundamental Research, Mumbai, andSanjib Sabhapandit of RamanResearch Institute, Bangalore, won theprize in Physics category, PatrickRaymond De Silva of Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore, and InderjeetKaur of L.V. Prasad Eye Institute,Hyderabad, bagged it for Biology, apress release said.Dr. Deshmukh has been selected forhis research in Mesoscopic structuresto probe their charge transport, spintransport, mechanical and thermalproperties. Dr. Sabhapandit waschosen for his work in the area of Noequilibrium Statistical Physics. Dr. DeSilva is being awarded for his work ininvestigating the changes inmitochondria related proteinhomeostasis that are responsible inaging and other complications, and Dr.Kaur was selected for heraccomplishments in the area of eyedisease, the release said.

Air India Tourism Quiz Prize

The Cognizant Technologies team,Rahul Bhaskar and Shrikant Kolli,holds the trophy after winning firstprize in the Air India Tourism Quizprogramme, in Chennai, on Sunday.Photo: Special arrangement TheCognizant Technologies (CTS) teamhas won the first prize in the 8th AirIndia Tourism Quiz for Corporates,organised by Asia Pacific Tours inconnection with World Tourism Daycelebrations. Teams representingcompanies from Chennai, Mumbai andother cities participated in the eventheld at the Aloft Hotel in Chennai on

Sunday. Madras MetallurgicalServices and KPMG won the secondand third prizes respectively.

2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize

The 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize inEconomic Sciences in Memory ofAlfred Nobel was awarded jointly toThomas J. Sargent and Christopher A.Sims for their empirical researchon cause and effect in themacroeconomy

The Hindu Literary Prize

R a h u lBha t t acha ryabagged the TheHindu LiteraryPrize for BestFiction 2011for his The SlyCompany ofPeople Who

Care on 30 October 2011. Accordingto The Hindu, The Sly Company ofPeople Who Care won the prize forits consummate artistry, its refusal toexoticise India. The award waspresented by author, writer, politicianand a Member of Parliament (MP)Shashi Tharoor.A debut novel wonThe Hindus Literature Prize in the Litfor Life literary festival for the secondsuccessive year. The award carries acash prize of Rs 5 lakh.

Manak Alankaran Awards

Rajasthan Chief Minister AshokGehlot gave away the ManakAlankaran Awards for investigativeand creative journalism for 2009 and2010 in Jodhpur, calling upon themedia persons to act with a sense ofresponsibility in view of their vastinfluence and power to mould publicopinion.Mr. Gehlot also affirmed hisgovernments commitment to gettingConstitutional status for the Rajasthanilanguage and pointed out that the State

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Assembly had adopted a unanimousresolution, cutting across party lines,taking up the issue with the Centreduring the previous Congressregime.The Manak Alankaran Award,instituted by Jodhpur-based Hindidaily Jaltey Deep , for 2009 went toRajkumar Jain, Sriganganagarcorrespondent of RajasthanPatrika .The award for 2010 wasgiven to Jaipur-based freelancejournalist Kalyan Singh Kothari.Both Mr. Jain and Mr. Kothari weregiven Rs.21,000 in cash as part of theaward. Mr. Kothari, who hascompleted 30 years in journalism, isattached as a consultant with the U.N.bodies as well as a number of civil

society organisations and publicservice institutions here.The specialprizes comprising Rs.7,100 each for2009 were given to Jodhpur-basedCentral Arid Zone Research InstitutePublic Relations Officer BahadurSingh Sankhla, cartoonist Abhijeet andjournalist Vinod Sharma.For 2010, thespecial prizes were awarded toDungarpur Information and PublicRelations Officer Kamlesh Sharma,cartoonist Sudhakar Soni and journalistRavi Tailor.

Dilip Bose Award

Coach Kawaljeet Singh who hadtrained the 16-year-old Sunil Kumar to

win the National mens tennis title in1999 was presented the Dilip Boselifetime achievement award by theAll India Tennis Association during thesixth National coaches workshop inGoa, on Saturday. Coach Rama Raoof Mumbai was also selected for theaward. He has been training juniors athis Practennis Academy for manyyears, and Karan Rastogi was one ofthe notable trainees. Dilip Bose awardwas instituted by AITA in 2002.Akhtar Ali, Nandan Bal, KrishnaBhupathi, T. Chandrasekaran, EnricoPiperno and Aditya Sachdeva, werethe awardees till the last edition of thecoaches workshop.

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JNANPITH AWARDS

44TH JNANPITH FOR 2008

The 44th Jnanpith Award for2008 was presented to renownedUrdu poet Professor AkhlaqMohammad Khan Shahryar for hisdistinguished contribution in

enriching Indian literature. He waspresented the award by actorAmitabh Bachhan in a glittering

received his Ph.D degree in Urdufrom Aligarh Muslim University.He taught at the AMU UrduDepartment and retired asprofessor and Head ofDepartment in 1996. He made amemorable contribution to Urduliterature as a teacher, critic andcreative writer.Considered one ofthe foremost writers of ghazal andnazm, Prof. Shahryar haspublished 10 collections of poemsin Urdu. His actual name isAkhlaq Mohammed Khan andShaheryar is the pen name. Hisfirst poetry collection Ism-e-azamwas published in 1965. The thirdcollection titled Hijr ke mausamreleased in 1978 was his mostcelebrated work. Khwab Ka darband hai released in 1987 andwon him the Sahitya AkademiAward in Urdu for the year.Hebecame the fourth Jnanpith winnerin Urdu. Firaq Gorakhpuri was thefirst Jnanpith winner in Urdu. Firaq

ceremony organised by theBharatiya Jnanpith in New Delhion 18 September 2011.Born in1936, in Anwala district in Bareillyin Uttar Pradesh, Prof Shahryar

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Gorakhpuri had won theprestigious award in 1969 forGul-e-Naghma.

45th & 46th Jnanpith for2009 & 2010

Eminent Hindi authors Amar Kantand Shrilal Shukla was chosen forIndias highest literary honourJnanpith Award for 2009, whilerenowned Kannada litterateurChandrasekhar Kambar won it for2010. The selection board -chaired by noted writer andJnanpith award winner Dr SitakantMahapatra - made the selectionsfor the 45th and 46th Jnanpithawards.Octogenarian Amar Kantis a leading author whose famousnovel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earnedhim the Sahitya Akademi Awardin 2007.Shrilal Shukla is aneminent novelist and asatirist,whose works threw lighton the falling moral values of theIndian society in the post-Independence era. His notedworks include Raag Darbari,Makaan, Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj,Pehla Padaav, Agyatvas , andBisrampur Ka San. Shuklas RaagDarbari, one of the best sellingHindi novels, had also beenadapted for a TV serial. Shukla isthe winner of several awards,including the Sahitya AkademiAward and the Vyas Sammaan. In2008, he was awarded thePadma Bhushan for hiscontribution to Indian literatureand culture. ChandrasekharKambar who won the JnanpithAward for is a novelist andplaywright. His noted worksinclude Takararinavaru, SaaviradaNeralu, Chakori (poetry);Jokumaraswamy, Chalesha,

Jaisidanayaka.He is also recipientof the Sangeet Nataka AcademyAward and the Sahitya AcademyAward.

Shanti Swarup BhatnagarPrize

CSIR honoured 11 scientists withthe Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizefor Science and Technology forthe year 2011 on 26 September2011.Dr Samir K Brahamachari,Director General, Council ofScientific Research and Industrialdevelopment announced thenames of scientists at thecelebration of CSIR foundationDay.The Shanti Swarup BhatnagarPrize for Science and Technology was first given in 1958. It isregarded as the countrys highestaward in science is named afterthe founder director of CSIR,Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.It isgiven to a scientist up to 45 yearsof age and carries a prize of Rs 5lakh.

The list of the recipients inthe different categories are:

Mahtematical Sciences

Dr Mahan Mj (RamakrishnaMission Vivekananda University,Howrah)

Dr Palash Sarkar (IndianStatistical Institute, Kolkata)

Physical Sciences

Dr Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Instituteof Fundamental Research,Mumbai)

Chemical Sciences

Dr Balasubramanian Sundaram(Jawaharlal Nehru Centre forAdvanced Scientific Research,Bangalore)

Dr Garikapati Narahari Sastry

(CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical

Technology, Hyderabad).

Engineering Sciences

Dr Sirshendu De (Indian Instituteof Technology, Dharagpur)

Dr Upadrasta Ramamurty (IndianInstitute of Science, Bangalore)

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean& Planetary Sciences

Dr Shanker Doraiswamy (CSIRNational Institute ofOceanography, Goa)

Biological Sciences

Dr Amit Prakash Sharma(International Centre for GeneticEngineering and Biotechnology,New Delhi)

Dr Rajan Sankaranarayanan (CSIR

Centre for Cellular & Molecular

Biology, Hyderabad).

Medical Sciences

Dr Kithiganahalli NarayanaswamyBalaji (Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore)

CSIR Young ScientistAwards 2011

CSIR Young Scientist Awardswere instituted in 1987. CSIRYoung Scientist Awards seek topromote in- house excellence invarious fields of science andtechnology. CSIR scientist, below

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35 years of age, as reckoned on26 September (CSIR FondationDay) of the preceding year, iseligible for the Award.Council ofScientific and Industrial Research(CSIR) on its Foundation Daycelebrated on 26 September 2011presented the CSIR YoungScientist Awards 2011 that seekto promote in- house excellence invarious fields of science andtechnology.These awards aregiven annually in the fields ofBiological Sciences, ChemicalSciences, Earth, Atmosphere,Ocean and Planetary Sciences andEngineering Sciences PhysicalSciences (includinginstrumentation).Each awardconsist of a citation, a cash prizeof Rs . 50000/- (Rupees fiftythousand only) and a plaque. CSIRYoung Scientist Awardees are alsoentitled to a research grant of Rs.5.0 Lakhs (Rupees five lakh only)per annum for a period of fiveyears and an honorarium of Rs.75000/- (Rupees seven thousandand five hundred only) per monthtill the age of 45 years.

The list of the recipients inthe different categories are:

Chemical Sciences

Dr Bikash Kumar Jena from CSIRInstitute of Minerals andMaterials.

Dr Dattatraya Hanumant De andDr Rahul Banerjee

Earth, Atmosphere, Oceanand Planetary Sciences

Dr Arun Singh of CSIR NationalGeophysical Research Institute.

Dr Rajeev Saraswat of CSIRNational Institute ofOceanography

Engineering Sciences

Dr Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni andDr Kaushik Biswas.

Apart from these CSIR DiamondJubilee Invention Award forSchool Children 2010 were alsogiven.In order to enhancecreativity amongst school children,CSIR announced for the first timeDiamond Jubilee Invention Awardfor School Children on 26 April ,2002 the day celebrated asWORLD INTELLECTUALPROPERTY DAY throughout theworld. The objectives of thiscompetition are: to capturecreativity and innovativenessamongst school children andcreate awareness aboutIPR.There are 60 awards to begiven each year. The first prizewinner becomes eligible forWIPOs Young inventors Award,carrying a medal and a certificatebesides cash prize of Rs. 50,000/-CSIR instituted a Gold Medal in2004 in the fond memory of Prof.G N Ramachandran, a pioneer ofprotein chemistry and thesounding father of structuralbiology in India, for recognizingexcellence in the interdisciplinarysubject / field of BiologicalSciences & Technology.

Vayoshrestha Samman,2 0 1 1

Vayoshrestha Samman,2011 forInstitution of Service -KinneraWelfare Society, Mehdipatnam,Hydrabad;

Best panchayat -Prashant NagarGram Panchayat, Medak, AndhraPradesh;

Lifetime Achievement -Dr.Vinod Kumar, New Delhi;

Creative Art -Sh. C.S.N.Patnaik, Vishakhapatnam;

Sports Person -Dr. (WingCommander) Ashish Roy, NewDelhi;

Economic Leadership -Sh. OmPrakash Gupta, New Delhi;

Hridaynath Award

Legendary playback singer LataMangeshkar was honoured withthe first Hridaynath award for hercontribution to Indian music on 28September 2011. On 28September, which also happenedto be Lata Mangeshakars (82)birthda, she was presented acheque of Rs one lakh, a trophyand a shawl by megastar AmitabhBachchan.The award has beeninstituted by Hridayesh Art, aMumbai- based socio-culturalorganisation in honour of LataMangeshkars brother, HridaynathMangeshkar.

63rd Annual PrimetimeEmmy Awards

The 63rd Annual Primetime EmmyAwards ceremony was organisedon 18 September 2011 at theNokia Theatre in Downtown LosAngeles, California. The awardsceremony to honour the best inprimetime television programmingfrom 1 June 2010 to 31 May2011 was hosted by actress JaneLynch, who hosted the Emmysfor the first time. British showstriumphed at the annualHollywood show, the Oscars ofthe small screen, with KateWinslet leading a string of Britishperformers. The list of recipientsof the 63rd Annual PrimetimeEmmy Awards are as follows:

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8 Best drama: Mad Men

8 Best comedy : ModernFamily

8 Best miniseries: DowntonAbbey

8 Best variety or comedyshow: The Daily Show

8 Best actres s , drama :Julianne Margulies, The GoodWife

8 Best actor , drama: KyleChandler, Friday NightLights

8 Best actress, miniseries :Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce

8 Best actor , miniseries :Barry Pepper, The Kennedys

8 Best lead ac tress in acomedy : MelissaMcCarthy, Mike & Molly

8 Best lead actor comedy:Jim Parsons, The Big BangTheory

8 Supporting actress in acomedy : Julie Bowen,Modern Family

8 Support ing actor in acomedy : Ty Burrell,Modern Family.

8 Best direc tion in acomedy: Michael Spiller,Modern Family.

8 Best reality competition:The Amazing Race

FICCI Excellence Award

The Maulana Azad DentalInstitute bagged the FICCIExcellence Award on 8September 2011. The health careoperational award was givenaway by the Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce andIndustry after rounds of

assessment. Maulana Azad DentalInstitute is the first dentalinstitution, catering to more than2.5 lakh patients annually acrossthe country.The parameters whichwent on to decide the winnerwere initiatives and outcomesreflecting innovation, academicresearch and training,accreditations, environmentalconservation and patientsatisfaction.The FICCI health careoperational award aims atfelicitating organisation for theircontribution to the industry byinnovating for increased efficiencyand improved performance ofhealth care at large.

Rajiv Gandhi InternationalPrize

The Indira Gandhi National OpenUniversity (IGNOU) on 28September 2011 conferred theRajiv Gandhi International Prizefor Technology in Education andDevelopment to the Azim PremjiFoundation.The award institutedby the university in its silverjubilee year was presented toAzim Premji by Communicationsand Information TechnologyMinister Kapil Sibal.Azim Premji,upon receiving the award stressedon the need of integrating IT withmainstream education whichwould then prove far more useful

in disseminating education amongadults than children. Azim HashimPremji is an Indian businesstycoon and philanthropist who isthe chairman of Wipro Limited.He founded Azim Premjifoundation in 2001.Azim PremjiFoundation is a not-for-profitorganization, operational since2001, with a vision tosignificantly contribute towards ajust, equitable, humane andsustainable society. TheFoundation has been active insupporting the primary educationsector. It has partnered with stategovernments across India to pilotinitiatives that have the potentialfor systemic reform to enhancethe quality of elementaryeducation within government runschool systems .The awardcomprising of Rs.five lakh cashand a citation is given to individualor institution that contributedsignificantly in education, partic-ularly educational technology, fordevelopment in developingcountries across the world.

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