AWARDS APRIL 2010

 AWARDS APRIL 2010

• President Pratibha Patil presented the Paulos Mar Gregorios Award 2010 to Dr. Karan Singh for Outstanding Contribution in the Fields of Public Life, Inter-Faith Dialogue and Culture. 
• Bengali novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee's book, Chowringhee, has been shortlisted for one of the Independent Foreign Fiction prize for 2010 — the first time that an Indian work has accomplished the feat. 
• Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, has been selected for this year's Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah Award, instituted by the Malcom and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust. 
• Tata group Chairman Ratan Tatawas conferred the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian awardby Canada India Foundation for his outstanding global leadership, vision and professional excellence.
• Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch was conferred with Telugu Bharti Puraskaram given by CP Brown Academy and Alfa foundation.
• Neel Chowdary received The Hindu’s Metro plus Playwright award for his book Taaramandal.
• Vizag Steel Plant was conferred with Global Human Resource Development award-2010 for following international standards in utilizing the human resources.
• The Assam government has decided to confer the coveted Srimanta Sankaradeva Award to noted journalist and writer Homen Borgohain for the year 2007 in recognition of his significant contribution to journalism and literature and noted actor Sharmila Tagore in the fields of art and culture for the year 2008.
• Asko Parpola, leading authority on the Indus script and Professor Emeritus of Indology in the University of Helsinki, Finland, has been chosen for the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award for 2009.