AWARDS MARCH 2010

 AWARDS MARCH 2010

• The Pritzker Prize, considered the highest honour in architectureand regarded by many as equivalent to the Nobel Prize, has been awarded to the Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architecture firm SANAA.
  
• Rukhsana (21) and her brother Aijaz (19) were awarded theSarvotam Jeevan Raksha Padak and the Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak respectively by the Centre for snatching an AK rifle from LeT commander Abu Usma and killed him with the weapon when he and another militant barged into their house on September 27, 2009.
  
• American mathematician John Torrence Tate, 85, has been awarded the prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2010.
  
• Well - Known Hindi writer Amar Kant has been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman awardfor his outstanding novel Inhi Hathiyaron Se.
  
• Nandi Awards – 2008 were presented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Best Actor - Ravi Teja (Neninthe), Best Actress - Swati (Ashta Chamma), Best Film - Gamyam, Best Director - J. Radha Krishna (Gamyam)
  
• Eminent heroine of yesteryears Jamuna has been chosen for the NTR National Film Award to be given by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for the year 2008.
  
• Actress-director Vijayanirmala will receive the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for the year 2008.
  
• The B.N. Reddy National Film Award will be given to renowned director K.B. Tilak.
  
• Tehelka Executive Editor Shoma Chaudhury and Nagaland page Editor Monalisa Changkija will share the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding Women Media persons for 2009.
  
• Indian-American computer scientist Subhash Khot, known for his 'Unique Games Conjecture'has been selected for $ 500,000 National Science Award of the United States of America.
  
• The 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles:
  Best Actor - Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
  Best Actress - Sandra Bullock ( The Blind Side)
  Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) (First women to be awarded Best Director)
  Best Film - The Hurt Locker
  
• Veteran actress Jaya Bachchanhas been honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at the film festival of British Academy of Film & Television Arts.
  
• Vidyasagar, an inmate of the Government Home for Juvenile Delinquents and correctional centre in kadapa received the Golden Nandi Award for 2009 from Chief Minister K.Rosaiah for his portrayal of the role of a tribal boy named 'sega' in a Telugu play, Bapu Kalaluganna Desam.
  
• Veteran British Asian film maker Yavar Abbas will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the South Asian Cinema Foundation in London for making films like India! My India!