AWARDS NOVEMBER 2014

AWARDS NOVEMBER 2014

• Bilal Tanweer: Lahore-based author Bilal Tanweer’s maiden novel The Scatter Here is Too Great has bagged the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. The award carries a cash component of Rs. 2 lakh.
  
• ePDS of TS civil supplies gets eIndia G2C award
  The ePDS system being implemented by the Civil Supplies Department of Telangana has been adjudged among the best projects in eIndia Awards 2014 and has been presented with eINDIA Government to Citizens (G2C) Project of the Year award
  
• KIOCL: Public sector KIOCL has bagged Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Award. Malay Chatterjee, CMD, received the award from President Pranab Mukherjee. TOLIC-Bengaluru has been adjudged second for commendable performance in implementing the Official Language Policy of the Union during the year 2013-14. KIOCL stands for - Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd
  
• Neha Gupta: An American teenager, Indian descent from Philadelphia Neha Gupta has won a prestigious international prize for her charitable work to help orphans in India and other vulnerable children. She was awarded the International Children's Peace Prize on 18th November by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu at a ceremony in The Hague.
  
  She was honored for setting up a foundation called Empower Orphans when she was just 9 after visiting an orphanage in India. The foundation has since helped thousands of children. The winner of last year's Children's Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, went on to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
  
• Vengsarkar: Dilip Vengsarkar who earned the sobriquet ‘colonel’ has been chosen for the BCCI’s Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013-14. He will receive a citation, trophy and cheque for Rs. 25 lakh at the BCCI’s eighth annual awards ceremony to be held here on November 21.
  
• Other awardees of cricket this year
  Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Polly Umrigar Award, best international cricketer, Rs. 5 lakh)
  Parveez Rasool (Lala Amarnath Award, best all-rounder, Ranji Trophy, Rs. 2.5 lakh)
  R. Vinay Kumar (Lala Amarnath Award, best all-rounder in domestic limited-over tournaments, Rs. 2.5 lakh) 
  • Kedar Jadhav (Madhavrao Scindia Award, highest scorer in Ranji Trophy, Rs. 2.5 lakh)
  • Rishi Dhawan (Madhavrao Scindia Award, highest wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy, Rs. 2.5 lakh)
  • Rahul Tripathi (M.A. Chidambaram Trophy, best u-25 cricketer, Rs. 50,000)
  • B. Anirudh (M.A. Chidambaram Trophy, best u-19 cricketer, Rs. 50,000)
  • Shubham Gill (M.A. Chidambaram Trophy, best u-16 cricketer, Rs. 50,000)
  • Smriti Mandhana (M.A. Chidambaram Trophy, best woman cricketer, Rs. 50,000)
  • Anil Chaudhary (best umpire in domestic cricket), Rs. 50,000).
  
  
• Rajnikanth: Rajinikanth was on 20th November honoured with the centenary award for Indian Film Personality of the year at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Rajinikanth received the award from Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley and Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan . Close to 179 films from 75 countries across different categories are scheduled to be screened during the 10-day long festiva.
  
• N.Ram: Ram, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu and chairman of Kasturi and Sons, publishers of The Hindu, has been selected for the first N. Ramachandran Foundation Award. The award, instituted in memory of N. Ramachandran, a doyen of Malayalam journalism who passed away earlier this year, carries a purse of Rs. 50,000, a citation and a plaque.
  
• Lavillenie and Valerie adams:France's pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie and New Zealand's unstoppable shot-putter Valerie Adams were named the IAAF's World Athletes of the Year in Monaco. Lavillenie, who set the new world record of 6.16m in Donetsk on February 15, succeeds sprint star Usain Bolt as the best athlete of the year and is the first French winner since 1988. Adams, who has won 56 successive events, said it was rare for field events to muscle out the "glamour" events such as sprinting. Lavillenie won 21 of his 22 competitions in 2014, a series which included victories in the Diamond League Race as well as at the European Championships and IAAF Continental Cup. She was the only athlete in the world to win at all seven IAAF Diamond League fixtures in any discipline and was a clear winner of the women's shot put Diamond Race.
  
• Kedarnath Singh: President Pranab Mukherjee on 10th November conferred the 49th Jnanpith award upon eminent Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. The Jnanpith award, institutionalized by philanthropist couple Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and Late Rama Jain, commemorates Indian authors for their contribution to Indian literature
  
  Rajnikanth: The Centre has named actor Rajinikanth as winner of the Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year. This was announced by Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Minister of State, Information and Broadcasting, on 11th November.
  
  The Chennai-based actor would be receiving the honour at the 45th International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa from November 20 to 30. The 63-year-old actor is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour which he got in 2000. He has also won a number of awards from the Tamil Nadu government. Hailing from a modest background, the actor had a dream debut in K. Balachander’s Aboorva Ragangal in 1975.
  
• HT, The Week win IPI Award
  The IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2014, has been awarded jointly to Hindustan Times and The Week for “outstanding journalistic work” during 2013. Hindustan Times has been chosen for the award for a series of stories it did last year on acid attacks on women, sufferings of the victims and how some of them carried on with the fight.
  
  The award went to The Week for an investigative feature on the plight of widows of Dardpora in Kashmir, who lost their husbands in the strife in the Valley. The award, comprising a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh, a trophy and a citation for each winner, will be presented at a function here in December.
  
  About award:
  IPI-India had instituted the annual award in 2003 to recognize and honor the best work done by an Indian media organization or journalist working in print, radio, television and internet mediums, in furtherance of public interest, including safeguarding of freedom of the press and other freedom such as Human Rights.
  
  The Indian Chapter of the IPI (International Press Institute) is an active forum of Editors, Publishers and Senior Executives of newspapers, magazines and news agencies, all of whom are members of the International Press Institute. Founded 59 years ago in New York by a group of editors from 15 countries, Vienna-based IPI has grown into a global organization committed to the furtherance of the freedom of press.
  
• Manmohan Singh: The Japanese government headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 3rd November announced that it had conferred a rare civilian honour on former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for enhancing ties between Asia’s second and third largest economies. Singh is among 57 foreign recipients of the 2014 Autumn Imperial Decorations and the first Indian to be bestowed with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, which is a “high level National Order”
  
  About Award:
  The Order of the Paulownia Flowers is an order presented by the Japanese Government. Established in 1888 during the Meiji Restoration as the highest award in the Order of the Rising Sun; however, since 2003 it has been an Order in its own right. The only grade of the order is Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, which ranks higher than the Order of the Rising Sun but lower than the Order of the Chrysanthemum.
  
• Batra: The FIH has presented the President’s Awards to Hockey India president Narinder Batra and Valentina Quaranta of Italy. Batra got the recognition “for his commitment to the development of hockey in India during the last five years.
  
  HAL, BEL get SCOPE awards
  City-based defence companies Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and Bharat Electronics Ltd received SCOPE meritorious awards for public enterprises from President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on 5th November. HAL received the award for R&D and innovation for 2012-13 for its recent initiatives
  
  BEL gets the Gold Trophy for best practices and innovative HR initiatives launched for its personnel.HAL has identified 111 technologies to be developed with company funds, filed over 300 patents in two years, created an R&D corpus and allocates ten per cent of operational profit for innovations. It has brought ten of its R&D centres across the country under the Committee of Institutional Network and is collaborating with IITs and the IISc on new aerospace technologies.
  
  About SCOPE:
  Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) is the apex body of Central Government owned Public Enterprises. SCOPE has all the Central Public Enterprises, a few State Government Enterprises and some nationalized banks as its members.
  
  A registered society called "NEW HORIZON" was set up in New Delhi on September 29, 1970, with the basic objective of promoting "better understanding among the public about the individual and collective contribution of public sector." A Central Information Centre baptized as NEW HORIZON was set up on the first floor of Chandralok Building at Janpath, New Delhi. This was given the trappings of a permanent exhibition on public sector.
  
• Bhuvaneshwar Kumar: India's emerging All Rounder Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been voted as the winner of the ICC's LG People's Choice Award. He got more votes than Australia's Mitchell Johnson, Sri Lanka's Angelo Matthews, South Africa's Dale Steyn and English women's cricketeter Charlotte Edwards. He is the third Indian after Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni to win this award. He will receive the award during ICC's award ceremony that takes place later this week.
  
• Priti Patel: Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel has been honored with the prestigious Asian Trader Editor's Award for her tireless campaigning to support small shops and convenience stores. Priti, the British Prime Minister's recently appointed Indian Diaspora Champion, won the award at a ceremony held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel here last night. Priti has supported the grocery sector by campaigning for tougher punishments for offenders who commit retail crime, reforms to business rates and cuts to red tape.
  
• Awards for Journalists
  A jury constituted by the Press Council of India (PCI) has announced the names of the winners of its national awards for excellence in journalism. 
  • Rahi Gaikwad of The Hindu and Neha Bhatt of Outlook have been awarded certificate of creative excellence in the development reporting category.
  • The award in the category goes to Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava of Down to Earth.
  • In the category of rural journalism, the winners are Corenlius Minz of Khabar Mantra, Jharkhand, and R. Samban of Desabhimani, Malappuram. The two will jointly get the award, which carries a cash prize.
  • The certificate of creative excellence with a cash award in the category will be jointly shared by M. Shajil Kumar of the Malayala Manorama and Uttam Sengupta of Outlook.
  • In the Stree Shakti category, the award goes to Priyadarshani Sen of Outlook and certificate of creative excellence to Davis Paynadath of Deepika, Kerala.
  • The award in the photo journalism (single news picture) category goes to Neeraj Priyadarshi of theIndian Express and certificate of creative excellence to Kamal Kishore of PTI.
  • In the photo journalism category (photo feature), the award goes to Piyal Adhikary of European Pressphoto Agency.
  • Ravi Kanojia of the Indian Express has been chosen for certificate of creative excellence. In Urdu journalism category, the award will be jointly shared by Wasimul Haque of the daily Akhbare-E-Mashriq, Delhi, and Muhammad Atif of Sahafat, Delhi.