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AWARDS SEPTEMBER 2015
Baahubali: India's biggest motion picture, Baahubali, has won the award for Best Special Effects in the NDTV Gadgets Guru Awards. Baahubali won this award for the best use of technology in film category.
- V S Arunachalam: The government has decided to confer the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO’s) lifetime achievement award for 2015 on V S Arunachalam, formerly a scientific advisor to the defence minister and the founder chairman of the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, for his outstanding contribution over several decades in the field of scientific research and technology.
Arunachalam is a distinguished service professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and an Honorary Professor at the UK’s University of Warwick. During his tenure as scientific advisor, he served 10 Union defence ministers of India, five of whom were also Prime Ministers.
He has made significant contributions to science and has also established institutions and industries for harnessing technology. He is a recipient of numerous honours and awards, including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences and the Padma Vibhushan. - Shamim Hanfi: Eminent Urdu litterateur Shamim Hanfi was conferred the Jnangarima Manad Alankaran by Bharatiya Jnanpith. The Urdu scholar is best known for his books on criticism like "Jadidiyat ki Falsafiyani Asas," "Ghazal Ka Naya Manzarnama" and "Infiradi Shaoor aur Ijtemai Zindagi."
He also served as a faculty member in Aligarh Muslim University for a brief period of time before joining Jamia Millia Islamia, from where he resigned as the Dean of Humanities and Languages department in 2012. He has also been a freelance columnist for various Urdu and Hindi newspapers and periodicals, besides writing features and plays for radio and television.
Hanfi was presented with a Saraswati statue, a silver citation and a shawl. He will also receive a stipend of Rs 11,000 per month for the next one year from Bharatiya Jnanpith. - Goutam Narayan: In Assam, Conservationist Goutam Narayan has become the first Indian to get Harry Messel Award for Conservation Leadership in recognition of his pivotal role in leading the Pygmy Hog Conservation programme in the North-East.
The award was announced during the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Leaders' meeting held in Abu Dhabi September 3rd week.
The Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme (PHCP) is a collaborative project of the Assam Forest Department, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, IUCN-SSC Wild Pig Specialist Group (WPSG), and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and is administered by Eco Systems-India, a local trust for biodiversity conservation.
The Harry Messel Award recognises exemplary service to IUCN Species Survival Commission, especially from individuals who have made a specific contribution to species conservation on the ground or through their leadership.
The award, instituted since 2004, is usually given at an interval of two to four years with 18 individuals and an organisation receiving the award so far. - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards:The government on 26th September announced the recipients of prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, considered to be a coveted science honour in the country. The Ministry of Science and Technology announced 11 awards in seven different fields.
In the biological science category, Balasubramanian Gopal of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and Rajeev Kumar Varshney of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) were chosen for the coveted award.
Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray from the Physical Science Laboratory, Ahmedabad, was chosen from the field of earth, atmosphere, ocean and planetary sciences while Yogesh Joshi from IIT Kanpur was selected for the awards in the field of engineering sciences.
In the field of mathematical sciences, Ritabrata Munshi from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and K. Sandeep from TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bengaluru, bagged the award. Vidita Vaidya from the TIFR Mumbai bagged the award from the medical science category.
In the physical sciences category, Bedangadas Mohanty from the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar and Mandar Deshmukh from the TIFR Mumbai were selected.
D. Srinivasa Reddy from CSIR’s National Chemical Laboratory, Pune and Pradyut Ghosh from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, were selected for the award in the category of chemical sciences. - Rajasekaran: Chennai based hospital claimed its Director has become the first Indian surgeon to be selected for the prestigious Walter P Blount Humanitarian International Award of US-based Scoliosis Research Society. Dr S Rajasekaran, Director of Ganga Hospital, was the first Indian surgeon to be selected for the award
The award is given to a surgeon who has excelled in great measure to extend the benefits of modern spine surgery to the citizens of the world.
Dr Rajasekaran was being honoured for creating a 'low-cost' high-quality spine surgery model which has benefited more than 7,000 poor patients. - Rajbhasha awards: President Pranab Mukherjee on 14th September presented the Rajbhasha awards for 2014-15 in various categories on the occasion of Hindi Divas on 14th September.
Instituted by the Department of Official Language of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Rajbhasa awards are given away for excellent contribution of ministries, departments and nationalized banks among others in the field of Hindi. Hasina: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been declared as one of the winners of the UN Champions of the Earth award in recognition of her "leadership and vision" in both making climate change an issue of national priority and advocating for a global response.
UNEP noted that Bangladesh is one of the world's most populated countries, with over 159 million people. It is also one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Cyclones, floods and droughts have long been part of the country's history, but they have intensified in recent years.
The award cites, among other initiatives, the progressive Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan of 2009, which made the South Asian nation the first developing country to frame such a coordinated action plan. Bangladesh is also the first country to set up its own Climate Change Trust Fund, supported by nearly USD 300 million of domestic resources from 2009-2012.- Swetha Prabakaran: A 15-year-old Indian-American girl Swetha Prabakaran has been selected by the White House for the prestigious Champions of Change award for empowering the community by imparting Internet coding through her non-profit Organisation.
Born in Indianapolis, Swetha is among eleven young women selected by the White House as Champions of Change. Her parents immigrated from Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli in 1998. Swetha is the founder and CEO of Everybody Code Now, a non-profit body working to empower the next generation of youth to become engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. - Chanda Kochhar: ICICI bank CEO Chanda Kochhar is among three Indians selected for this year's Asia Game Changer awards given by Asia Society to honour "true leaders making a positive contribution to the future of Asia."
Indian-American actor Aasif Mandvi, 49, and designer Kiran Bir Sethi, 49, also made it to the list besides Kochhar, 53. Champion Boxer and Philanthropist from the Philippines Manny Pacquiao is the 2015 Asia Game Changer of the Year "for using his sport and his star power as forces for good," Asia Soceity, the leading global cultural organisation, announced. The honorees will be bestowed the honour at the Asia Game Changer Awards dinner and celebration at the UN in October. - Aqeela Asifi: Afghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi is the winner of this year's UNHCR Nancen Refugee Award. The UN Refugee Agency recognized her dedication to teach Afghan refugee girls in Pakistan. Aqeela Asifi has given a primary school education to at least 1000 Afghan girls. Girls education under the Taliban in Afghanistan was prohibited. Many rural areas of the country still don't allow girls an education beyond learning how to read the Koran.
- Shweta: A 15-year-old Indian-American girl has been honoured by the White House with the prestigious "Champions of Change" award for empowering the community by imparting Internet coding through her non-profit organisation.
A junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Swetha Prabakaran was among the eleven young women selected by the White House as "Champions of Change" who are empowering their communities.
Swetha is the Founder and CEO of Everybody Code Now!, a non-profit working to empower the next generation of youth to become engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. - Gandhi Peace Prize for ISRO
President Pranab Mukherjee on 9th September conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2014 to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
The Gandhi Peace Prize was instituted by the Government of India in 1995 on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. This annual award is given to individuals and institutions for their contributions towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violence and other Gandhian methods. - G Satheesh Reddy: The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), London has conferred G Satheesh Reddy, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, with the Society's 2015 Silver Medal for work contributing to major advances or contributions in aerospace.
Reddy is the first Defence scientist working in India to be honoured with the prestigious "Silver Medal" of the Society. RAeS is the world's only professional body dedicated to the entire aerospace community.
Established in 1866 to further the art, science and engineering of aeronautics, the Society has been at the forefront of aerospace ever since.
The Royal Aeronautical Society has been honouring outstanding achievers in the global aerospace industry since 1909, when Wilbur and Orville Wright came to London to receive the Society's first Gold Medal. - India wins UNESCO award for conserving major temple in Kerala
India has won the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) prize 'Award of Excellence' 2015 for the conservation efforts of the Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in Kerala. It was announced on 1st September. According to UNESCO, the award recognises the conservation effort with conservation techniques emphasising on architecture and construction.
- Anupam Kher: Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who is touring the U.S. and Canada for his play Mera Woh Matlab Nahin Tha , has been honoured with a ‘Senate Proclamation’ by the state of Texas.
The document read: “The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to recognise Anupam Kher, who is being honoured by the South Asian Chambers of Commerce for his appointment as a United Nations ambassador and champion for gender equality”.
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