Dhoni, Bindra and Deepak Rao
Indian cricket team captain M.S. Dhoni and Beijing Olypics gold medalist in Shooting Abhinav Bindra were commissioned as Honorary Liutenant Colonels in the Territorial Army on 1 November 2011. Territorial army which was raised by C.Rajgopalachari is also known as the Citizen’s Army. They were piped-in by Army chief General V K Singh. Dhoni was chosen to represent the Parachute Regiment of the Indian Army while Bindra joined a TA battalion of the Sikh Regiment.
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Aman Sethi wins ICRC Award
The Hindu’s Chhattisgarh correspondent, Aman Sethi, has won the International Committee of the Red Cross award for the best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues. His article on three Chhatisgarh villages ruthlessly torched by police commandos in March 2011 was selected as the best of nearly 80 entries from across the country.
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Sanskriti Awards
Shahida Shabnam from Kupwara in Kashmir who published her first collection of stories in 2003, journalist Rana Ayyub, Bangalore-based Abhishek Hazra, musician Murad Ali and social activist and IIM graduate Vinayak Lohani will be presented the Sanskriti Awards in New Delhi on November 18 by former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
The awards are given every year to young talents in the field of journalism, art, literature, performing arts and social achievement.
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National Shram Awards
Four employees of Hindustan Zinc received the Prime Minister’s Shram Award for the year 2009 in the workmen category for their exemplary performance record and high order of devotion to duty. The Prime Minister’s Shram Bhushan Award carries a ‘Sanad’ and a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh and the Prime Minister’s Shram veer Award carries a cash award of Rs. 60,000.
The recipients are fitter Bhura Lal Nagda, assistant foremen Jagdish Chandra Jat, Dal Chand Lohar and Mahendra Kumar Soni, who is also an assistant foreman in ore dressing.
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Indira Gandhi Award 2010
Environmentalist, lawyer and former Union Minister, Mohan Dharia, has been selected as the winner of the 26th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2010, which carries a citation and cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh. Award committee was chaired by Sonia Gandhi and the award is given on October 31, the anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s death. The 86-year-old Padma Vibhushan awardee, currently runs the Vanrai NGO in Pune.
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The Raza Samman
The “Raza Samman” award, sponsored by Jawaharlal Darda Foundation, is meant to encourage young artists and carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh. This year’s first recipient is 39-year old B. Manjunath Kamath, whose art varies form the conventional to the contemporaneous mode. Eighty nine-year-old Sayed Haider Raza is one of the foremost pioneers of modern Indian art who overcame poverty and low self worth to achieve incredible success.
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20th Saraswati Samman
Kannada author S.L. Bhyrappa was presented with 20th Saraswati in literature for 2010 for his epic novel ‘Mandra’ on 16 November 2011. The Saraswati Samman is awarded by the K. K. Birla Foundations to a work published in the last 10 years, selected from among works published in the last 10 years, selected from among works published n 25 Indian languages. The award carries a prize of Rs. 7.5 lakh.
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Vyas Samman
Noted Hindu writer Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari has been selected of the prestigious Vyas Samman for 2010 for his collection of poems, Phir bhi Kuch Rah Jayega published in 2008.
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Communal Harmony Award
Vice-President Hamid Ansari presented the ‘National Communal Harmony Award’ to Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri, Acharya Lokesh Muni and the Centre for Human Rights and Social Welfare for their outstanding work in the field of communal harmony and national integration.
Shastri, who work with Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, has endeavoured to promote communal harmony by highlighting simalirities between Hindu and Muslim religions through his unique literary contributions in Hindi and Sanskrit. He was conferred the award for the year 2009.
Acharya Muni is the founder president of Ahimsas Vishwa Bharati, a delhi-based voluntary organisation, which aims to promote non-violence, peace, communal harmony and works against female foeticide and drug natural calamities. He was given the award for 2010.
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2011
A monk is among the 11 scientists who have been selected for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, known as India’s highest science award. Mahan Maharaj gets the award for his “outstanding contribution’ in the area of Mathematical Sciences at the Ramakrishna Mission’s Vivekananda University located at the famous Belur Math near Kolkata.
The other winners are Palash Sarkar of the Indian Statistical Institute; Shiraz Minwalla of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; K.N. Balaji and U. Ramamurthy of the Indian Institute of Science; Shirshendu De of IIT-Kharagpur; A.P. Sharma of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; R. Shankaranarayan of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology; G.N. Sastry of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and B. Sundaram of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and physics. It is the highest award for science in India. The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific Industrial Research, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. It was first awarded in 1958.
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