Former skipper of West Indies, Darren Sammy has conferred with the civil honour of Sitara-e-Pakistan award. It is considered as the third-highest civil award conferred by Pakistan. Sammy has represented West Indies in Tests (38), ODIs (126), and T20Is (68). Last year, he received ...

17th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival of India (MIFF 2022) confers Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award on noted author and documentary filmmaker Shri Sanjit Narwekar to commemorate his exquisitely deep, remarkably diverse and inspiring body of work. Union Minister ...

A Radio Jockey from south Kashmir, Umar Nisar, also known as RJ Umar, has been awarded the '01 Best Content Award' and the Immunisation Champion award by UNICEF at the annual Radio4Child 2022 Awards in Mumbai. The Radio4Child felicitated radio professionals from All India Radio and private FM ...

Indian author Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the 2022 International Booker Prize for “Tomb of Sand”. The book "Tomb of Sand' was originally written in Hindi, it is the first book in any Indian language to win such a prestigious ...

A Gopalakrishnan (Director of the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute) has received the VASVIK (Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra) Industrial Research Award in the category of Agricultural Sciences and Technology for the year 2020. The award includes ...

Kishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia for Rolls-Royce, has received an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen, British Deputy HighCommission. Jayaraman is a board member of the U.K.-India Business Council, ...

Ajay Piramal, Chairman of the Piramal Group, has received an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) award from Queen Elizabeth II. He received the award for his services to the UK-India trade relationship as the Indian Co-Chair of the UK-India CEO Forum. As co-chair of the ...

Drake has won the Billboard Music Awards 2022 in the top artist, male artist, rap artist, rap male artist and rap album (for Certified Lover Boy) category. BTS has also won three awards in the Top Duo/Group, Top Selling Song, and Top Song Sales Artist categories. Top ...

Noble Prize laureate, theoretical physicist and author, and professor at four universities Frank Wilczek is awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize. He received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David J. Gross, and H. David Politzer for his 1973 breakthrough in explaining the ...

West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee has received the Bangla Academy Award for her “relentless literary pursuit” at a function organised by the government’s information and culture department on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary. The award, ...