Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji have been awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Development for improving learning outcomes in schools at scale. They will join nine laureates who have been awarded the Yidan Prize since its inception in 2016, ...

Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu has conferred Assam Government’s biennial Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution for the year 2021, on October 03, 2021, to three recipients. The three awardees are: Members of Assam branch of ...

Raksha Mantri  Shri Rajnath Singh gave away the awards to the winners of the ‘Dare to Dream 2.0’ Contest of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) in New Delhi on October 04, 2021. The Raksha Mantri gave away awards to 40 winners - 22 in the Individual category and ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 05, 2021. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany, and Italy. Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel ...

American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on October 04, 2021. for discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch which the award-giving body said could pave the way for new painkillers. They have been honoured for the discovery of ...

Prominent Indian industrialists Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan have been chosen by a top India-centric business advocacy group as the recipients of its 2021 Global Leadership Award. Shiv Nadar is the founder and chairman emeritus of HCL Technologies Limited. Mallika Srinivasan is the chair and ...

The Delhi-based environmental organisation “Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)” has been felicitated with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award, an international honour, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize. LIFE has been selected for the award for ...

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2021:  The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize is named after the founder and Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the late Dr (Sir) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. It has been christened as the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) ...

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology 2021, were announced during the 80th foundation day of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).  City-based astrophysicist Kanak Saha was among the 11 recipients of the 2021 Shanti Swarup ...

The Florence Nightingale Award will be given to a nurse, Bhanumati Gheewala, from Sir Sayajirao General Hospital. She has been in charge of COVID-19 positive pregnant women's deliveries as well as infant care. She worked in the gynaecology department as well in the paediatric ward. ...