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44 H A H F 2008

The 44th Jnanpith Award for

2008 was presented to renowned

Urdu poet Professor Akhlaq

Mohammad Khan Shahryar for his

distinguished contribution in

enriching Indian literature. He was

presented the award by actor

Amitabh Bachhan in a glittering

received his Ph.D degree in Urdu

from Aligarh Muslim University.

He taught at the AMU Urdu

Department and retired as

professor and Head of

Department in 1996. He made a

memorable contribution to Urdu

literature as a teacher , critic and

creative writer .Considered one of

the foremost writers of ghazal and

nazm, Prof . Shahryar has

published 10 collections of poems

in Urdu. H is actual name is

Akhlaq Mohammed Khan and

‘Shaheryar’ is the pen name. His

first poetry collection Ism-e-azam

was published in 1965. The third

collection titled Hijr ke mausamreleased in 1978 was his most

celebrated work. Khwab Ka dar

band hai released in 1987 and

won him the Sahitya Akademi

Award in Urdu for the year .He

became the fourth Jnanpith winner

in Urdu. FiraqGorakhpuri was the

first Jnanpith winner in Urdu. Firaq

ceremony organised by the

Bharatiya Jnanpith in New Delhi

on 18 September 2011.Born in

1936, inAnwala district inBareilly

in Uttar Pradesh, Prof Shahryar

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Gorakhpuri had won the

prestigious award in 1969 for

Gul-e-Naghma.

45 & 46

2009 & 2010

Eminent Hindi authors Amar Kant

and Shrilal Shukla was chosen for

India’s highest literary honour

Jnanpith Award for 2009, while

renowned Kannada litterateur

Chandrasekhar Kambar won it for

2010. The selection board -

chaired by noted writer and

Jnanpith award winner Dr Sitakant

Mahapatra - made the selections

for the

45th

and

46th

Jnanpithawards.Octogenarian Amar Kant

is a leading author whose famous

novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned

him the Sahitya Akademi Award

in 2007.Shrilal Shukla is an

eminent novelist and a

satirist,whose works threw light

on the falling moral values of the

Indian society in the post-

Independence era. His noted

works include Raag Darbari,Makaan, Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj,

Pehla Padaav, Agyatvas , and

Bisrampur Ka San. Shukla’s Raag

Darbari, one of the best selling

H indi novels, had also been

adapted for a TV serial. Shukla is

the winner of several awards,

including the Sahitya Akademi

Award and the Vyas Sammaan. In

2008, he was awarded the

Padma Bhushan for hiscontribution to Indian literature

and culture . Chandrasekhar

Kambar who won the Jnanpith

Award for is a novelist and

playwright . H is noted works

include Takararinavaru, Saavirada

Neralu, Chakori (poetry);

Jokumaraswamy , Chalesha,

Jaisidanayaka.He is also recipient

of the Sangeet Nataka Academy

Award and the Sahitya Academy

Award.

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CSIR honoured 11 scientists with

the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

for Science and Technology for

the year 2011 on 26 September

2011.Dr Samir K Brahamachari,

Director General, Council of

Scientific Research and Industrial

development announced the

names of scientists at the

celebration of

CSIR

foundationDay.The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

Prize for Science and Technology

was first given in 1958. It is

regarded as the country’s highest

award in science is named after

the founder director of CSIR ,

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar .It is

given to a scientist up to 45 years

of age and carries a prize of Rs 5

lakh.

:

Dr Mahan Mj (Ramakrishna

Mission Vivekananda University,

Howrah)

Dr Palash Sarkar (Indian

Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Dr Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Instituteof Fundamental Research,

Mumbai)

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Dr Balasubramanian Sundaram

(Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for

Advanced Scientific Research,

Bangalore)

Dr Garikapati Narahari Sastry

(CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical

Technology, Hyderabad).

E

Dr SirshenduDe (Indian Institute

of Technology, Dharagpur )

Dr Upadrasta Ramamurty (Indian

Institute of Science, Bangalore)

E , A ,

&

Dr Shanker Doraiswamy (CSIR

National Institute of

Oceanography, Goa)

B

Dr Amit Prakash Sharma

(International Centre for Genetic

Engineering and Biotechnology,

NewDelhi)

Dr Rajan Sankaranarayanan (CSIR

Centre for Cellular & Molecular

Biology, Hyderabad).

Dr Kithiganahalli NarayanaswamyBalaji (Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore)

C

A 2011

CSIR Young Scientist Awards

were instituted in 1987. CSIR

Young Scientist Awards seek to

promote in- house excellence in

various fields of science and

technology. CSIR scientist, below







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35 years of age, as reckoned on

26 September (CSIR Fondation

Day) of the preceding year , is

eligible for the Award.Council of

Scientific and Industrial Research

(CSIR) on its Foundation Day

celebrated on 26 September 2011

presented the CSIR Young

Scientist Awards 2011 that seek

to promote in- house excellence in

various fields of science and

technology.These awards are

given annually in the fields of

Biological Sciences , Chemical

Sciences, Earth, Atmosphere,

Ocean and Planetary Sciences and

Engineering Sciences Physical

Sciences (includinginstrumentation).Each award

consist of a citation, a cash prize

of Rs . 50000/- (Rupees fifty

thousand only) and a plaque. CSIR

Young ScientistAwardees are also

entitled to a research grant of Rs.

5.0 Lakhs (Rupees five lakh only)

per annum for a period of five

years and an honorarium of Rs.

75000/- (Rupees seven thousand

and five hundred only) per monthtill the age of 45 years.

:

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Dr Bikash Kumar Jena from CSIR

Institute of Minerals and

Materials.

Dr DattatrayaHanumant De and

Dr Rahul Banerjee E , A ,

Dr Arun Singh of CSIR National

Geophysical Research Institute.

Dr Rajeev Saraswat of CSIR

National Institute of

Oceanography

E

Dr Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni and

Dr Kaushik Biswas.

Apart from these CSIR Diamond

Jubilee Invention Award for

School Children 2010 were also

given.In order to enhancecreativity amongst school children,

CSIR announced for the first time

Diamond Jubilee InventionAward

for School Children on 26 April ,

2002 the day celebrated as

WORLD INTELLECTUAL

PROPERTY DAY throughout the

world. The objectives of this

competition are: to capture

creativity and innovativeness

amongst school children and

create awareness about

IPR.There are 60 awards to be

given each year . The first prize

winner becomes eligible for

WIPO’s Young inventor’s Award,

carrying a medal and a certificate

besides cash prize of Rs. 50,000/

-CSIR instituted a Gold Medal in

2004 in the fond memory of Prof .

G N Ramachandran, a pioneer of protein chemistry and the

sounding father of structural

biology in India, for recognizing

excellence in the interdisciplinary

subject / field of Biological

Sciences & Technology.

,

2 0 1 1

Vayoshrestha Samman,2011 for -Kinnera

Welfare Society, Mehdipatnam,

Hydrabad;

B -Prashant Nagar

Gram Panchayat, Medak, Andhra

Pradesh;

A -Dr .

Vinod Kumar , NewDelhi;

C A -Sh . C.S.N.

Patnaik, Vishakhapatnam;

- Dr . (Wing

Commander ) Ashish Roy, New

Delhi;

E -Sh. Om

Prakash Gupta, New Delhi;

H A

Legendary playback singer Lata

Mangeshkar was honoured with

the first Hridaynath award for her

contribution to Indian music on 28

September 2011. On 28

September , which also happened

to be Lata Mangeshakar’s (82)

birthda, she was presented acheque of Rs one lakh, a trophy

and a shawl by megastar Amitabh

Bachchan.The award has been

instituted by Hridayesh Art, a

Mumbai- based socio-cultural

organisation in honour of Lata

Mangeshkar’s brother , Hridaynath

Mangeshkar .

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The63rdAnnual Primetime EmmyAwards ceremony was organisedon 18 September 2011 at theNokia Theatre in Downtown LosAngeles, California. The awardsceremony to honour the best inprimetime television programmingfrom 1 June 2010 to 31 May2011 was hosted by actress Jane

Lynch, who hosted the Emmysfor the first time. British showstriumphed at the annualHollywood show, the Oscars of the small screen , with KateWinslet leading a string of Britishperformers. The list of recipientsof the 63rd Annual PrimetimeEmmy Awards are as follows:








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8 B : Mad Men

8 B : Modern

Family

8 B : Downton

Abbey

8 B

: The Daily Show

8 B , :

Julianne Margulies,TheGood

Wife

8 B , : Kyle

Chandler , Friday Night

Lights

8 B , :

Kate Winslet,Mildred Pierce

8 B , :

Barry Pepper ,The Kennedys

8 B

: Melissa

McCarthy, Mike &Molly

8 B :

Jim Parsons, The Big Bang

Theory

8

: Julie Bowen,

Modern Family

8

: Ty Burrell,

Modern Family.

8 B

: Michael Spiller ,

Modern Family.

8 B :

The Amazing Race

F CC E A

The Maulana Azad DentalInstitute bagged the FICCIExcellence Award on 8

September 2011. The health careoperational award was givenaway by the Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce andIndustry after rounds of

assessment. Maulana Azad DentalInstitute is the first dentalinstitution, catering to more than2.5 lakh patients annually acrossthe country.The parameters whichwent on to decide the winner were initiatives and outcomes

reflecting innovation, academicresearch and training ,

accreditations, environmentalconservation and patientsatisfaction.The FICCI health careoperational award aims atfelicitating organisation for their contribution to the industry byinnovating for increased efficiencyand improved performance of health care at large.

G

The Indira Gandhi National Open

University (IGNOU) on 28

September 2011 conferred the

Rajiv Gandhi International Prize

for Technology in Education and

Development to the Azim Premji

Foundation.The award instituted

by the university in its silver jubilee year was presented to

Azim Premji by Communications

and Information Technology

Minister Kapil Sibal.Azim Premji,

upon receiving the award stressed

on the need of integrating IT with

mainstream education which

would then prove far more useful

in disseminating education among

adults than children. AzimHashim

Premji is an Indian business

tycoon and philanthropist who is

the chairman of Wipro Limited.

He founded Azim Premji

foundation in 2001.Azim Premji

Foundation is a not-for -profit

organization, operational since

2001, with a vision to

significantly contribute towards a

ju st, equitable, humane and

sustainable society. The

Foundation has been active in

supporting the primary education

sector . It has partnered with state

governments across India to pilot

initiatives that have the potentialfor systemic reform to enhance

the quality of elementary

education within government run

school systems .The award

comprising of Rs.five lakh cash

and a citation is given to individual

or institution that contributed

significantly in education, partic-

ularly educational technology, for

development in developing

countries across the world.

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G

The awarded by the government

for best performance in different

categories were given to ONGC,

Coal India (CIL) and NMDC on

20 September . The Department

of Public Enterprises (DPE)

Secretary , Bhaskar Chatterjeegave away the awards.

B

in Maharatna and

Navaratna category was given to

ONGC. In Miniratna category, the

best financial performance award

award has been given to Goa

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in Maharatna and

Navaratna category was also

given to ONGC.

G C G

in Miniratna category, the

same award was given to Chennai

Petroleum Corporation Ltd. K

Balachandan MD, CPCL received

the award.

in Maharatna category

was given to CIL . The same

awards for the Navaratna

category were given to NMDC

and Oil India.

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