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Nirenberg gives half of medal prize sum toCourant InstituteBY GANESH, ON AUGUST 24TH, 2010

 

Louis Nirenberg, winner of the Chern Medal Award, has nominated theCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University to receivehalf of the cash prize the award carries.

•  Through this “Organisation Award,” Prof. Nirenberg would like to pay

his gratitude to the institution that made him the great mathematicianthat he is.• Professor Nirenberg was the first recipient of the award Chern Medal 

Award that was newly instituted by the International MathematicalUnion (IMU) and the Chern Medal Foundation (CMF) in memory of theoutstanding Chinese-American mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern(1911-2004).

•  The award, given to an individual for lifelong outstandingachievements in mathematics, consists of a medal and a cash prize of $500,000. Professor Chern had devoted his life to mathematics, both inresearch and education and in nurturing the field whenever the

opportunity arose.• In keeping with Professor Chern’s spirit, the award requires that the

recipient donates half of the cash prize to organisations of his/herchoice to support research, education, outreach or other activities topromote mathematics.

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Social activist Aruna Roy gets Lal BahadurShastri awardBY GANESH, ON OCTOBER 2ND, 2010

Honoured: Political and social activist Aruna Roy receives the Lal Bahadur Shastri

National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and

Management from President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New

Delhi. Anil K. Shastri, convener of the jury and chairman of the board of governors

of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, is at left.

President Pratibha Patil presented the prestigious Lal Bahadur ShastriNational Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia andManagement to Aruna Roy, social and political activist, at the RashtrapatiBhavan here.

•  The award carries a prize of Rs. 5 lakh, a plaque and a citation statingthat the award was conferred on Ms. Roy for her “arduous journey anddedication towards the issue of the common man.”

• It noted that the most significant of Ms. Roy’s efforts had been thecampaigns for transparency and the people’s right to information,

which began in the early 1990s, and, more recently, the right to workcampaign.

• “These [two] broad-based collective campaigns helped ensure thepassage of the Right to Information law and the National RuralEmployment Guarantee Act [now the Mahatma Gandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Act] by Parliament in 2005.”

• Instituted by the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management with aview to upholding the vision of the late Prime Minister, each year the

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award honours an Indian, residing either in the country or abroad, whois an exceptionally outstanding and distinguished business leader,management practitioner, public administrator, education or institutionbuilder, for his or her sustained individual contributions andachievements of high professional order and excellence.

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Born in Chennai in 1946, Ms. Roy is a member of the second National Advisory Council, set up by the Central government to advise it onsocial policies, and the Central Employment Guarantee Council, anadvisory body to oversee the implementation of the MGNREGA.

• Ms. Roy is also a founder member of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and a member of the National Campaign forPeople’s Right to Information, the National Alliance of People’sMovements and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties.

• A post-graduate in English literature, she served as an officer of theIndian Administrative Service till 1975, when she resigned to join theSocial Work and Research Centre set up by her husband in Tilonia,

Rajasthan, and subsequently established the MKSS along with ShankarSingh and Nikhil Dey.

Ravindra Kelekar passes awayBY GANESH, ON AUGUST 29TH, 2010

 

Ravindra Kelekar

Konkani litterateur and Jnanpith Award winner Ravindra R. Kelekar, 85, diedat a hospital at Margao after a brief illness.

• Ravindra Kelekar was born on March 25, 1925 at Cuncolim in southGoa. Influenced by the Gandhian thoughts, he was actively involved inthe freedom struggle and the Goa liberation movement. Though healso wrote in Marathi and Hindi, his contributions to the growth of 

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Konkani were immense. Always at the forefront of the Konkanimovement, he struggled to seek recognition for the Konkani language.

• He was an illustrious disciple of Kaka Saheb Kalelkar, a social reformer, and was widely acknowledged as an architect of the Konkani language.He bagged numerous awards and honours, including the Padma

Bhushan and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. His book, Himalayan, atravelogue written in 1975, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award.• He was the only writer of Goa and of Konkani to win the Jnanpith Award

as well as the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.

Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships, awardsgivenBY GANESH, ON SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2010

Veteran actor Shriram Lagoo, danseuse Yamini Krishnamurti andclassical music exponent Kishori Amonkar were among a host of artistes honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships andawards for the year 2009 by President Pratibha Patil.

• Six eminent personalities were conferred Akademi Fellowships for 2009

and 33 artistes received the Akademi Awards.•  The highest honour of Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) was

conferred on Lalgudi Jayaraman, Shreeram Lagoo, YaminiKrishnamurti, Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi and Kishori Amonkar.

•  They received Rs three lakh besides a citation and a shawl. • Presently, there are only 32 living Fellows of the Sangeet Natak

Akademi.

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•  The eminent representatives from the fields of music, dance andtheatre honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2009received Rs one lakh.

Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer (Tamil: லல்கட ஜயரம ஐயர்)

(born September 17, 1930, India) is a well-

known Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer.

 Jnanpith Awards for ONV Kurup, Akhlaq KhanShahryarBY GANESH, ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2010

Eminent Malayalam litterateur O N V Kurup and noted Urdu poetAkhlaq Khan Shahryar have been chosen for the Jnanpith Award forthe year 2007 and 2008 respectively for their contribution toliterature.

 The recipients for the country’s highest literary honour were announced inNew Delhi on Friday after a meeting of Jnanpith Selection Board chaired bynoted Oriya writer and Jnanpith award winner Sitakant Mahapatra.

• Born in 1931 in Kerala’s Kollam district, Kurup is a leading voice amongthe contemporary Malayalam poets who has reinvented the narrativetransition of Malayalam poetry through his long poems like ‘Ujjayini’and ‘Swayamvaram’.

• According to a statement by Bharatiya Jnanpith, the trust whichpresents the award, Kurup began his career as a "progressive writerand matured into a humanist though he never gave up hiscommitment to socialist ideology".

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• Kurup has 20 collections of poetry to his credit. He is also winner of several awards and honours including Kerala SahityaAcademy award,Sahitya Academy award, Vayalar award and Padmashri.

• Born in 1936 in a Muslim Rajput family in Uttar Pradesh’sBareillydistrict, Shahryar shaped himself as an "intellectual poet", whose

poetry strongly expresses an "ideological non-commitment".• His roots, according to the statement, lies in the poet’s desire for self-

nrealisation and his attempt to understand modern problems.

Indian American recognized with ‘Ellis IslandMedal of Honour’ by US Govt.BY GANESH, ON JULY 31ST, 2010

Eminent Indian American physician and philanthropist Dr SudhirParikh, who was awarded with the prestigious Padam Shri this year,has been recognized in the US Congress for his extraordinary

contribution.

• With the Padma Shri award, Dr Parikh becomes the only Indian-American to receive the Ellis Island Medal of Honour, the PravasiBharatiya Samman.

•  The Ellis Island Medal is the highest civilian honour presented to a USimmigrant for community and social service.

•  The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award is the highest honour theGovernment of India presents to non-residents.

Railways to honour SushilBY GANESH, ON SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2010

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Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced her decision to honourRailways’ wrestler Sushil Kumar for his gold medal performance in Worldwrestling championship in Moscow by rewarding him with a purse of Rs. 10lakh.

•  The Railway Minister said that Sushil would receive other awards too. 

Mamata complimented him for his spirit, drive and dedication and saidthat his victory was a victory for the ‘Rail parivar’ and dedication to thenation.

• Sushil is posted as an Assistant Commercial Manager with the NorthernRailway and is the third railwayman to secure a podium finish at theWorld wrestling championships after Bishambar Singh and RameshKumar secured a silver and bronze in 1967 and 2009 respectively.

Irom Sharmila awarded Tagore peace prizeBY GANESH, ON SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2010

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Social activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on fast-unto-death for the pastnine years demanding withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act1958 from Manipur, has been awarded ‘Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize’

•  The award carrying Rs 51 lakhs, a gold medal and a citation was given

to Ms Sharmila by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management(IIPM).• Ms Sharmila, who began fast-unto-death after the Assam Rifles killed

10 people at Malom village in Imphal valley in a encounter, wouldcomplete ten years of her struggle on November 2 next, they said.

• She has already been awarded many prizes by both national andinternational organisations in her struggle for restoration of humanrights in the.

Indian American named Chicago business

school deanBY GANESH, ON JULY 30TH, 2010

Sunil Kumar, an Indian American management guru, has beennamed the new head of the University of Chicago’s prestigiousBooth School of Business.

• Currently the senior associate dean of academic affairs at StanfordUniversity’s Graduate School of Business, Kumar, 42, succeeds EdwardSnyder, who stepped down in June and will run the Yale School of Management, in New Haven, Connecticut, starting next year.

• Kumar will begin a five-year term as dean on Jan 1, the University of Chicago announced.

• At Stanford, Kumar oversees the master’s of business administrationprogramme. He is also a professor of operations, information andtechnology.Kumar, who was born in India, received a Ph.D. in electrical

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engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, andhas taught at Stanford since 1996.

• Solar Energy Commision proposed• BY GSCURRENTAFFAIRS, ON MAY 22ND, 2008

•  The Centre proposes to set up a Solar Energy Commission, with equal 

participation from the private sector. It is to tap the solar energy potential for

meeting the future energy needs of the country. The initial investment for the

project will be around $ 10 billion.

• Solar energy conversion systems fall into three categories according to their

primary energy production: solar electricity, solar thermal systems and solar

fuels.

•  The main challenges before the government are to reduce the cost/watt of 

electricity to compete with fossil and nuclear electricity, identifying cost-effective

methods to convert sunlight into storable, dispatchable thermal energy thatbridges the diurnal cycle and to produce chemical fuels directly from sunlight

that could be used as cheap solar fuel.

Filmmaker D Ramanaidu gets Dada SahebPhalke awardBY GANESH, ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2010

Movie moghul D Ramanaidu, a veteran producer with 130 films in adozen languages in five decades, has been conferred theprestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2009 for renderingoutstanding contribution to the world of Indian cinema.

• 74-year-old Ramanaidu, the legendary and prolific film maker fromAndhra Pradesh who has worked with a galaxy of actors, will be

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presented the honour during the National Films Award functionscheduled to be held in October

•  The award consists of a ‘Swarn Kamal’, a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh and ashawl.

• Over the last 47 years, he has produced over 130 films in several 

Indian languages and has found a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.• His film, "Surigadu" was selected for the Indian Panorama in 1993. 

"Asukh", a Bengali film, won the National Award for the Best Film in1999.

U.K. honour for Bikhu ParekhBY GANESH, ON JULY 28TH, 2010

 Internationally renownedpoliticalphilosopher Lord Bhikhu Parekh with the Padma Bhushanaward.

• Distinguished British-Indian academic and peer Lord Bhikhu Parekh has been named one of Britain’s “greatest politicalphilosophers’’ of the 20th century by the prestigious Political StudiesAssociation.

• Lord Parekh is among the 14 internationally renowned thinkers such asHarold Laski and R.H. Tawney who have been honoured by theAssociation to mark its 60th anniversary.

• He has been recognised for his “seminal contribution’’ to the study of multiculturalism, identity and political philosophy.

• Lord Parekh, who teaches at the universities of Hull and Westminsterand was until recently professor at the London School of Economics(LSE).

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• Outstanding Parliamentarian Award forthe years 2007, 2008 and 2009

• BY ASPIRANT, ON AUGUST 26TH, 2010

•Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsiji, Shri Mohan Singhji and Dr. Murli Manohar Joshiji were honoured as Outstanding Parliamentarians. The three awardees belong to

three different parties and this itself reflects the important role played by

members from all parties whether from the Treasury benches or the Opposition

benches.

•  The effective functioning of Parliament is certainly dependent on the norms, 

conventions and rules that govern proceedings. But it is the calibre of the

Members who breathe life and vitality into this institution. Outstanding

Parliamentarians through their speeches and interventions make Parliament a

forum not just to reflect public opinion but also to mould it. There is no doubt that

in today’s age of information overload, Parliament has to raise the standard and

quality of its debates and discussions.