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AWARDS & HONOURS

Ø  BCCI to honour Diana Edulji with CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award

Ø  A three-man BCCI panel has recommended former India women’s team captain and current CoA member, Diana Edulji, for the prestigious CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award. Along with Edulji, former India opener late Pankaj Roy will also be awarded posthumously.

Ø  Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashaschandra chosen for 2017 Saraswati Samman

Ø  Gujarati poet, playwright and academic Sitanshu Yashaschandra was selected for 2017 Saraswati Samman for his collection of verses (poetry) titled “Vakhar” published in 2009. It was 27 edition of the award.

Ø  Bradley Cooper to receive 2018 American Cinematheque Award

Ø  Four-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper will receive the 32nd annual American Cinematheque Award. The Hollywood organisation will honour Cooper for his achievements in film, which include three consecutive Oscar nominations for his roles in 2012′s “Silver Linings Playbook” 2013′s “American Hustle,” and 2014′s “American Sniper.

Ø  CSIR wins National Intellectual Property Award 2018

Ø  The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was awarded the National Intellectual Property Award, 2018 for being the top research and development organisation for patents and commercialisation.

Ø  Egyptian journalist gets press freedom prize

Ø  Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid won the 2018 Press Freedom Prize awarded by the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO.

Ø  Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards 2018: complete list of winners

Ø  Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards 2018 honoured the individuals from the entertainment industry for their outstanding contribution towards the growth and development of cinema and/or television.

Ø  Here’s the complete list of the winners:

S.No.	Category	Winner
1.	Best actor (male)	Shahid Kapoor
2.	Best actor people’s choice award	Ranveer Singh
3.	Entertainer of the year	Kartik Aryan
4.	Best actress (critics)	Aditi Rao Hydari
5.	Lifetime achievement award	Simi Garewal
6.	Pride of Indian cinema	Sanjay Dutt
7.	Path-breaking producer of the year	Anushka Sharma and Karnesh Sharma
8.	Best director	Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
9.	Outstanding performance male	Raj Kumar Rao, Rana Daggubati
10.	Outstanding performance female	Tamannahh Bhatia, Kriti Sanon
11.	Promising face of the year	Aahana Kumra
12.	Best actor (male) Marathi	Vaibhav Tatwawaadi
13.	Best actor (female) Marathi	Pooja Sawant
14.	Best fashion designer of the year	Sanjukta Dutta
15.	Socially conscious performance of the year	Rani Mukherjee
16.	Best comic role	Tusshar Kapoor
17.	Entertaining performance in reality show Bigg Boss	Hina Khan
18.	Best actress drama award	Jennifer Winget
19.	Best actor (male) Television	Karan Patel
20.	Best reality show Judge	Shilpa Shetty
21.	Best talk show host	Karan Johar
22.	Best lyricist	Manoj Muntashir
23.	Best performance in a short film	Divya Khosla Kumar
24.	Iconic contribution towards music	Hans Raj Hans
25.	Comic performer of the year	Sumona Chakraborty
26.	Versatile singer	Rani Hazarika
27.	Social and business entrepreneur of the year	Jaya Misra

Ø  Winners of ‘1st Print Biennale India 2018’ given away awards in New Delhi

Ø  Lalit Kala Akademi, organised the award ceremony of the ’1st Print Biennale India 2018 (PBI)’ in New Delhi. The Chief Guest of the programme was Ms Sujata Prasad, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Culture. Arup Kumar Kuity (Andhra Pradesh), Satya Narayana Gavara (Andhra Pradesh), Preya Bhagat (Uttar Pradesh), Purvi Parmar (Gujrat) and Sonal Varshneya (Uttar Pradesh) were given the award in the 1st PBI.

Ø  New York Times, New Yorker won Pulitzer

Ø  The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. The Washington Post won the Pulitzer in the investigative category for relentless reporting that influenced the outcome of the 2017 Senate race in Alabama.

Ø  Pulitzer Prizes 2018 Announced

Ø  The Pulitzer Prizes for 2018 has been announced. Following are the winners of the Pulitzer Prize 2018.
1. Fiction: Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer’s novel tells the comic story of a middle-aged novelist.
2. Drama: Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok.
3. History: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton).
4. Biography: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books).
5. Poetry: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Ø  Rana Kapoor felicitated with ‘India Talent Management Award 2018’

Ø  Rana Kapoor, MD & CEO, YES BANK has been awarded with the ‘India Talent Management Award’ for fostering an entrepreneurial spirit and best practices at one of India’s fastest growing banks.

Ø  Dharmendra to be conferred Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement award

Ø  Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra will be conferred with the prestigious Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement award and filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani will be conferred with the Raj Kapoor Special Contribution award. Maharashtra Culture Minister Vinod Tawde announced the names of the winners.

Ø  Siddharth won Shorenstein Journalism Award

Ø  Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire, has won the Shorenstein Journalism Award. The award, given annually by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Ø  Late Veteran Actor Vinod Khanna Awarded Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Ø  Veteran Hindi film actor Shri Vinod Khanna was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian Cinema.

Ø  65th National Film Awards announced

Ø  The 65th National Film Awards were announced in Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. The chairpersons of the three juries (Feature, Non-feature and Writing) for the National Film Awards have announced the awards for the different categories.

Ø  Dadasaheb Excellence Award for Anushka

Ø  Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma will be awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award for her successful movies as a producer. The award will be given by an organisation called Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation, a Mumbai-based organisation, which is different from the Government of India instituted Dadasaheb Phalke Award, awarded during National Awards ceremony held annually in New Delhi.

Ø  Javed Akhtar awarded ‘Shanti Doot’ award

Ø  Poet, litterateur, author, lyricist and activist Javed Akhtar has been awarded the ‘Shanti Doot’ award by one of the most revered temples in India — the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Mandir in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The award has been instituted a peace price to honour exceptional messengers of peace.

Ø  President Kovind bestowed with Equatorial Guinea’s highest civilian honour

Ø  President Ram Nath Kovind was conferred with the Condecoracion, the highest honour accorded to a non-citizen by the government of Equatorial Guinea while his visit there. President Kovind was bestowed with the medal of the Gran Colar de la Independencia by his counterpart Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, for his contribution to the cause of development, security and world peace.

Ø  India’s best ‘State of the Year’ award goes to Chhattisgarh

Ø  Chhattisgarh bagged the ‘State of the Year’ Award for its remarkable progress in business and services activities in various sectors of the state. Union Information Technology and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the award at India Business Leader Awards (IBLA).