George Clooney, winner of best actor in a motion picture drama for his role in The Descendants, poses in the photo room at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Meryl Streep accepts her award for best actress in a drama motion picture for Iron Lady at the 69th Golden Globe Awards […]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011
Friv games – play free online games Language Title and Genre Author Assamese Ei Anuragi Ei Udasi (Poetry) (late) Kabin Phukan Bengali Bane Aaj Concherto (Poetry) Manindra Gupta Bodo Okhafwrni Dwima (Poetry) Premananda Mosahari Dogri Cheten Diyan Ga’liyan (Essays) Lalit Magotra English India After Gandhi (Narrative History) Ramachandra Guha Gujarati Anchalo (Short Stories) Mohan Parmar […]
Vinod Rai to Head UN Audit Panel
The Central government may have been critical of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai for taking out a series of adverse findings on government policies, but the contribution of the auditor seems to have been recognized by the United Nations which has appointed him as Chairman of its panel of external auditor. Rai […]
Padma Awards 2012
Padma Vibhushan Award 2012 S. No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri K G Subramanyan Art-Painting & Sculpture West Bengal 2. Late Shri Mario De Miranda Art-Cartoonist Goa* 3. Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika Art- Vocal Music Assam* 4. Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti Medicine – Orthopaedics Maharashtra 5. Shri T V Rajeswar Civil Service Delhi Padma Bhushan […]
Indian-born Noble laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan gets Knighthood
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born US citizen whose pioneering work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been honoured with a knighthood by the royal establishment here in a rare recognition of achievement by foreigners based in Britain. 58 year old Ramakrishnan is based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in […]