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Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Mahajati Sadan, Kolkata

মহাজাতি সদন – কলকাতা (Mahajati Sadan Kolkata)

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১৯৩৯ সালে মহাজাতি সদনের ভিত্তিপ্রস্তর স্তাপন করেন রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর। ভারতীয় জাতির উদ্দেশে উত্সর্গীকৃত এই ভবনের নামও তাঁরই দেওয়া। ঐতিহ্যবাহী এরকম একটি সদন নেতাজী সুভাষচন্দ্র বসুর মস্তিষ্ক প্রসুত। উনিশশো আটান্ন সালে এই সদন উদ্বোধন করেন তত্কালীন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী বিধানচন্দ্র রায়। দীর্ঘদিন ধরেই রাজ্য রাজনীতির সঙ্গে ওতোপ্রতোভাবে জড়িয়ে গেছে এই ভবনটি। ডান বাম, শাসক বিরোধী সব রাজনৈতিক দলেরই সভা কেন্দ্র এটি। সেই […]