Current Affair Category: Awards

Rashtriya Tansen Samman 2023: The Rashtriya Tansen Samman is one of India’s most prestigious awards in the field of classical music. It was instituted in 1980 by the Madhya Pradesh Government to honor exceptional contributions to Indian classical music, especially in the fields of vocal and instrumental music. The award is presented during the Tansen […]

Noted Kannada literary critic and linguist Dr K V Narayana has been selected for the prestigious Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award-2024. Recipients: Narayana: Awarded for his Kannada work, Nudigala Alivu. Gagan Gill: Recognized for her Hindi poetry book Main Jab Tak Aai Bahar. Easterine Kire: Honored for her English novel Spirit Nights. Mukesh Thali: Awarded for […]

An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily won the U.K.’s prestigious Turner Prize recently, during a ceremony picketed by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Jasleen Kaur was awarded the 25,000-pound ($32,000) prize by actor James Norton at the Tate Britain gallery in London. Kaur used her […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be conferred with the highest civilian award of the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Dominica Award of Honour. The award will be in recognition of PM Modi’s contributions to Dominica during the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Commonwealth of Dominica will bestow its highest national award, the Dominica Award of Honour, upon His […]

Booker Prize 2024 : Samantha Harvey has won the prestigious Booker Prize for her novel “Orbital”. The award ceremony took place on November 12, 2024. Harvey’s book is a unique exploration of life aboard the International Space Station. It reflects on human connections and the beauty of Earth. The novel was inspired by the isolation […]

The Nobel laureates in the economic sciences have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and exploitative institutions do not generate growth or change for the better. Where does India fit into this understanding? The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded the Sveriges […]

Why in New?The Norwegian Nobel Committee has selected the Japanese anti-nuclear weapons organization Nihon Hidankyo for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian committee chose the Nihon Hidankyo organization for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and to demonstrate through the victims of nuclear weapons that nuclear weapons should never be […]

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Known as hibakusha, the group is made up of survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has been recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Nobel Committee Chair Joergen […]

The Swedish Academy has selected South Korean novelist Han Kang for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Han Kang is the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the second South Korean to win the Nobel Prize after former President Kim Dae-jung. President Kim Dae-jung was awarded the Nobel Peace […]

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can […]