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Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023

In News Utsa Patnaik, a renowned economist of national and international repute, has been selected for the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023. About Malcolm Adiseshiah Award  It is one of the most prestigious national awards in India that recognizes and honours the outstanding contributions of social scientists to the field of development studies. It was instituted […]

International Prize in Statistics

In News The Indian-American statistician Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics. About the Prize It was established in 2016 and is awarded once every two years to an individual or team for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare. It is considered equivalent to the […]

Abel Prize

In News The Abel Prize for mathematics was awarded to Argentine-American Luis Caffarelli. Partial Differential Equations Luis Caffarelli is a professor at the University of Texas and was honoured for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations. He is the first person born in South America to win the award. Differential […]

Gandhi Mandela Award

In News The 14th Dalai Lama was recently conferred the Gandhi Mandela Award 2022 at Thekchen Choeling in Dharamshala’s McleodGanj by Himachal Pradesh Governor. He has been conferred with the peace prize for the qualities of non-violence and compassion and he has been called a “universal ambassador of peace”. What is the Gandhi Mandela Award? […]

Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace Disarmament, and Development

In News Former Vice-President Hamid Ansari presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development of 2021 to Pratham. About  Pratham is an NGO functioning in the field of education. The award is in recognition of Pratham’s work in ensuring quality education for children of the country, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. About Indira […]

2022 Booker Prize

In News  Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker Prize 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. About  The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida tells the story of a war photographer who has woken up dead in what seems to be a celestial visa office.  He has ‘seven moons’ to try and […]

Ethereum Merger

In News Ethereum, the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, has completed a significant software overhaul recently. About Revamping of Ethereum: It is known as ‘The Merge’.  It will cast aside the need for crypto miners and gigantic mining farms, who had previously driven the blockchain under a mechanism called ‘proof-of-work’ (PoW).  Instead, it has now […]

Fields Medal

In News Four mathematicians were awarded prestigious Fields medals. About Fields Medal  It is an honour that is often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics. It is awarded every four years to one or more mathematicians under the age of 40 in recognition of “outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise […]

Palme d’Or Award

In News The Swedish satire Triangle of Sadness, directed by Ruben Östlund, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. About Palme d’Or Award History: Palme d’Or translates to ‘The Golden Palm’. The first Cannes festival was held in 1939, and then delayed until 1946 because of World War II. The top prize in […]

Gallantry Awards

In Context Recently, the President of India conferred Gallantry awards to the personnel for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty. About Gallantry Awards have been instituted by the Government of India to honour the acts of bravery and sacrifices of the officers/personnel of the Armed Forces, other lawfully constituted forces and […]