SAIL Chief Gets Icon of The Year' Award: Manmohan Says Knowledge, Not Army Might, Determines A Nation's Strength

SAIL chief gets ‘Icon of the year' award
• C. S. Verma, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL),

received the ‘Icon of the year'
award of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India
(ICWAI) .R. Bandyopadhyay,
Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, presented the award on the
inaugural day of the 52nd
National Convention of ICWAI. The award honours professionals who
have been a role model
for the profession by achieving success in the business enterprises that
they have been involved
with in the capacity of Chairman and Managing Direc
Manmohan says knowledge, not army might, determines a
nation's strength
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said making education a
fundamental right was one of the
special achievements of his government.
• Acknowledging the importance of private institutions like the Infosys
Science Foundation that
had a large role to play in generating funds to reward excellence, Dr.
Singh said: “The strength
of a nation is no longer determined by the might of its army. It comes
from the quality of
collective knowledge, the productivity of its working people, the
creativity of its entrepreneurs
and the dedication of its professionals.”
• The Infosys Prize 2010 was presented for outstanding achievements
in scientific research. The
awards were in five categories — Mathematical Sciences, Physical
Sciences, Engineering and
Computer Science, Life Sciences and Social Sciences. The prize in each
category comprises a
24-karat gold medallion, a citation expounding the laureate's work and
Rs. 50 lakh in cash (tax
free).
• The Infosys Science Foundation was set up in February 2009 by the
management of Infosys.
The corpus has increased from Rs. 45 crore to Rs. 100 crore with about
half the amount coming
from the management of Infosys.
• Professor Chandrashekhar Khare of the University of California, Los
Angeles, got the award in
the Mathematical Sciences category, in recognition of his fundamental
contributions to the
Number Theory particularly his solution of the Serre conjecture.
• Professor Sandip Trivedi of the Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research won the award in the
Physical Sciences category for finding an ingenious way to solve two of
the most outstanding
puzzles of Superstring Theory simultaneously: What is the origin of
dark energy of the
universe? And why is there no massless scalar particle?
• Professor Ashutosh Sharma of the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, won the award in the Engineering and Computer Science
category for his fundamental contributions to mechanics,
materials and manufacturing on small scale including self-organisation
and instabilities, nanopatterning
and functional multiscale interfaces.
• Chetan Chitnis of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology won the
award in the Life Sciences category for his pioneering work in
understanding the interactions of
the malaria parasite and its host, leading to the development of a
viable vaccine.
• The Social Sciences category award was jointly presented to
Professor Amita Baviskar of the
Institute of Economic Growth, in recognition of her contributions as an
outstanding analyst of
social and environmental movements in modern India, and Professor
Nandini Sundar of the
Delhi School of Economics, in recognition of her contributions as an
outstanding analyst of
social identities, including tribe and caste, and the politics of
knowledge in modern India.
Bharat Jyoti Award for K.V. Raman
• Agricultural scientist K.V. Raman has been awarded the prestigious
Bharat Jyoti Award of the
India International Friendship Society for his contributions to science,
technology and
development.
• A former Chairman of the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board
under the Indian Council
of Agricultural Research, Dr. Raman was also Director of the B.V. Rao
Centre for Sustainable
Food Security at the Chennai-based M.S. Swaminathan Research
Foundation.
• The former Election Commissioner, G.V.G. Krishnamurthy, presented
the award to Dr. Raman.
A.R. Rahman wins Critics' Choice award
• Music composer A.R. Rahman bagged the best original song trophy at
the 16th Critics' Choice
Awards for his number “If I Rise” in Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours.
Written by Rollo
Armstrong and American artiste Dido, the song was performed by
Rahman and Dido. Boyle,
who went on to score eight Oscars with his Slumdog Millionaire,
collaborated with Rahman
again for 127 Hours, a biopic on the life of mountain climber Aron
Ralston.
• Rahman, however, lost the best score trophy to Trent Reznor and
Atticus Ross, who got it for
their The Social Network.
• The movie on the life of the Facebook founder also bagged top
honours for the best film, the
best director and the best adapted screenplay.
Golden Globes “likes” Facebook film
• The Social Network, a film about Harvard-graduate Mark
Zuckerberg's ultra-popular Facebook
website, swept up four awards at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards, even
denying Indian musical
maestro A.R. Rahman a second win at the forum.
• Other notable winners included The Social Network, for Best Motion
Picture; Colin Firth for
best performance by an actor in The King's Speech; Natalie Portman
for best performance by an
actress in The Black Swan; The Kids are Alright, for best comedy or
musical and Christian Bale
for best actor in a supporting role in The Fighter. Paul Giamatti
scooped up the laurel for Best
Actor in a comedy film for his role in Barney's Version.
• The Golden Globe Awards are sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association to
recognise excellence in film, television both domestic and foreign.
However, comedian and
Awards Master of Ceremonies Ricky Gervais caused more than a
chuckle when he lampooned
the HFPA numerous times throughout the ceremony, ridiculing it in
particular for its obscurity outside of the Awards.
• The annual ceremony and dinner at which the Golden Globes are
presented marks the start of
the Hollywood film industry's awards season, and it culminates in the
annual Academy Awards,
otherwise known as the Oscars.
Padma Vibhushan for Brajesh, Premji
• Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the
former National Security
Adviser, Brajesh Mishra, Wipro chief Azim Premji, Telugu film celebrity
A. Nageswara Rao,
Art historian Kapila Vatsyayan, India's first woman news photographer
Homai Vyarawalla and
the former Attorney-General, K. Parasaran, are among this year's 13
Padma Vibhushan
awardees. The Padma Vibhushan, which is India's second highest
civilian honour, has been
conferred posthumously on Gandhian and freedom fighter Lakshmi
Chand Jain.
Rahman bags WEF Crystal Award
• Internationally renowned music composer A.R. Rahman was
honoured with the Crystal Award
of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the opening ceremony of its
annual meet being
attended by 2,500 global leaders from the fields of business,
government, art, culture and
religion.
• Mr. Rahman, 44, received the award, given to outstanding artists who
use their talent for social
and charitable work.
• Civil rights activist Kannabiran passes away

• Sudhir Sopory, JNU VC
• Suchitra Mitra dead
• Civil rights activist Kannabiran passes away
• Sudhir Sopory, JNU VC
• Suchitra Mitra dead

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• C. S. Verma, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL),

• Civil rights activist Kannabiran passes away

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