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NDTV & The Week’s Journalists jointly honoured with International Press Institute India award
NDTV & The Week’s Journalists jointly honoured with International Press Institute India award
- The International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism 2021 has been awarded jointly to Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi of NDTV, and Lakshmi Subramanian and Bhanu Praksh Chandra of The Week.
- Meanwhile the IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism 2020 had been awarded to Ritika Chopra of The Indian Express.
- The awardees for 2020 and 2021 will be felicitated in New Delhi in December 2021 or January 2022.
- The award comes with cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh, a trophy and a citation.
- The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) is a global organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of press freedom and the improvement of journalism practices.
- NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi have been awarded for their report on “untruthfulness of the cases of forcible conversion registered against young men belonging to the Muslim community who had married Hindu women in Uttar Pradesh, in the name of love Jihad.
- The Week’s Subramanian and Praksh Chandra have been honoured their report on tracing Indians, especially women, who were trapped in refugee camps in the civil war-torn regions of Syria and Iraq.
- Ritika Chopra of The Indian Express has been awarded for her exclusive reports on the internal fissures in the Election Commission of India on complaints on Model Code of Conduct violation against VVIPs.
National Cadet Corps celebrates 73rd Raising Day
National Cadet Corps celebrates 73rd Raising Day
- The youth wing of the Indian Armed Forces, National Cadet Corps (NCC) celebrated its 73rd Raising Day on November 28, 2021.
- NCC observes its Raising Day on the Fourth Sunday in November every year.
- NCC is the largest uniformed youth organisation in the world. Its headquarter is in New Delhi.
- The NCC is a Tri-Services Organization of the Army, Navy and Air Force, engaged in grooming the youth of the country into disciplined and patriotic citizens.
- It is a voluntary organization which recruits cadets from high schools, colleges and universities all over India. The Cadets are given basic military training in small arms and parades.
Dhanush wins Best Actor award for Asuran at 6th BRICS Film Festival
Dhanush wins Best Actor award for Asuran at 6th BRICS Film Festival
- The 6th edition of the BRICS Film Festival was held in India, along side 52nd IFFI in Goa from November 20 to 28, 2021.
- Best Film – jointly shared by
South African film ‘Barakat’ by Amy Jephta and
Russian film ‘The Sun above Me Never Sets’ by Lyubov Borisova
- Best Actor (Male) – Dhanush for Asuran (Hindi)
- Best Actor (Female) – Lara Boldorini for On Wheels (Brazil)
- Best Director – Lucia Marat for Ana (Brazil)
- Special Jury Mention Award – Director Yan Han for A Little Red Flower (China)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Declares “Vaccine” As Word Of The Year For 2021
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Declares “Vaccine” As Word Of The Year For 2021
- The American publishing company Merriam-Webster has chosen the word “vaccine” as its 2021 Word of the Year.
- Merriam-Webster is America’s most trusted online dictionary for English word definitions, meanings, and pronunciation.
- It has been declaring the word of the year since 2008.
South Korea to get world’s first floating city by 2025
South Korea to get world’s first floating city by 2025
- South Korea is soon going to get the world’s first floating city, to deal with the problem of flood due to rising sea levels.
- The floating city project is a joint effort by the UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habit) and OCEANIX.
- The city will be built off the coast of Busan in South Korea and is likely be completed by 2025.
- The floating city will have ‘flood-proof infrastructure’ and comprise several man-made islands to eliminate the risk of flooding.
- The self-sufficient city will be specifically designed to withstand natural disasters like tsunamis, floods, and Category 5 hurricanes.
