Current Affairs Awards & Honours

 Bhasha Mukherjee, a 23-year-old Indian origin doctor was crowned Miss England 2019. Bhasha holds two different medical degrees, has an IQ of 146 and is fluent in 5 different languages. As a winner of Miss England, she will be entered into the Miss World contest 2019.
Source: The Hindustan Times

  East Bengal club will officially start the centenary celebrations on its foundation daywith a glittering ceremony at the Netaji Indoor Stadium. East Bengal club will be awarded India’s first cricket World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev with its highest honour, Bharat Gaurav. Kapil is no stranger to football as he had donned the club’s colours in an exhibition match against Mohun Bagan in 1992.
Source: The Hindu

  Ruhan Rajput, a renowned entrepreneur, co-founder and Director of Einfolge Technologies Pvt Ltd was awarded the prestigious Entrepreneur Award 2019 at New Delhi. Ruhan was acknowledged for his contributions and achievements in the business industry. His company, is one of the leading players in the knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) industry. The company operates to provide comprehensive research, analysis and expert solutions to its clients.
Source: The Business Standard

  DD News is awarded with “Champions of Empathy Award” for spreading awareness about hepatitis. Director General of DD News, Mayank Agrawal received the Award from Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. DD News to aware people about various diseases and preventives by showing health related programmes, reports and policies that help to spread awareness towards health in society.
Source: The DD News

 Eminent fashionista, social entrepreneur and philanthropist Priya Priyadarshini Jain has been felicitated with the prestigious ‘Indian Woman of Influence’ award at the House of Lords, the United Kingdom Parliament, London. Priyadarshini Jain for it also marked the grand launch of coffee table book on ’50 most influential Indian women worldwide’ featuring her as one of the most prominent personalities from India.
Source: The Business Standard

  Vidisha Baliyan, a 21 year old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar city, was crowned the Miss Deaf World 2019 title. The international beauty pageant was held in Mbombela, South Africa. She is a former international tennis player who represented India in the Deaflympicsand also won a silver medal.
Source: The Times Now

  Padma Awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the People’s Choice Award at aprestigious sand sculpting festival in the U.S. Pattnaik was participating in the 2019 Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Boston, Massachusetts. He won the People’s Choice Award for his sand sculpture ‘Stop Plastic Pollution, Save Our Ocean’.
Source: The Hindu

  Veteran star Meryl Streep will be honoured Tribute Actor award at the 2019 in 44th Toronto International Film Festival. The 70-year-old actor will be the first-ever recipient of the award in TIFF. Streep is a 3 times Oscar winner for the Iron Lady, Sophie’s choice and Kramer vs Kramer.
Source: The Business Standard

  3rd Edition of the CSR Journal Excellence Awards honoured 6 firms for the best practices in Corporate Social Responsibility. The theme of the event was ‘India First’. 
The winners of the awards are:
  • Tata Power won in the category “Education & Skill Training”.
  • ReNew Power won in the category “Women Empowerment & Child Welfare”.
  • YES Bank Ltd. won in the category “Health & Sanitation”.
  • Mahindra & Mahindra won in the category “Environment”.
  • Hindustan Zinc won in the category “Agriculture & Rural Development”.
  • Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. won in the category “Sports”.
Source: The CSR Journal

 Mohan Bagan club to confer awards  in Various Disciplines.
The Awardees are:
  • Mohan Bagan Ratan: Keshav Dutt (Hockey).
  • Mohan Bagan Ratan: Captain Prasun Banerjee (Football).
  • Club felicitates Indian Peacer: Mohammed Shami (Cricket).
  • Lifetime Achievement award: Ashok Chatterjee (Football).
  • Best Football Player for the season 2018-19: Arijit Bagui (Football).
On July 29 Mohun Bagan Club celebrates the ‘Mohun Bagan Day’. Dutt will be the first sportsperson from outside the football fraternity to be bestowed with the Ratna. This is also the first time that there will be 2 Mohun Bagan Ratna recipients.
Source: The Hindu


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