Page-8 of Awards, Honours & Persons in News
M.P. Parameswaran, renowned nuclear scientist and Marxist theorist, dies at 92
M.P. Parameswaran, an Indian nuclear scientist, science communicator and Marxist theorist, died on 11 August 2026 at his residence in Thrissur, Kerala. He was born on 18 January...
President Presents Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2024 and 2025
President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the 2024 and 2025 cycles at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 13 August...
Indian Physicist Deepak Dhar Wins 2026 Dirac Medal
Indian physicist Deepak Dhar was named a recipient of the 2026 Dirac Medal on 8 August 2026 by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in...
Puducherry Police Receives President’s Colour
The Puducherry Police received the President’s Colour, also called Nishaan, at a ceremony held on 9 August 2026 at the Puducherry Armed Police Ground in Gorimedu. The President’s...
President Presents Sant Kabir Handloom Awards 2025
President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sant Kabir Handloom Awards and the National Handloom Awards 2025 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in New Delhi on 7 August 2026...
IIT Bombay Professor Karthikeyan Lanka Selected for NASI Young Scientist Award 2026
Professor Karthikeyan Lanka of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has been selected for the NASI Young Scientist Award 2026. He is an Associate Professor at the Centre...
Tewolde Gebremariam Assumes Charge as Air India CEO
Tewolde Gebremariam assumed charge as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Air India on 1 October 2026. His appointment was announced by the Air India Board...
D.Y. Patil, Former Governors and Educationist, Dies at 90
Dr. Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil, known as D.Y. Patil, died on 4 August 2026 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, at the age of 90. He received the Padma Shri in 1991...
Justice M.S. Liberhan Passes Away at 87
Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan, former Chief Justice of the Madras and Andhra Pradesh High Courts, died on 2 August 2026 at the age of 87. He was born...
RBI Appoints Monisha Chakraborty as Executive Director
The Reserve Bank of India appointed Monisha Chakraborty as Executive Director with effect from 3 August 2026. In her new assignment, she will oversee the Foreign Exchange Department...
Willie Walsh Assumes Charge as IndiGo CEO
Willie Walsh assumed charge as the Chief Executive Officer of IndiGo on 3 August 2026. IndiGo had announced his appointment in March 2026, and he succeeded Pieter Elbers,...
