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[Virtual Presenter] Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs under the age 35: Rank Name Age Company Name Industry Media & 1 Ankush Sachdeva 31 ShareChat Entertainment (M&E) 2 Neethish Sarda 31 Smart works Real Estate 3 Akshit Jain 31 Goldmedal Electricals Consumer Goods 4 Chaitanya Rathi 31 Bijnis E-Commerce BG Shirke 5 Jay Vijay Shirke 31 Real Estate Construction Technology Key Highlights: i.Other noted names on the list are: Aakash Ambani (32nd ), Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (R-J-I-L-); Alakh Pandey, the founder ed tech company Physics Wallah (23rd ); Roman Saini (38th ), founder of ed tech company Unacademy, Vidit Aatrey (78th ), C-E-O of e commerce company Meesho, among others. ii.Rahul Raj, Flobiz secured the 6th spot among the top 10 entrepreneurs in India under the age of 35, followed by Rajan Bajaj (7th ), Slice; Raghav Gupta (8th ), Jakson Infra; Rishi Raj Rathore (9th ), Arzooo; and Hemesh Singh (10th ), Unacademy. iii.According to the 2024 Hurun India under 35 seconds list, Financial Services sector topped with 21 companies featured on the list, followed by Software & Services (14), Education & Training and Media & Entertainment sector shared the 3rd place on the list, featuring 12 companies each. iv.Overall service providers companies dominated the list in terms of startups in India, accounting 59% while manufacturing companies comprise 41%. Women Entrepreneurs in India: i.There are 7 are young women entrepreneurs on the list, of which 4 are continuing their family business legacy such as Aneri Patel (33),Director of Ganesh Housing Corporation; Aneesha Tiwari (33), Director of U-S-V Private Limited and Anjali Merchant (34), Director, Encore Healthcare Private Limited. ii.According to the list, Parita Parekh (32 years old) and Isha Ambani (32 years old) are the youngest women entrepreneurs on the list. iii.Ghazal Alagh aged 35 was acknowledged for her successful leadership of Mamaearth that has become publicly listed. iv.While,Saloni Anand (34 years old) was also recognised for her innovative haircare solutions in India through her company, Traya Health Private Limited. About Hurun Report Inc. (Hurun Report): It is a leading research, luxury publishing and events group established in 1998 in London, the United Kingdom (U-K---). Hurun India was launched in 2012. Chief Executive Officer (C-E-O--) – Rupert Hoogewerf Managing Director (M-D---) and Chief Researcher (Hurun India) Anas Rahman Junaid Headquarters (Hurun India) Mumbai, Maharashtra Report Errors in the P-D-F [email protected] Copyright 2014-2024 @ AffairsCloud.com 211.

[Audio] Legendary Actor Mithun Chakraborty to be Honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke Award Veteran Indian Actor-turned-Politician and Padma Bhushan Awardee Mithun Chakraborty will be honoured with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifetime contribution to Indian cinema for the year 2022. He will be the 54th recipient of this award. It was announced by Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Information and Broadcasting(MoI&B). He will be presented with the Dada Saheb Phalke award at the 70th National Film Awards ceremony scheduled to be held on 8th October, 2024 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Delhi. Note: In 2023, veteran actress Waheeda Rehman honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2021. About Mithun Chakraborty: i.Mithun Chakraborty, also known as Mithun Da, was born on 16th June, 1950 in Kolkata, West Bengal (WB). During his long career in film industry, he has acted in more than 350 films including, Bengali, Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, among others. ii.He debuted in Hindi cinema with the film Mrigayaa directed by Mrinal Sen in 1976. iii.He holds a world record in the Limca Book of Records for releasing most films in a single year i.e. 19 films were released in 1989, a record which is still unbroken. iv.He started his political career by joining All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) and later, he was nominated for Rajya Sabha from West Bengal by AITMC in 2014. In 2016, he resigned as Member of Parliament (MP) from Rajya Sabha. Later, he joined Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in 2021. Awards: i.He won his 1st National Film Award for "Best Actor" in 1976 for his debut film Mrigyaa. Later, he won National Film Award for film Tahader Katha (1992) and Swami Vivekananda (1998). ii.In 2024, He was honoured with the Padma Bhushna, India's 3rd highest civilian award in the category of Arts, presented by President Droupadi Murmu during a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi, Delhi. About Dada Saheb Phalke Award: i.It was instituted in 1969 by the Government of India (GoI) to commemorate the contribution of Dhudiraj Govind Phalke(Dada Saheb Phalke) to Indian cinema. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, considered as the Father of Indian cinema, had directed India's 1st fulllength feature film named "Raja Harishchandra" in 1913. ii.The award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an individual to the growth and development of Indian cinema. iii.The award is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoI&B). iv.The recipient of the award receives a Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) medallion, a shawl, and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh. v.The 1st Dada Saheb Phalke Award was received by Devika Rani Roerich in 1969. Report Errors in.

[Audio] American biologists Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 Victor Ambros, an American developmental biologist, and Gary Bruce Ruvkun, an American molecular biologist, were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. They were honoured "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation". The award was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 7th October 2024. Note: Nobel Prizes will be annually presented to laureates at a ceremony held on 10th December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. Medal of Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine: i.The medal was designed by Swedish sculptor and engraver Erik Lindberg. ii.The medal depicts Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to quench a sick girl's thirst. iii.The inscription on the medal is "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes" which means "It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts." Winners of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024: Nobel Laureate Awarded for Victor Ambros for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation Gary Bruce Ruvkun About Victor Ambros: Victor Ambros is the Silverman Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of the Program in Molecular Medicine at Silverman Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, the United States of America (USA). About Gary Bruce Ruvkun: Gary Bruce Ruvkun is a Professor of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital. MicroRNAs: MicroRNAs, or miRNAs, are small, non-coding molecules of RNA. They are typically around 19-24 nucleotides long and play an vital role in determining how much messenger RNA (mRNA), which carries genetic information, eventually gets translated into protein. Scientific background: i.Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation. ii.MicroRNAs and their mode of gene regulation remained completely unknown until the discovery by Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun in 1993. iii.They investigated mutant C. elegans nematodes with developmental defects caused by alterations at the lin-4 and lin-14 genetic loci. iv.Their discovery in the small worm C. elegans revealed a completely new principle of gene regulation. Report Errors in the PDF - [email protected] Copyright 2014-2024 @ AffairsCloud.com 213.

[Audio] Facts on Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: i.115 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded to 229 individuals between 1901 and 2024. 40 Nobel Prizes in Medicine were presented to a single laureate while 36 were shared between 2 laureates and 39 were shared between 3 laureates. The 229 laureates include 13 women among which Barabara McClintock is the only one who has received an unshared Nobel Prize. ii.It was not awarded on 9 occasions – in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1940, 1941 and 1942. Points to note: i.Youngest Laureate – Frederick G. Banting, awarded at the age of 31, "for the discovery of Insulin". ii.Oldest Laureate – Peyton Rous, awarded at the age of 87, "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses" iii.First Woman – Gerty Theresa Cori was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She along with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori, received the award in 1947 "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen". iv.So far, no one has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine more than once. v.The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared between Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19" Laureate of Indian Origin: Har Gobind Khorana, the Indian-born American biochemist, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis". About the Nobel Prize: i.The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, that recognises discoveries and achievements that benefit humanity. ii.The award is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. iii.Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968. Prize Money: Winners of the Nobel Prize will receive a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award. The cash award of Nobel Prize 2024 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11 million per full Nobel Prize. Click here for Key facts about the Nobel Prize John J. Hopfield & Geoffrey E. Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 American physicist John J. Hopfield and British-Canadian Computer scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on 8th October 2024. They were awarded "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". Prize amount: 11 million Swedish kronor.

[Audio] ii.The medal depicts the Goddess of Nature, Isis, emerging from clouds and holding a cornucopia. The Genius of Science holds the veil that covers Isis's face. iii.The inscription on the medal is "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes", which means "It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts Winners of Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: Nobel Laureate Awarded for John J. Hopfield for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Geoffrey E. Hinton About John J. Hopfield: John J. Hopfield is a Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of neuroscience, physics, and molecular biology, emeritus, Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, the United States of America (USA). He was born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. About Geoffrey E. Hinton: Geoffrey E. Hinton is a Professor Emeritus, the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He was born in 1947 in London, the United Kingdom(UK). About the discovery: i.They used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of powerful machine learning. ii.John J. Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. The Hopfield network utilises physics that describes a material's characteristics due to its atomic spin – a property that makes each atom a tiny magnet. iii.Geoffrey E. Hinton invented a method that can independently discover properties in data which has become important for the large neural networks now in use. He used the Hopfield network as the foundation for a new network that uses a different method: the Boltzmann machine. Facts on Nobel Prize in Physics: i.A total of 118 Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded to 227 laureates between 1901 and 2024. ii.47 physics prizes were presented to a single laureate while 33 were shared by 2 laureates and 38 were shared between 3 laureates. iii.The 226 individual laureates include 5 women. iv.The Nobel Prize in Physics was not awarded on 6 occasions in 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, and 1942. Points to Note: i.Youngest Laureate– Lawrence Bragg, received the award in 1915 at the age of 25 "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". ii.Oldest Laureate– Arthur Ashkin received the award in 2018 at the age of 96 "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems". iii.First Woman– In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. She received the award along with her husband Pierre Curie in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. She was also the 1st woman to receive any Nobel Prize and the only woman to receive 2 Nobel prizes (1903 in Physics and.

[Audio] iv.Multiple Nobel Prize in Physics– John Bardeen is the only person who has received the Nobel Prize in Physics twice (1956 and 1972). Laureate from India: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman hailing from Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu) won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him(Raman Effect)" He was the 1st Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. About the Nobel Prize: i.The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, that recognises discoveries and achievements that benefit humanity. ii.The award is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. iii.Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968. Prize Money: Winners of the Nobel Prize will receive a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award. The cash award of Nobel Prize 2024 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11 million per full Nobel Prize. Click here for Key facts about the Nobel Prize David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper won Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 American biochemist David Baker, Demis Hassabis, the Chief Executive Office (CEO ) of DeepMind Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of Google, and American chemist John Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on 9th October 2024. The Nobel Prize is awarded to David Baker "for computational protein design" and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper "for protein structure prediction". Prize amount: 11 million Swedish kronor, with one half to David Baker and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. Medal of Nobel Prize in Chemistry: i.The medal was designed by Swedish sculptor and engraver Erik Lindberg. Each medal has a portrait of Alfred Nobel in left profile on the obverse. ii.The medal depicts the Goddess of Nature, Isis, emerging from clouds and holding a cornucopia. The Genius of Science holds the veil that covers Isis's face. iii.The inscription on the medal is "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes", which means "It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts. Winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: Nobel Laureate Awarded for David Baker for computational protein design Demis Hassabis for protein structure prediction Report Errors in the PDF - [email protected] Copyright 2014-2024 @ AffairsCloud.com 216.

[Audio] John Jumper About David Baker: David Baker is the Director of the Institute for Protein Design, Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, the United States of America (USA). He is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland, USA. He was born in 1962, in Seattle. About Demis Hassabis & John Jumper: i.Demis Hassabis is the CEO and Co-founder of DeepMind Technologies the British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory based in London, United Kingdom(UK). He was awarded a knighthood for "services to artificial intelligence." He was born on 27 July 1976 in London, UK. ii.Dr. John Jumper is a Director at Google DeepMind, London. He was born in 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. About the Discovery: i.David Bake achieved the feat of building entirely new proteins. ii.Demis Hassabis & John Jumper developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to solve a 50-year-old challenge: predicting the complex three-dimensional structures of proteins. Facts on Nobel Prize in Chemistry: i.A total of 116 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded to 197 laureates between 1901 and 2024. As Frederick Sanger and Barry Sharpless won twice, there are 195 individuals who have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 1901. ii.63 chemistry prizes were presented to a single laureate while 25 were shared by 2 laureates and 28 were shared between 3 laureates. iii.The 195 individual laureates include 8 women. 2 of these 8 women, Marie Curie and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, were awarded unshared chemistry prizes. iv.The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was not awarded on 6 occasions in 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, and 1942. Points to Note: i.Youngest Laureate– Frédéric Joliot received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 at the age of 35 "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements". He received the award along with his wife Irène Joliot-Curie. ii.Oldest Laureate– John B. Goodenough received the prize in 2019 at the age of 97 "for the development of lithium-ion batteries". He is also the oldest laureate to be awarded in all prize categories. iii.First Woman- Marie Skłodowska-Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, was the first woman to receive a Nobel prize in Chemistry. She received the prize in 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" iv.The Nobel Prize 2023 for Chemistry was jointly awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. Laureate of Indian origin: Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, an Indian-American biologist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". He is a Senior Scientist, Group Leader, and Joint Head of the Structural Studies Division of the.

[Audio] About the Nobel Prize: i.The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, that recognises discoveries and achievements that benefit humanity. ii.The award is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. iii.Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968. Prize Money: Winners of the Nobel Prize will receive a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award. The cash award of Nobel Prize 2024 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11 million per full Nobel Prize.Click here for Key facts about the Nobel Prize South Korean Novelist Han Kang won Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 South Korean writer & novelist Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." She became the first South Korean to win a Nobel prize in literature and the 2nd Nobel laureate from South Korea after Former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden announced the award on 10th October 2024. Prize amount: 11 million Swedish kronor. Medal of Nobel Prize in Literature : i.The medal was designed by Swedish sculptor and engraver Erik Lindberg. ii.The Medal of Literature Prize features an enchanted young man sitting under a laurel tree who listens to and writes down the song of the Muse. iii.The inscription on the medal is "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes", which means "It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts Winners of Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: Nobel Laureate Awarded for For her intense poetic prose that confronts Han Kang historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life About Han Kang: i.Han Kang was born on 27 November 1970 in Gwangju, a city in South Korea. ii.She made her literary debut as a poet by publishing five poems, including "Winter in Seoul", in Munhakgwa-sahoe (Literature and Society) in 1993. iii.She made her prose debut in 1995 with the short story collection "Love of Yeosu". iv.Most of Han Kang's works are primarily written in Korean and a number of her works were translated into English and other languages. Other awards: i.'The Vegetarian', her first novel to be translated into English, won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize (renamed as International Booker Prize in 2019). Report Errors in the PDF - [email protected] Copyright 2014-2024 @ AffairsCloud.com.

[Audio] ii.Her novel 'I Do Not Bid Farewell' (2023) won the Medicis prize in France and Émile Guimet prize in 2024. Noted Works: Her publications include a short story collection, Fruits of My Woman (2000), Fire Salamander (2012); novels such as Black Deer (1998), Your Cold Hands (2002), The Vegetarian (2007), Breath Fighting (2010), and Greek Lessons (2011), Human Acts (2014), The White Book (2016), and I Do Not Bid Farewell(2021); Facts on Nobel Prize in Literature : i.A total of 117 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded to 121 laureates between 1901 and 2024. This also includes 18 women. ii.The Nobel Prize in Literature has been shared between two laureates on four occasions only. No one has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature more than once. iii.Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded on 7 occasions: in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943. Points to Note: i.Youngest Laureate– Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 at the age of 41 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". ii.Oldest Laureate– Doris Lessing received the prize in 2007 at the age of 87 "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". iii.First Woman- Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf won the prize in 1909. She became the first woman and also the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. iv.2023 Laureate- The 2023 prize was awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." Indian Laureate: Rabindranath Tagore was the first person from India and also the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize. He received the prize for Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West". About the Nobel Prize: i.The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, recognising discoveries and achievements that benefit humanity. ii.The award is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. iii.Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968. Prize Money: Winners of the Nobel Prize will receive a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award. The cash award of Nobel Prize 2024 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11 million per full Nobel Prize. Nobel Medal: i.The front side of all medals features a portrait of Alfred Nobel in various versions and the reverse has some differences in.

[Audio] Pritpal Kaur selected as '2024 IACP 40 Under 40' for exemplifying leadership and law enforcement The United States of America(USA) based International Association of Chiefs of Police(IACP) selected an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Pritpal Kaur, Superintendent of Police (SP) of the Phek district(Nagaland) for '2024 IACP 40 Under 40' award. She is the only Indian selected for this year award. Pritpal Kaur is among 40 police officers selected from 6 countries around the world for the award. She has been invited to Boston, Massachusetts(the USA) to receive the '2024 IACP 40 Under 40' award on October 22, 2024. About IACP 40 Under 40 Award: i.The professionals chosen as the '40 Under 40' awardees represent the rising leaders of policing, regardless of rank or title, and have served their agencies, colleagues, and communities with excellence, whether they are professional staff, patrol officers, investigators, supervisors, or chiefs of police. ii.Each winner was chosen for demonstrating strong values, leadership capability, and commitment to the law enforcement field. About Pritpal Kaur: i.Pritpal Kaur is a 2016 batch IPS officer and a social contributor. She was a dentist and won the gold medal in dentistry. ii.Earlier, she had served as the police chief of the Noklak and Longeng districts in Nagaland. iii.She has been praised for empowering local communities through innovative projects like "fighting drugs with education and livelihood and not guns but machines". iv.Through these initiatives she taught people how to use their skills to make electric bicycles, dryers, and other low-cost farm and domestic machines. Awards: She has won several awards, including International Inspiration Women Award (2023), Skoch Gold Award (2023), Director General of Police(DGP) Disc Award, Women Power India Award (2023), and Global Women Leader Award (2024). Additional Info: She considers her tribal name 'Themshao Lam', given by the Khaimnuingan Naga community as one of her greatest honours. The Khiamnuingans primarily inhabit the Noklak district in Nagaland. About International Association of Chiefs of Police(IACP): President – John Letteney Headquarters – Virginia, the United States of America(USA) Founded – 1893 TN CM M.K. Stalin honoured with Asia HRD Lifetime Achievement award Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (MK Stalin), Chief Minister (CM) of Tamil Nadu (TN), was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award by the Asia Human Resource Development (Asia HRD) Academy in recognistion of his exceptional contributions to Human Resource (HR) management. The award was presented by Fahmi Jowder, Former Minister of Bahrain and Chairman of Asia HRD Award Committee and Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, Vice Chairman of Asia HRD Awards Committee, and former President of Maldives, at the Chief Secretariat in Chennai, TN. Report Errors in the PDF - [email protected] Copyright 2014-2024 @ AffairsCloud.com.

[Audio] About Asia HRD Awards: i.The Awards are presented in 5 categories – Lifetime Achievement, Contribution to Society, Contribution to Organisation, Contribution to HR Community, Movers and Shakers — of which, each has its own set of criteria. ii.The recipients of each category are decided based on the detailed biography, occupation and achievement record of the nominees. Note: Previous recipients include notable leaders such as Fidel V. Ramos (Philippines), Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud (Malaysia), and Haris Silajdzic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) , among others. SEEMS Award: Gujarat's SVPI Airport won Platinum Award for Energy Efficiency Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) Airport in Ahmedabad(Gujarat), managed by Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, has won the Platinum Award in the Airport Sector under Facility Category at the Society of Energy Engineers and Managers (SEEM) Awards held in New Delhi, Delhi. The award highlights the airport's dedication towards creating a greener and more sustainable airport facility. SVPI airport won the award for its sustainable and energy-efficient initiatives like installing an efficient centrifugal chiller, resulting in 30% energy saving. The airport replaced 8 Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles with Electric Vehicles (EVs), leading to annual diesel savings of approximately 5,000 litres. Japanese NGO Nihon Hidankyo Won the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 Japanese Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hibakusha- the atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway. The award recognised their efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. Prize Amount: 11 million Swedish Kronor. Note: The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on the day of Alfred Nobel's death, the 10th of December, a time-honoured tradition since 1901. Medal of Nobel Peace Prize: i.The medal was designed by Swedish Sculptor and engraver Erik Lindberg. ii.The front of the medal shows a portrait in relief of Alfred Nobel and the reverse shows 3 naked men embracing – a symbol of the international fraternization that Nobel wished to contribute to through the Peace Prize. iii.The Latin inscription on the medal "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium" means peace and fraternity among peoples. About Nihon Hidankyo: Tokyo, Japan-based Nihon Hidankyo was founded in 1956. The motto of the organisation is "No more Hibakusha". Report Errors in the PDF - [email protected] Copyright 2014-2024 @ AffairsCloud.com 221.

[Audio] Objective: To promote the social and economic rights of all Hibakusha, including those living outside Japan. To ensure that no one ever again is subjected to the catastrophe that befell the Hibakusha. Efforts: i.Nihon Hidankyo has provided thousands of witness accounts, issued resolutions and public appeals, and sent annual delegations to the United Nations and various peace conferences to remind the world of the pressing need for nuclear disarmament. ii.The organisation carried out extensive educational work on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. iii.The efforts of Nihon Hidankyo and other representatives of the Hibakusha contributed to the establishment of the nuclear taboo. Facts on Nobel Peace Prize: i.The 105 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded from 1901 to 2024. The award was not awarded on 19 occasions – 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972. ii.71 peace prizes have been given to one laureate only. 31 peace prizes were shared by 2 laureates and 3 prizes were shared between 3 laureates. iii.The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 142 laureates – 111 individuals and 31 organisations. Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) was awarded 3 times and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was awarded 2 times. Therefore there are 111 individuals and 28 organisations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. iv.Of the 111 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 19 are women. Points to note: i.Youngest Laureate– Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 at the age of 17 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". ii.Oldest Laureate– Joseph Rotblat received the prize in 1995 at the age of 87, for "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". iii.First Woman: Bertha von Suttner won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. iv.Most :Geneva(Switzerland) based the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has received the Nobel Peace Prize three times in 1917, 1944, and 1963. iv.2023 Laureates: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 was awarded to the imprisoned Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. Indian Laureates: i.Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity. She was a Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. She was born in 1910 in Uskup, Ottoman Empire(now Macedonia) and later became an Indian citizen in 1951. ii.Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 jointly with Malala Yousafzai for.

[Audio] About the Nobel Prize: i.The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, that recognises discoveries and achievements that benefit humanity. ii.The award is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. iii.Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968. Prize Money: Winners of the Nobel Prize will receive a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award. The cash award of Nobel Prize 2024 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11 million per full Nobel Prize. Click here for Key facts about the Nobel Prize Fortune Released the 2024 100 Most Powerful Women in Business ; Topped by Mary Barra On 2nd October 2024, Fortune, an American global business magazine, released the latest list of '2024 100 Most Powerful Women (MPW) in Business', which has featured 100 leading business women across various sectors of business such as: finance, technology, health care, telecommunication, retail, energy, and other industries. Mary Barra, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the United States of America (USA)-based General Motors (GM) has topped the 2024 MPW in Business list and has featured on the list for the 13th time. Among the 55 women currently leading Fortune 500 companies, Barra is one of only 9, leading the automaking company GM for 10 years. As per the latest rankings, Karen S. Lynch, President and CEO of Customer Value Store (CVS) Health Corporation, a leading health solution company in the USA, has been ranked at 2nd position globally, followed by Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup Inc., a multinational investment bank and financial services company based in the New York City, the USA, Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of Accenture Plc (the USA) ranked at 3rd and 4th position respectively. About 2024 MPW in Business: i.It is the 27th edition of the Fortune MPW in business, and has featured women from 6 continents, 19 countries and territories, and 14 different industries. ii.The list is compiled by the editors of Fortune based on factors like: size of the company and health, their career path, influence beyond their organisation, and how they wield power. iii.This latest edition of MPW in Business has featured 65 women CEOs, of which 15 CEOs have debuted in the rankings such as: Mitsuko Tottori, CEO of Japan Airlines and Bonnie Chan, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. iv.It has featured 12 women leaders in business from the East Asia region, followed by 8 each from France and the United Kingdom (UK), 3 each from Australia and Singapore, and two each from Spain, Brazil, and Germany. Report Errors in the PDF - [email protected].