Awards and Honours

Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 1 min read

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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014

gktoday 10 years ago

A tale about a grieving widow returning to Entebbe airport with her husband’s coffin has earned Ugandan writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi the 2014 Commonwealth Short... Read More

Windham Campbell Literature prize 1 min read

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Windham Campbell Literature prize

gktoday 10 years ago

Pankaj Mishra: Award-winning Indian author, he is among eight writers from seven countries who have won a $1,50,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of... Read More

71st Golden Globe Awards 2014 winners 1 min read

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71st Golden Globe Awards 2014 winners

gktoday 10 years ago

71st Golden Globe Awards were announced at Los Angeles on 12 January 2014. The event was organized by Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It is one... Read More

The 97th annual Pulitzer Prizes and its details 2 min read

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The 97th annual Pulitzer Prizes and its details

gktoday 10 years ago

Pulitzer Prizes, 2013 For Public Service: The Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for its investigation of off-duty police officers who were endangering the lives... Read More

The Luminaries and the Man Booker prize 2013 1 min read

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The Luminaries and the Man Booker prize 2013

gktoday 10 years ago

The novel has won Eleanor Catton, the 28-year old author from New Zealand the Man Booker prize 2013. The novel has set a new record... Read More

The Luminaries and Man Booker prize 2013 1 min read

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The Luminaries and Man Booker prize 2013

gktoday 10 years ago

The novel has won Eleanor Catton, the 28-year old author from New Zealand the Man Booker prize 2013. The novel has set a new record... Read More

Generalknowledge at a glance. Nobel Prize Winners 2013 2 min read

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Generalknowledge at a glance. Nobel Prize Winners 2013

gktoday 10 years ago

For Medicine: US duo James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born Thomas Suedhof, for their groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system.... Read More

2013 Nobel chemistry Prize Winners 1 min read

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2013 Nobel chemistry Prize Winners

gktoday 11 years ago

Karplus, Levitt, Warshel win 2013 Nobel chemistry prize STOCKHOLM: Chemical experiments ideally take place in labs. But the ability to carry them out in real... Read More

The Magsaysay Awards,Asia’s highest honour,2013 2 min read

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The Magsaysay Awards,Asia’s highest honour,2013

gktoday 11 years ago

Ernesto Domingo, from the Philippines, for “his exemplary embrace of the social mission of medical science and his profession, his steadfast leadership in pursuing ‘health... Read More

ToIFA-The times of india Film Awards 1 min read

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ToIFA-The times of india Film Awards

gktoday 11 years ago

The largest Indian media conglomerate, The Times of India group, has launched a new film award—the times of india Film Awards (ToIFA), a global annual... Read More