Eleven scientists to get Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award

October 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Spiritual leader and 'Art of Living' founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been conferred with the 'Culture in Balance' Award for 2009 by the World Culture Forum in Germany for promoting culture. "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was conferred with the award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to all facets of culture, and for his commitment to global cultural balance," according to a statement by the Art of Living foundation here Sunday.

October 10th, 2009 ALIGARH - Renowned scientists Obaid Siddiqi and Syed Zahoor Qasim will jointly receive the Sir Syed Ahmad Khan International Award, instituted by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), for 2009 in the field of life sciences, the university said Saturday. A seven-member jury comprising eminent scientists and academicians unanimously recommended the award be given to Siddiqi, who has carried out research in molecular biology, behaviour genetics and neurobiology, and Qasim, who led the first Indian expedition to Antarctica in 1981 and was instrumental in setting up the environment ministry, AMU Vice Chancellor P.K.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eleven scientists have been selected for this year's prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology research by the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The CSIR instituted the award in memory of the eminent Indian Scientist Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Union Government said on Saturday that it is committed to the global anti-doping laws and fully accepts the World Anti Doping Agency's (WADA) new code, including the contentious whereabouts clause. Director General of the National Anti Doping Authority (NADA) Rahul Bhatnagar said: "NADA has fully accepted WADA Code which has been approved by the Government of India.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Vikas Swarup, whose book was turned into the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire", will be India's consul general in Osaka, Japan. On his first visit to India after the Oscar glory, Swarup, the author of "Q&A" , is upbeat about his new avatar as the country's most famous diplomat whose book has put India "in the consciousness of the world" in a new way.

June 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Meira Kumar, the country's first woman and Dalit speaker, Saturday paid homage to national leaders including Mahatma Gandhi at their memorials here. She along with her family members visited all the 14 memorials of national leaders including Raj Ghat, Samata Sthal, Vijay Ghat, Shanti Van, Shakti Sthal, and Veer Bhumi, said Lok Sabha secretariat officials.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Global meltdown and falling demand have forced Arcelor-Mittal to delay by two years their proposed steel projects in Orissa and Jharkhand, estimated at $20-25 billion, its India head said here Wednesday. 'The top reason is economic downturn,' Vijay Bhatnagar, the chief of India operations, told reporters on the margins of a steel industry seminar organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ten Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) students Saturday received Honda Motor's Young Engineers and Scientists (YES) awards here for excellence in the field of science and technology. M.G.K. Menon, advisor with the Indian Space Research Organisation, presented the awards to the 10 students, selected from five IITs on the basis of their performances.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Alifiya Khan, 24, has won the third Anupama Jayaraman Memorial journalism award for exposing loopholes in the country's healthcare system with a series of investigative articles. The award consists of a citation and a cash award of Rs.15,000.

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Just when you thought Shah Rukh Khan's 'Om Shanti Om' was the last take on Bollywood's inside story, Zoya Akhtar makes her directorial debut this Friday with 'Luck By Chance', a serious dig at the industry. Already in the news for its brother-sister camaraderie, the film has been written and directed by Zoya and is the story of an aspiring actor who arrives in Mumbai to make it big in Bollywood.

January 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Her 2007 debut vehicle 'Saawariya' sank without a trace at the box office, but one-film old Sonam Kapoor is unperturbed and says she is no underdog. 'I did my first film with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and my second film 'Delhi-6' is with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Indian Police Services (IPS) officer R.K. Sharma, convicted in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, is facing the charge of forging medical documents for procuring bail.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Diplomat-author Vikas Swarup is more than a millionaire now. But all the global adulation and limelight that has stalked 'Slumdog Millionaire', the movie version of his acclaimed novel 'Q and A', hasn't touched him.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Diplomat-author Vikas Swarup is more than a millionaire now. But all the global adulation and limelight that has stalked 'Slumdog Millionaire', the movie version of his acclaimed novel 'Q and A', hasn't touched him.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Not many know that the story of 'Slumdog Millionaire', the movie about a Mumbai slum kid winning a million-dollar quiz show that has become a global rage, germinated in the north Indian town of Allahabad. For it was here that diplomat Vikas Swarup first conjured up the story that has now become part of the India success story.