Media award for young woman journalist

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Wednesday announced the establishment of the Australia India Science and Technology Research Award. This new award recognises excellence in science and engineering and will be targeted at early career Australian and Indian researchers.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Charusita Chakravarti of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Santosh G. Honavar of L.V.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Social activist Deep Joshi, who was named for the coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work for the development of rural communities, has expressed his delight on winning the award. Joshi, who has management and engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was cited for decades of development work in rural India, and founding a non-profit organization, "Pradan" that recruits university graduates and grooms them to do grassroots projects in poor communities.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The marketing campaign for the Man Booker winning novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, has bagged the 'Excellence Award (best book)' of the Asian Multimedia Publishing Award 2009. The campaign was adjudged the best for using multimedia marketing by a publisher in the most effective way.

July 15th, 2009 Pioneering woman journalist Wilson diesROCKVILLE, Md. — Jean Sprain Wilson, a pioneering woman journalist whose interview subjects were as varied as Princess Grace Kelley and murderer Charles Manson, has died.

July 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The marketing campaign for promoting the Man Booker prize winning book by Arvind Adiga, The White Tiger, has been shortlisted for the Asian Multimedia Publishing Awards 2009. This is the first time the publishing industry has been acknowledged for its marketing efforts.

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati continues to shun the media as much as she avoids any direct contact with the public. A leading media baron-cum-celebrated journalist moved heaven and earth to get an appointment with Mayawati but to no avail.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actress Chitrangada Singh, who made her debut with the critically-acclaimed 'Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi' in 2005, was conferred the Young Women Achiever Award-2009 here Monday. 'There's nothing like combining our passion with the profession that we choose.

April 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The media was kept at bay when Home Minister P. Chidambaram visited here Wednesday, a day after a shoe lobbed by a journalist upset over the Congress' stance on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots narrowly missed him.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nirupama Subramanian, Islamabad correspondent of The Hindu and Vinita Deshmukh, editor of the Weekly Intelligent of Pune will share the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson for 2008-09, The Media Foundation announced Tuesday. The presentation will be made at the Indian International Centre here Friday.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nirupama Subramanian, Islamabad correspondent of The Hindu, and Vinita Deshmukh, editor of the Weekly Intelligent of Pune, will share the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson for 2008-09, The Media Foundation announced Tuesday. The awards will be presented at the Indian International Centre here Friday.

February 18th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A month after the brutal murder of a woman radio journalist in Nepal's violent Terai plains, another journalist has been attacked in the southern lowlands in broad daylight Thursday with the gunmen managing to escape. Gyanendra Raj Mishra, a radio journalist working for Garima FM, a private radio station in Birgunj town on the India-Nepal border, was shot Thursday afternoon near a crowded theatre.

January 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor will be honoured by the Rotary Club for being the youngest achiever of the film industry. She will be given the Vocational Excellence Award by Bansi Dhurandhar Feb 1 here at the Grand Hyatt, Santacruz.

December 27th, 2008 CHANDIGARH - Sixteen-year-old Priya Verma has won the Diana Award 2008 for her research-based project on increasing the groundwater level. She has become the first from outside Britain to win the award given by the Princess Diana Memorial Trust.

December 22nd, 2008 AGARTALA - Tripura information and cultural affairs minister Anil Sarkar Tuesday termed Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at US President George W. Bush, as the 'most courageous journalist' in the world.