: Award News | Current Affairs

» N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of the Hindu newspaper, has received the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak National Journalist Award, 2010, which is conferred for excellence in journalism on a personality making important contribution to the field of journalism at national level. Vir Sanghvi of Hindustan Times was the recipient of the Tilak Award in 2009.

» Mridula Koshy's If It is Sweet, a collection of short stories, has bagged the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, 2009 award. The New Delhi-based author will get Rs 1 lakh and a citation.

In 2008, Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes had won the award.

The Shakti Bhatt Foundation is a non-profit trust set up by the late writer/editor's family to keep her memory alive.

» Ten young scientists have won this year's NASI Scopus Awards instituted by the National Academy of Sciences, India, and Elsevier, a leading research publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.

The winners include Kaviyarani R. Prasad, Siddhartha Gadgil and Vijay B. Shenoy of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science; Tanmay Basak of IIT-Madras, and Suresh Babu of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. The other winners are Vinay Nandicoori of the National Institute of Immunology, Ellora Sen of the National Brain Research Centre, Siddharth Pandey of IIT-Delhi, S.N.Tripathi of IIT-Kanpur, and Pratap Ray Chaudhuri of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

Science and Technology Minister Prithiviraj Chavan presented the awards here on Friday. Each award carries a plaque, a citation and Rs.50,000 in cash.

Kok Keng Lim, managing director, Elsevier (Science and Technology), Asia Pacific (Academic and Government), and A. Surolia, vice-president, NASI Council, appreciated the efforts of the award winners to take science to newer heights.

» Renowned Hindi poet Kailash Vajpeyi has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi award , 2009 for his work, Hawa mein hastakshar (Signature in the wind).

The other poets honoured with Sahitya Akademi award are: Praduman Singh Jindrahia (Dogri), Jess Fernandes (Konkani), Raghu Leishangthem (Manipuri), Vasant Abaji Dahake (Marathi), Phani Mohanty (Oriuya), Damayanti Beshra (Santhali) and Puviarasu (Tamil).

Those who won awards for collections of short stories include Vaidehi (Kannada), late Manmohan Jha (Maithili), Samiran Chhetri 'Priyadarshi' (Nepali), Major Ratan Jangid (Rajasthani), Prashasya Mitra Shastri (Sanskrit) and Anand Khemani (Sindhi).

Well-known novelists Dhrubajyoti Bora (Assamese), late Manoranjan Lahary (Bodo), U.A. Khadar (Malayalam) and Yarlagadda Laxmi Prasad (Telugu) were also honoured with the 2009 awards.

India's 56th National Film Awards 2010

• Best Actor Award went to: Upendra Limaye for his role in Jogva a Marathi film
• Best Actress Award was given: to Priyanka Chopra for Fashion.
• Best Supporting Actor was awarded to: Arjun Rampal for his role in 'Rock On'
• Best Supporting Actress was awarded to: Kangna Ranaut for Fashion
• Best Feature Film was awarded to: Antaheen (Bengali)
• Best Male Playback Singer went to: Hariharan for his song Jeev Dangla Gungla Rangla from the movie Jogva
• Best Female Playback Singer went to: Shreya Ghoshal for Phenrari Mon and Jeev DanglaGungla Rangla.
• Best Cinematography was awarded to: Avik Mukhopadhyay for his work in Antaheen.
• Best Screenplay was won by: Sachin Kundalkar for Ganha a Marathi film.
• Best Choreography went to: Chinni Prakash and Rekash for Jodha Akbar's song 'Azeem-o-Shaan Shahesha'

People Choice Awards 2010

Winner of Favorite Female Artist is: Taylor Swift. Taylor has been a favorite in awards in 2009 and it seems she is still on top in 2010.

Winner of Favorite Pop Artist is: Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga also won the Favorite Breakout Music Artist. Eminem/Keith Urban received the award for Favorite Male Artist. Favorite Rock Band was awarded to Paramore.

Carrie Underwood won the Favorite Country Artist award. For Favorite Music Collaboration was to awarded Run This Town.

Mariah Carey received the Favorite R&B Artist where she gave her memorable tipsy speech.

In the Movie section for the night Sandra Bullock received the Favorite Movie Actress and the The Proposal won the Favorite Comedy Movie, which Sandra played the lead.

Taylor Lautner won Favorite Breakout Movie Actor for his role in Twilight, The Twilight Saga, which also won the Favorite Movie award plus the Favorite Franchise award. The Twilight Saga also received the award for the Favorite On Screen Team making them the biggest winners of the night.

No Surprise in Favorite Movie Actor award goes to Johnny Depp with Hugh Jackman receiving the Favorite Action Star award.

Jim Carrey won the Favorite Comedic Star award.

Miley Cyrus received the award for Favorite Breakout Movie Actress.

The Favorite Family Movie award went to Pixars animated movie "UP". While Inglorious Basterds received the award for Favorite Independent Movie.

Ashton Kutcher had a whole section all to himself as the Favorite Web Celeb.

For the Small Screen there where plenty of awards and winners.

Favorite Talk Show was awarded to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The Big Bang Theory won the Favorite TV comedy award. American Idol was given the Favorite TV Competition show and True Blood won the Favorite TV Obsession. Favorite TV Drama winner was House and the Favorite Animal Show went to Dog Whisperer, Favorite Sci-Fi Fantasy Show went to Supernatural.

The two Newcomer Awards was The Vampire Diaries as Favorite New TV Drama and Favorite New TV Comedy was Glee.

TV actors deserve the same respect as movie stars seeing as they work continually. Here are the favorites on the small screen.

Katherine Heigl was awarded the Favorite TV Drama Actress Award and Hugh Laurie won the Favorite TV Drama Actor award.

Steve Carrell was chosen as the Favorite TV Comedy Actor and Alyson Hannigan is the Favorite TV Comedy Actress.