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17 stories for “Awards & Personalities” · May 2026
Clear filtersGroup Captain K.K. Venugopal has created history in 2026 by becoming the first Indian test pilot to be elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP). The SETP is an international professional body of...
Manindra Agrawal, Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), London.The Royal Society, founded in 1660 in the United Kingdom, is among the world's o...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been honoured with the Agricola Medal.The medal is the highest honour awarded by the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The FAO is the United Nations agency t...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received Sweden's Royal Order of the Polar Star, Degree Commander Grand Cross.Award: Royal Order of the Polar Star.Grade: Degree Commander Grand Cross.Conferred by: Sweden.Significance: i...
The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) honoured five States for outstanding DigiLocker integration during the National Consultative Workshop on Strengthening Cybersecurity Frameworks for State Data. The awardees were...
Indian scientist Kuljeet Kaur Marhas has been elected a Fellow of The Meteoritical Society for 2026, making her the first Indian woman to receive this honour. The fellowship recognises her contribution to meteoritics and...
Soma Mandal from India has been named the South Asia regional winner of the Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Awards 2026. The awards recognise teachers around the world for their commitment to students and their contribution...
Manivannan, a non-binary transgender person from Tamil Nadu, has been elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP). The Scottish Parliament is Scotland's devolved legislature and sits at Holyrood in Edinburgh; it...
Indian journalists R. K. Anand and Suparna Sharma have won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category, sharing it with Natalie Obiko Pearson for work published in Bloomberg. Their prize-...
UNESCO has conferred the 2026 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate. The prize recognises outstanding contributions to the defence and promotion of press freedom and is a f...
The Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2026 has been conferred on Raghav Das Gaiha for his contributions to development studies. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and a former Professor of Public Policy at...
Two Indian women conservationists have won the Whitley Awards 2026, popularly called the 'Green Oscars'. Parveen Shaikh was recognised for community-based efforts to protect the endangered Indian skimmer, a waterbird. Ba...
