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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Nobel Prize Winners 2013


The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
François Englert and Peter W. Higgs
"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof
"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
Alice Munro
"master of the contemporary short story"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"

 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013
Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller 
"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Andhra Pradesh Budget 2013- 14

Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, the Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 18 March 2013 presented the budget for the year 2013-14 to the Andhra Pradesh legislative asembly.

Different new initiatives were launched by the Government in light of Infrastructure, Industry and Commerce. 
Find here the high points of the Initiatives in the Infrastructure, Industry and Commerce

• During 2013-14, the government will be investing 1738 crores Rupees by leveraging funds under National Rural Health Mission and 13th Finance Commission grants in addition to our own resources to strengthen the Health Service Delivery System.
• To improve access to engineering education, new constituent engineering colleges of JNTU have been sanctioned at Manthani (Karimnagar) with the help of Singareni Colleries, Singur (Medak) and Kalikiri (Chittoor). Five new polytechnics were opened this year at Chinamerengi (Vizianagaram) Narpala (Anantapur) Kosigi (Mahaboobnagar), Cheriyal (Warangal), and Chegunta (Medak). 
• The Mid Day Meals scheme is implemented upto Class-X benefitting 70.54 lakh children in 61415 Primary, 9216 Upper Primary and 10292 High Schools. It is also proposed to construct Kitchen sheds during the year 2013-14 across all schools.
• Under Rastriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan Scheme construction of 2143 School Buildings at a cost of 670.89 crores rupees has been approved by the central government.
• The Government has decided to formulate a Master Plan for Road connectivity in Scheduled Tribal Area / IAP area to take up road connectivity works in an integrated manner.
• Government of India has communicated in-principle approval for two National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) at Pileru in Chittoor district and another in Zaheerabad in Medak District.
• Mee Seva, an online web based citizen-centric service facility has been set up to provide access to the citizens for getting services from multiple Government offices.
• Responding to the current adverse seasonal conditions in the State, Government has sanctioned an amount of 332.35 crores Rupees and released 70 crores  Rupees to meet the immediate requirement for supply of water in rural and urban areas of the State.
• For districts affected with Left Wing Extremism, Government has accorded priority to construction and strengthening of fortified Police Stations
• Government is also continuing with its much acclaimed outreach programme, Revenue Sadassulu to resolve land disputes and other grievances of the people.
• Government has constituted Tenth Pay Revision Commission in March 2012.The Pay Revision Commissioner has also since assumed charge.
• The online system introduced to provide a tool to the Departments to manage distribution of LOC efficiently and Electronic payment of bills (RTGS and NEFT) directly into the accounts of the payees.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

PADMA AWARDS 2013


President has approved the conferment of  108 Padma Awards. These comprise 04 Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and   80 Padma Shri Awards. 24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons in the category of Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and  Posthumous awardees.
Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan sometime around March/ April.

                                                                  Padma Vibhushan

Sl No.
Name
Discipline
State/ Domicile
1.        
Shri Raghunath Mohapatra
Art
Orissa
2.        
Shri S. Haider Raza
Art
Delhi
3.        
Prof. Yash Pal
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
4.        
Prof. Roddam Narasimha
Science and Engineering
Karnataka

Padma Bhushan
Sl No.
Name
Discipline
State/ Domicile
  1.  
Dr. Ramanaidu Daggubati
Art
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki
Art
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Smt. Sharmila Tagore
Art
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Vaidyanathan
Art
Delhi
  1.  
Shri Abdul Rashid Khan
Art
West Bengal
  1.  
Late Rajesh Khanna
Art
Maharashtra #
  1.  
Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti
Art
Punjab #
  1.  
Shri Shivajirao Girdhar Patil
Public Affairs
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai
Science and Engineering
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat
Science and Engineering
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Ashoke Sen
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. B.N. Suresh
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
  1.  
Prof. Satya N. Atluri
Science and Engineering
USA *
  1.  
Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati
Science and Engineering
USA *
  1.  
Shri Ramamurthy Thyagarajan
Trade and Industry
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Shri Adi Burjor Godrej
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao Laud
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Mangesh Padgaonkar
Literature & Education
Maharashtra
  1.  
Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Literature & Education
USA*
  1.  
Shri Hemendra Singh Panwar
Civil Service
Madhya Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan
Civil Service
Delhi
  1.  
Shri Rahul Dravid
Sports
Karnataka
  1.  
Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom
Sports
Manipur

Padma Shri
Sl No.
Name
Discipline
State/ Domicile
  1.  
Shri Gajam Anjaiah
Art
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu
Art
Chhattisgarh
  1.  
Ms. B. Jayashree
Art
Karnataka
  1.  
Smt. Sridevi Kapoor
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Kailash Chandra Meher
Art
Orissa
  1.  
Shri Brahmdeo Ram Pandit
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji
Art
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Shri Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju
Art
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Smt. Jaymala Shiledar
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu
Art
Kerala
  1.  
Shri Apurba Kishore Bir
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan
Art
Assam
  1.  
Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha
Art
Sikkim
  1.  
Smt. Sudha Malhotra
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz
Art
Jammu and Kashmir
  1.  
Shri Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor
Art
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Balwant Thakur
Art
Jammu & Kashmir
  1.  
Shri Puran Das Baul
Art
West Bengal
  1.  
Shri Rajendra Tikku
Art
Jammu & Kashmir
  1.  
Shri Pablo Bartholomew
Art
Delhi
  1.  
Shri S. Shakir Ali
Art
Rajasthan
  1.  
Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan
Social Work
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Ms. Nileema Mishra
Social Work
Maharashtra
  1.  
Ms. Reema Nanavati
Social Work
Gujarat
  1.  
Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury
Social Work
Bangladesh *
  1.  
Late Dr. Ram Krishan
Social Work
Uttar Pradesh #
  1.  
Late Manju Bharat Ram
Social Work
Delhi #
  1.  
Prof. Mustansir Barma
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
  1.  
Shri Avinash Chander
Science and Engineering
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal
Science and Engineering
West Bengal
  1.  
Prof. Deepak B. Phatak
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju
Science and Engineering
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Prof. Ajay K. Sood
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
  1.  
Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan
Science and Engineering
Karnataka
  1.  
Dr. Manindra Agrawal
Science and Engineering
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar
Science and Engineering
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale
Science and Engineering
Maharashtra
  1.  
Smt. Vandana Luthra
Trade and Industry
Delhi
  1.  
Ms. Rajshree Pathy
Trade and Industry
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Shri Hemendra Prasad Barooah
Trade and Industry
Assam
  1.  
Shri Milind Kamble
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
  1.  
Ms. Kalpana Saroj
Trade and Industry
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram
Medicine
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Taraprasad Das
Medicine
Orissa
  1.  
Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan
Medicine
Tamil Nadu
  1.  
Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Dr. Sundaram Natarajan
Medicine
Maharashtra
  1.  
Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar
Medicine
Uttar Pradesh
  1.  
Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta
Medicine
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam
Literature & Education
Bihar
  1.  
Dr. Radhika Herzberger
Literature & Education
Andhra Pradesh
  1.  
Shri J. Malsawma
Literature & Education
Mizoram
  1.  
Shri Devendra Patel
Literature & Education
Gujarat
  1.  
Dr. Rama Kant Shukla
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. Akhtarul Wasey
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Prof. Anvita Abbi
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Shri Nida Fazli
Literature & Education
Madhya Pradesh
  1.  
Shri Surender Kumar Sharma
Literature & Education
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh
Literature & Education
Bihar
  1.  
Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi
Literature & Education
West Bengal #
  1.  
Prof. Noboru Karashima
Literature & Education
Japan *
  1.  
Shri Christopher Pinney
Literature & Education
UK *
  1.  
Smt. Premlata Agrawal
Sports
Jharkhand
  1.  
Shri Yogeshwar Dutt
Sports
Haryana
  1.  
Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha
Sports
Karnataka
  1.  
Subedar Major Vijay Kumar
Sports
Himachal Pradesh
  1.  
Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh
Sports
Maharashtra
  1.  
Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar
Sports
Rajasthan
  1.  
Ms. Ritu Kumar
Fashion Designing
Delhi
  1.  
Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht
Archaeology
Uttar Pradesh

Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs.
                # indicates awardees in the posthumous category.

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