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National Tourism Awards 2008-09

The National Tourism Awards 2008-09 to honor the best performers in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry during the year 2008-2009 were presented at a glittering function in New Delhi on Wednesday. The National Tourism Awards were given away by the Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari. Also present during the function were [...]

BAFTA Awards 2010 Winners

The British Academy Film Awards or BAFTA Awards 2010 winners full list. Winners of the 2010 BAFTA Awards were announced in a ceremony held at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London on Sunday evening. The Hurt Locker wins six BAFTAs including Best Film. Avatar won the BAFTAs for Production Design and Special Visual [...]

Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships and Akademi Awards for 2009

The General Council of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi, India, at its meetings held on 29 January and 12 February 2010 elected 6 eminent personalities in the field of performing arts namely Lalgudi Jayaraman, Shreeram Lagoo, Yamini Krishnamurti, Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi, Pandit Jasraj and Kishori Amonkar as [...]

Nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards

Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and actress Anne Hathaway. James Cameron’s "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" led the list, with nine nominations each. The Oscar telecast will take place Sunday, March 7 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. [...]

Winners of this year’s Padma Awards

The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, announced 130 Padma awards on Monday. Padma Vibhushans, the country’s second highest civilian honour, went to Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, former RBI Governor Y. Venugopal Reddy, Apollo hospital chief Prathap Chandra Reddy, Zohra Segal, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman and Ebrahim Alkazi.
Padma Awards, the India’s highest civilian [...]

Sandra Bullock : Top Money-Making Star of 2009

Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2009 in Quigley Publishing Company’s 78th Annual Poll of Exhibitors and is the first female to win since Julia Roberts in 1999. Sandra Bullock is the eighth woman chosen No.1 in the Poll’s 78 year history. She appeared in three films in 2009, [...]

Pratibha Patil presents Nirmal Gram Puraskars

"Good Sanitation practices are the key to a healthy life style" and the Total Sanitation Campaign has generated a lot of enthusiasm among the rural people making it truely a people’s campaign. This was the message from Indian President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil while presenting the Nirmal Gram Puraskars for the year 2009 at a [...]

Nirmal Gram Puraskar 2009 for Panchayats

Districts and Block Panchayats from the Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Mahrashtra and West Bengal would be awarded Nirmal Gram Puraskar 2009 for achieving total sanitation in their respective areas. Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil will felicitate the awardees from these Panchayati Raj Institutions on Tuesday, the 17th November at a function in [...]

2010 Volkswagen GTI named Automobile of the Year

Volkswagen’s all-new sixth generation GTI has been named the 2010 AUTOMOBILE Magazine Automobile of the Year. In AUTOMOBILE Magazine’s twenty year history of awarding top cars of the world, the Volkswagen GTI is the only make and model to ever win the prestigious award twice.
"At a time when the world’s economy is in [...]

Award for ‘Best Civic Management of a Tourist Destination in India’

New Delhi, Nov 12 - This year, Ministry of Tourism, India, has instituted a new award for ‘Best Civic Management of a Tourist Destination in India’. The objective of this award is to proactively involve the municipal authorities and getting their commitment towards eco-friendly, sustainable, clean hygienic and attractive surroundings in our cities, towns and [...]

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