EDII wins International Mercury Award 2016-17

The Ahmedabad-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), an acknowledged national resource institute for entrepreneurship education, research, training and institution-building, has received the prestigious International Mercury Awards (IMA) for the year 2016-17 for the best overall presentation of its 2015-2016 annual report.

Tata Steel's Katamati Mine wins Best Green Award

Tata Steel's Katamati iron mine has been honoured with the the Best Green Organisation of the Year Award at the Global Green Future Leadership Awards in recognition of its environmental protection measures.

 Newton wins Art Cinema honour at Berlinale

Raj Kummar Rao and Anjali Patil starrer political satire Newton, which had its world premiere at the 67th Berlin Film Festival , has won the International Federation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) award in its Forum segment.

Sakshi Malik, Sardar Singh, Babita Phogat get top Haryana sports award

The Haryana government on Sunday decorated 42 sports persons with top state sports honour. Those who got the prestigious Bhim award also include former Indian Hockey captain Sardar Singh and wrestler Babita Phogat.Those who won the Bhim awards for the year 2016-17 also include Ankur Mittal (Shooting) Sakshi Malik and Babita Phogat (Wrestling), Sandeep Kumar (Athletics), Saurav (Taekwondo), Pankaj (Cycling), Meena Kumari (Shooting), Ritu (Handball), Gauri Sheoran and Vishwajeet Singh (Shooting) Jaideep(Para athletics) and Ranveer Singh Saini (Golf /Special Olympics).