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Year |
Awardee |
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2017 |
Dr P Raghu Ram, president of Association of Breast Surgeons of India, has won the prestigious Dr B C Roy national award for 'outstanding service in the field of socio medical relief' for 2016 |
20-Jan-2017: Vladimir Putin to get first ever Hugo Chavez Award
Putin is the first recipient of the Hugo Chavez Prize for Peace and Sovereignty, named in honor of the late Venezuelan leader, by current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The inception of the award was announced by Maduro in October last year, on the same day that the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to the president of neighboring Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, for his role in a peace deal between the government at the FARC rebel group.
Under Chavez, Venezuela, like Russia, was consistently opposed to U.S. policies. Chavez accused the U.S. of backing a coup against him in 2002. Declassified documents later revealed that the CIA was aware of the coup attempt before it transpired.
Maduro took over from Chavez upon his death in 2013, but has faced consistent calls for a recall election over an economic crisis that has led to food shortages and rampant inflation.
26-Jan-2017: Yudh Seva Medals conferred on 14 Indian army personnel on the occasion of Republic Day 2017.