President Murmu presents first-ever Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar

President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday conferred the first-ever Vigyan Ratna Puraskar India's top science award on noted biochemist and former director of Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Govindrajan Padmanabhan...

Annapurni Subramaniam, director of Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics; Anandharamakrishnan C, director of Thiruvananthapuram-based National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology; Avesh Kumar Tyagi, director of the chemistry group at the Bhabha Atomic Research Institute and Prof Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi of Lucknow-based CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute were among the 13 recipients of the Vigyan Shri awards...

Biologist Umesh Varshney from the Bangalore-based IISc; Prof Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar of the Pune-base Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (ISER); Prof Bhim Singh, Emeritus Professor of IIT-Delhi; Sanjay Behari, director of the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology; Prof Adimurthi Adi of IIT-Kanpur and Rahul Mukherjee of IIM-Kolkata also received the award..

The Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards were given to climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll of the Pune-base Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology; Prof Vivek Polshettiwar of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Prof Vishal Rai of IISER-Bhopal; Krishna Murthy S L of Indian Institute of Rice Research and Swarup Kumar Parida of National Institute of Plant Genome Research, were among the recipients...

Pragya Dhruv Yadav of the Pune-based ICMR-National Institute of Virology, who played a key role in the development and evaluation of Covid-19 vaccines; Prof Jitendra Kumar Sahu of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and Mahesh Ramesh Kakde of IISc, Bangalore were among the recipients of the yuva awards, too...

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