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Kelekar presented 42nd Jnanpith Award
Aug 4th
by LI Desk Famous Konkani writer Ravindra Kelekar was presented Jnanpith Award by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. Kelkar is 85 years old and wrote around 32 books so far. He was given Rs 7 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Goddess Saraswati. He was awarded in a function held in Punji.
Revival of Triveni Sangh
May 22nd
The Triveni Sangh, Bihar, Patna is going to celebrate its 77th establishment day ceremony on 30th May, 2010. The venue will be in the meeting hall of Patel Seva Sangh on the Daroga Prasad Roy Road in Patna. The establishment day celebration will be covered into two sessions. The inaugural session will start at 11
Lionbridge and IBM to Accelerate Real Time Translation Service
Apr 29th
Lionbridge and IBM announced a partnership agreement to accelerate development and commercialization of automated translation technology by leveraging innovative statistical algorithms that instantly translate content and communications such as Web pages, documents, customer support, user generated content, instant messages, blogs and e-mail, so people can communicate in their native languages. The strategic agreement is expected
A great show of Indic desktop based on free software
Mar 24th
A voluntary, free of cost training camp of software professionals, students and faculty was conducted on March 20th and 21st 2010 to promote use and development of Уfree softwareФ in local languages like Marathi, Hindi, etc. The Уlocalization campФ was organized by Swathanthra Malayalam Computingа (SMC), Uncode (Lokayat’s Free software Initiative) and CoFSUG (CoEP’s free
Localization Camp for promoting software in Indian Languages on GNU/Linux
Mar 19th
To promote the use of localized software and to promote development of software in local languages, an event named Localization Camp are being organized that aims at introducing to software developers the state of the art and unresolved issues in this field. This camp is being organized by УSwathanthra Malayalam ComputingФ, a group of developers
56th National Film Awards function on 19th March
Mar 16th
For year 2008, the 56th National Film Awards will be presented by the President Pratibha Patil on March 19, in New Delhi. The cinematographerа V K Murthy will also receive the Dada Saheb Phalke Award,а the year 2008 in the ceremony. This is scheduled to be held at Vigyan Bhawan on Friday the 19th March
August 17 wins the Golden Conch
Feb 9th
СAugust 17Т won the Golden Conch for the Best Documentary. This film is directed by Russian director Alexander Gutman.а СThe SpellТ of Umesh Kulkarni won the best fiction film at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival of Documentary, Animation and Short Films.а The festival is concluded at NCPA in Mumbai today. С17 AugustТ is GutmanТs
Establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) in principle approved
Jan 21st
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has accorded in principle approval for the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) to be implemented by the NIC. BACKGROUND: One of the important recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions trough high speed data communication network. This would encourage sharing of knowledge,
Number of JRF to be increased
Jan 21st
The Cabinet today approved the implementation of the proposal for increase in the number of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) through CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in the country. The main objective of the JRF-NET is to identify, through this national competitive examination, those talented students who could be enrolled for Ph.D. programmes in specific science
Ministry to strengthen National Schools of Drama
Jan 15th
The Union Culture Ministry is taking steps to strengthen National School of Drama (NSD). It include redevelopment of NSD Campus at Bahawalpur House, New Delhi and setting up of five Regional Centres of NSD – at Bengaluru, Kolkata, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra/Goa and in the North East. The Bengaluru Centre of NSD has already started
