(General Awareness For Bank's Exams) Awards & prizes April - 2014

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April -2014

Awards and Prize

Pulitzer Prize

Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, already among the most popular and celebrated novels of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. One of the country’s top colonial historians, Alan Taylor, has won his second Pulitzer, for The Internal Enemy — Slavery and War In Virginia.
The Washington Post and the Guardian have won Pulitzer Prizes in public service for revealing the massive U.S. government surveillance effort.
The newspapers’ disclosures about the National Security Agency's spy programs show the U.S. government has collected information about millions of Americans' phone calls and emails based on its classified interpretations of laws passed after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Boston Globe has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize in breaking news, and The New York Times has won two Pulitzers in photography categories — Tyler Hicks was honoured in the breaking news category for documenting the Westgate mall terrorist attack in Kenya, and Josh Haner was cited for his essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost his legs.
The Center for Public Integrity won the award for investigative reporting for reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung disease.
The Pulitzer for explanatory reporting was given to The Washington Post for reporting on the prevalence of food stamps in America.
Annie Baker's The Flick won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, a play set in a movie theater that was called a "thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters" which created "lives rarely seen on the stage".
The award for general nonfiction went to Dan Fagin’s Toms River, an acclaimed chronicle of industrial destruction in small New Jersey community. Megan Marshall’s Margaret Fuller, about the 19th century transcendentalist, won for biography; and Vijay Seshadri’s witty and philosophical 3 Sections received the poetry prize.
Wisden's Cricketers of the Year
Indian batting star ShikharDhawan has earned top honours by being named in the prestigious Wisden's list of Five Cricketers of the Year, an honour dating back to 1889, for his 2013 performance.
The Five Cricketers of the Year are Dhawan, Australia players Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris, England batsman Joe Root and England women's captain Charlotte Edwards.
Dhawan was acknowledged for his role in India's victorious Champions Trophy campaign in England, in which he was the highest run-scorer, amassing 363 runs in five ODIs at an average of 90.75 and was awarded the Man of the Series for his performance that included centuries against South Africa and West Indies.
The Cricketer of the Year is chosen by the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based on their 'excellence in, or performance on, the previous English summer' and it can be won only once in a player's career.

Denial of Arjuna Award

The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on a petition challenging the withdrawal of the Arjuna Award from a triple jump athlete, RenjithMaheswary, hours before the presentation ceremony based on a news report that he failed a doping test in 2008.
A Bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justices RanjanGogoi and M.Y. Eqbal was acting on a writ petition filed by the NavalokamSamskarikaKendram, Kottayam.
The petitioner submitted that Mr. Maheswary’s name was on the award list released on August 14, 2013. On August 29, he came to Delhi from Chennai and stayed at Hotel Ashoka, along with other award winners. He was presented a cheque for Rs. 5 lakh towards the cash prize the next day and made to participate in a rehearsal at RashtrapatiBhavan for the function. The next morning, he was told to stay away from the ceremony as the award had been withdrawn.