Abel Prize 2013

Belgian Mathematician Pierre Deligne won the Abel prize 2013. The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters announced the award at the academy in Oslo on 20 March 2013.The prize will be given by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway at an award ceremony in Oslo on 21 May 2013. Deligne’s most famous contributions was his spectacular proof of the last and the deepest of the (André) Weil conjectures in 1973, for which he got the Fields Medal award in 1978. He also got the Crafoord Prize in 1988 jointly with Alexander Grothendieck. He also provided the solution of the Weil conjectures which made him famous in the world of mathematics at a very young age. The Abel Prize is considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize.It recognises contributions of extraordinary depth and influence in mathematical sciences. It carries a cash award of 6 million Norwegian krone (1 million US Dollars).The academy instituted this award in 2002. The Abel prize was given for the first time in 2003.

Excellence in Corporate Governance for 2012 Presented

The Chairman of the Awards Jury of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) along with former Chief Justice of India, Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah on 5 April 2013 presented the ICSI National Awards for Excellence in Corporate Governance -2012 to two Best Governed Companies. These two companies were Indian Oil Corporation Limited and HCL Technologies Limited.

These awards were presented during the ongoing 2nd CSIA International Corporate Governance Conference. The Company Secretaries of the awardee companies, Raju Ranganathan- the Company Secretary of Indian Oil Corporation Limited as well as Manish Anand- the Company Secretary of HCL Technologies Limited were honoured for the contribution in adhering to good corporate governance practices.

ICSI Life Time Achievement Award for the year 2012 was conferred upon Deepak S. Parekh, Chairman, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. He was given the award for translating excellence in Corporate Governance into reality.

Apart from this, the Certificates of Recognition were presented to the top five companies which were:

• CMC Limited

• Engineers India Limited

• ONGC Limited

• Persistent Systems Ltd.

• Powergrid Corporation of India Limited

FE India’s Best Bank Award 2012-13

J&K Bank on 26 March 2013 won the prestigious FE India’s Best Banks Award-2012-13 in recognition of its strong fundamentals and dynamic growth model.
Others accolades in its ranking

• The Bank has been ranked as No. 1 in Best Old Private Sector Bank category in the survey conducted across the banking industry.

• In terms of Profitability, the Bank stands 3rd in the overall banking industry while as 1ST in the category of Old private sector banks.

Jammu and Kashmir Bank is about to achieve a milestone business turnover in its platinum jubilee year. In line with the industry best practices of according high priority to risk applications the bank is hopeful of further strengthening their growth, increase efficiency in both short and long term. Remarkably, the survey differentiates between the various categories of banks - public sector, private sector: old and new and foreign banks - in recognition of their differing operating environments and awards those institutions that have maximized stakeholder value. The methodology adopted by the survey is rigorous and is based on extensive crunching of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data by the Express Group’s knowledge partner, Ernst & Young.
It is important here to note that the Bank has won the prestigious award in 2011 also.

News Television Awards 2013

Vineet Jain, the Managing Director of Times Group was conferred with the Contribution to News Television Award 2013 by the Indiantelevision.com at the Sixth News Television Awards on 25 March 2013 at Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi. He was awarded for his initiative to bring Times of India group in the television industry. It is worth noticing that the Times of India group made its presence in the television broadcasting with channels such as Zoom, ET and Times Now. Executive President of the Times Group, Rahul Kansal accepted this award on behalf of Vineet Jain.

Other awardees were as follows

• Best Business News Programme (English): We Mean Business (NDTV Profit)

• Best Business News Programme (Hindi): Auto Expo (Aaj Tak)

• Best Crime Show (Hindi): Vardaat - Mhujhe Bhulana Mat (Aaj Tak)

• Best Current Affairs Feature (English): Ground Zero Gujarat (CNN-IBN)

• Best Current Affairs Feature (Hindi): Ayodhya Ko Kuchh Kehna Hai (Aaj Tak)

• Best Sports News Show (Marathi): Khel Majha - Fight Back Yuvi (ABP Majha)

• Best Auto Show (Hindi): Top Drive (IBN7)

• Best Show on Social/Environment Awareness / Social Development Campaign (Telugu): Bathuku Bandi (Vanitha TV)

• Best News Documentary - Limited episodes (English): Ground Zero Gujarat (CNN-IBN)

• Best Entertainment Feature (Hindi): Jai Jawan (NDTV India)

• Best Public Debate Show (English): Question Time Didi (CNN-IBN)

• Best TV News Presenter: Rajdeep Sardesai (CNN-IBN)

• Best Young TV Journalist (Below 24 years of age): Sonal Mehrotra (NDTV 24x7)

• Special Award for News Cinematographer: Prakasam (CNN-IBN)

• Special Award for Contribution to News Television: Vineet Jain (Times Group)

• Best TV News Reporter (Marathi): Alka Dhupkar (IBN Lokmat)

• Best TV News Reporter (Telugu): Krishna Mohan (TV9)

• Best TV News Reporter (English): Anubha Bhonsle (CNN-IBN) and Barkha Dutt (NDTV 24x7)

• Best TV News Reporter (Hindi): Sharad Sharma (NDTV India)

• Special Awards for Innovation and Leadership in App Development: NDTV

• Special Awards for Most Extensive Social Media TV News Brand: NDTV

• Special Awards for Best News Channel Website: IBN Live

• Best News Talk Show (English): We the People (NDTV 24x7)

• Best News Talk Show (Hindi): Zindagi Live - Gujarat Riots (IBN7)

• Best TV News Anchor (Marathi): Dnyanada Arvind Chavan (ABP Majha)

• Best TV News Anchor (Telugu): Yashoda Mithra (V6 News)

• Best TV News Anchor (Hindi): Sweta Singh (Aaj Tak)

About the Sixth News Television Awards

• The News Television Awards are given away by the Indiantelevision.com.

• The awards are given to representatives of television news channels which report in English, Hindi, Marathi and Telugu.

• 116 awards were given away at the Sixth News Television Awards in different categories by the dignitaries in culture, society, sports and politics.

• The Information and Broadcasting Minister of State, Manish Tiwari was the Chief Guest for the Sixth News Television Awards.

• The awards were given away in different categories such as sports shows, crime shows, documentaries with limited episode, technology, investigative feature, entertainment news show, TV news anchor, TV news presenter and many more.

• Special awards were also given away in categories such as Most Extensive Social Media TV News Brand, News Cinematographer, Contribution to News Television, Best News Channel Website and Innovation and Leadership in App Development.