Found 12 Articles for Awards & Achievements

I don't think there will be any time of your life when you feel that you have achieved all of your life's goals and there is nothing more to accomplish. When one goal is met, the confidence and satisfaction of achievement give birth to another higher goal. It is Human Nature. The increased self-esteem due to the achievement encourages a person to aspire higher.Human wants are like tides. Sometimes, these wants may be subdued for the time being due to circumstances and external situations, but there is never a moment in your life when you don't need anything. If you ... Read More

Being a champion is always great. But why not everyone is being one? Well, to be a champion, you need to have a target and work hard on it.Let’s go down to simple thing about “working on it”. We always have someone in our friends or family who is so passionate about losing weight and getting in perfect shape in less time. How far did they succeed? Why do the strong initial enthusiasm and interest they have, get down so easily? Of course, it’s because they have been inconsistent. They give up at their initial hurdles only. How can a ... Read More

The Academy Awards or the Oscars, as they say, we're celebrating the 90th Academy awards ceremony this March 2018 for honoring the films of 2017, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS).During this ceremony, the Indian filmy icons Sashi Kapoor and Sridevi were remembered and paid tribute. The Bollywood Charming hero and the Padma Bhushan title winner Sashi Kapoor who passed away in December 2017 and the first female superstar of India, and Padma Shri title winner Sridevi who left the world on 24th February 2018 were offered musical tribute during “In Memoriam” montage, at the ... Read More

Nobel Prize is the award given to men and women to honor their work in physiology, physics, chemistry, medicine, literature or for work in peace. It started in 1901 by Alfred Nobel. Between the years 1901 and 2016, the Nobel Prizes were awarded 579 times to 910 people or organizations. Few organizations or people were awarded the Nobel Prize more than once, thus making the count to a total of 23 organizations, and 881 individuals.The Nobel Prize is regarded as the most esteemed award given to a person in all the available fields like literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace. The ... Read More

Virat Kohli is a fighter, a go-getter in every format of the game. He has time and again proved it as a player and as a captain. Virat leads from the front, setting a benchmark for himself and his team to follow. If you go by figures, Virat Kohli has recently broken the record held by MS Dhoni of 7 consecutive wins when India defeated Bangladesh at Hyderabad.This was Virat's eighth successive victory. India has won 16 matches out of 27 games while losing only 3 under his leadership till earlier this year. He has proved that he is not ... Read More

The Nobel prize was established in the year 1895. The first Nobel prizes were given out in 1901, for chemistry, peace, literature, physics, and medicine. Achievements made before 1980 were made to be struck in 23-carat gold and plated with 24-carat gold coating.The Nobel prize was established and named after by a Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in a family of engineers. He was an engineer, chemist, and an inventor. Alfred Nobel earned a fortune during his lifetime, mostly from his inventions which were almost around 355, dynamite being the most famous invention.The Nobel ... Read More

The question may have been asked casually but it's a valid question which merits a serious answer. The Nobel Prize is awarded every year for six subject areas - Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Economics, Literature, and Peace. There's a nomination process whereby eminent personalities mainly from academics, who choose nominees for the prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Economics, and Literature while the Peace prize nominations are also chosen by politicians. The nominees are generally high caliber individuals, who have dedicated their lives to their mission and that's why you see their names on that list of the ... Read More

This weekend’s Academy Awards celebrated on 4th March 2018, have experienced something amazing which was only possible for NASA. Yes, you read it right. The Oscar trophies which are handed to the best in their field people (the Movie Industry) are coated in Gold which is used in telescopes that can get you a glimpse of far-away galaxies.Gold is a good reflector of Infrared wavelengths of light, with the help of which, celestial objects from far away can be detected. The best part about gold coating is that it won’t oxidize (tarnish), Goddard space flight centre physicist Jim Tuttle said. ... Read More

Winter Olympics as the name suggests is the global sporting event where all the listed sports disciplines are played on snow and ice, unlike the summer Olympic Games which takes place in pleasant weather. The first ever Winter Olympics took place in 1924 in Chamonix, a small resort town in the Alpine region of south-eastern France.The games were held regularly with the Summer Olympics except for the brief interruption from 1940 to 1944 caused by the World War II. Thereafter, it continued to be held in the same four yearly sequences as the Summer Olympics till 1992 after which it ... Read More

The most prestigious awards for movies all over the world, the Academy Awards, fondly known as the Oscars will be conducted every year. This year the 90th Academy awards are conducted in Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on 4th March.The film “The Shape of Water” by the much applauded Director Guillermo del Toro has won the most prestigious awards for Best Picture and Best Director. Sally Hawkins the lead actress is nominated for Best actress.“The Shape of Water” co-written by Del Toro along with Vanessa Taylor has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was nominated in ... Read More