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Category : Awards Published on: October 17 2021

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  1. Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to 2 Journalists, Highlighting Fight for Press Freedom
  2. The prestigious Aryabhata Award was bestowed upon DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy.
  3. Nobel Prize 2021 in Economics awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
  4. B Gopal, a Telugu filmmaker, has been nominated for the Satyajit Ray Award.
  5. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has been awarded the CK Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership
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