Gauri Lankesh was posthumously honoured with the annual Anna Politkovskaya Award. Here's all you need to know about the award and the gutsy journalist its named after.
The Padma awards are one of India’s highest civilian honours that are conferred in recognition of extraordinary achievements in varied fields where an element of public service is involved.
Considered to be the first woman engineer to hail from Karnataka, she was bestowed with the posthumous recognition by the ministry for her path-breaking contribution to the field of microwave and antennae engineering in India.
Vinaya Seshan, a Grade 10 student of Inventure Academy in Bengaluru, had competed with over 10,000 participants from 43 countries in finals of an event that one of most coveted all-genre dance competition for children and young adults in the world.