18 January 2014 Current Affairs
Actor Mithun Chakraborty To Be Nominated To Rajya Sabha
Actor Mithun Chakraborty was nominated to the Rajya Sabha on a Trinamool Congress ticket on 18 January . Shri Chakraborty is a well-known film personality. Chakraborty won the National Film Award for best actor twice — in 1976 for Mrigaya and in 1996 for Tahader Katha. He also won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Swami Vivekananda.
Indian-American Won United States Great Teaching Award
India-born Meera Chandrasekhar, professor of physics and astronomy and Curator’s Teaching Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, has won Baylor University’s 2014 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. Chandrasekhar will receive the $250,000 award and an additional $25,000 for the physics department at the University of Missouri. Chandrasekhar’s teaching and research has been recognized with many honours, including the 2006 President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching from the University of Missouri. She was honoured in 2002 with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology. She received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1985 and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1992.