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Nirmala Sitharaman hails anime director Miyazaki on winning Magsaysay Award

Film director and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki has been honoured with this year's prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Sitharaman highlighted two of his renowned films, ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ and 'Kiki's Delivery Service', calling them “masterpieces” that she could watch repeatedly.
Published on Sep 01, 2024 07:21 PM IST

HT This Day: August 1, 1992 -- Magsaysay award for Pandit Ravi Shankar

Born to a Bengali Brahmin family in 1920, Ravi Shankar went to Paris in the footsteps of his elder brother who formed Europe’s first Indian dance company

HT This Day: August 1, 1992 -- Magsaysay award for Ravi Shankar (HT)
Updated on Jul 31, 2024 04:13 PM IST
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MS Swaminathan, father of India’s ‘Green Revolution,’ passes away at 98

Swaminathan was instrumental in developing high-yielding varieties of paddy that helped ensure India’s low-income farmers produce more yield.

MS Swaminathan(File)
Updated on Sep 28, 2023 12:52 PM IST

Assam-based oncologist among winners of 2023 Ramon Magsaysay Award

Ravi Kannan moved to Assam’s Silchar with his wife, Seeta, from Chennai in 2007 to take charge of the Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

Oncologist Ravi Kannan. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Sep 01, 2023 01:48 AM IST
ByBiswa Kalyan Purkayastha

‘To her, patients always came first’: Cancer care pioneer dies at 93

V Shanta was on the WHO Advisory Committee on Cancer till March 2005. She was a recipient of several national and international awards including the Ramon Magsasay award for public service, Padma Shri (1986), Padma Bhushan (2006) and Padma Vibhushan (2016).

**EDS: FILE PHOTO** New Delhi: In this undated Aug. 31, 2005 file photo, renowned oncologist and chairperson of the Adyar Cancer Institute Dr V Shanta. Shanta passed away at the age of 93 on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (PTI Photo)(PTI01_19_2021_000038B)(PTI)
Published on Jan 20, 2021 12:02 AM IST
ByDivya Chandrababu, Chennai
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