AWARDS

Question 1

Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, Founder and Chairman of the Serum Institute of India (SII), Pune selected for Lokmanya Tilak National Award, 2021

Answer 1

# SII is the World’s Largest Vaccine Manufacturer of Covishield vaccine
# It is awarded annually since 1983 by Lokmanya Tilak Trust (President – Deepak Tilak). The award is given on August 1st, the death anniversary of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
# Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2020 was awarded to Sonam Wangchuk, a renowned Education reformist
# cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh and a memento
# CEO of SII – Adar Poonawalla

Question 2

Shehroze Kashif, a 19-year old from Lahore, Pakistan became the Youngest person in the world to reach the summit of K2 (8,611 metres) in Karakoram range on the border of Pakistan and China

Answer 2

also became the Youngest Pakistani to scale Mount Everest (8,849 metres), the highest peak in the world

Question 3

The Banker, the Financial Times publication has honoured DBS Bank, a Singapore based financial service group, as the Global and Asia-Pacific winner for the Most Innovative in Digital Banking, at its Innovation in Digital Banking Awards 2021
# Innovations of DBS:
• DBS Digital Exchange, a blockchain-based ecosystem for fundraising through asset tokenization and secondary trading of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.
• NAV Planner, a feature-rich digital advisory solution powered by around 100 Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.
• Covid contact-tracing solution using machine learning

Answer 3

# announced by Joy Macknight, Editor of ‘The Banker’
# Regional Awards for Excellence 2021, Euromoney, a leading financial publication, has named DBS as Asia’s Best Bank and Asia’s Best Digital Bank for the 4th time
# Euromoney has also named DBS as the Best Bank and Best Investment Bank in Singapore
# Global Finance has honoured DBS as the “Safest Bank in Asia” for 12 consecutive years from 2009 to 2020
# About DBS Bank:
CEO– Piyush Gupta 
Headquarters– Singapore
# tops the Forbes list of 3rd edition of the World’s Best Banks 2021 in India. DBS ranked number 1 out of the 30 domestic and international banks in India for the 2nd consecutive year

Question 4

MukeshAmbani’s Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) slipped 59 places to rank 155th on the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list
# About RIL
CMD – Mukesh D. Ambani
Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra

Answer 4

1. Walmart
2. State Grid
3. Amazon
4. State Bank of India (SBI) (Improved by 16 places)
5. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)

Question 5

Mumbai based Indian Visual Artist & Illustrator Anand Radhakrishnan (Anand RK) has won the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art). He shared the award with UK based colourist John Pearson for “Blue in Green”, a graphic novel authored by Ram V

Answer 5

# 33rd Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, sponsored by comiXology
# Eisner Award, named after graphic novel legend Will Eisner is known as the “Oscar of the comic field”
# The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award was presented to Mike and Christine Mignola