December 23, 2025 12:45 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Bangladesh on edge: Student leader shot as pre-poll violence deepens after Hadi killing | Historic deal sealed: India, New Zealand sign landmark Free Trade Agreement in record time | Supreme court snubs urgent plea to stop PMO’s chadar offering at Ajmer Sharif | Emergency landing drama: Air India flight heads back to Delhi after engine malfunction! | PM Modi slams ‘cut and commission’ TMC in virtual Taherpur address | US launches Operation Hawkeye Strike in Syria targeting ISIS after Americans killed | Horror on tracks: Rajdhani Express ploughs into elephant herd, eight killed in Assam | Horror in Bangladesh: Hindu man lynched and set on fire amid violent protests | Bangladesh in flames: Student leader Sharif Osman Hadi's death triggers massive protests, media offices torched | Chaos in Dhaka! Protesters assault New Age Editor, burn down newspaper offices amid deadly unrest

President of India to present National Geoscience Awards 2016 tomorrow

| | Apr 12, 2017, at 02:48 am
New Delhi, Apr 11 (IBNS): President Pranab Mukherjee will confer the National Geoscience Awards - 2016 on Wednesday at Rashtrapati Bhavan at 1300 hrs.

The National Geoscience Awards, previously known as the National Mineral Awards, was instituted by the Ministry of Mines in 1966, to honour individuals and teams of scientists for their extraordinary achievements and outstanding contributions in fundamental, applied geosciences, mining and allied fields, read an official statement.

The National Geoscience Awards includes one Award for Excellence, one Young Scientist Award and nineteen individual and/or team awards in 16 fields of geosciences.

This year, twenty seven geoscientists are receiving the National Geoscience Awards, as individuals or team, for meritorious contributions in eleven fields of geosciences.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.