Awards & Honours

Current Affairs for Week 36 of 2026

Ramon Magsaysay Awards 2026 announced
Three winners were named on 31 August: Singaporean lawyer and diplomat Tommy Koh, 88, who presided over the conference that adopted the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982; Myanmar democracy activist Bo Kyi, 61, who co-founded the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners; and Runa Khan, 67, founder of Friendship Bangladesh.
Source: The Hindu
President confers National Teachers' Awards on 82 educators
President Droupadi Murmu presented the awards in New Delhi on Teachers’ Day, 5 September. The 82 awardees comprise 48 school teachers, 21 faculty members in higher education and 13 trainers from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. The President called education the most effective means of realising equality of opportunity.
Source: The Hindu