Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education. He has been awarded the prestigious award for “using the COVID-19 pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can”.
PM Modi is the second Indian Prime Minister to be honoured with the Ig Nobel Prize. Prior to this, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was awarded in 1998. He jointly won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan for aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.
PM Modi shares the award with Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan. Apart from this, the governments of India and Pakistan jointly won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door in Islamabad and New Delhi city respectively.
12th International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2026 set to host at the iconic Khajuraho temples…
Indian Army has launched the two advanced digital platforms called Kautilya and Q-FORCE to enhance…
To support the India's ambitious semiconductor ambition, India has launched the Investors Support Portal by…
A scientific breakthrough comes as Indian researchers have developed the advanced imaging platform which called…
The state of Kerala got the first private medical museum, which is established in Ulloor,…
Indian railways has launched the CHIRAG Centre in Hyderabad. It is a dedicated national hub…