1) Miranda Lambert wins big at 2015 ACM awards
- Lee Brice grabbed the award Single of the Year at 2015 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards and Jason Aldean took home the award of Male Vocalist of the Year. Miranda Lambert was named as Female Vocalist of the Year at 2015 ACM, and she also managed to grab Album of the Year award for her album ‘Platinum.
2) Xi Jinping:
- Pakistan conferred its top civilian award `Nishan-e-Pakistan` on Chinese President Xi Jinping for his outstanding contribution in promotion of relationship of China`s relationship with Pakistan. The award-giving ceremony was organized at the President House where president Mamnoon Hussain conferred the award on 61-year-old Xi.
3) Yale World Fellows in US:
- Two Indians are among 16 scholars selected for the 2015 Yale World Fellows in the US for their exemplary mid-career work. An Indian conflict reporter, Rahul Pandita and a health care founder, Zeena Johar has been selected by the prestigious Ivy League university. They were chosen from a pool of about 4,000 applicants for the New Haven, Connecticut-based university`s signature global leadership development initiative.
- With the addition of Pandita and Johar, the global Yale World Fellows network now includes 17 Indian Fellows, more than any other country since the programme was established in 2002. Pandita is mostly known for his reportage on Maoist insurgency in central and eastern India, and on the turmoil in Kashmir. Johar`s SughaVazhvu health care center is working to create a primary-care delivery network through rural clinics. Every year, the University invites a group of exemplary mid-career professionals from a wide range of fields and countries for an intensive four-month period of academic enrichment and leadership training.