1. Senior AIR broadcaster Ashutosh Jain passes away
• Senior Hindi News Reader of All India Radio, Ashutosh Jain passed away in New Delhi. He was 60.
• Ashutosh Jain, who joined the AIR in 1989 in Chandigarh retired from Delhi in April this year.
2. Wipro Chairman Azim Premji conferred with highest French Civilian Honour
• Chairman of IT major Wipro and philanthropist Azim Premji was bestowed with highest French civilian distinction Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour).
• He was awarded for his outstanding contribution to developing information technology industry in India, his economic outreach in France and his contribution to society as philanthropist through the Azim Premji Foundation and Azim Premji University.
• It is the highest civilian award given by the French government to person for his outstanding service to France,. It was instituted in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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