Upinder Singh, PM Manmohan Singh’s Daughter Wins Infosys Prize
- Upinder Singh, PM Manmohan Singh’s Daughter Wins Infosys Prize
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s daughter Upinder Singh was one of the recipients of the inaugural of the Infosys Science Foundation conferred five leading scientists and scholars with achievement awards for their ground-breaking research, Infosys Prize who were felicitated at a function in New Delhi.
Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari was the chief guest of this function, the prime minister too attended the function.
The Infosys Prize include a special gold medallion, a illustration descriptive the laureate’s work and Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) as prize money.
The winners of the awards, which will become an annual feature, include
K. Vijay Raghavan, a neurobiologist and gene expert at the National Centre of Biological Science in Bangalore; mathematician Ashoke Sen; economist Abhijit Banerjee; scientist Thanu Padmanabhan and historian Upinder Singh – who is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s daughter.
The guests of honour at the star-studded ceremony at the Durbar Hall of the Taj Palace Hotel included the prime minister and his wife Gurcharan Kaur, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, president of the board of trustees of the Infosys Science Foundation N.R. Narayana Murthy, Unique ID card project chairman Nandan Nilekani, politician Arun Shourie, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, eminent professors, scholars and IT heavyweights from across the world.
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