Network18 felicitated the winners of ’CNN-News18 Indian of the Year’ 2015

New Delhi, June 09, 2016:  Celebrating the iconic Indian citizens who made a significant contribution to the society thereby inspiring the nation, Network18 felicitated the winners of ’CNN-News18 Indian of the Year’ 2015 today in New Delhi. The awards night witnessed the presence of the most prominent personalities from all walks of life. The line-up of eminent guests included Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Kiran Rijiju, Sheila Dixit, Balbir Singh Dosanjh, Sania Mirza, Kangana Ranaut, SS Rajamouli and Leander Paes to name a few.  The event which saw a grand turnout of dignitaries from all walks of life.

Speaking on the occasion, Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, Network18 said, “‘CNN-News18 Indian of the Year’ is our endeavor to laud the inspiring citizens of our country by honouring them with this prestigious title which has set exceptional standards during the last decade and is amongst the most coveted awards India has seen. "

Instituted in 2006, the CNN-News18 Indian of the Year has over the years achieved prestige and credibility unmatched by others in the media industry. The award distinguishes itself by celebrating not only exemplary individuals and their achievements but also the ideas that have inspired India and impacted lives of the citizens.  This year’s jury comprised eminent members like Soli Sorabjee, Harish Salve, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Deepak Parekh, Kiran Karnik, Leander Paes, Kunal Bahl and Mohanlal Nair.

Winners of CNN-News18 Indian of the Year:

Outstanding Achievement (SWACHH BHARAT)

Bindeshwar Pathak

 SPORTS

Sania Mirza

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Kanga​na Ranaut

Ranveer Singh

Kangana Ranaut

 PUBLIC SERVICE & CNN-News18 INDIAN OF THE YEAR 2015

The People of Chennai:  

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Balbir Singh Senior

BUSINESS

Bandhan Financial Services

ENTERTAINMENT

SS Rajamouli

Outstanding Achievement (MAKE IN INDIA)

United Technologies

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

Leander Paes

University of Wolverhampton on Indian Mission

Recently, British Council hosted an evening in honour of Lord Swraj Paul, Chancellor, University of Wolverhampton on his visit to India and the sub-continent.

The evening witnessed the formal announcement of scholarship made by The University of Wolverhampton  working through the charity ‘Child & Women Care Society’ the University announced to provide opportunities for twelve intakes of 5 children from disadvantaged backgrounds, many of which will be from some of the most deprived areas of the country. This would encourage children to attain their best and work hard to get this facility. This is indeed a very noble step towards upliftment of the deprived class.

 Charlie Walker,Director Programme,British Council,Jo Gittens-Director International-University of Wolverhampton,Prof.Geoff Layer-Vice Chancellor,Lord Paul with girl children holding the scholarship awarded to

A delegation from the University of Wolverhampton was in India to raise the profile of the University, city and Black Country region. The trip was led by the University’s Chancellor, the Rt Hon Lord Paul of Marylebone PC and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Geoff Layer.

It involved meeting with education providers, representatives of Government, business and investment bodies and Alumni of the University. In India the delegation visited Delhi, where the University’s South East Asia Regional Office is based.  The visit included a visit to a local school, meetings with UKTI (UK Trade and Investment) and an event hosted by the British Council in Delhi celebrating the links between Wolverhampton and India.

Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Geoff Layer said: “Just looking at our India connections we have more than 2,000 graduates from India alone and they add to the rich cultural mix and economy of our region when are with us.Some of our esteemed honorary graduates include the current president, the Honourable Shri Pranab Mukherjee." He further added,“Education can change and improve people’s lives and we think it is vital that we seek to work with partners around the world to share knowledge, best practice and build a culture of lifelong learning.”

Charlie Walker,Director Programme,British Council,Lord Paul,Prof.Geoff Layer-Vice Chancellor

While addressing the gathering,Lord Swraj Paul,Chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton said, "By 2020 India will have the largest working age population in the world, the kind of manpower that will help sustain economic growth for a generation.Education and skills training is needed for intensive manufacturing industries. The nation is looking to train 500 million people by 2020 to produce a competitive labour force."
He further added,"UK universities offer great education and access to world class research and I want to tell you that the UK and Wolverhampton welcomes international students- they are vital to our economy and rich cultural mix."

Zindagi Live Felicitates Woman with Extraordinary Courage:Ummul Khair

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he/she is willing to climb.
                                                                              Andrew Carnegie

 

I have met people who have nothing but complaints about life, about system, about surroundings, about what not. They are blessed people with both hands, both legs, a good pair of eyes,a presentable face; but still they do not know how to count their blessings. For people like them, one meeting with Ummul Khair can change their perspective towards life.

Ummaul Khair, a girl with Cerebral Palsy; an incurable disorder, is about to complete her Bachelor of Law from Chennai. Some people might say what a big deal; but the million dollar answer is that she is doing it with the help of an NGO, not parents. Unfortunately, she is not only has a physical disorder(in eyes of world,not for her), she has suffered because of poverty, deprivations like a general person. Not only this, she lost her father few years back which compelled her younger brother to leave studies, come forward and earn livelihood at a young age. Ummul regrets that because of her expensive medication and caring, her brother could not complete good education. Now in a world, where people think about themselves first, Ummul took the initiative and approached an NGO at Chennai named Vidya Sagar to help her to get education  and care when she was 20 years of age. Ummul,now 35, had not only relieved her family, she has persuaded her dream of becoming a lawyer someday. She dreams of fighting court trials someday and become a successful lawyer. After meeting Ummul my faith in 'power of mind' has strengthened many folds.

 

 

Ummul has received Zindagi Live award from CNN IBN for courage to face life & its difficulties. The prize comprised of a trophy and a cheque of 1 lakh Rupees. Ummul is very pleased by her achievements, specially by this award. Zindagi live has felicitated Ummul for her courage and intelligence. Among 8 winners, she was the only disabled winner a cerebral palsy disorder person who has to spend her life on a wheelchair. Ummul sincerely wants to call her differently abled,so are we. While talking to her I completely forgot that she is on a wheel chair. Her witty answers were making atmosphere so light, her "shero shayari" were so intellectual and full of courage, that you surrender to respect and nothing else.

 

Ummul shares that she is a romantic person. Instead of complaining she considers her disorder a blessing in disguise. She says that since she hails from a muslim falmily, and if she would have been normal she might have been married and have kids by now. The dream of being educated and having a career would have taken a backseat. But since she is differently abled, she got an opportunity to explore life and look beyond horizons.  A shy Ummul shares that its nothing like she doesn't want to get married; she wants to, she wants to have a life partner of her dreams, she is just waiting for the right person.

 Ummul is an example of tremendous energy and strength. We must learn the art of living from her.

Ummul doing Rappling at an event: Disability doesn't stop her from trying new things.

 

Indian of the Year Awards given by CNN IBN

CNN IBN recently conducted their yearly feat of choosing Indian of Year from different walks of life. Recognising the remarkable achievements and contributions of Indians who have tirelessly worked towards strengthening India’s foundation, this 7th edition of CNN IBN award felicitated achievers chosen by jury, which is a group of eminent peolple like former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, Ace Billiards player Geet Sethi, eminent Danseuse Sonal Mansingh, Mr.Raghav Behal to name a few.
INDIAN OF THE YEAR 2012 & SPORTS:
Viswanathan Anand is CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Award 2012 and in addition to this he also bagged the award in the Sports Category for being India’s most successful chess grandmaster who has been the undisputed World Champion since 2007. Mr.Anand's ever smiling humble face stole hearts of the audience.

POLITICS:
Manohar Parrikar: For being the architect of BJP’s win in Goa and for successfully selling the agenda of hope in a state, which was used to a despairingly low level of politics.

BUSINESS:
Dr. Yusuf Hamied: For running CIPLA, one of the most socially conscious pharmaceutical companies in the world, profitably. While receiving the award Dr.Hamied said that in 1939 Mahatma Gandhi visited his pharma plant and said "any medication is of no use, if it is not affordable to the poorest of the poor." Having following his words, Dr.Hamied's father Khwaja Abdul Hamied and now Dr.Hamied himself keeps working on R&D to make the medicine as much affordable as it could be. It has helped Cipla to make Cancer medicines and HIV AIDS medicines reach to needy people in true sense. 

ENTERTAINMENT:
Irrfan Khan: For an outstanding performance in ‘Paan Singh Tomar’, and for continuing to make a splash in international cinema with films like ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and ‘The Life of Pi’.






PUBLIC SERVICE:
Dr. Devi Shetty: For being a cardiac surgeon who leads and runs the world's largest and most economical heart care and health care institute, Narayana Hrudayalaya, which is run with the motive of giving quality health care services with dignity.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Aamir Khan & Team Satyamev Jayate: For using the medium of television and the talk-show format to shed light on burning social issues that affect India’s masses.

MC Mary Kom: For overcoming all obstacles to find a place on the Olympic podium. Her achievement brought joy to an entire region that had always been on the fringe of not just sports but Indian society at large. She is an inspiration and a hero.

Tessy Thomas & Team DRDO: For being an unlikely face in the world of defence research and for inspiring women to choose a career in science. Known as the Missile Woman and Agniputri, Tessy regards missiles as instruments of peace because of their deterrence value.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Heroes of Rezang La, 1962: For their heroic stand at Rezang La on November 18, 1962 to save a Ladakh village during the India-China war. The C Company of the 13th Battalion of the Kumaon Regiment, led by Late Maj. Shaitan Singh, fought to last man, last round, and wrote one of the most glorious chapters in the military history of the world.

 

BLK Super Speciality Hospital takes a Gigantic leap in curing cancer.

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."                   
                                                                                                                           Buddha

BLK Memorial Hospital strongly believes in creating patient centric, tertiary healthcare organisation focused on non-intrusive quality care utilizing leading edge technology with a human touch. Keeping in mind the same motto, BLK Super Speciality Hospital has achieved a new milestone by introducing Cyber Knife technology in India. As the name sounds, this technology works on radiation or in medical terminology, it performs Robotic Radiosurgery.

 Cyber Knife is a path-breaking  technology, already in use successfully across the world to treat cancer with greater confidence and better results.  Cyber Knife technology is used to cure all kinds of tumours, places which is reachable easily or unreachable thru operation. This technology is imported from USA under the guidance of Dr.Xiadong Wu and Dr.S.Hukku, Director Radiation Oncology.

Addressing the press conference Dr.Praneet Kumar, CEO, BLK Super Speciality Hospital raised concern over higher number of incidence of cancer patients in India. The number is increasing in recent years. Last year 5.56 lakh people died because of this fatal desease.  What is more alarming is out of them 71% were between 30-69 years age bracket which is the productive years of any person. It motivated BLK to address this situation and look for new technology to make the cure painfree, and which needs less time and less side effects as well. Cyber knife is certainly the technology for the same.

Dr.S.Hukku alongwith Dr.Praneet Kumar addressing the Press Conference.

About The CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery :

The CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System is a US-FDA and CE-marked universally recognized, non-invasive radiosurgery system for the treatment of both cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body, including the prostate, lungs, brain, spine, liver, pancreas and kidneys.

The CyberKnife® offers a more effective and painless treatment option while ensuring higher patient comfort. It does not require the use of anesthesia, can be undertaken on an outpatient basis with little or no recovery period and allows patients to almost immediately return to normal activities.

What makes the CyberKnife® Technology unique is its ability to deliver higher doses of radiation, with extreme accuracy, to the tumor. This minimizes and significantly reduces radiation exposure to healthy tissue and vital organs in proximity to the targeted tumor. This also ensures that there are no side effects or post-treatment complications.

Another very important benefit of the CyberKnife® Technology is that it offers a revolutionary therapy solution for patients who have inoperable or surgically complex tumors, or who are looking for a non-surgical alternative.

The CyberKnife®’s image-guided robotic technology continually tracks patient movement and confirms tumor location prior to beam delivery. This efficiently and effectively addresses the challenge of treating the most surgically complex tumors including those that move with respiration, such as tumors in the lungs and the pancreas. The CyberKnife® Technology has so far been used successfully to treat over 100,000 cancer patients worldwide.

According to Dr. Praneet Kumar, CEO, BLK Hospital, “B.L. Kapur Super Specialty Hospital’s Cancer Centre is one of the most modern and well- equipped cancer centers in Northern India. We are extremely pleased to bring the path-breaking and the most advanced CyberKnife® technology to India and to the first in Asia Pacific to introduce it. This technology is already in use successfully across the world to treat cancer with greater confidence and better outcomes.  In India, 400,000 people die every year from cancer making it the 3rd largest killer in the country. We are committed to keeping India ahead of the curve when it comes to new and more effective cancer treatment procedures.”

According to Dr. Shelly Hukku, President Association of Radiation Oncologists of India and Chairman, Roentgen BLK Radiation Oncology Centre BL Kapur Memorial Hospital, “The CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System is a revolutionary development in cancer treatment.  It allows far superior reach and maneuverability to previously inaccessible and inoperable lesions such as lesions involving the spine and pancreas. For those of us who have struggled to address these problems for so long, this comes as a significant development in cancer therapy.”

 

Each treatment session lasts between 30 and 90 minutes, depending on the type of tumor being treated. If treatment is being delivered in stages, patients are required to return for additional treatments over several days (typically no more than five), as determined by the doctors. The dose rate is high as compared to earlier treatments, the radiation used now is 800-1000 per sitting whereas the same was less than 600 earlier. Hence it  takes less time and hospitalisation cost is saved.

Moreover, BLK has ensured that the patient have a calm and soothing surroundings by giving the ceiling a natural cloud look and the wall has a big natural scenery.

Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), based in Sunnyvale, California, is the premier radiation oncology company that develops, manufactures and sells personalized innovative treatment solutions that set the standard of care, with the aim of helping patients live longer, better lives. The Company’s leading edge technologies – the CyberKnife and TomoTherapy Systems – are designed to deliver radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, image guided radiation therapy, and adaptive radiation therapy. To date, more than 350,000 patients worldwide have been treated using the Company's technologies and more than 635 systems have been installed in leading hospitals around the world.

Answering the question of how is it different from Gamma Knife, the much used technology in India for curing brain tumours etc.; Dr.Hukku said that in Gamma Knife treatments, the place where radiation has to be given was screwed with a bracket or frame so that the radiation point reaches with accuracy to the tumor. Those screwes used to make the patient bleed, leave hurt. If this process was repeated many times ( as generally it is), then the same point were hurt again and again, and it was very painful for the patient. In Cyber Knife technology, the Robotic machine itself is so apt in providing radiation to the affected area, that it does not need any frame.  In case of children too, who can be scared of the machine, can be given anaesthesia in order to reach exact position of the tumor, without hurting them.

Affordability for the common man:
 Dr.S.Hukku mentioned that while pricing this facility they have taken utmost care to adhere to BLK  motto of giving service to one and all. This treatment is available anywhere between 2 lakhs to 4.5 lakhs depending upon the position, size and condition of tumor. The earlier set notion that people had to sell all their property to cure cancer can be avoided, if the problem is diagnosed in the early stages.