Awards, Appointments & Persons – Current Affairs

Actor Nana Patekar dies at 75

Veteran Hindi and Marathi actor Nana Patekar (75) died of a severe cardiac arrest at his home in Goa on 8 Oct 2026. He won National Awards for 'Parinda', 'Krantiveer'…

8 October 2026

Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit named next Chief of the Air Staff

Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, now Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS), was appointed the 29th Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (7 Oct 2026). He takes over on…

7 October 2026

Mahesh Kakde wins the 2026 Ramanujan Prize

Prof. Mahesh Kakde of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has been named winner of the 2026 ICTP Ramanujan Prize for his work in algebraic number theory –…

7 October 2026

2026 Chemistry Nobel to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for 'mirror-image' molecules

On 7 Oct 2026 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan of France (95, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay) and Kenso…

7 October 2026

Physics Nobel 2026 for Belgian-born Francis Halzen

On 6 October 2026 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics solely to Belgian-born American physicist Francis Halzen (82) 'for…

6 October 2026

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 for optogenetics

On 5 October 2026 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter…

5 October 2026