Question: Danish Siddiqui Posthumously Gets Mumbai Press Club’s RedInk Award Instituted in which years ?
a) 2010
b) 2011
c) 2015
d) 2018
Ans: a
Related Facts :
- Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Wednesday(December30,2021) presented the annual ‘RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’, instituted by the Mumbai Press Club, in a virtual event.
- He presented the prestigious award to Siddiqui “for his spectrum of investigative and impactful news photography”.
- Danish Siddiqui’s wife Frederike Siddiqui received the award.
- Apart from Siddiqui and Jha, variour other journalists were awarded in 12 categories as part of the 10th edition of the award event.
- Senior journalist Prem Shankar Jha, 83, was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award “for his long and distinguished career of incisive and analytical writing”.
- Highlight points:
- The Red Ink Awards, also known as the Red Ink Awards for Excellence in Indian Journalism, are a set of annual awards given by the Mumbai Press Club in India to recognize excellence in journalistic achievements as assessed by a special jury. Instituted in 2010.
- Media professionals have been awarded under 12 major categories at the annual RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism, held by the Mumbai Press Club
- Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan while he was reporting earlier this year, was posthumously honoured as the ‘journalist of the year’.