{"id":29130,"date":"2017-07-25T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=29130"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:28:56","slug":"great-immigrants-annual-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/great-immigrants-annual-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Immigrants\u2019 annual award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: On US Independence Day on July 4, 38 immigrants were honored for their role in helping advance the country&#8217;s society, culture and economy. How many Indian Americans were conferred the award this year?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 1<br \/>\n(b) 2<br \/>\n(c) 3<br \/>\n(d) 4<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On US\u2019s Independence Day on July 4, 2017, two Indians Americans were honoured with 36other immigrants.<\/li>\n<li>Shantanu Narayen and Vivek Murthy are the two Indian Americans\u00a0 honoured with the prestigious \u2018Great Immigrants\u2019 annual award.<\/li>\n<li>Shantanu Narayen is the Adobe chiefand is a board member of Pfizer and US-India Business Council (USIBC)and Vivek Murthy is former US Surgeon General.<\/li>\n<li>Other honorees include Canadian-origin social entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, who has been awarded the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, PayPal cofounder of Ukrainian origin Max Levchin, Iranian-origin philanthropist and entrepreneur Hushang Ansary.<\/li>\n<li>The award were given by the New York based Carnegie Corporation, established in 1911 by Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/2-indian-americans-to-be-honoured-with-great-immigrants-award\/1\/991734.html\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/2-indian-americans-to-be-honoured-with-great-immigrants-award\/1\/991734.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/indians-abroad\/four-indian-americans-honoured-with-great-immigrants-award\/\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/indians-abroad\/four-indian-americans-honoured-with-great-immigrants-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On US Independence Day on July 4, 38 immigrants were honored for their role in helping advance the country&#8217;s society, culture and economy. How many Indian Americans were conferred the award this year? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 Answer- (b) Related facts: On US\u2019s Independence Day on July 4, 2017, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-29130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}