{"id":36588,"date":"2017-12-15T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=36588"},"modified":"2017-12-15T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T12:45:58","slug":"power-one-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/power-one-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of One award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which Indian woman was recently awarded the &#8216;Pauer of One&#8217; award at the United Nations headquarters in New York?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Asha Khemka<br \/>\n(b) Sujata Kumari<br \/>\n(c) Lakshmi Puri<br \/>\n(d) Dr. Asha Khetrapal<br \/>\n<strong>Reply- (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On December 11, 2017, six top diplomats, including an Indian woman, were awarded first &#8216;Diwali-Power of One award\u2019 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.<\/li>\n<li>Those who received the award included United Nations Assistant General Secretary and Deputy Managing Director of UN Women, Lakshmi Puri of India, British Ambassador to the UN, Matthew Rycroft; Lebanese Ambassador to the UN, Nawaf Salam; former Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN, Maged Abdelaziz; former Permanent Representative of Moldova to the UN, Ion Botnaru; and former Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev.<\/li>\n<li>This award has been given to all of them in view of their contribution in making the world more ideal, peaceful and safe.<\/li>\n<li>This award is given by Diwali Foundation USA.<\/li>\n<li>The United Nations General Assembly recognized the significance of Diwali in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The US Postal Service had issued a ticket in the last year&#8217;s Diwali celebrations.<\/li>\n<li>These awards were given on the occasion of the first anniversary of this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2017\/12\/announcement-ded-puri-receives-power-of-one-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2017\/12\/announcement-ded-puri-receives-power-of-one-award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which Indian woman was recently awarded the &#8216;Pauer of One&#8217; award at the United Nations headquarters in New York? (a) Asha Khemka (b) Sujata Kumari (c) Lakshmi Puri (d) Dr. Asha Khetrapal Reply- (c)\u00a0 Related facts: On December 11, 2017, six top diplomats, including an Indian woman, were awarded first &#8216;Diwali-Power of One award\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-36588","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\/36588","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=36588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588\/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\/36542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36588"}],"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=36588"},{"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=36588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}