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- Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, credited with bringing together the East and West in his innovative designs, has been awarded this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, known internationally as the highest honor in the field.
- The 2019 prize was announced 5th march by the jury of the Hyatt Foundation. Founded in 1979, the prize honors each year a living architect or architects whose work demonstrates talent and vision, as well as a contribution to humanity.
- Isozaki is the ninth Japanese to win the honor, including Kenzo Tange, under whose apprenticeship Isozaki began his career after graduating from the prestigious University of Tokyo. Tange won the prize in 1987.
- Isozaki, 87, was one of the first Japanese architects to build abroad, and has been praised over his five-decade career for making a statement that transcends national boundaries through his buildings that are simple in design, but also appear to redefine the feelings of space in people's surroundings.
- Tom Pritzker, chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, called Isozaki's architecture "truly international." "In a global world, architecture needs that communication," he said.
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- Distinguished scientist Ajit Kumar Mohanty was on Wednesday appointed Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the country's premier multi-disciplinary nuclear research facility, according to a Personnel Ministry order.
- Mohanty has been appointed Director, BARC for a period of three years, it said.
- He is at present Director, Physics Group in BARC and Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
- The BARC is India's premier nuclear research facility based in Mumbai.
- It is a multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering the entire spectrum of nuclear science, engineering and related areas.
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