B.P.S.C. CDPO (Pre) 2022
Which Indian journalist and media personality, a native of Bihar, has received the Magsaysay Award for the year 2019?
aDeepak Chaurasia
bRavish Kumar✓ Correct
cMeenakshi Joshi
dPankaj Bhargava
eNone of the above / More than one of the above
Explanation
In 2019, Ravish Kumar, then a television journalist at NDTV, was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year 2019. Through his well-known programme “Prime Time”, Ravish Kumar prominently raised social, economic and political issues of national and regional importance. Ravish Kumar is from East Champaran district of Bihar.
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