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2020

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How many Indian journalists have been honoured with the “Pulitzer Prize 2020”?
A
2
B
5
C
1
D
3
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Four Indian photographers from Reuters news agency, the late Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -The five Indian origin people who have won Pulitzer prize are Vijay Seshadri, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Geeta Anand, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gobin Behari Lal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times. For groundbreaking stories that exposed design flaws in the Boeing 737 MAX that led to two deadly crashes and revealed failures in government oversight.

Detailed explanation-4: -Biography. Adnan Abidi is an Indian Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist whose career started in 1997 as a darkroom assistant. Abidi worked at the Pan-Asia News Agency (PANA), Indo Photo News and Press Trust of India before starting with Reuters in 2005.

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