The Prestigious G D Birla Award for Scientific Research of the year the current year has been given to Prof. Mahender Aggarwal of IIT Kanpur. A Shanti Swarup Bhatanagar Awardee, Prof. Aggarwal has been elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. A number of awards and hours are to the credit of the Awardee and his is considered as a pioneer in the research of computation with specialization in complexity theory and algorithmic number theory.<br/>