The Statesman Awards: 5 journalists honoured for covering rural, environmental issues

Smita Nair of The Indian Express won the Cushrow Irani Prize for Environmental Reporting 2018, while Karthikeyan Hemalatha of the Firstpost, freelance writer Ankita Anand, Lucknow-based journalist Puja Awasthi and Radheshyam Jadhav of The Times of India were conferred The Statesman Rural Reporting awards