On the National Technology Day, NDTV's Science Editor Pallava Bagla has been honored with a science popularisation award, bestowed on him by the Governor of Telangana, Shri Jishnu Dev Varma, at a function in Hyderabad at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. The award given by the Academy of Science, Technology and Communication, recognised his life time achievements. Pallava Bagla has been a science journalist for the last four decades and winner of many national and international awards.