Dr Satyanarayana (Faculty, Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science [DASDS], PSPH, Manipal) received the Prof Aleyamma George Best Paper Award for his research paper titled “Empirical Likelihood, Adjusted Empirical Likelihood, and Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Versions of the Modified Levene’s Test.” The award was conferred during the Inaugural Function of the Eleventh International Conference on “Statistics for the Twenty-First Century – 2025 (ICSTC-2025)”, held from December 16 to 19, 2025 organised by the International Statistical Fraternity (ISF) in association with the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Statistics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.