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Sports Journalists Federation of India 2019 Awards
- SJFI Medal (Highest Honour): Prakash Padukone (Badminton)
- Sportsperson of the Year Award: Pankaj Advani (Billiards and Snooker) and Bajrang Punia (Wrestling).
- Emerging Talent of the Year Award: Saurabh Choudhary (Shooting).
- Team of the Year Award: Vidarbha Cricket Team
- The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) :
- Prestigious 2019 Global Excellence Awards : Mastercard CEO and President Ajay Banga and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji
- Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award at the 23rd Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in South Korea : Gully Boy
All India Football Federation’s AIFF Awards 2019
- Men’s footballer of the year : Sunil Chhetri
- Women footballer of the year : Ashalata Devi
Best Innovation Award’ in Indian Railways for the 2018-19
- Northeast Frontier Railways’ (NFR) Plan Bee
- Golden Bat award at ICC World Cup 2019 : Rohit Sharma
- Player of the Tournament: Kane Williamson
- Player of the Match: Ben Stokes
- 9th edition of the SAARC film festival 2019 : Nagarkirtan (Four awards)
- Arjuna Awards Rohan Bopanna and Smriti Mandhana
- Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award, 2019 : Tourism Ministry Campaign Find the Incredible You
- New Zealander of the Year award Ben Stokes
- Sangita Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy : S. Sowmya
- The House of Lords (United Kingdom Parliament, London) has awarded the ‘Indian Woman of Influence’ award : Priya Priyadarshini Jain
- People’s Choice Award at 2019 Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in U.S : Sudarsan Pattnaik
- Best managed tiger reserve award from the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change : Sathyamangalam tiger reserve
- Champions of Empathy Award : Doordarshan
- Bharat Gaurav Award by East Bengal club : Kapil Dev
- Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism : Ravish Kumar
- National order of Merit by the President of Guinea : Ram Nath Kovind
- First Class Order of Zayed II award by UAE : Indian Diplomat Navdeep Singh Suri ‘
- The Order of the Green Crescent’, the highest Civilian Honour of Comoros : Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu
- ‘Global Goalkeeper Award’ by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation : Narendra Modi
- Changemaker Award at the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards : Payal Jangid
- Karthik Bose Lifetime Achievement award of the Cricket Association of Bengal’s (CAB’s) : Arun Lal
- Best Hindi Film award at the 66th National Film awards : Andhadhun
- Most Film-Friendly State at 66th National Film Awards : Uttarakhand
List of winners of the 66th National Film awards
- Best Director: Uri : The Surgical Strike– Aditya Dhar
- Best Actor: Ayushmann Khuranna for Andhadhun and Vicky Kaushal for Uri : The Surgical Strike
- Best Actress: Keerthy Suresh for Mahanati
- MS Swaminathan award for Environment Protection : Kenneth M Quinn
- Vir Chakra : Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman
- FIFA Player of the Season award for 2018-19 6th Golden Boot award
- First Indian chef to be awarded the French honour (‘Ordre du Mérite Agricole’ (Order of Agricultural Merit)) : Priyam Chatterjee
- 2019 Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting : Rajdeep Sardesai
- Best Innovation And Initiative Leadership Award” in the World Education Summit-2019 : Rajasthan
- Lata Mangeshkar Award” for the year 2019-20 : Usha Khanna
National Sports Awards -2019 : List of All the winner
- RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD
- Bajrang Punia (Wresting)
- Ms. Deepa Malik (Para Athletics)
- Dhyan Chand Award:
- Manoj Kumar (wrestling)
- C Lalremsanga (archery)
- Arup Basak (table tennis)
- Nitten Kirrtane (tennis)
- Manuel Fredricks (hockey)
- Arjuna Award: Ravindra Jadeja (cricket), Mohammed Anas Yahiya (athletics), Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (football), Sonia Lather (boxing), Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (hockey), S Bhaskaran (bodybuilding), Ajay Thakur (kabaddi), Anjum Moudgil (shooting), Sai Praneeth (badminton).
- Tajinder Pal Singh Toor (athletics), Pramod Bhagat (para sports-badminton), Harmeet Rajul Desai (table tennis), Pooja Dhanda (wrestling), Fouaad Mirza (equestrian), Simran Singh Shergill (polo), Poonam Yadav (cricket), Swapna Burman (athletics), Sundar Singh Gurjar (para sports-athletics) and Gaurav Singh Gill (motorsports).
- Dr A P J Abdul Kalam award for the year 2019 by the Tamil Nadu government : K Sivan
President Awards Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019
- PALI: Anoma Shriram Sakhare
- PRAKRIT: Ashish Kumar Jain
- Guinness Award in the category of longest documentary : 100 Years of Chrysostum
- JC Bose Fellowship : K Thangaraj – scientist of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
- World’s Best Bank’ Award by Euromoney magazine : DBS Bank
- Clark R Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award for the year 2019 : Vivek Menon
- ‘Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2019’ by the Institution of Engineers (India) : Prabhakar Singh
- 2019 UEFA President’s Award : Eric Cantona
- 2019 UEFA Player of the Year : Virjil Van Dijk
- SKOCH Governance Gold Award : Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-NULM
- ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’ award by the Vatican Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh
- IT Excellence Award, 2019 for using information technology in the field of disaster management : Odisha
- Oscars of science was awarded to the team of Event Horizon Telescope
- Daughter Of The Nation’ title : Lata Mangeshkar
- Nominated for the prestigious Padma Vibhushan award : Mary Kom
- Aga Khan Architecture Award 2019 : An innovative project for constructing a floating school for marginalised children in Bangladesh
- Best Actress award at the Indian International Film Festival of Boston: Neena Gupta
- 11th International Hrant Dink Award : Agnes Kharshiing
- Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award 2019 : Sheikh Hasina
- US prestigious Education Excellence Award 2019 & Mahaveer award Anand Kumar
20th edition of International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) 2019
- Best Film – Raazi
- Best Actor (Female) – Alia Bhatt for Raazi
- Best Actor (Male) – Ranveer Singh for Padmaavat
- Best Director – Sriram Raghavan for Andhadhun
- Best film of the past 20 years – Kaho Na Pyaar Hai
- Magnificent Performing Arts Award at the annual 21st Century Icon Awards in London : Sonu Nigam
- First Gauri Lankesh award for Journalism : Ravish Kumar
- Three prestigious Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold awards in NurSultan (Astana), Kazakhstan for tourism : Kerala
- First Indian Railways station to be awarded with green ‘Platinum rating’ by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) : Secunderabad junction
- Dada Sahab Phalke award 2019 : Amitabh Bachchan
- Peter Mackler Award for Mafia Coverage in Italy : Paolo Borrometi
National Tourism Awards 2017-18
- Andhra Pradesh bagged the Best State award for overall growth in tourism category
- Goa and Madhya Pradesh were the joint winners in the Adventure Tourism category
- Uttarakhand won the award for the Best Film Promotion-Friendly State
- Telangana won the award for the Best State for the innovative use of IT
- United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category : Infosys
- The IAU – International Astronomical Union has named a minor planet between Mars and Jupiter after an Indian classical singer Pandit Jasraj
- Pushkin Medal 2019 : Meeta Narain
- SASTRA Ramanujan prize for 2019 : Adam Harper
- The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance (Bahrain) and Order of Zayed (UAE)
- Bharat Ratna 2019 Bhupen Hazarika, Nanaji Deshmukh and Pranab Mukherjee
- Honorary doctorate by the La Trobe University in Melbourne : Shah Rukh Khan
- Doctorate degree from University Of Salford in England : Asha Bhosle
- Saraswati Samman award for his collection Pakkaki Ottigilite in 2018 : K Siva Reddy
- MP Birla Memorial Award : Scientist Thanu Padmanabhan
- President’s Colors award : Corps of army air defense
- UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award 2019 : Azizbek Ashurov (Kyrgyz human rights lawyer)
- ‘Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador’ Award : Sachin Tendulkar
- Face of Asia Award at Busan International Film Festival : Bhumi Pednekar
- Asia Environmental Enforcement Award by UNEP Ramesh Pandey
- Nobel Prize in Medicine Americans William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza shared the prize with Peter Ratcliffe of the U.K.
Nobel Prize for Physics 2019
- James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz get Nobel Prize for Physics
Nobel Prize 2019
- Olga Tokarczuk Wins 2018 Nobel For Literature, Peter Handke For 2019
- The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry John D Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino
- The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 : Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia
- Nobel Prize 2019 for Economic : Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer
- Ashleigh Barty : Australian sport’s highest individual honour ‘The Don’ Award
- Chandi Prasad Bhatt : Indira Gandhi award for national integration for the years 2017 and 2018
- AIIMS Delhi Wins Top Cleanliness Award from Centre at Kayakalp Awards
- MP govt’s Kishore Kumar award : Director Priyadarshan
- Indian Sports Honours (ISH)- Lifetime Achievement Award Milkha Singh
- 2019 Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
India wins four UNESCO heritage awards
- Vikram Sarabhai Library, IIM Ahmedabad – Award of Distinction
- Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Mumbai – Award of Merit
- Our Lady of Glory Church, Mumbai – Award of Merit
- Flora Fountain, Mumbai – Honourable Mention
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