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Numaligarh Refinery Limited Wins Best Miniratna PSU Award
Dancer Narthaki Nataraj Becomes The First Transgender To Be Awarded Padma Shri
- Tamil Nadu won Best State Award in the Swasth Bharat Yatra
- For its active participation in the Swasth Bharat Yatra, a pan-India cyclothon aimed at promoting the concept of ‘eating right for a healthy life’.
Noted Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashashchandra has been awarded Saraswati Samman,2017, for his poetry collection in Gujarati named “Vakhar”
Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2019 : 8th Battalion of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri have received the honorary membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Bharat Ratna 2019
- Former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee
- late Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika
- late social activist Nanaji Deshmukh
Piyush Goyal received Carnot Prize for Power Reforms
SBI UK chief Sanjiv Chadha conferred with “Freedom of the City of London
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind presented the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony
- Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (2014)
- Bangladesh cultural organisation Chhayanaut (2015)
- and Ram Sutar Vanji (2016)
Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji was conferred with ‘Sustainable Development Leadership Award 2019’ at the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS-2019) in New Delhi.
Sudanese refugee, Abdul Aziz Muhamat, who spent 5 years in Australian detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, was given the Martin Ennals Award 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland
Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh municipal corporation won the “Swachhata Excellence awards 2019”.
Sunil Chhetri awarded 1st-ever Football Ratna
2019 Laureus World Sports Awards
- Sportsman of the Year award 2019: Novak Djokovic – Tennis Player from Serbia
- Sportswoman of the Year award 2019: Simone Biles – Gymnast from America
- Comeback award 2019: Tiger Woods – Golfer
- Breakthrough of the Year award 2019: Naomi Osaka – Tennis Player from Japan
- Yuwa, a Jharkhand-based NGO which works for girl empowerment, won the Laureus Sport for Good Award
- Becoming the third Indian entry to bag the honour.
Awards & Honours Conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- Seoul Peace Prize 2018
- Order of St Andrew the Apostle (Russia)
- First-ever Philip Kotler Presidential Award
- Awards & Honours Conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Order of Zayed (UAE)
- ‘The Most Honourable Order of the Distinguished Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen’ awardby the Maldives
- UK Magazine British Herald Votes PM Modi as ‘World’s Most Powerful Leader 2019’
- Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit by Spain : Sushma Swaraj
Dr Divya Karnad, professor at Asoka University has won the prestigious Global Future For Nature Award 2019
She is the first Indian woman to receive this honour.
Oscars 2019: 91st Academy Awards
Best Picture: Green Book
Best Actress: Olivia Colman (The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain).
Best Actor: Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury).
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron (Roma).
Best Foreign Language Film: Roma (Mexico-Spanish language).
Gandhi Peace Prize
- For 2018, Japan’s Yohei Sasakawa was given the prize for his contribution in Leprosy Eradication in India and across the world.
- Ekal Abhiyan Trust was conferred the award for 2017
- For 2016, the award was presented to Akshaya Patra Foundation
- For 2015, Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari was given the award
- G Satheesh Reddy, has been conferred with the 2019 Missile Systems Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- Tripura’s Thanga Darlong, the last tribal musician to play Rosem a bamboo made a flute-like musical instrument, was conferred the Atal Behari Vajpayee Life Time Award during the 37th Agartala Book Fair in Agartala.
Kavya Kopparapu, an Indian-American teenager has been conferred with the 2019 National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Award
The Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) has bagged the SKOCH Award, 2018 for its achievements in the field of disaster management.
Abhinandan Varthaman to Get First Ever ‘Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar’
Raghuram Rajan : Yashwantrao Chavan National Award 2018
Priyanka Dubey, a journalist at BBC has been chosen for the Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist for the year 2018.
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki : Pritzker Architecture Prize 2019
Sociologist and political psychoanalyst Ashish Nandy : Hans Kilian Award for the year 2019.
Irfan Ramzan Sheikh who fought against 3 terrorists as 14-yr-old awarded Shaurya Chakra
US Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck : Abel Prize
64th Filmfare Awards 2019:
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was awarded the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have won the 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing
Delhi government school teacher Manu Gulati honoured with Martha Farrell Award 2019
Hindi writer Leeladhar Jagudi – Vyas Samman 2018
For his collection of poems “Jitne Log Utne Prem”
Alemba Yimchunger, a Forest Guard at Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary in Kipheri district of Nagaland was awarded Earth Day Network Star
- Shah Rukh Khan was conferred with an honorary doctorate in Philanthropy by the University of Law, London.
- American photographer John Moore has won the World Press Photo Of The Year 2019 award for “Crying Girl” image
The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize 2019 has been awarded to Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
Two schemes of the West Bengal government for skill development- “Utkarsh Bangla”and distribution of bicycles to students “Sabooj Sathi” have won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards of the United Nations.
Paralympian Deepa Malik named for New Zealand Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Alice G. Vaidyan, the Chairman and Managing Director of the General Insurance Corporation (GIC) of India (GIC Re), has been awarded with the ‘Freedom of the City of London’
- Telugu poet K Siva Reddy was selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2018
- for his collection of poetry titled ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’.
- Malayalam film Bhayanakam (Fear) directed by Jayaraj won the best cinematography award at the Beijing International Film Festival.
Pakistan Journalist Cyril Almeida named 71st World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI)
Salim Khan, Madhur Bhandarkar and Helen honoured with Deenanath Mangeshkar Award
- The second edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was awarded to author Rana Dasgupta for his 2010 novel “Solo”
MCC (the Marylebone Cricket Club) has bestowed the honour of ‘Honorary Life Members’ to Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and South Afric’s Mark Boucher
- Police officer Sunil Kumar Gautam bestowed with ‘Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award’ for writing ‘Samvidhan Kavya’
- With an aim to honour renowned India-born economist Amartya Sen, the London School of Economics and Political Science, has announced a Chair in Inequality Studies in his name
Tiger Woods – Presidential Medal of Freedom (America’s highest civilian honour)
- President Kovind was conferred with Bolovia’s highest State honour “Condor de Los Andes en el Grado de Gran Collar”
France’s highest civilian honour, Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Legion d’Honneur : Former ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar
Dr. Rattan Lal Honoured With 2019 Japan Prize in the field of “Biological Production, Ecology”.
Indian writer Annie Zaidi was announced as the 2019 winner of Nine Dots Prize
Patanjali’s Acharya Balkrishna Honored with ‘UN SDG 10 Most Influential People in Healthcare Award’
Indian artist Nalini Malani has won the Joan Miró Prize for 2019
- Malawian soldier Chancy Chitete will be honoured with the United Nation’s (UN) highest peacekeeping award, dubbed as “Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage
- Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran – conferred with Japan’s second highest national award ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ award
- The USA’s House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was honoured with 2019 John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Sunny Pawar has bagged the Best Child Actor award for ‘Chippa’ at the 19th New York Indian Film Festival.
Sir Andy Murray has received his knighthood at Buckingham Palace
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) confers P.K. Mishra with prestigious Sasakawa Award 2019
2019 McCain Institute Award for Courage and Leadership : IPS officer Chhaya Sharma
Founder of The Art of Living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was conferred with ‘Order of St. George’ award
Former Indian President of India Pratibha Patil – “Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca” (Order of the Aztec Eagle) – the highest civilian award of Mexico given to foreigners
WHO Awards Rajasthan Health Department for Tobacco Control
Actress Sheela Honored with Prestigious J C Daniel Award 2018
Former US President Jimmy Carter – George H. W. Bush Award for Statesmanship
Sweden’s Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Receives Amnesty Prize (Ambassador of Conscience Award)
Indian actress Priyanka Chopra will be honored with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award by UNICEF.
Renowned author Amitav Ghosh was awarded the 54th Jnanpith Award
The President of China, Xi Jinping – Manas Order of the First Degree, the highest national prize of Kyrgyzstan
- PM’s Awards for Outstanding Contribution for Promotion & Development of Yoga 2019 announced
- Recipients are:
- Swami Rajarshi Muni of Life Mission, Gujaratv
- Ms. Antonietta Rozzi of Italy,
- Bihar School of Yoga, Munger
- Japan Yoga Niketan, Japan
- Veyil Marangal (Trees Under the Sun) have become the first Indian film to won ‘Outstanding Artistic Achievement’ award at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Rachna Khaira of The Tribune has bagged the prestigious RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’
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