Awards and Honors July To October 2019

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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.