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Awards and Honors 2022 [Month wise]
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Recent Awards and Honours April 2022
Awards | Awardee | Field | |
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Wisden’s ‘Cricketers of the Year’ in the 2022 | 5 Cricketer 1. Rohit Sharma (India) 2. Jasprit Bumrah (India) 3. Devon Conway (New Zealand) 4. Ollie Robinson (England) 5. Dane van Niekerk (South Africa) |
Cricket | |
World Sportsman of the year 2022 | Max Verstappen | Sports | |
Laureus World Sportswoman of the year 2022 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | Sports | |
UN Award – World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) Prizes 2022 – Champion Project | e-Proposal System | The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development | |
Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022 | Wilfried Brutsaert | Environment | |
Chameli Devi Jain Award for 2021 | Aarefa Johari | Outstanding Woman Mediaperson | |
‘Outstanding Digital CX – SME Payments’ award | Indus Merchant Solutions | pioneering innovation in Digital Customer Experience | |
Saraswati Samman 2021 | amdarash Mishra | Poet and Litterateur | |
IBC Awards for Excellence in Built Environment 2021 | Atal Tunnel | ||
First Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2022 | Narendra Modi | Pharma & Medical Device | |
O.Henry Prize | Amar Mitra | Short Fiction | |
EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 India | Founder & CEO of Nykaa beauty products – Falguni Nayar | Best entrepreneurs | |
The International Gandhi Award for Leprosy 2021 | Bhushan Kumar & Sahyog Kushtha Yagna Trust | Leprosy awareness campaign | |
2022 Malcom Adiseshiah Award | Prabhat Patnaik | Developmental studies for an outstanding economist | |
Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration 2020 | UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik), a flagship Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) | Excellence in Public Administration | |
Celent Model Bank’ award | IndusInd Bank | Payments System Transformation | |
Entrepreneur Leadership Awards 2022 | Vivek Lall | Global Leader in Defence and Aviation Sector | |
Champions of the Earth Award 2021 | Sir David Attenborough | Lifetime Achievement | |
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award 2022 | Five Individuals | To protect and defend democracy | |
Commonwealth Point of Light award | Kishore Kumar Das | “Bidyanondo” an educational voluntary organisation |
Recent Awards and Honours March 2022
Awards | Awardee |
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Sportstar of the Year (Male) Award | Neeraj Chopra (Javelin) |
Sportstar of the Year (Female) Award | Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting) |
BBC Indian Sportswoman of The Year (ISWOTY) 2021 | Indian Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu |
Sports Icon Award | Former Indian International cricket player Suresh Raina |
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2022 | Diebedo Francis Kere |
Boltzmann Medal2022 for contribution in the field of statistical physics | Indian physicist Deepak Dhar |
Special Jury Award | National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) |
Miss World 2021 | Karolina Bielawska from Poland |
Governor of the year Award 2022 | Mario Marcel Cullell (Mario Marcel) [Governor of Banco Central de Chile (BCCh – Central Bank of Chile)] |
ASSOCHAM Award’s for the Best MSME Bank of the Year (in Private Category) award | Karnataka Bank Limited |
Asian Bank of The Year 2021 | Axis Bank |
National Award for Outstanding Performance for FY 2020-21 | Jammu and Kashmir Bank (J&K Bank) |
Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) award | CtrlS, a DataCenter Company in Hyderabad, Telangana. |
GD (Ghanshyam Das) Birla Award for Scientific Research 2022 | Narayan Pradhan for his outstanding contribution in the field of material sciences. |
Abel Prize for 2022 | Dennis Parnell Sullivan for his contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric, and dynamical aspects. |
75th BAFTA Award 2022
Category | Winners |
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Best Film | The Power of the Dog |
Best Director | Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog |
Best Actress in Leading Role | Joanna Scanlan, After Love |
Best Actor in Leading Role | Will Smith, King Richard |
Best Supporting Actress | Ariana DeBose, West Side Story |
Best Supporting Actor | Troy Kotsur, CODA |
EE Rising Star Award | Lashana Lynch |
OSCAR: 94th Academy Awards 2022
Category | Winners |
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Best Actor in a Leading Role | Will Smith, “King Richard” |
Best Actress in a Leading Role | Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
Best Picture | CODA |
Best International Feature Film | Drive My Car |
Documentary Short Subject | The Queen of Basketball |
Best Directing | Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog |
Recent Awards Current Affairs January 2022
Awards | Awardee |
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QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Award 2021 | Chennai-based Rhapsody Music Foundation |
Netaji Award 2022 | former Prime Minister(PM) of Japan , Shinzo Abe |
Global Private Banking Awards 2021 | ‘Best Private Bank’ – HDFC Bank |
Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022 | Hindi actress Harshaali Malhotra |
SKOCH Award 2021 | Delhi based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) |
Knighthood for sports | Former West Indies Captain Clive Lloyd |
First-ever Guinness World Record in Numerology | India’s one of the top numerologists : JC Chaudhry |
International Craft Award for 2021 | Kerala Arts and Crafts Village Organization (KACV) |
IBS Intelligence (IBSi) Global FinTech Innovation Awards 2021 for the “Best CRM (Customer Relationship Management) System Implementation” | Axis Bank & CRMNEXT Solution |
National Water Awards-2020 | Uttar Pradesh in Best State category |
UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 | South Indian Bank (SIB) for Best Automation under ‘Crisis for Business Continuity |
TX2 award 2022 for doubling their tiger populations since 2010. | India’s Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in Erode, Tamil Nadu, and Nepal’s Bardiya National Park had jointly won the award |
Dr Subhas Mukherjee Award 2020 | Satish Adiga( Professor in Clinical Embryology at Kasturba Medical College (KMC) |
Global Women’s Health Tech Awards 2022 | Two startups namely NIRAMAI Health AnalytixPvt. Ltd.(NIRAMAI) and InnAccel Technologies Pvt. Ltd.(InnAccel) |
Mrs World 2022 | Shaylyn Ford (USA) |
Prime Minister’s Banner at the Republic Day Camp(RDC) Award | Maharashtra Directorate of the National Cadet Corps
(NCC) |
Most Popular World Leaders with 71% Rating | PM Modi |
2022 Genesis Prize for the Efforts in leading the development of the COVID-19 vaccine | Dr Albert Bourla (Chief Executive Officer(CEO) and Chairman of Pfizer)) |
Children’s Word of the Year 2021 by Oxford University | “Anxiety” |
Recent Awards Current Affairs February 2022
Awards | Awardee |
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Most Dependable Public Sector in India award 2022 | Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) |
Excellence in ‘Financial Reporting’ for the year 2020-21 | RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. |
IBA 17th Annual Banking Technology Conference and Awards 2021 | South Indian Bank (SIB), headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala. |
Hilal-e-Pakistan honour (second Highest Civilian Honour of Pakistan) for the efforts towards eradicating polio in Pakistan | Co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist Bill Gates |
18th Late Madhavrao Limaye Award | Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari |
Digital Transformation Award (DX 2021Awards) | Karnataka Bank |
Presidential Colours or Nishan Award | Four Parachute Battalions• 11 PARA (SPECIAL FORCE)
• 21 PARA (SPECIAL FORCE) • 23 PARA • 29 PARA This award presented by Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane on behalf of the President of India Ram Nath Kovind. |
Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21 | Sandeep Bakhshi, Managing Director(MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank |
International Cricket Council (ICC) Spirit of Cricket Award 2021 | New Zealand cricketer, Daryl Mitchell |
The World Games Athlete of the Year 2021 | Veteran India hockey goalkeeper Parattu Raveendran (PR) Sreejesh (33) from Kerala |
Best State Tableau on 73rd Republic Day parade 2022 | Uttar Pradesh |
‘Voice of the Customer’ award by The Airports Council International (ACI) | 18 Indian Airports |
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Awards and Honors 2021 [Month wise]
Recent Awards Current Affairs December 2021
Awards | Awardee |
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70th Miss Universe | India’s Harnaaz Sandhu |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021 | Emma Raducanu |
‘Vaccine’ as 2021 Word of the Year | By Merriam-Webster |
Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2021 | Elon Musk |
Royal Gold Medal 2022 | Indian Architect Balkrishna Doshi |
‘Asom Baibhav’ 2021 award | Ratan Tata |
SJFI Medal 2021 | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar |
Britain’s Knight Bachelor Award / Knighthood | Lewis Hamilton |
UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards | Delhi |
Ballon d’Or award or Golden Ball Award | Lionel Messi |
Bhutan’s highest civilian award | Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi |
Dr M S Swaminathan Award | V Praveen Rao |
“Best Female Debut” honour at the 2021 Paralympic Sport Awards. | Avani Lekhara |
Jnanpith Award | Nilmani Phookan & Damodar Mauzo |
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF (New India Foundation) Book Prize 2021 | Dinyar Patel |
2021 DST-ICTPIMU Ramanujan Prize | Neena Gupta |
Golden Peacock Environment Management Award (GPEMA) 2021 | Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) |
United Nation (UN) Women’s Award | Divya Hegde |
Most Effective Bank-Fintech Partnership Award | Vayana Network & Federal Bank |
‘Woman o the Year’ 2021 from World Athletics | Anju Bobby George |
Digital Innovation of the Year Award | Jindal Global University (JGU) |
Badminton World Federation (BWF) Male & Female Player of the Year | Viktor Axelsen, Tai Tzu Ying |
Women’s Tennis Association(WTA)’s Player of the Year | Australia’s Ashleigh Barty |
Recent Awards Current Affairs November 2021
Awards | Awardee |
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2021 KidsRights International Children’s Peace Prize | Vihaan and Nav Agarwal |
Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) Award in Best Digital Financial Services | Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) |
ABU – UNESCO Together for Peace (T4P) Media Awards 2021 | All India Radio(AIR) ‘s ‘Living on the edge – The coastal lives’ and Doordarshan’s |
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2020 | Priyanka Mohite |
Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 in Badminton | Indian badminton player Prakash Padukone |
Prestigious Booker Prize 2021 | South African author Damon Galgut • For the Novel ‘The Promise’ |
JCB Prize for Literature 2021 | M Mukundan • novel ‘Delhi: A Soliloquy’, |
Swasthya Nidhi Survey App at 4th Digital Transformation Awards | The National Health Mission (NHM), Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) |
Indira Gandhi Prize 2021 for Peace, Disarmament and Development | Pratham , a civil society organization (CSO) |
Pharma & Medical Device Startup India Grand Challenge 2021 Prize | Sascan Meditech Private Limited, a Kerala based startup |
Recent Awards Current Affairs October 2021
Awards | Awardee |
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1st Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award | American Director Martin Scorsese & Hungarian Director Istvan Szabo |
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought | Russian Opposition leader (PartyRussia of the Future), lawyer and anticorruption activist Alexei Navalny |
Aryabhata Award [in the field Astronautics ] | Dr G Satheesh Reddy |
WHO Director General’s award | Henrietta Lacks |
C K Prahlad award | Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella |
UNESCO-ICM 2021 Martial Arts Education Prize | Kung Fu Nuns of Drukpa |
Joseph A. Cushman Award | Dr Rajiv Nigam |
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award | Dr Randeep Guleria |
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) India 2021 | James Pangsang Kongkal Sangma |
2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award | Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development (JAAHD) |
2021 Earthshot Prize | Vidyut Mohan |
Right Livelihood Award | Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE |
NatWest Group’s Earth Guardian Award 2021 in the field of Conservation of Tigers and Biodiversity | Parambikulam Tiger Conservation Foundation (PaTCoF) |
India Green Energy Award 2020 | TVS Motor Company |
2021 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade | Tsitsi Dangarembga |
Top Organization with Innovative HR (Human Resource) Practices Award | Karnataka Bank |
Recent Awards Current Affairs September, 2021
Awards | Awardee |
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Ramon Magsaysay award 2021 • (Known as Asia’s Nobel Prize) | Firdausi Qadri • For the development of cheap oral vaccine against cholera |
Behler Turtle Conservation Award 2021 •( Known as ‘’Nobel Prize for Turtle Conservation”) | Shailendra Singh |
7th Yamin Hazarika Woman of Substance Award | Namita Gokhale |
2021 International Young Eco-Hero | Ayaan Shankta |
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) • Field – Science and Technology | Binoy Kumar Saikia • From Jhorhat, Assam • For his pioneering research in the field of coal and energy |
International Lifetime Achievement Award in Neurosurgery | Basant Kumar Misra |
Association for Talent Development (ATD) 2021 best Award | POWERGRID |
Sahitya Akademi Award for 8 Eminent Writers | • Ruskin Bond, Vinod Kumar Shukla (Hindi) • Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Bengali) • Mundanat Leelavathy (Malayalam) • Dr. Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi) • Dr Tejwant Singh Gill (Punjabi) • Swami Rambhadracharya (Sanskrit) • Indira Parthasarthy (Tamil) |
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Energy Leader Award-2021 | Ramagundam |
Africa Food Prize 2021 in Food Security | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) |
World’s Best Bank 2021 | DBS |
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 | • Susanna Clarke • For the Fantasy novel titled “Piranesi” |
SDG Progress Award | Sheikh Hasina |
2021 Global Goalkeeper Award to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) | • Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka |
CIPS Excellence in Procurement Awards 2021 • for Best Use of Digital Technology | Government eMarketplace (GeM) |
2021 IHA Blue Planet Prize • For Excellence in sustainable hydropower development | 510 MW Teesta-V Power Station |
Recent Awards Current Affairs August 2021
Awards | Awardee |
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Will Eisner Comic Industry Award 2021 | Anand Radhakrishnan |
Prof. C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Medal award | Jagdish Bhagwati & B. C. Rangarajan |
Lokmanya Tilak National Award for 2021 | Cyrus Poonawalla |
Best performing banks for PSB Reforms EASE 3.0 based on the EASE index | • State Bank of India • Bank of Baroda • Union Bank of India • All of the above |
Ashoka Chakra ( Posthumously) | Babu Ram |
Sri Basava International Award by Karnataka govt. | Sri Basavaliga Pattaddevaru |
Natwest Group Earth Heroes Award | Satpura Tiger Reserve |
Sahitya Akademi Award – 2020 | • Yashodhara Mishra • For her book ‘Samudrakula Ghara‘ |
Biju Patnaik Sports Award for Lifetime Achievement in Promotion of Sports and Games | Kalu Charan Choudhury |
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Energy Leader Award-2021 | NTPC |
AI Gamechanger Award at the Xperience-AI Summit organised by NASSCOM | Telangana |
Best Feature Film at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021 | Soorarai Pottru |
◘ Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021 winners list ● Best Feature Film – Soorarai Pottru● Best Performance Male (Feature) – Suriya Sivakumar (Soorarai Pottru)● Best Performance Female (Feature) – Vidya Balan (Sherni) & Honourable mention to Nimisha Sajayan (The Great Indian Kitchen)● Best Director – Anurag Basu (Ludo) & Honorary Mention Prithvi Konanur (Pinki Elli?)● Best Series – Mirzapur Season 2● Best Actress in a Series – Samantha Akkineni (The Family Man 2)● Best Actor in a Series – Manoj Bajpayee (The Family Man 2)● Best Documentary Film – Shut Up Sona● Diversity in Cinema Award – Pankaj Tripathi | |
Brunel Medal award by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). | • India-assisted Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project in Butan |
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award has been renamed as – Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award | |
Kerala government is planning to institute Padma-style awards. | |
Ngaland has been conferred seven national awards on the first Van Dhan Annual Awards 2020-21. | |
Maharashtra government has announced the Rajiv Gandhi award for the IT sector. | |
The Prime Minister’s Shram Awards (PMSA) 2018 were given to 69 workers of private, central and state employees.
◘ This year the awards were given in 3 categories , Namely … • Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana Awards – cash prize of Rs. 60,000/- each • Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards – cash prize of Rs.40,000/- each. |
Recent Awards Current Affairs of June 2021 | |
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Awards | Awardee |
❖International Booker Prize 2021 | ♦ David Diop • 1st French Writer to Win the Award. • Novel name – “Frere d’ame” • Novel name in English – “At Night All Blood Is Black” • Translated by – Anna Moschovakis |
❖ The International Business Book Of The Year Award 2021 | ♦ Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind • His book name – Transformation in Times of Crisis. |
❖ Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2021 | ♦ Delhi, Hyderabad Airports |
❖ ‘WHO Director-General Special Award’ | ♦ Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan • For Efforts In Tobacco Control. • Mansukh L. Mandaviya is the present Union Health Minister |
❖ Gold Stevie Award 2021 | ♦ SpiceHealth (Gurgaon based Spice Healthcare Pvt. Ltd) • for ‘Most Valuable Medical Innovation. |
❖ Fastest Female Climber to Reach the Peak of Mount Everest | ♦ Hong Kong’s Tsang Yin-Hung |
❖ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Pioneer of the Year by UNGC | ♦ Sumant Sinha |
❖ World’s Best Banks 2021 in India | ♦ Singapore based DBS Bank • Top 3 Best Bank in India – DBS > CSB > ICICI |
❖ ‘Great Place to Work’ | ♦ National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) • Rank – 38 out of 50 • NTPC recognized as ‘India’s Best Employers among Nation-Builders 2021’ |
❖ Best Ship of the Eastern Fleet | ♦ INS Sahyadri |
❖ APO’s Asia Pacific Productivity Champion of 2020 | ♦ Dr. RS Sodhi (Rupinder Singh) • MD of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation(GCMMF), AMUL • R S Sodhi became the first Indian to receive this award in the past 20 years. |
❖ Wins 2021 PEN Pinter Prize | ♦ Zimbabwean Novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga |
❖ ICC Hall of Fame 2021 | ♦ Former Indian Cricketer Vinoo Mankad |
❖ ‘Open Society Prize 2021’ | ♦ K K Shailaja • Teacher and Former Health Minister of Kerala • It is the Central European University’s (CEU) highest award. • Awarded for her commitment to public health services. |
❖ NSG Counter-IED & Counter-Terrorism Innovator Award 2021 | ♦ Shailesh Ganpule from IIT Roorkee |
❖ UNCCD’s 2021 Land for Life Award | ♦ Familial Forestry |
❖ European Inventor Award 2021 | ♦ Indian-American Sumita Mitra •for her work and invention in nanotechnology in the dental field. |
❖ Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021 | ♦ Journalist P Sainath |
❖ World’s Top Philanthropist of Last Century | ♦ founder of Tata Group, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata |
Recent Awards Current Affairs of May 2021 | |
Awards | Awardee |
❖ 22nd Laureus World Sports Awards – 2021 | ♦ Sportsman of the year title – Spanish Tennis Player Rafael Nadal ♦ Sportswomen of the year title – Japanese Tennis player Naomi Osaka |
❖ Japanese Tennis player Naomi Osaka awards | ♦ KVG Bank |
❖ 11th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2021 | ♦ Best Film Jury Award – Jungle Cry |
❖ Order of The Rising Sun from The Consulate-General of Japan | ♦ Shyamala Ganesh |
❖ International Invincible Gold Medal 2021 | ♦ Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank |
❖ Miss Universe 2020 | ♦ Andrea Meza of Mexico • 1st Runner-up Julia Gama – Brazil • 2nd Runner-up Janick Maceta del Castillo – Peru • 3rd Runner-up Adeline Castelino – India |
❖ World Record by climbing Mount Everest Twice | ♦ Nepali Mingma Tenji Sherpa |
❖ 2020 Millennium Technology Prize by TAF | ♦ Prof Shankar Balasubramanian & ♦ Prof David Klenerman |
❖ 1st Indian Women to Summit Mount Pumori | ♦ Baljeet Kaur and Gunbala Sharma |
❖ 15th annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2021 | ♦ Tahera Qutbuddin • 1st Indian to Win the Award |
❖ Whitley Award 2021 for “Biodiversity Peace Corridor” | ♦ Y Nuklu Phom |
❖ 1st woman of Asian heritage won the World Food Prize 2021 | ♦ Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted |
❖ Green Urja Award 2021 | ♦ Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) |
❖ Energy Frontier Award 2020 | ♦ Chintamani Nages Ramachandra Rao |
❖ India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present | ♦ Shivshankar Menon |
❖ Europe’s Golden Shoe Award | ♦ Robert Lewandowski |
❖ India Biodiversity Awards 2021 | ♦ Shergaon Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) of Arunachal Pradesh |
❖ 1st Indian To Win 2021 Rudolf V Schindler Award | ♦ Dr D Nageshwar Reddy |
❖ Dublin Literary Award 2021 for ‘Lost Children Archive’ | ♦ Valeria Luiselli |
❖ Etienne Glichitch Award by FIH | ♦ Hockey India |
❖ Order of The Rising Sun | ♦ Shyamala Ganesh • 3rd Highest Order of Japan |
❖ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at Oscar 2021 | ♦ Tyler Perry |
Recent Awards Current Affairs of April month 2021 | |
Awards | Awardee |
❖ Saraswati Samman 2020 | ♦ Marathi Writer Dr Sharankumar Limbale For his 2018 Marathi novel titled “Sanatan” |
Kalinga Ratna Samman 2021 | Governor of Andhra Pradesh – Biswabhusan Harichandan |
51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2019 | Film Star Rajinikanth |
2021 Rathbones Folio Literary Prize | ♦ American Author Carmen Maria • For the memoir ‘In the Dream House’ |
Wisden Almanck’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade list | ♦ Featured 3 Indian cricketers – • Kapil Dev • Sachin Tendulkar • Virat Kohli |
UN’s National Innovative and Sustainable Supply Chain Award | ♦ Won by Birla Cellulose Limited |
GD Birla Award for Scientific Research | ♦ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur’s Professor Suman Chakraborty |
UAE’s Top Civilian Award | ♦ Indian Origin Businessman Yusuffali MA |
‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’, second-highest civilian French honour | ♦ Oscar-Winning Producer, Guneet Monga |
Chhattisgarh Veerni Awards | Odisha Sprinter Dutee Chand |
Indian Society for Training and Development(ISTD)’s National Award for Innovative Training Practice | Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) |
2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award | ♦ Alfred VainoAho and Jeffrey David Ullman The award is also referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing. |
The Global Winners of ICC Development Awards for 2020 | ♦ Global winner – Argentina, Brazil, Uganda, Vanuatu |
Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award 2021 | ♦ Won by Rumana Sinha Sehgal |
E-Panchayat Puraskar 2021 | ♦ Uttar Pradesh |
Recent Awards Current Affairs March 2021 | |
Awards / Honours | Awardee |
❖ King Bhumibol World Soil Day 2020 Award by FAO | Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) |
❖ Ibrahim Priz 2020 | ♦ Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou |
❖Bihari Puraskar 2020 | ♦Mohankrishna Bohara •for his Book ‘Taslima: Sangharsh aur Sahitya |
❖ Baton of honour by President Ram Nath Kovind | Kiran Bedi |
❖ Global Women of Excellence Award – 2021 | Honoured to Tamilisai Soundararajan (LG of Puducherry) |
❖ First Indian to Receive UN’s 2020 Asia Environmental Enforcement Award | Odisha Forest Officer, Sasmita Lenka, |
❖ CERAWeek Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award | Narendra Modi |
❖ Hurun Global Rich List 2021 | ♦ Topped by Elon Mask ♦ Mukesh Ambani becomes 8th Richest in the World. |
❖ TIME Magazine’s Annual List of 100 | ♦ 5 Indian-origin personalities and 1 Indian Activis featured in this list ◘ The 5 Indian origin personalities are … • Vijaya Gadde (Chief Legal Officer of Twitter) • Rishi Sunak (Britain’s Finance Minister) • Apoorva Mehta (Founder & CEO of Instacart) • Shikha Gupta (Executive Director of Nonprofit ‘Get Us PPE’) • Rohan Pavuluri (Founder of Nonprofit ‘Upsolve’) |
❖ BBC Indian Sportswoman of the year (BBC ISWOTY) 2020 | ♦ Chess Player Koneru Humpy |
❖ Only Asian to Win International Ranger Award | ♦ Ranger Mahinder Giri of Rajaji Tiger Reserve(RTR) |
❖ ‘Role Model’ Award | ♦ NTPC |
❖ Asiamoney Best Bank Award | ♦ Best domestic bank – Kotak Mahindra Bank ♦ ‘India’s Best Bank for SMEs – HDFC Bank ♦ Best corporate and investment bank 2021 – Kotak Mahindra Bank ♦ Best international bank – DBS Bank ♦ Best digital bank – Axis Bank ♦ Best bank for Corporate social responsibility(CSR) – RBL Bank |
❖ Vyas Samman 2020 | ♦ Hindi Writer Prof. Sharad Pagare (Madhya Pradesh) • For his historic novel titled “Patliputru ki Samragi”. |
❖ Maharashtra Bhushan Award | ♦ Legendary singer Asha Bhosle |
❖ Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021 | ♦ Paris-based duo of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal |
Recent Awards Current Affairs February 2021 | |
Awards / Honours | Awardee |
❖ International Anticorruption Champions Award | ♦ Anjali Bharadwaj |
❖ Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award, 2020 | ♦ S. Theodore Baskaran • Instituted by the Sanctuary Nature Foundation. |
❖ SERB Women Excellence Award 2021 | ♦ Winner – 4 Young Women • 1. Dr Shobhna Kapoor • 2. Dr Antara Banerjee • 3. Dr Sonu Gandhi • 4. Dr Ritu Gupta• For their excellence in Science and Engineering. • SERB :- Science and Engineering Research Board |
❖ Best Tableau Award | ♦ Award goes to – Republic Day parade tableau of Uttar Pradesh •Theme of the UP tableau – “Ayodhya:The cultural heritage of Uttar Pradesh” |
❖ Award of Appreciation | ♦ Won by – Ministry of tribal Affairs |
❖ Alert Being Icon Awards | ♦ AR Rahman (Music Composer) and Saidapet Hari Krishnan (Social Activist) |
❖ 1st prize in Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award | ♦Robert Irwin |
❖ SKOCH Chief Minister of the Year Award | ♦ Winner – YS Jagan Mohan Reddy |
❖ VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020 | ♦ Winner :- Manasa Varanasi (Telangana) |
❖ ‘Best Service Provider’ in HR and ‘Best Institution’ | ♦ Union Bank of India • For ‘Excellence in Learning and Development’ at the 29th Global HRD Congress Awards |
❖ Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2020 | ♦ Awarded to Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) |
❖ ‘CERA Week Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award’ | ♦ Won by :- PM Narendra Modi |
❖ Prani Mitra’ & ‘Jeevdaya’ Awards | ♦ Won by 14 Individuals, organizations and corporates • For their outstanding performance in the field of animal welfare. • Given in the field of Animal Welfare and Protection • Conferred by Animal Welfare Board of India |
❖ Airports Council International World’s ‘Voice of the Customer’ award | ♦ Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru |
Recent Awards Current Affairs January 2021 | |
Awards / Honours | Awardee |
❖ 6th Digital India Awards(DIA) 2020 | Ram Nath Kovind |
❖ Eminent Engineer Award” 2020 | ♦ Received by Vinod Kumar Yadav • Vinod Kumar Yadav former Chairman & CEO, Railway Board • The award was presented by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). |
❖ Guard of Honour at Gyeryong, South Korea | ♦Received by General MM Naravane |
❖ Kayakalp Awards | ♦ Presented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. ♦ This award given to the health facilities with the highest standards of sanitation and hygiene.❖ Under Category A • JIPMER received the prize in Central facilities category, hospitals having more than thousand beds.❖ Under Category B • AIIMS Bhubaneswar has received the best central government hospital for cleanliness for the third consecutive time. • Rani Durgavati Hospital received the award for the fourth time consecutively. |
❖ Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar | ♦32 children were awarded Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar.
♦ The Government of India (GoI) has been awarding Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar to children with outstanding abilities and achievements in the fields of innovation, art and culture, social service, academics, sports, and bravery. |
❖ Business Standard Banker of the Year (2019-20) | ♦ MD and CEO of Federal Bank, Shyam Srinivasan |
❖ National Best Electoral Practices Awards 2020 | ♦ Delhi won under Accessible election category ♦ Meghalaya received the special award for its Information Technology(IT) applications in Elections. |
❖ ICC Player of the Month’ Awards for Male & Female Cricketers. | ♦ Introduced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) ◘ To recognise and celebrate best performances throughout the year. ★ Winner of the ICC Player of the Month ✪ Men’s Player➻ Rishab Pant (India) ✪ Women’s Player ➻ Shabnim Ismail (South Africa) |
❖ Romain Rolland Book Prize 2021 | ♦ Given at Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2021 ♦ Won by Novel named Ullasa Thirumanam ♦ Ullasa Thirumanam is the Tamil translation of a French novel, ‘Le mariage de plaisir ♦ ‘Le mariage de plaisir’, the French Novel was authored by Tahar Ben Jelloun. And it was translated by Dr Vengada Soupraya Nayagar in Tamil. |
❖ Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2021 | ♦ Won by Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari & SEEDS • SEEDS -> Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society. • The Government of India gives this award to individuals and organisations in India to recognise and honour their contribution and selfless services in the field of disaster management. |
❖ Michael And Sheila Held Prize 2021 | ♦ Won by Indian Mathematician Nikhil Srivastava. ♦ Other Two winner -> Adam W. Marcus(American)and Daniel Alan Spielman(US) |
❖ Coal Minister’s Award 2020’ | ♦ For adopting the best & sustainable practices for coal mining in India. ♦ The award bagged by Three units of Coal India Ltd (CIL) namely ◘ Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) in Madhya Pradesh ◘ Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) in Jharkhand ◘ Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) in Maharashtra |
❖ Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award | ♦ Awarded to Philanthropist Ravi Gaikwad |
❖ Sahitya Gaurav Samman 2021 | ♦ Honoured to Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ |
❖ 1st UN Women 2020 Asia-Pacific Award | ♦ IKEA India Pvt Ltd Wins Women’s Empowerment Principles Regional Awards under Gender-inclusive Workplace Category. |
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