List of Awards and Honours 2024: Month-wise Complete Notes

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Important Awards and Honours 2024 [January to December]

April 2024

March 2024

- The Maharashtra Bhushan is the highest civilian award given annually by the Government of Maharashtra.

- It was first given in 1996.

- The award includes a cash prize of ₹25 lakhs, a memento, and a citation.

British Government: Key Honorary Awards

Knighthoods

• Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s DeepMind, will receive a knighthood from the British government.

• Mohamed Mansour, a Conservative Party donor, was given a knighthood for business, charity and political service.

• Several Conservative lawmakers, including Philip Davies and Mark Spencer, were also awarded knighthoods.

• Conservative lawmakers who were awarded damehoods are Tracey Crouch and Harriett Baldwin.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Matthew Clifford, an AI adviser to the British government, and entrepreneur Ian Hogarth, chair of the AI Safety Institute, were bestowed with Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBEs) in the world of artificial intelligence.

• Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos was also awarded an honorary CBE for services to creative industries.

Special Awards: 3rd North East Games 2024

• Fair Play Award: Sikkim
• Spirit of Olympic Award: Tripura
• Outstanding Sportsman Award: Venuzo Dawhuo of Nagaland
• Outstanding Sportswoman Award: Tsuchoi T of Nagaland

2024 Air Transport Awards

• ATN Individual Award: Serkan Kaptan, TAV Airports
• ATN Corporate Award: Bordeaux Airport
• ATN International Organisation Award: ASA – Airport Services Association
• Alliance of the Year: SkyTeam

• Manufacturer of the Year: Embraer
• Airport of the Year: iGA Istanbul Airport
• Airline of the Year: IndiGo

• Hermes Award: Henrik Hololei, European Commission.

• “Katerina & George Iatrou” Lifetime Achievement Award: Nicholas E. Calio, President and CEO, A4A.

• Leader of the Year: Dr. Eng. David Ciceo, CEO, Cluj International Airport

Other Aviation Week Laureates Space Sector Award 2023-2024

Firefly Aerospace and Millenium Space Systems – Victus Nox:

• In a three-part relay race, Millennium and Firefly coordinated to launch a satellite for the U.S. Space Force.

Lockheed Martin Osiris Rex:

• NASA’s $1 billion Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (Osiris-Rex) fulfilled its primary mission, collecting and delivering pristine samples from the primordial asteroid Bennu.

SpaceX Starlink:

• With more than 5,000 satellites orbited, Starlink is providing commercial high-speed internet access globally.

Mike Moses, Virgin Galactic, for leadership:

• Mike Moses joined Virgin Galactic from NASA in 2011 to help the Richard Branson-backed startup create and operate a safe, reliable, commercially viable space transportation service suitable for nonprofessional astronauts.

2024 New Zealand Cricket Awards winners

• Sir Richard Hadlee Medal – Rachin Ravindra
• Debbie Hockley Medal – Amelia Kerr

• Bert Sutcliffe Medal for Outstanding Services to Cricket – Trudy Anderson

• Test Player of the Year – Kane Williamson
• Men’s ODI Player of the Year – Daryl Mitchell

• Women’s ODI Player of the Year – Amelia Kerr
• Men’s T20I Player of the Year – Mitchell Santner
• Women’s T20I Player of the Year – Amelia Kerr

Sangita Kalanidhi Award Winners 2024

• Professor Parassala Ravi (V. Raveendran Nair) and Geetha Raja will be conferred with Sangita Kala Acharya awards.

• S Narasimhan and S Venkatesan, known as Thiruvaiyyaru Brothers, and H K Narasimhamurthy have been chosen for TTV awards.

• Dr. Margaret Bastin will receive the Musicologist Award.

• Dr. Neena Prasad will be conferred Nritya Kalanidhi Award.

45th IAA World Congress 2024

• International Advertising Association-India Chapter won 3 awards at the 45th IAA World Congress in Penang, Malaysia.

• Kranti Gada won the Young Leaders Award

• Soumen Santara won the Best Executive Director Award.

• Janak Sarda was conferred the Global Champion award.

National Creators Award 2024: Full list of winners

• Disruptor of the Year award: Ranveer Allahbadia (BeerBiceps)
• Best Creator in Education Category (Male & Female): Naman Deshmukh
• Best Health and Fitness Creator: Ankit Baiyanpuria

• Best Creator in Food Category: Kabita Singh (Kabita’s Kitchen)
• Celebrity Creator of the Year: Aman Gupta
• Best Creator in Tech Category: Gaurav Chaudhary (Technical Guruji)
• Favourite Travel Creator: Kamiya Jani

• Green Champion’ Category: Pankhti Pandey
• Best Storyteller: Keerthika Govindasamy
• Cultural Ambassador of the Year: Maithili Thakur
• Most Creative Creator Female: Shraddha Jain (Female); RJ Raunac (Male)
• Heritage Fashion Icon Award: Jahnvi Singh

• Best Creator for Social Change Award: Jaya Kishori
• Best Micro Creator Award: Aridaman
• Best Creator in Gaming Category Award: Nishchay
• Swachhta Ambassador Award: Malhar Kalambe

• Best International Creator Award: Drew Hicks, Kili Paul, Cassandra Mae Spittmann
• Best Nano Creator Award: Piyush Purohit
• Most Impactful Agri Creator: Lakshay Dabas
• The New India Champion Award: Abhi and Niyu

Winners: 96th Academy Awards (The Oscars 2024)

• Best Actor: Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
• Best Director: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
• Best Actress: Emma Stone, “Poor Things”
• Best Picture: “Oppenheimer”

• Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
• Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
• Best Score: “Oppenheimer”

• Best Song: “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie”
• Best: Documentary (Short Subject): “The Last Repair Shop”
• Best Documentary Feature: “20 Days in Mariupol”
• Best Animated Short: “War Is Over!”

• Best Animated Feature: “The Boy and the Heron”
• Best Original Screenplay: “Anatomy of a Fall”
• Best Adapted Screenplay: “American Fiction”
• Best Makeup and Hairstyling: “Poor Things”
• Best Production Design: “Poor Things”

• Best Costume Design: “Poor Things”
• Best International Feature: ”“The Zone of Interest”
• Best Visual Effects: “Godzilla Minus One”
• Best Film Editing: “Oppenheimer”

• Best Cinematography: “Oppenheimer”
• Best Short Film (Live Action): “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
• Best Sound: “The Zone of Interest”

Award Winners: Women’s Premier League 2024

• Orange Cap (Most Runs): Ellyse Perry (Royal Challengers Bangalore) (347 runs)
• Purple Cap (Most Wickets): Shreyanka Patil (Royal Challengers Bangalore) (13 wickets)
• Emerging Player of the Tournament: Shreyanka Patil (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
• WPL 2024 final Player of the Match: Sophie Molineux (RCB)
• WPL 2024 Player of the Tournament (Most Valuable Player): Deepti Sharma (UP Warriorz’)
• Best catch of the season: Mumbai Indians’ Sajana Sajeevan
• WPL 2024 Super Striker of the Season: RCB’s Georgia Wareham
• WPL 2024 most sixes: Delhi Capitals’ Shafali Verma
• Highest score in WPL 2024: Harmanpreet Kaur (Mumbai Indians)
• Fair Play Award – Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

Award Winners of Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) 2023-2024, Season 10

• PKL 10 Champions: Puneri Paltan
• Runners-up: Haryana Steelers
• Best Raider: Ashu Malik from Dabang Delhi KC, with a total of 276 raid points
• Top Defender: Mohammadreza Shadloui of Puneri Paltan, with 99 tackle points
• Best Emerging Player: Yogesh Dahiya of Dabang Delhi KC, with 74 tackle points
• Most Valuable Player: Aslam Inamdar, also from Puneri Paltan, with 142 raid points and 26 tackle points

February 2024

Recent Awards and Honours One-liners

• The Dadasaheb Phalke Award’s monetary reward in the 70th National Film Awards 2022 has been increased to Rs 15 lakh.

• Farokh Engineer and Ravi Shastri received the Colonel C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at the BCCI Awards 2024.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) granted certificates for eliminating industrially produced trans fatty acids to 5 countries: Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand.

• 2024 marks an unprecedented year for the Bharat Ratna, with 5 recipients (highest ever), eclipsing the previous record of 4 awarded in 1999.

• MyGov India’s first National Creators Award 2024 will be presented across 20 categories.

Bharat Ratna Award 2023

• PV Narasimha Rao
• Chaudhary Charan Singh
• MS Swaminathan
• Karpoori Thakur
• Lal Krishna Advani

✅ Read More about the Latest Winners of the Bharat Ratna Award 2024

More Awards in February

BAFTA 2024

• Recently, Oppenheimer won the “Best Film” award at the 77th British Academy Film Awards 2024 (BAFTA 2024).

✅ Read More about the Latest Winners of the BAFTA Awards 2024

More Awards and Honours in February 2024: Tabular Format

January 2024

Important Awards and Honours in News

Winners: 30th Annual Crystal Awards 2024

• Michelle Yeoh: Oscar-winning actress, producer, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador.

• Diebedo Francis Kere: Burkinabe-German architect and educator, and globally acclaimed leader.

• Nile Rodgers: American musician.

FIFA Awards 2023

• The Best FIFA Women’s Player: Aitana Bonmati (Spain)
• The Best FIFA Men’s Player: Lionel Messi (Argentina)
• The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper: Mary Earps (England)
• The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper: Ederson (Brazil)
• The Best FIFA Women’s Coach: Sarina Wiegman (England)
• The Best FIFA Men’s Coach: Pep Guardiola (Spain – Manchester City)
• The FIFA Puskás Award: Guilherme Madruga (Brazil)
• The FIFA Special Award: Marta (Brazil)
• The FIFA Fair Play Award: Brazil men’s national team
• The FIFA Fan Award: Hugo Daniel “Toto” Iniguez (Argentina)

Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award

• 1. Land Adventure: Late Savita Kanswal (posthumously)
• 2. Water Adventure: Tulsi Chaitanya Mothukuri
• 3. Air Adventure: Master Warrant Officer Anshu Kumar Tiwari
• 4. Lifetime achievement in Land Adventure: Parveen Singh

Award Winners: 81st Golden Globe Awards 2024

Wings India Awards 2024

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Tulsi N. Mirchandaney, former MD of Blue Dart, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for ‘Distinguished Women in Aviation’.

Airport of the Year (Joint Awards)

• Bangalore International Airport Limited
• Delhi International Airport Limited

Airline of the Year

• Vistara-Tata SIA Airlines Limited (Vistara)

ICC (International Cricket Council) Awards 2023:

• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Pat Cummins (Australia)

• ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Virat Kohli (India)

• ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Usman Khawaja (Australia)

• Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Nat Sciver-Brunt (England)

• ICC Women’s ODI Cricket of the Year 2023 👉 Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka)

• ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Bas de Leede (Netherlands)

• ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Queentor Abel (Kenya)

• ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Suryakumar Yadav (India)

• ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Hayley Matthews (West Indies)

• ICC Men’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)

• ICC Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2023 👉 Phoebe Litchfield (Australia)

• ICC Spirit of Cricket Award 2023 👉 Zimbabwe men’s Cricket team

• ICC Umpire of the Year 2023 👉 Former England player Richard Illingworth

ICC Men’s Test Team of the Year 2023:

• Usman Khawaja (Australia)
• Dimuth Karunaratne (Sri Lanka)
• Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
• Joe Root (England)
• Travis Head (Australia)
• Ravindra Jadeja (India)
• Alex Carey (Wicket Keeper – Australia)
• Pat Cummins (Captain – Australia)
• Ravichandran Ashwin (India)
• Mitchell Starc (Australia)
• Stuart Broad (England)

Recent Awards and Honours January 2024 One-liners

• Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2006, was recently convicted for violating Bangladesh’s labour laws.

• The ANUBHAV Awards Scheme 2024 was launched by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare.

• Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2024 will be awarded to 19 children.

• On the 75th Republic Day 2024, President Smt Droupadi Murmu approved Gallantry awards for 80 Armed Forces personnel.

• Parbati Barua, India’s first female elephant mahout, was honoured with the Padma Shri 2024 award.

• Three scientists of Indian origin—Professors Rahul R. Nair, Mehul Malik, and Dr Tanmay Bharat—received the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists 2024 in the United Kingdom.

• Ms. Padma Subrahmanyam awarded Padma Vibhushan 2024, is associated with the Bharatnatyam dance form.

• REC Limited received a ‘Plaque’ at the ICAI Awards for Excellence in Financial Reporting for 2022-23.

• On Republic Day 2024, 1132 personnel from the Police, Fire Service, Home Guard & Civil Defence, and Correctional Service were awarded Gallantry/Service Medals.

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