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AWARDS & HONOURS
Central Banking Award 2018
Categories Winner Remarks
Central Bank of the
year Bank of Canada
Governor: Stephen S. Poloz
Capital of Canada: Ottawa
Currency of Canada: Dollar
The Canadian central bank has stood
out for its ever-improving levels of
transparency, forward-looking
management and best-practice review
of its policy mandate
Governor of the year Lesetja Kganyago
Name of bank: South African Reserve
Bank
Capital of South Africa: Cape Town
Currency : Rand
Kganyago has defended and enhanced
the Sarb’s against all threats – despite a
turbulent political and economic
backdrop.
Life time achievement
award Perng Fai-nan
Name of Bank: Central bank of
republic of china (Taiwan)
Capital: Taipei (Taiwan)
Currency: Dollar
Transparency award Central Bank of
Ireland
Governor: Phillip R lane
Capital of Ireland: Dublin
Currency of Ireland: Euro
The Irish central bank has made a great
progress in communicating in a truthful,
straightaway and in open manner with
the people it serves services
Risk management
services provider of the
year
Openlink
Openlink is a software which helps
bank effectively manage risk and
regulatory challenges
CEO: Kingsley Uyi Idehen
Headquarter: United States
Reserve manager of the
year Bank of Korea
Governor: Lee Ju-yeol
Capital: Seoul
Currency: Won
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Banknote and currency
manager of the year
Norges bank (Bank of
Norway)
Governor: Oystein Olsen
Capital: Oslo
Currency: Krone
This currency is built with top notch
security features
Banknote and services
provider of the year Landqart
It is a Swiss company.
This company is a manufacturer of
bank notes.
Initiative of the year Bank of England’s
Fintech accelerator
Governor of Bank of England: Mark
Caney
Fintech (financial technology) helps
Bank of England by controlling cyber
security and payment capabilities
Website of the year Bank of Lithuania
Governor: Vitas Vasiliauskas
Capital: Lithuania
Currency: Euro
This bank makes a website which
provides all information and it is
accessible to all audience of this bank.
Economics in central
banking
Alberto Cavallo and
Roberto Rigobon
They helped central banks to overcome
many of the drawbacks inherent in
traditional inflation series
Asset manager of the
year
Black Rock ( for the
3rd
time)
Innovation in reserve
management
HSBC (Hong Kong
Shanghia Banking
Corporation)
Global custodian of the
year BNY Mellon
(BNY refers to Bank of New York)
Chairman: Bridget E. Engle
Securities lending
services provider of the
year
Northern trust
(Chicago based
company)
Technology consultant
of the year Vizor Software
Consultancy and
advisory provider of
the year
Bearing Point
Payment and market
infrastructure provider
of the year
Perago
It is a software company that helps
central banks around the world
implement reliable and highly adaptable
RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement)
and retail payments systems
Padma Vibhusham-2018
It is the second highest civilian award.
No Name Field State
1 Illaiyaraja Art-Music Tamil Nadu
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2 Ghulam Mustafa Khan Art-Music Maharashtra
3 Parameswaran Parameswaran Literature and Education Kerala
Padma Bhushan-2018
It is the third highest civilian award.
No Name Field State
1 Pankaj Advani Sports- Billiards/Snooker Karnataka
2 Philipose Mar Chrysostom Others-Spiritualism Kerala
3 Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sports-Cricket Jharkhand
4 Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner) Public Affairs Russia
5 Ramachandran Nagaswamy Others-Archaeology Tamil Nadu
6 Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI) Literature and Education US
7 Laxman Pai Art-Painting Goa
8 Arvind Parikh Art-Music Maharashtra
9 Sharda Sinha Art-Music Bihar
Padma Shri
It is the fourth highest civilian award.
No Name Field State
1 Abhay Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra
2 Rani Bang (Duo) Medicine Maharashtra
3 Damodar Ganesh Bapat Social Work Chhattisgarh
4 Prafulla Govinda Baruah Literature and Education-
Journalism Assam
5 Mohan Swaroop Bhatia Art-Folk Music Uttar Pradesh
6 Sudhanshu Biswas Social Work West Bengal
7 Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Sports-Weightlifting Manipur
8 Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi Literature and Education-
Journalism Chhattisgarh
9 Jose Ma Joey Concepcion
III (Foreigner) Trade & Industry Philippines
10 Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi Art-Weaving Manipur
11 Somdev Devvarman Sports-Tennis Tripura
12 Yeshi Dhoden Medicine Himachal Pradesh
13 Arup Kumar Dutta Literature and Education Assam
14 Doddarange Gowda Art-Lyrics Karnataka
15 Arvind Gupta Literature and Education Maharashtra
16 Digamber Hansda Literature and Education Jharkhand
17 Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner) Art-Dance Malaysia
18 Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh
19 Piyong Temjen Jamir Literature and Education Nagaland
20 Sitavva Joddati Social Work Karnataka
21 Malti Joshi Literature and Education MP
22 Manoj Joshi Art-Acting Maharashtra
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23 Rameshwarlal Kabra Trade & Industry Maharashtra
24 Pran Kishore Kaul Art J&K
25 Bounlap Keokangna(Foreigner) Others-Architecture Laos
26 Vijay Kichlu Art-Music West Bengal
27 Tommy Koh(Foreigner) Public Affairs Singapore
28 Lakshmikutty Medicine-Traditional Kerala
29 Joyshree Goswami Mahanta Literature and Education Assam
30 Narayan Das Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Rajasthan
31 Pravakara Maharana Art-Sculpture Odisha
32 Hun Many (Foreigner) Public Affairs Cambodia
33 Nouf Marwaai(Foreigner) Others- Yoga Saudi Arabia
34 Zaverilal Mehta Literature and Education-
Journalism Gujarat
35 Krishna Bihari Mishra Literature and Education West Bengal
36 Sisir Purushottam Misra Art-Cinema Maharashtra
37 Subhasini Mistry Social Work West Bengal
38 Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong
(Foreigner) Others-Spiritualism Thailand
39 Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar Literature and Education MP
40 Dr Thant Myint – U(Foreigner) Public Affairs Myanmar
41 V Nanammal Others-Yoga Tamil Nadu
42 Sulagitti Narasamma Social Work Karnataka
43 Vijayalakshmi
Navaneethakrishnan Art-Folk Music Tamil Nadu
44 I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner) Art- Sculpture Indonesia
45 Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai
Haji Othman(Foreigner) Social Work Brunei
46 Gobaradhan Panika Art-Weaving Odisha
47 Bhabani Charan Pattanaik Public Affairs Odisha
48 Murlikant Petkar Sports-Swimming Maharashtra
49 Habibullo Rajabov(Foreigner) Literature and Education Tajikistan
50 M R Rajagopal Medicine-Palliative care Kerala
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52 Sampat Ramteke(Posthumous) Social Work Maharashtra
53 Chandra Sekhar Rath
Odisha
54 S S Rathore Civil Service Gujarat
55 Amitava Roy Science and Engineering West Bengal
56 Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner) Medicine- Ophthalmology Nepal
57 R Sathyanarayana Art-Music Karnataka
58 Pankaj M Shah Medicine- Ophthalmology Gujarat
59 Bhajju Shyam Art-Painting MP
60 Maharao Raghuveer Singh Literature and Education Rajasthan
61 Kidambi Srikanth Sports-Badminton Andhra Pradesh
62 Ibrahim Sutar Art-Music Karnataka
63 Siddeshwara Swamiji Others-Spiritualism Karnataka
64 Lentina Ao Thakkar Social Work Nagaland
65 Vikram Chandra Thakur Science and Engineering Uttarakhand
66 Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy
Tharanathan (Duo) Art-Music Karnataka
67 Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Art-Music Karnataka
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Thyagarajan (Duo)
68 Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner) Others-Spiritualism Vietnam
69 Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi Literature and Education UP
70 Rajagopalan Vasudevan Science and Engineering Bihar
71 Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji Literature and Education Maharashtra
72 Romulus Whitaker Others-Wildlife
Conservation Tamil Nadu
73 Baba Yogendra Art Madhya Pradesh
74 A Zakia Literature and Education Mizoram
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards-2018
President Ram Nath Kovind presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Awards
for 2016 to an eminent group of musicians, dancers, and theatre artists.
List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships Awardees
Name Of The Winner Field Category
Arvind Parikh Music Hindustani Classical Sitar Player
R Vedavalli Music Carnatic Vocalist
Ram Gopal Bajaj Theatre Acting and direction
Sunil Kothari Dance Indian Classical Dance
List of Sangeet Natak Akademi awards
Name Of The Winner Field Category
Arvind Mulgaonkar Music Hindustani Tabla
Mysore M Manjunath Music Carnatic Violin
Nighoujam Shyamchang Singh Music Nata Sankirtana,
Ratnamala Prakash Music Sugam Sangeet
Ahmed Hussain & Mohd. Hussain Music Sugam Sangeet
J Vaidhyanathan Music Carnatic Mridangam
Kala Ramnath Music Hindustani Violin
Neela Ramgopal Music Carnatic Vocal Music
Komanakutty Music Carnatic Vocal Music
Padma Talwalkar Music Hindustani Vocal Music
Prabhakar Karekar Music Hindustani Vocal Music
Kalamandalam Ramachandran
Unnithan Dance Kathakali
Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh Dance Manipuri Dance
Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan Dance Sattriya Dance
Gopal Prasad Dubey Dance Chhau Dance
Anita R Ratnam Dance Contemporary Dance
Geeta Chandran Dance Bharatanatyam
Jitendra Maharaj Dance Khathak Dance
A B Bala Kondala Rao Dance Khuchipudi Dance
Ratikant Mohapatra Dance Odissi Dance
Gireesan V Theatre Acting
Oinam Biramangol Singh Theatre Acting
Mohan Joshi Theatre Acting
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Anjana Puri Theatre Allied Theatre Acts
K Govind Bhat Theatre Yakshgana
Bipin Kumar Theatre Direction
Bipin Kumar Theatre Direction
Kusum Kumar Theatre Playwriting
Satyabrata Rout Theatre Direction
Yogesh Gadhavi Music Gujarati Folk Music
Vidyanand Saraik Music Folk Music From Himachal
Pradesh
Chiranji Lal Tanwar Music Rajasthani Mand Music
Prabhitangsu Das Puppetry
Dattatreya Aralikatte Puppetry
Annabattula Lakshmi Mangatayaru &
Annabattula Leela Sai Theatre Traditional Theatre
Gulzar Ahmad Ganie Music Chakri, Folk Music
Braj Kishor Dubey Music Folk Music
Somnath D Chari Music Traditional Music
Lakmidhar Rout Art Pala art from Bihar
Pappu Venugopal Rao Art Overall Contribution In Arts
Avinash Pasricha Art Overall Contribution In Art
63rd Filmfare Awards 2018
Category Winner
Best Film 'Hindi Medium'
Critics' Award for Best Film 'Newton'
Best Actor In A Leading Role
(Female) Vidya Balan for 'Tumhari Sulu'
Best Actor In A Leading Role
(Male) Irrfan Khan for 'Hindi Medium'
Critics' Award for Best Actor
(Male) Rajkummar Rao for 'Trapped'
Critics' Award for Best Actor
(Female) Zaira Wasim for 'Secret Superstar'
Best Director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari for 'Bareilly Ki Barfi'
Best Debut Director Konkona Sensharma for 'A Death in the Gunj'
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
(Male) Rajkummar Rao for 'Bareilly Ki Barfi'
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
(Female) Meher Vij for 'Secret Superstar'
Best Dialogue Hitesh Kewalya for 'Shubh Mangal Saavdhan'
Best Screenplay Shubhashish Bhutiani for 'Mukti Bhavan'
Best Original Story Amit Masurkar for 'Newton'
Best Actor (Male) in a Short Film Jackie Shroff for 'Khujli'
Best Actor (Female) in a Short
Film Shefali Shah for 'Juice'
People's Choice Award for Best
Short Film 'Anahut'
Best Short Film (Fiction) 'Juice'
Best Short Film (Non Fiction) 'Invisible Wings'
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Best Music Album Pritam for 'Jagga Jasoos'
Best Playback Singer (Male) Arijit Singh for 'Roke na ruke naina' - 'Badrinath Ki
Dulhania'
Best Playback Singer (Female) Meghna Mishra for Nachdi phira - Secret Superstar
Best Lyrics Amitabh Bhattacharya for Ullu ka pattha - Jagga
Jasoos
Lifetime Achievement Award Mala Sinha and Bappi Lahiri
Best Choreography Vijay Ganguly and Ruel Dausan Varindani for Galti
se mistake - Jagga Jasoos
Best Background Score Pritam for Jagga Jasoos
Best Action Tom Struthers for Tiger Zinda Hai
Best Cinematography Sirsha Ray for A Death In The Gunj
Best Editing Nitin Baid for Trapped
Best Production Design Parul Sondh for Daddy
Best Sound Design Anish John for Trapped
Best Costume Rohit Chaturvedi for A Death In The Gunj
60th Grammy Awards- 2018
Award Awardee
Record of the Year "24K Magic" – Bruno Mars
Album of the Year 24K Magic – Bruno Mars
Song of the Year "That's What I Like"
Best New Artist Alessia Cara
Best Pop Solo Performance "Shape of You" – Ed Sheeran
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Feel It Still" – Portugal. The Man
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Tony Bennett Celebrates 90
Best Pop Vocal Album ÷ – Ed Sheeran
Best Dance Recording "Tonite" – LCD Soundsystem
Best Dance/Electronic Album 3-D The Catalogue – Kraftwerk
Best Contemporary Instrumental
Album Prototype – Jeff Lorber Fusion
Best Rock Performance "You Want It Darker" – Leonard Cohen
Best Metal Performance "Sultan's Curse" – Mastodon
Best Rock Song "Run" Foo Fighters
Best Rock Album A Deeper Understanding – The War on Drugs
Best Alternative Music Album Sleep Well Beast – The National
Best R&B Performance "That's What I Like" – Bruno Mars
Best Traditional R&B Performance "Redbone" – Childish Gambino
Best R&B Song "That's What I Like"
Other Important Awards and Honours- 2018
Name of the Winner Category Organized by
The Jawaharlal Nehru
Port Trust also known as
Nhava Sheva
Samundra Manthan - Organisation
of the Year award Bhandarkar Shipping
Ravi Menon the best central bank governor in UK-based magazine ‘The
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Asia-Pacific for 2018 Banker
film and theatre actor
Soumitra Chattopadhyay
France’s highest order of merit the
‘Legion of Honour’ France
The Matunga suburban
station
Limca Book of Records for
having an all-woman staff.
Mumbai Suburban
Railway network
Actor Sudhir Dalvi Janakavi P Sawlaram award
Thane Municipal
Corporation and the
Janakavi P Savlaram Kala
Samiti
dancer Jaishree T Ganga Jamuna award
Thane Municipal
Corporation and the
Janakavi P Savlaram Kala
Samiti
Arvind Parikh, R
Vedavalli, Ram Gopal
Bajaj and Sunil Kothari.
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Fellowships and Sangeet Natak
Akademi Awards
President Ram Nath
Kovind
president Pranab
Mukherjee
The Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.)
degree.
The Chittagong
University in Bangladesh
Virat Kohli the Cricketer of the Year and ICC
ODI Cricketer of the Year
International Cricket
Council (ICC )
Yuzvendra Chahal T20 Performance of the Year International Cricket
Council (ICC )
Nara Lokesh Dr Kalam Innovation in
Governance Award 2018
Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Summit
Global icon Shah Rukh
Khan 24th Crystal Award World Economic Forum
seven girls and 11 boys National Bravery Award 2017
Government of India and
Indian Council for Child
Welfare
Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister Edappadi K
Palanisamy
UNESCO Award of Merit
UNESCO Asia Pacific
region for the cultural
heritage conservation
committees
50 workers
Prime Minister’s Shram Awards
named Shram Ratna Award’, ‘Shram Bhushan Award’, ‘Shram
Vir/Shram Virangana’ ,‘Shram
Shree/Shram Devi Awards’
Ministry of Labour and
Employment
Dr Vinod Paul, Member
of NITI Aayog
IhsanDogramacı Family Health Foundation Prize
World Health
Organisation (WHO)
Bollywood playback
singer Asha Bhosle Yash Chopra Memorial Award’
TSR Foundation of T.
Subbarami Reddy in
memory of producer-
director Yash Chopra
Najma A Heptulla,
Narayan Yadav, Dinesh
Trivedi, Ghulam Nabi
Azad, Bhartruhari
Mahtab
Outstanding Parliamentarian
Awards
The Indian Parliamentary
Group
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Name of the
Winner category Organized by Given by
Magahi writer
Shesh Anand
Madhukar
Sahitya Akademi
Bhasha Samman award Sahitya Akademi
President of Sahitya
Akademi Vishwanath
Prasad Tewari
Odisha
Geospatial World
Excellence Award-2018
for successful IT
application.
The Geospatial
World Forum
Meeting held at
Hyderabad.
Union Minister of State
for Science and
Technology and Earth
Sciences and
Technology, YS
Chowdray
Shyam Benegal
The V Shantaram
Lifetime Achievement
Award the Mumbai
International Film
Festival is for
Documentary, Shorts &
Animation Films
Films Division,
Ministry of
Information &
Broadcasting,
Government of
India.
Governor of
Maharashtra, Shri C
Vidyasagar Rao
Shabnam
Asthana
Times Power Women
of the Year 2017’- Pune
for Global PR
The times group
Dilip Kamble, Minister
of State for Social
Justice
Ritu Sarin
International Press
Institute India Award
for Excellence in
Journalism.
International Press
Institute
India’s Aadhaar
card
best emerging
technology award
World
Government
Summit
Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Interior
of UAE Sheikh Saif bin
Zayed Al Nahyan.
Umang App Best m-Government
Service Award
World
Government
Summit
Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Interior
of UAE Sheikh Saif bin
Zayed Al Nahyan.
Vikas Sathaye
Scientific and
Engineering Academy
Award
Oscars Akademy Los Angeles,
California.
Sanjiv Bajaj, EY Entrepreneur of the
Year 2017. EY group New Delhi
Dr. E
Sreedharan
Lifetime Achievement
Award
T2P Consultants
Limited in
collaboration with
Chartered Institute
of Logistics and
Transport,
Delhi
Milkbasket,
India’s first and
largest micro-
delivery platform
Startup of the Year’ 2017
7th Small Business
Awards Bengaluru
Roger Federer Laureus World
Sportsman of the Year
Laureus Sport for
Good Foundation, Monaco
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and Comeback of the
Year awards.
Serena Williams World Sportswoman
of the Year award
Laureus Sport for
Good Foundation, Monaco
Formula 1
constructors’ champions
Mercedes
Team of the Year
trophy,
Laureus Sport for
Good Foundation, Monaco
wheelchair
athlete Marcel
Hug
Sportsperson of the
Year with a Disability
Laureus Sport for
Good Foundation, Monaco
Awards and Honours 2017
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2017 Winners List
Winner/Literary Work Language
Novels
Mamang Dai for The Black Hill English
Niranjan Mishra for Gangaputravadanam Sanskrit
K P Ramanunni for Daivathinte Pusthakam Malayalam
Nachhattar Slow Down Punjabi
Short Stories
Shiv Mehta Dogri
Autar Krishen Rahbar Kashmiri
Gajanan Jog Konkani
Gayatri Saraf Odia
Baig Ehsas Urdu
Literary criticism
Bina Hangkhim Nepali
T P Ashoka Kannada
Ramesh Kuntal Megh Hindi
Urmi Ghanshyam Desai Gujarati
Neeraj Daiya Rajasthani
Essays
Jagdish Lachhani Sindhi
Play
Rajen Toijamba Manipuri
45th International Emmy Awards 2017
Name of Category Name of Winner Country
Arts Programming Hip-Hop Evolution Canada
Best Performance by an
Actor
Kenneth Branagh in
Wallander United Kingdom
Best Performance by an Anna Friel in Marcella United Kingdo
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Actress m
Comedy Alan Partridge’s Scissored
lsle United Kingdom
Documentary Exodus: Our Journey to
Europe United Kingdom
Drama Series Mammon 2 Norway
Non –English Primetime
Program Sr.Avila United States
Non-Scripted
Entertainment Sorry Voor Alles Belgium
Short- Form Series Familie Braun Germany
Telenovela/ Soap opera Kara Sevda Turkey
TV movie / Mini Series Ne m’abandonne pas France
Kids : Series Kasper en de Kerstengelen Netherlands
Kids: Preschool Hey Duggee United Kingdom
Kids: Animation Shaun the sheep: The
farmer’s Llamas United Kingdom
Kids : Digital Doodles Australia
Kids : Factual Horrible Histories United Kingdom
Kids : TV Movie / Mini
Series Peter and Wendy United Kingdom
Kids : Non- Scripted
Entertainment Ultras Sorte Kageshow Denmark
23rd Star Screen Awards 2017
Award Awardee
Best Actress Award (Popular) Vidya Balan for Tumhari Sullu
Best Actor (Critics) Rajkumar Rao for Newton
Best Supporting Actor Rajkumar Rao for Bareilly Ki Barfi.
Best Actress (critics) Konkana Sen Sharma for Lipstick Under My Burkha
Best Actor (Popular) Irrfan Khan
Best Film (Critics) Newton
Best Director Nitesh Tiwari (Dangal)
Arjuna Award 2017
Name of the recipient Sports
Cheteshwar Pujara and Harmanpreet Kaur Cricket
Satyawart Kadian Wrestling
PN Prakash Shooting
Varun Bhati and Mariyappan Thangavelu Para Atheletics
Laishram Debendro Singh Boxing
Anthony Amalraj Table Tennis
S V Sunil Hockey
Saketh Mayneni Tennis
Oinam Bembem Devi Football
V J Surekha Archery
Khushbir Kaur and arokia rajiv Athletics
Prasanth Singh Basketball
Jasvir Singh Kabaddi
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SSP chawrasia Golf
Dronacharya Award 2017
Name Sports
Dr. R. Gandhi Athletics
Heera Nand Kataria Kabaddi
G.S.S.V. Prasad Badminton
Brij Bhushan Mohanty Boxing
P A Rafel Hockey
Roshan Lal Wrestling
Sanjoy chakravathy Shooting
List of National Bravery awards 2017
Name Award
Tarh Peeju-Arunachal Pradesh Bharat Award
Tushar Verma- Chhattisgarh Bapu Gaidhani Award
Roluaphului-Mizoram Bapu Gaidhani Award
Payaldevi- Jammu and Kashmir General National Bravery Award
Sumit Mamagin-Uttarakhand Sanjay Chpora awards
Tejaweetha & Shivan Gond-West Bengal geetha Chopra Award
Sonu Mali-Rajasthan General National Bravery Award
Thanghilmang Lunkim-Nagaland General National Bravery Award
Akshit &Akshita Sharma-Delhi General National Bravery Award
Nisha Dilip Patil-Maharashtra General National Bravery Award
Anshika Pandey-Uttar Pradesh General National Bravery Award
Namn Beniwal-Delhi General National Bravery Award
Mohan sethy-Odisha General National Bravery Award
Moriangthem Sadananda Singh-Manipur General National Bravery Award
Tankeswar Pegu-Assam General National Bravery Award
Binil Manjaly-Kerala General National Bravery Award
Siya Vamansa Khode-Karnataka General National Bravery Award
Praful Sharma-Himachal Pradesh General National Bravery Award
Aditya M.P Pillai-Kerala General National Bravery Award
Sumit Mamgain-Uttarakhand Sanjay Chopra Award
Badarunnisa K.P-Kerala General National Bravery Award
Neelam Dhru-Chattisgarh General National Bravery Award
Akhil K Shibu-Kerala General National Bravery Award
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
o The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema.
o The first recipient of the award was actress Devika Rani
o Prithvi Raj Kapoor is the only recipient to receive Dadasaheb Phalke award
posthumously
o Recent recipient- Kasinathuni Viswanath (Telugu)
64th
National Film awards
Best feature film- Kaasav- Marathi
Best non feature film- Fire Flys in the Abyss
Others:
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Award Awardee
Best Actor Akshay Kumar (Rustom)
Best Actress Surabhi Lakshmi (Minnaminungu)
Best Director Rajesh Mapuskar (Ventilator)
Best Film on Social Issues 'Pink'
Best Supporting Actor Manoj Joshi (Dashkriya)
Best Supporting Actress ZairaWasim (Dangal)
Best Debut Film of a Director Deep Chaudari (Alifa)
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome
Entertainment 'SathamanamBhavathi' (Telugu)
Best Stunt Choreography Peter Hein (Pulimurugan)
Best Children's Film 'Dhanak' (Hindi)
Best Child Artist Adhish Praveen (KunjuDaivam), Saj (Noor
Islam), Manohara (Railway Children)
Best Male Playback Singer Sundara Iyer (Joker)
Best Female Playback Singer Iman Chakraborty (Praktan)
Best Screenplay (original) SyamPushkaran (MaheshintePrathikaaram)
Best Screenplay (adapted) Sanjay Krishnaji Patel (Dashakriya)
Best Editing Rameshwar S. Bhagat (Ventilator)
Best Special Effect Award 'Shivaay'
Sound Designer Jayadevan (KaaduPookkunnaNeram)
Best Production Design 24
Best Costume Designer Sachin (Cycle)
Best Environmental film including
agriculture The Tiger Who Crossed The Line
Best Make-up Artist MK Ramakrishna
Best Music Direction Babu Padmanabha (Allama)
Nobel Prize 2017
Field Name Contribution
Physics
Rainer Weiss, the other half
jointly to Barry C. Barish and
Kip S. Thorne
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO
detector and the observation of
gravitational waves".
Chemistry Jacques Dubochet, Joachim
Frank and Richard Henderson
"for developing cryo-electron
microscopy for the high-resolution
structure determination of biomolecules
in solution".
Physiology or
medicine
Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael
Rosbash and Michael W.
Young
"for their discoveries of molecular
mechanisms controlling the circadian
rhythm".
Literature Kazuo Ishiguro
who, in novels of great emotional force,
has uncovered the abyss beneath our
illusory sense of connection with the
world".
Peace
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN)
"for its work to draw attention to the
catastrophic humanitarian consequences
of any use of nuclear weapons and for
its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a
treaty-based prohibition of such
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weapons".
Economics Richard H. Thaler "for his contributions to behavioural
economics".
OSCAR Awards 2017
Also known as academy awards
OSCAR is given annually by AMPAS- American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
First awarded in the year 1929
Award Awardee
Best Picture Moon Light
Best actress Emma Stone (La La Land)
Best actor Casey Affleck (Manchester by the sea)
Best director Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Best supporting actor Mahreshla Ali (Moon light)
Best supporting actress Viola Davis (fences)
Best foreign language film The sales man (Iran)
59th Grammy Awards- 2017
Award Awardee
Album of the year: 25 – Adele
Record of the year: Hello – Adele
Song of the year: Hello – Adele
Best rap album: Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
Best urban contemporary album: Beyonce – Lemonade
Best country solo performance: My Church – Maren Morris
Best rock song: Blackstar – David Bowie
Best pop duo/group performance: Stressed Out – Twenty One Pilots
Best new artist: Chance the Rapper
Best pop vocal album: Adele – 25
Best pop solo performance: Hello – Adele
Best Rhythm and Blues (R&B)
performance: Solange – Cranes in the Sky
Best R&B song: Maxwell – Lake by the Ocean
Best rap performance: Chance The Rapper featuring Lil Wayne & 2
Chainz – No Problem
Best rap/sung performance: Drake – Hotline Bling
Drake – Hotline Bling
Best R&B album: Lalah Hathaway – Lalah Hathaway Live
Best rap song: Drake – Hotline Bling
Best metal performance: Megadeth – Dystopia
Best rock performance: David Bowie – Blackstar
Best dance recording: The Chainsmokers – Don’t Let Me Down
Best dance/electronic album: Skin – Flume
Best music video: Beyonce – Formation
Best country song: Humble and Kind – Tim McGraw
Best country duo/group performance: Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton – Jolene
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Billboard Music Awards 2017
Award Awardee
Top Artist Drake
Top New Artist Zayn
Billboard Chart Achievement Award
Presented by Xfinity Twenty One Pilots
Top Male Artist Drake
Top Female Artist Beyonce
Top Duo/Group Twenty One Pilots
Top Billboard 200 Artist Drake
Top Hot 100 Artist Drake
Top Song Sales Artist Drake
Top Radio Songs Artist Twenty One Pilots
Top Streaming Songs Artist Drake
Top Social Artist BTS
Top Touring Artist Beyonce
Top R&B Artist: Beyonce
Top Rap Album Drake
Top Country Album Chris Stapleton
Top Rock Album Metallica
Top Latin Album Juan Gabriel
Top Dance/Electronic Album Lindsey Stirling
Top Christian Album Top Gospel Album
Top Hot 100 Song The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
Top Selling Song Justin Timberlake, “Can’t Stop The Feeling
Top Radio Song Justin Timberlake, “Can’t Stop The Feeling
Top Streaming Song (Audio) Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla, “One
Dance
Top Streaming Song (Video) Desiigner, "Panda"
Top Collaboration The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey, “Closer
Top R&B Song Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla, “One
Dance
Top R&B Collaboration Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla, “One
Dance”
Top Rap Song Desiigner, “Panda”
Top Rap Collaboration Rae Sremmurd Featuring Gucci Mane,
“Black Beatles
Top Country Song Florida Georgia Line, “H.O.L.Y.
Top Country Collaboration Kenny Chesney Featuring Pink, “Setting The
World On Fire
Top Rock Song Twenty One Pilots, “Heathens
Top Latin Song Nicky Jam, “Hasta El Amanecer
Top Dance/Electronic Song The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey,
“Closer”
Top Christian Song Hillary Scott & The Family, “Thy Will”
Top Gospel Song Travis Greene, “Made A Way”
I-League Awards 2017
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Award Awardee
Best goalkeeper award Debjit Majumder
Jarnail Singh Best Defender’ of Hero I-
League 2016-17 award Anas Edathodika
Best Midfielder of Hero I-League 2016-17 Alfred Kemah Jaryan
Best Striker award Aser Pierrick Dipanda Dicka
Best Emerging Player of Hero I-League'
award Jerry Lalrinzuala
Syed Abdul Rahim Best Coach Award Khalid Jamil
Hero of the League Sunil Chhetri
7th Annual Asian Awards
Award Awardee
Rising Star Award at the 7th Annual
Asian Awards Child actor Sunny Pawar,
Fellowship Award at the 7th annual Asian
Awards Sachin Tendulkar
Award for outstanding achievement in
Cinema Om Puri
Outstanding achievement in Music. Adnan Sami
Outstanding Achievement in Television Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Business Leader of the Year Ajay Banga
Entrepreneur of the year Masayoshi Son
Social Entrepreneur of the year Nisha Dutt
Philanthropist of the year Dr Jack Preger
Outstanding achievement in sport Ding Punhui
BCCI Awards 2017
Award Awardee
Col. CK. Nayudu Lifetime achievement
award Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar
BCCI Lifetime achievement award for
women Shantha Rangaswamy
BCCI special award VV Kumar, Late Ramakant Desai
Polly Umrigar Award Virat Kohli
Dilip Sardesai award Ravichandran Ashwin
Lala Amarnath Award for the best all-
rounder in the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Jalaj Saxena of Madhya Pradesh
Lala Amarnath Award for the best all-
rounder in domestic limited-overs
competitions, 2015-1
Axar Patel
Madavrao Scindin Award Shreyas Iyer
(Highest scorer in the Ranji Trophy 2015-16)
M.A. Chidambaram Trophy Jay. G. Bosta
(Highest scorer in (U-23) Col. CK. Nayudu
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Trophy 2015-16
M.A. Chidambaram Trophy
Satyajeet Bachhav
(Highest wicket-taker in (U-23) Col. CK.
Nayudu Trophy 2015-16
ESPN Awards 2017
Award Awardee
Captain of the year Virat Kohli
Test batting Ben Stokes
Test bowling Stuart Broad
ODI batting Quinton De Kock
ODI bowling Sunil Narine
T20I batting Carlos Brathwaite
T20I bowling Mustafizur Rahman
Debutant of the year Mehedi Hasan Miraz
Associate batting Muhammad Shahzad
Associate bowling Muhammad Nabi
Women’s batting Hayley Mathews
Women’s bowling Leigh Kasperek
Other Important Awards and Honours- 2017
Name of the Award Recipient
Lifetime Achievement Award at
Dubai International Film Festival Rekha (Veteran actress)
The world's third largest startup
base
India (US and UK stands in the first and second
position respectively)
Rio Paralympics silver medalist, who
honored with Rs. 4 crore cash
reward by P Narendra Modi
Deepa Malik
German Green Talent Award Shamik Chowdhury (Indian researcher)
Prestigious award for outstanding
work in the field of e-governance at
the 'State of the States Conclave
2016'
Haryana government
The highest-paid woman in music for
2016 in Forbes’ annual list. Taylor Swift
Rashtriya Kalidas Samman by
Madhya Pradesh Government Raj Bisaria and Banshi Kaul
Australian of the Year Local Hero'
award 2017 Tejinder Pal
La Liga's best player for 2015-16
season Cristiano Ronaldo
Tata Literature Live! Lifetime
Achievement Award Amitav Ghosh
Reporters without Borders (RSF)-
TV5 Monde prize’ Hadi Abdullah
Golden Peacock Award for
Corporate Governance for year 2016 Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
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Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship
Award at the ATP awards Roger Federer
Uttarakhand Ratna award Harish Rawat (Uttarakhand Chief Minister)
Goldsmiths Prize Mike McCormack (Solar Bones author)
‘Doodle 4 Google’ 2016 contest Anvita Prashant Telang ( fromPune )
Global Citizen Award Imtiaz Sooliman
Tata Literature Live! Poet Laureate
Award 2016 Gulzar (Lyricist-writer)
World's best airline for the 4th
consecutive year
Air New Zealand
The oldest woman to Space
Peggy Whitson (NASA astronaut, at an age of 56
years)
Winner of SumitraCharat Ram
Award for lifetime achievement in
the field of Indian classical music.
Pt Hari Prasad Chourasia (Noted flautist)
Winner of the prestigious Mother
Teresa International Award
Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (UAE
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation, by the Mumbai-based NGO Harmony
Foundation.)
Artist of the Year' at the 2016
American Music Awards (AMAs) Ariana Grande (Singer)
'Favorite Female Artist - Pop/Rock'
at the 2016 American Music Awards
(AMAs)
Selena Gomez
Video of the Year' award at the 2016
American Music Awards (AMAs) Justin Bieber (for his track 'Sorry')
first World Sanskrit Award Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Princess of Thailand)
International Maritime Organization
(IMO) Award for Exceptional
Bravery at Sea
Captain Radhika Menon
International Press Freedom Award Malini Subramaniam (Indian Journalist, for her
reporting from the Naxal-infested Bastar area)
Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Akshaya Mukul (Senior journalist, for his book
"Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India")
Winner of 10th Asia Pacific Screen
Award in Best Actor Category Manoj Bajpayee (Bollywood actor)
Winner of at the prestigious
UNESCO Salon Youth Video
Competition 2016
'Magical Piano', a short film by the Toonz Media
Group (Dr Avaneesh, Head of Development,
Toonz Media Group received the award from Salon
Films Chairman Fred Wang)
Indian Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR) ‘Distinguished
Indologist’ Award
Prof. Yu Long Yu (Chinese professor)
Golden Peacock award at the 47th
International Film Festival of India
(IFFI)
Iranian film “Daughter” (directed by Reza
Mirkarimi)
Indian MNC of the year' by AIMA Hero MotoCorp Ltd.
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Indian National Science Academy
(INSA) medal for the Young Scientist
Award
Sanjay Pratihar
Avvaiyar Award” Padma Venkataraman
US Transformative Chief Minister
Award Chandrababu Naidu
Diplomatic Service Merit Sungnye
Medal of the Republic of Korea Rajive Kaul
Special Jury Remi Award at the 50th
annual Worldfest-Houston
International Film Festival
The Black Prince
MTV’s genderless award Emma Watson
India’s Young Scientist Vikram Vishal
2016 Wisden-MCC (Melbourne
Cricket Council) Cricket Photograph
of the Year
Saqib Majeed,
Best Film at the New York Indian
Film Festival (NYIFF). Mukti Bhawan”
Best Director for her directorial
debut ‘A Death in the Gunj
& Best Actress for ‘Lipstick Under
My Burkha’ at 2017's New York
Indian Film Festival (NYIFF).
Konkona Sensharma
Media For Sanitation’ award by
Railways Minister NDTV
K Chandrasekharan Memorial
Award M P Veerendra Kumar
Football Writers' Association
Footballer of the Year. N'Golo Kant
Aon Best Employers India in the
2017 Sony Pictures
Woodrow Wilson Award Chanda Kochhar
"Smart Village Award Govardhan Eco Village
Florence Nightingale award Krishna Kumari
Aravind Kumar Rengan National Science Academy (INSA) Young
Scientist 2017.
The Federation of Noida Residents
Welfare Association Navratan Legend Award
Institute of Techonology (IIT) Delhi
Team Startups National Award 2017
Pawan Kumar Chamling First Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Lifetime
Achievement Honour in Public Service
Govardhan Eco Village Smart Village Award by the India Trade Promotion
Organisation (ITPO)
Bharti Airtel Aon Best Employer India 2017
Krishna Kumari Florence Nightingale award
Anshu Jamsenpa First Indian woman to scale Mount Everest four
times
Shrinivas Kulkarni Dan David prize
Purnima Barman & Sanjay Gubbi Whitley Award (Green Oscar)
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David Letterman Kennedy Center’s 2017 Mark Twain Prize for
American Humor.
The Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace
Sanjeev Gupta CEO of the Year (UK)
Davis Gross Man Booker Prize
Colson whitehead for The
underground railroad Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Tyehimba jess Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Hisham Matar Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Du Yun Pulitzer Prize for Music
Lynn Notage Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Dawit Issak UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom
Prize
Emma Watson Gender less award for the best actor category
Newton best film at the Honkong International Film
Festival
Malala Yousufzai Youngest UN messenger of peace
Yuves Meyer 2017 Abel Prize
Srinivas Kulakarni Dan David prize
Telangana IT Minister KT Rama
Rao Skoch IT minister of the year
Dr. Raghu Ram DR BC ROY national award
Bappi Lahiri Dr. Ambedkar award
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar
Rao Agricultural leader ship award
Natasha Biswas India’s first Miss Trans Queen
PV Sindhu Sports Person of the Year
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