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Nobel Prize - 2015 Nobel prize - 2015 ★ Physics - Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. Mcdonald ​ ★Chemistry - Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich, Aziz ​ Sanskar ★Physiology or Medicine - William C. Campbell, ​ Satoshi Omura, Tu Youyou ★Literature - Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) ​ ★Peace - Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet ​ ★Economics - Angus Deaton ​ Nobel prize - 2016 ★Physics - David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. ​ Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz ★Chemistry - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J.Fraser ​ Stoddart, Bernard L. Feringa ★Physiology or Medicine - Yoshinori Ohsumi ​ ★Literature - Bob Dylan ​ ★Peace - Juan Manuel Santos ​ ★Economics - Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom ​ Nobel prize - History Year Honourable Subject Origin 1902 Ronald Ross Medicine Foreign citizen born in India 1907 Rudyard Kipling Literature Foreign citizen born in India 1913 Rabindranath Literature Citizen of India Tagore 1930 C.V. Raman Physics Citizen of India 1968 Har Gobind Medicine Foreign Citizen of Indian Khorana Origin 1979 Mother Teresa Peace Acquired Indian Citizenship 1983 Subrahmanyan Physics Indian-born American Chandrasekhar citizen 1998 Amartya Sen Economi Citizen of India c Sciences 2009 Venkatraman Chemistr Indian born American Ramakrishna y Citizen Booker Prize Year Author Title 2002 Yann Martel Life of Pi 2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little 2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss 2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger 2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf hall 2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question 2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending 2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies 2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries 2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2015 Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings 2016 Han Kang, Deborah Smith The Vegetarian Booker Prize - Facts ★In 1993 on 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize and the ​ ​ decision was done by a panel of three judges. It was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers ​ Prize. ★The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to ​ celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize. The decision was left to a public vote. The winner was again Midnight’s Children ​ ★In recent years, Neel Mukherjee's ‘The Lives of Others’ [2014], Jhumpa Lahiri’s Lowland [2013], and Jeet Thayil’s ‘Narcopolis’ [2012] have been shortlisted. Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize is U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. ❖It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American [Hungarian-born] publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. ❖Gobind Behari Lal won the Pulitzer Prize for ​ Journalism in 1937. ❖Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer prize for fiction for ​ her book ‘Interpreters of Maladies” in 2000. ❖Geeta Anand was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 ​ for her work on Pompe Disease, a muscular condition, which was made into a movie, “Extraordinary Measures” and later a book “The Cure”. ❖Siddhartha Mukherjee won the Pulitzer Prize for ​ general non-fiction in 2011 for his book ‘The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer’. ❖Vijay Seshadri won the Pulitzer Prize under the ​ poetry category for his collection of poems ‘3 Sections’. ❖Sanghamitra Kalita, an American-Indian, won the ​ 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting category. Ramon Magsaysay Award It’s considered as Asia’s Nobel Prize Year Name Field 1961 Amitabha Chowdhury Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1967 Satyajit Ray Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1975 Boobli George Verghese Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1976 Sombhu Mitra Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1981 Gour Kishore Ghosh Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1982 Arun Shourie Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1984 R. K. Laxman Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1991 K.V. Subbanna Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1992 Ravi Shankar Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1997 Mahasweta Devi Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 2007 P. Sainath Journalism, Literature and the creative communication arts 1962 Mother Teresa Peace 2000 Jockin Arputham Peace 2004 Laxminarayan Ramdas Peace 2002 Sandeep Pandey Emergent Leadership 2006 Arvind Kejriwal Emergent Leadership 2011 Nileema Mishra Emergent Leadership 2015 Sanjiv Chaturvedi Emergent Leadership 2011 Harish Hande Uncategorized 2009 Deep Joshi Uncategorized 2012 Kulandei Francis Uncategorized 2015 Anshu Gupta and Sanjiv Uncategorized Chaturvedi 1959 C.D. Deshmukh Government Service 1994 Kiran Bedi Government Service 1996 TN Seshan Government Service 2003 James Michael Lyngdoh Government Service 1965 Jayaprakash Narayan Public Service 1974 M.S. Subbulakshmi Public Service 1982 Manibhai Desai Public Service 1985 Baba Amte Public Service 1989 Lakshmi Chand Jain Public Service 1993 Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Public Service 1996 John Woong-Jin Oh Public Service 1997 Mahesh Chandra Mehta Public Service 2005 V. Shanta Public Service 2010 Himanshu Aggarwal Public Service 1958 Vinoba Bhave Community Leadership 1963 Verghese Kurien Community Leadership 1963 Dara Nusserwanji Community Leadership Khurody 1963 Tribhuvandas Patel Community Leadership 1966 Kamladevi Community Leadership Chattopadhyay 1969 A. T. Ariyaratne Community Leadership 1971 M. S. Swaminathan Community Leadership 1977 Ela Bhatt Community Leadership 1979 Mabelle Arole Community Leadership 1979 Rajanikant Arole Community Leadership 1981 Pramod Khan Sethi Community Leadership 1982 Chandi Prasad Bhatt Community Leadership 1996 Athavale Community Leadership 2000 Aruna Roy Community Leadership 2001 Rajendra Singh Community Leadership 2003 Shantha Sinha Community Leadership 2008 Dr. Prakash Amte Community Leadership 2008 Dr. Mandakini Amte Community Leadership Bharat Ratna ❖Bharat Ratna is the Republic of India’s highest civilian award, for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour. ❖It was first awarded in 1954 to C. Rajagopalachari, C V Raman and S Radhakrishnan. ❖It was recently awarded to Atal Bihari Vajpayee ​ and Madan Malviya in 2015. ❖It was last awarded in 2013 to Sachin Tendulkar and Prof C N R Rao. ❖Of the 43 awards so far, there has been one award to a naturalised Indian citizen, Mother Teresa (1980), and to two non-Indians, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987) and Nelson Mandela (1990). ❖In 2011, the Government of India modified the eligibility criteria to allow sportspersons to receive the award. ❖A.P.J Abdul Kalam won it in 1997, Amartya Sen in 1999 and Lata Mangeshkar in 2001. Other Awards ★Padma Vibhushan - Highest civilian honor after ​ Bharat Ratna ★Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Highest Sporting honor ​ ★Dhyan Chand Award - Highest award for lifetime ​ achievement in Sports and games. ★Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Highest award for ​ lifetime achievement in Cinema. ★Bhartiya Jnanpith Award - Literary award ​ ★Sahitya Academy Fellowship - Highest literary ​ honor. Dr. Bholabhai Patel, Sri Kunwar Narain, Sri Khushwant Singh, Prof. Kedar Nath Singh and Chandranath Mishra ‘Amar’ are the 5 people honored for the same. Padma Vibhushan - 2016 Year Awardee Category 2016 V. K. Aatre Sci and engg 2016 Dhirubhai Ambani Trade and industry 2016 Girija Devi Arts 2016 Avinash Dixit Literature and education 2016 Jagmohan Public affairs 2016 Yamini Arts Krishnamurthy 2016 Rajnikant Arts 2016 Ramoji Rao Literature and education 2016 Sri Sri Ravi shankar Others 2016 V. Shanta Medicine Watch Educational Videos Youtube channel LINK - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8AjbB9wZWF Q0Df7J-7mp8A For CAT XAT SSC BANK PO IIFT and ALL Competitive Exams. .
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