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CURRENT AFFAIRS – AWARDS – JANUARY, 2020 ‘Padma Awads’ – one of the highest civilian awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are given in various disciplines/fields of activities, viz., art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine literature and education, sports, civil service etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service. ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order. ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The Government of India has announced 141 Padma Awards for the year 2020 on the occasion of 71st Republic Day. The Padma Awards list comprises of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri. 34 awardees are women and 18 foreigners. 12 persons are awarded posthumously. Here is the complete list: PADMA VIBHUSHAN Sl. Name Field State/Country No. 1. George Fernandes (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bihar 2. Arun Jaitley (Posthumous) Public Affairs Delhi 3. Sir Anerood Jugnauth Public Affairs Mauritius 4. M. C. Mary Kom Sports Manipur 5. Chhannulal Mishra Art Uttar Pradesh 6. Sushma Swaraj (Posthumous) Public Affairs Delhi Sri Vishveshateertha Swamiji 7. Sri Pejavara Adhokhaja Matha Udupi Others-Spiritualism Karnataka (Posthumous) PADMA BHUSHAN Sl. Name Field State/Country No. 8. M. Mumtaz Ali Others-Spiritualism Kerala 9. Syed Muazzem Ali (Posthumous) Public Affairs Bangladesh 10. Muzaffar Hussain Baig Public Affairs J &K 11. Ajoy Chakravorty Art West Bengal 12. Manoj Das Literature and Education Puducherry 13. Balkrishna Doshi Others-Architecture Gujarat 14. Krishnammal Jagannathan Social Work Tamil Nadu 15. S. C. Jamir Public Affairs Nagaland COMPETITIVE POINT, Gajapati Nagar Square, Near NIDAN-Behind SBI, Berhampur-10 Phone: 0680-2290224 | Mobile: 9658464748 | Email: [email protected] | Website: www.competitivepoint.in 16. Anil Prakash Joshi Social Work Uttarakhand 17. Dr.Tsering Landol Medicine Ladakh 18. Anand Mahindra Trade and Industry Maharashtra Neelakanta Ramakrishna 19. Public Affairs Kerala Madhava Menon (Posthumous) Manohar Gopalkrishna 20. Public Affairs Goa Prabhu Parrikar (Posthumous) 21. Prof. Jagdish Sheth Literature and Education USA 22. P. V. Sindhu Sports Telangana 23. Venu Srinivasan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu PADMA SHRI Sl. Name Field State/Country No. 24. Guru Shashadhar Acharya Art Jharkhand 25. Dr. Yogi Aeron Medicine Uttarakhand 26. Jai Prakash Agarwal Trade and Industry Delhi 27. Jagdish Lal Ahuja Social Work Punjab 28. Kazi Masum Akhtar Literature and Education West Bengal 29. Ms. Gloria Arieira Literature and Education Brazil 30. Khan Zaheerkhan Bakhtiyarkhan Sports Maharashtra 31. Dr. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay Medicine Uttar Pradesh 32. Dr. Sushovan Banerjee Medicine West Bengal 33. Dr. Digambar Behera Medicine Chandigarh 34. Dr. Damayanti Beshra Literature and Education Odisha 35. Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji Social Work Maharashtra 36. Himmata Ram Bhambhu Social Work Rajasthan 37. Sanjeev Bikhchandani Trade and Industry Uttar Pradesh 38. Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia Trade and Industry Gujarat 39. Bob Blackman Public Affairs United Kingdom 40. Indira P. P. Bora Art Assam 41. Madan Singh Chauhan Art Chhattisgarh 42. Usha Chaumar Social Work Rajasthan 43. Lil Bahadur Chettri Literature and Education Assam COMPETITIVE POINT, Gajapati Nagar Square, Near NIDAN-Behind SBI, Berhampur-10 Phone: 0680-2290224 | Mobile: 9658464748 | Email: [email protected] | Website: www.competitivepoint.in Lalitha & Ms. Saroja 44. Art Tamil Nadu Chidambaram (Duo)* 45. Dr. Vajira Chitrasena Art Sri Lanka 46. Dr. Purushottam Dadheech Art Madhya Pradesh 47. Utsav Charan Das Art Odisha Prof. Indra Dassanayake 48. Literature and Education Sri Lanka (Posthumous) 49. H. M. Desai Literature and Education Gujarat 50. Manohar Devadoss Art Tamil Nadu 51. Oinam Bembem Devi Sports Manipur 52. Lia Diskin Social Work Brazil 53. M. P. Ganesh Sports Karnataka 54. Dr. Bangalore Gangadhar Medicine Karnataka 55. Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar Science and Engineering Maharashtra 56. Barry Gardiner Public Affairs United Kingdom 57. Chewang Motup Goba Trade and Industry Ladakh 58. Bharat Goenka Trade and Industry Karnataka 59. Yadla Gopalarao Art Andhra Pradesh 60. Mitrabhanu Gountia Art Odisha 61. Tulasi Gowda Social Work Karnataka 62. Sujoy K. Guha Science and Engineering Bihar 63. Harekala Hajabba Social Work Karnataka 64. Enamul Haque Others-Archaeology Bangladesh 65. Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh Art Jharkhand 66. Abdul Jabbar (Posthumous) Social Work Madhya Pradesh 67. Bimal Kumar Jain Social Work Bihar 68. Meenakshi Jain Literature and Education Delhi 69. Nemnath Jain Trade and Industry Madhya Pradesh 70. Shanti Jain Art Bihar 71. Sudhir Jain Science and Engineering Gujarat 72. Benichandra Jamatia Literature and Education Tripura K. V. Sampath Kumar & 73. Literature and Education-Journalism Karnataka Ms. Vidushi Jayalakshmi K.S. (Duo)* 74. Karan Johar Art Maharashtra 75. Dr. Leela Joshi Medicine Madhya Pradesh COMPETITIVE POINT, Gajapati Nagar Square, Near NIDAN-Behind SBI, Berhampur-10 Phone: 0680-2290224 | Mobile: 9658464748 | Email: [email protected] | Website: www.competitivepoint.in 76. Sarita Joshi Art Maharashtra 77. C. Kamlova Literature and Education Mizoram 78. Dr. Ravi Kannan R. Medicine Assam 79. Ekta Kapoor Art Maharashtra 80. Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia Art Gujarat 81. Narayan J. Joshi Karayal Literature and Education Gujarat 82. Dr. Narindar Nath Khanna Medicine Uttar Pradesh 83. Naveen Khanna Science and Engineering Delhi 84. S. P. Kothari Literature and Education USA 85. V. K. Munusamy Krishnapakthar Art Puducherry 86. M. K. Kunjol Social Work Kerala Manmohan Mahapatra 87. Art Odisha (Posthumous) 88. Ustad Anwar Khan Mangniyar Art Rajasthan 89. Kattungal Subramaniam Manilal Science and Engineering Kerala 90. Munna Master Art Rajasthan 91. Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra Literature and Education Himachal Pradesh 92. Binapani Mohanty Literature and Education Odisha 93. Dr. Arunoday Mondal Medicine West Bengal 94. Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee Literature and Education France 95. Sathyanarayan Mundayoor Social Work Arunachal Pradesh 96. Manilal Nag Art West Bengal 97. N. Chandrasekharan Nair Literature and Education Kerala 98. Dr. Tetsu Nakamura (Posthumous) Social Work Afghanistan 99. Shiv Datt Nirmohi Literature and Education J & K 100. Pu Lalbiakthanga Pachuau Literature and Education-Journalism Mizoram 101. Moozhikkal Pankajakshi Art Kerala 102. Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik Literature and Education USA 103. Jogendra Nath Phukan Literature and Education Assam 104. Rahibai Soma Popere Others-Agriculture Maharashtra 105. Yogesh Praveen Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh 106. Jitu Rai Sports Uttar Pradesh 107. Tarundeep Rai Sports Sikkim 108. S. Ramakrishnan Social Work Tamil Nadu 109. Rani Rampal Sports Haryana COMPETITIVE POINT, Gajapati Nagar Square, Near NIDAN-Behind SBI, Berhampur-10 Phone: 0680-2290224 | Mobile: 9658464748 | Email: [email protected] | Website: www.competitivepoint.in 110. Kangana Ranaut Art Maharashtra 111. Dalavai Chalapathi Rao Art Andhra Pradesh 112. Shahbuddin Rathod Literature and Education Gujarat 113. Kalyan Singh Rawat Social Work Uttarakhand 114. Chintala Venkat Reddy Others-Agriculture Telangana 115. Dr. Shanti Roy Medicine Bihar Radhammohan & 116. Others-Agriculture Odisha Ms.Sabarmatee (Duo)* 117. Batakrushna Sahoo Others-Animal Husbandry Odisha 118. Trinity Saioo Others-Agriculture Meghalaya 119. Adnan Sami Art Maharashtra 120. Vijay Sankeshwar Trade and Industry Karnataka 121. Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma Medicine Assam Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri 122. Social Work Maharashtra alias Sayedbhai 123. Mohammed Sharif Social Work Uttar Pradesh 124. Shyam Sunder Sharma Art Bihar 125. Dr. Gurdip Singh Medicine Gujarat 126. 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Prem Watsa Trade and Industry Canada COMPETITIVE POINT, Gajapati Nagar Square, Near NIDAN-Behind SBI, Berhampur-10 Phone: 0680-2290224 | Mobile: 9658464748 | Email: [email protected] | Website: www.competitivepoint.in Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards – 2019 for 54 persons: President Ram Nath Kovind has approved the conferment of Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards – 2019 on 54 persons. This includes Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak to seven, Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak to eight and Jeevan Raksha Padak to thirty-nine persons. Five awards are posthumous. Jeevan Raksha Padak series of awards are given to a person for meritorious act of human nature in saving the life of a person. The award is given in three categories – Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak, Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak and Jeevan Raksha Padak. Persons of all walks of life are eligible for these awards. The award can
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    Arjuna Award Winners List - 2020-2013 Arjuna Award Winners 2020 List Year Category Arjuna Awardees 2020 Archery Shri Atanu Das Athletics Ms Dutee Chand Badminton Shri Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy Badminton Shri Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty Basketball Shri Vishesh Bhriguvanshi Boxing Subedar Manish Kaushik Boxing Ms Lovlina Borgohain Cricket Shri Ishant Sharma Cricket Ms Deepti Sharma Equestrian Shri Sawant Ajay Anant Football Shri Sandesh Jhingan Golf Ms Aditi Ashok Hockey Shri Akashdeep Singh Hockey Ms Deepika Hockey Shivendra Pratap Santosh Singh Kabaddi Shri Deepak Kho Kho Shri Kale Sarika Sudhakar Rowing Shri Dattu Baban Bhokanal Shooting Ms. Manu Bhaker Shooting Shri Saurabh Chaudhary Table Tennis Ms. Madhurika Suhas Patkar Tennis Shri Divij Sharan Winter Sports Shri Shiva Keshavan Wrestling Ms. Divya Kakran Wrestling Shri Rahul Aware Para Swimming Shri Suyash Narayan Jadhav Para Athletics Shri Sandeep Para Shooting Shri Manish Narwal Arjuna Award Winners 2019 List Year Category Names 2019 Athletics Sundar Singh Gurjar (Para Athlete) 2019 Athletics Swapna Barman 2019 Athletics Tajinder Pal Singh 2019 Athletics Mohammed Anas Yahiya 2019 Badminton Pramod Bhagat (Para Athlete) 2019 Badminton Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth 2019 Boxing Sonia Lather 2019 Cricket Ravindra Jadeja 2019 Cricket Poonam Yadav 2019 Equestrian Fouaad Mirza 2019 Football Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 2019 Hockey Chinglensana Kangujam 2019 Kabaddi Ajay Thakur 2019 Polo Simran Singh Shergill 2019 Shooting Anjum Moudgil 2019 Table Tennis Harmeet Desai 2019 Wrestling Pooja Dhanda Arjuna