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Awards 2015(Jan-August)

Name of the Award Name of the Person Business Person of the Year 2014 Larry Page State Pre-eminent Science and Technology Award Yu Min 2014. Essop Goolam Pahad from South Africa Ashraf Pellarkunnmal from UAE. Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi from New Zealand. Rajamal Parakh from Oman. Duraikannu Karunakaran from Seychelles. Dr Rajaram Sanjaya from Mexico. Bharat Kumar Jayantilal Shah from UAE. Mahendra Nanji Mehta from Uganda. Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards Nathuram Puri from the United Kingdom. Lord Raj Lumba from the United Kingdom. Mala Mehta from Australia. Satyanarayan Nadela from USA. Kamlesh Lulla from the US. Nandani Tandon from US. President Donald Rabindernauth Ramaotar from Guyana. 72nd Golden Globe Awards Movies Best motion picture (drama) Boyhood. Best motion picture (musical or comedy) The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best animated feature film How to Train Your Dragon 2. Best director Richard Linklater,”Boyhood”. Best screenplay Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”. Best original song Glory from “Selma”. Best foreign language film “Leviathan”(Russia). Television Best TV series (drama) The Affair Best actor in a TV series (drama) Kevin Spacey,”House of Cards”. Best actress in a TV series (drama) Ruth Wilson,”The Affair”. Best TV series (comedy) Transparent. Best TV movie or miniseries Fargo. ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) or Mangalyaan 2015 Space Pioneer Award Team. 2014 Asian Tour Players’ Player of the year. Anirban Lahiri Ballon d’Or 2014 Award Cristiano Ronaldo. Raghuram Rajan Governor of the Year Award. National e-Governance Award Jammu and Kashmir. Vyas Samman Award Kamal Kishore Goyanka. National Tiger Conservation Authority(NTCA) Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala. award Vikram Sarabhai memorial award M Y S Prasad. Sahitya Akademi Award Prabhu Nath Dwivedi. National Special Category Award for the Best C V Anand.

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Electoral Practices in 2014. Media Person of the Year 2015 . Giraffe Hero Award 2015 Subash Chandra Agarwal. Hindu Literary Prize 2014 Ashok Srinivasan. Martin Luther King Award Frank Islam. DSC Prize for South Asian fiction Jhumpa Lahiri. Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize Arundhathi Subramaniam. National Bravery Awards 2014 Sanjay Chopra Award Devesh Kumar. Bapu Gaidhani Award Monika, Rumoh Meto and Riya Chaudhary. Geeta Chopra Award Gunjan Sharma. Bharat Award Resham Fatma General National Bravery Award 18 Young People. Senior BJP leader L K Advani, Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Padma Vibhushan Award and Punjab Chief, Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Award Melinda Best Indian Language Website in navbharattimes.com. Bharat Gaurav award Nasrin Ejner. Yash Bharti Award Vinod Mehta. 60 th Awards Best Actor (Male) Shahid for . Best Actor (Female) for Queen. Best Film Queen. Best Director for Queen. Best Film (Critics) Ankhon Dekhi. Best Actor (Critics) for Ankhon Dekhi. Best Actress (Critics) for Highway. Best Supporting Actor (Male) Kay Kay Menon for Haider. Best Supporting Actor(Female) for Haider. Best Story Rajat Kapoor for Ankhon Dekhi. Best Dialogue Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi for PK. Best Screenplay Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi for PK. Best Debutant (Female) Kriti Sanon for Heropanti. Best Debutant(Male) for Khoobsurat. Best Music Director Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for 2 States. Best Lyrics Rashmi Singh for Muskurane Ki Wajah(CityLights). Best Playback Singer (Male) Ankit Tiwari for Galliyan (Ek Villain). Best Playback Singer (Female) Kanika Kapoor for Baby Doll (Ragini MMS2). Best Choreography Ahmed Khan for Jumme Ki Raat for Kick Best Action Sham Kaushal for Gunday Best Cinematography Bobby Singh and Diwan for Queen. Best Background Score Amit Trivedi for Queen. Best Editing Abhijit Kokate and Anurag Kashyap for Queen. Best Production Design Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray for Haider. Best Sound Design Anilkumar Konakandla and Prabal Pradhan for Mardaani. King Faisal International Award 2015 Dr. Zakir Naik. Hindol Sengupta’s Book(How Entrepreneurship is Hayek Prize Revolutionizing the World’s Largest Democracy. Jnanpith Award Bhalchandra Nemade. 2 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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68 th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Best Film Boyhood. Outstanding British Film The Theory of Everything. Best Director Richard Linklater (Boyhood). Best Actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything). Best Actress Julianne Moore (Still Alice). Best Supporting Actor K. Simmons (Whiplash). Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood. Best Original Screenplay The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Adapted Screenplay The Theory of Everything. Best Editing Whiplash. Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman). Best Production Design The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Costume Design The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Original Music The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Sound Whiplash. Best Visual Effects Interstellar. Best Film Not in the English Language Ida. Best Animated Film The Lego Movie. Best Documentary Citizenfour. Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Stephen Beresford Producer (Writer) and David Livingstone (Producer). Best British Short Film Boogaloo and Graham. Best British Short Animation The Bigger Picture. The EE Rising Star Award Jack O’Connell. Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema BBC Films. Most awards The Grand Budapest Hotel (5). Most nominations The Grand Budapest Hotel (11). Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015 Amartya Sen. 57th Annual Grammy Awards Best New Age Album Trophy Ricky Kej. Children’s Album category Neela Vaswani. National Science Foundation(NSF) CAREER Gurpreet Singh. award Espncricinfo Award Rohit Sharma. CIO Choice Honour and Recognition 2015 Wipro. AIFF Presents Player of the Year Awards 2014 Player of the year (Men) Sunil Chhetti. Player of the year (Women) Bala Devi. Emerging Player of the Year Sandesh Jhingan. Best Referee Santosh Kumar. Best Assistant Referee Sappam Kennedy. Best Grassroots Programme Western India Football Association (WIFA). Long Time Contribution to Indian Football Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). Honorary Life Membreship Sourav Ganguly. National Award for Renewable Energy Himachal Pradesh. Popularisation Y Nayudamma Memorial Award Tessy Thomas and Geeta Varadan. 87 th Academy Awards Best Picture Birdman Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu(Birdman).

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Best Actor Eddie Redmayne(The Theory of Everything). Best Actress Julianne Moore(Still Alice). Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette (Boyhood). Achievement in Costume Design Milena Canonero(The Grand Budapest Hotel). Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier(The Grand Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Budapest Hotel). Best Foreign Language Film Ida(Pawel Pawlikowski). Best Live Action Short Film The Phone Call(Matt Kirkby and James Lucas). Original Screenplay Birdman. Achievement in Sound Editing American Sniper(Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman). Interstellar(Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew Achievement in Visual Effects Lockley and Paul Franklin). Best Animated Short Feast(Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed). Big Hero Six(Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Best Animated Movie Conli). The Grand Budapest Hotel(Adam Stockhausen and Achievement in Production Design Anna Pinnock). Achievement in Cinematography Birdman(Emannuel Lubezki). Achievement in Film Editing Whipalsh(Tom Cross). Citizen Four(Laura Poitras,Mathilde Bonnefoy and Best Documentary Feature Dirk Wilutzky). Best Original Song Glory(John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn). Best Original Score The Grand Budapest Hotel(Alexandre Desplat). Best Adapted Screenplay The Imitation Game (Graham Moore). J Calvin Giddings Award 2015 Purnendu Dasgupta. The Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus Nagesh Kukunoor's film Dhanak. International Jury 1.Arundhati Bhattacharyya. 2.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. 3.Chanda Kochchar. Forbes Honors 6 Powerful Businesswomen in India 4. Akhila Srinivasan. 5.Shika Sharma. 6. Usha Sangwan. Doctorate of Automotive Engineering . 10 th National Award for excellence in MGNREGA Madhya Pradesh. ICC Cricket Hall of Fame Martin Crowe. National award . Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership 2014 Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba. Golden Gate Award Kerala Tourism Department. Top Employer in Europe TCS-3rd time. Saraswati Samman Award Veerappa Moily. Stockholm Water Prize Rajendra Singh. 1.Captain Niloo far Rahmani from Afghanistan Air Force. 2.Nadia Sharmeen- Journalist and Women’s rights International Women of Courage Award 2015 activist from Bangladesh. 3.Tabassum Adnan- founder of Khwendo Jirga from Pakistan. 4th National Photography Awards Life-Time Achievement Award Surendra R Patel. Best Professional Photographer of the Year Swarup Duta. 4 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Best Amateur Photographer of the Year Sasikumar. The theme for Professional Photographer category Hamara Bharat Swachh Bharat The theme for Amateur Category Mother and Child. 1.Jayesh Navinchandra Shah. 2.Atul Vasant Ghag. Special Mention Award in Professional Category 3.Pravin Rawat. 4.Arvind Kumar Jain. 5.Umesh Nikam. .1Joydeep Mukherjee. 2.Akhil Hardia. Special Mention Award in Amateur Category 3.Nimai Chandra Ghosh. 4.Mukesh J Thakkar. 5.Tabeenah Anjum Qureshi. Voice of the Century Award Lata Mangeshkar. Young Global Leader by WEF Smriti Irani. Woman of the Year 2015 in New South Wales Minoti Apte. 1. Harvard university in US. 2. Cambridge university in UK. 3. University of Oxford in UK. 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Times Higher Education World Reputation 5. Stanford University in US. Rankings 6. University of California,Berkeley in US. 7. Princeton university in US. 8. Yale University in US. 9. California Institute of Technology in US. 10. Colombia Institute of Technology in US. France’s Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters Bharti Kher. National Kavi Pradeep Samman Award . 62 nd National Film Awards Best Hindi Film Queen. Best Bengali Film Nirbashito. Best Tamil Film Kuttram Kadithal. Best Marathi Film Killa. Best Kannada Film Harivu. Best Konkani Film Nachom – IA Kumpasar. Best Malayalam Film Ain. Best Assamese Film Othello. Best Odiya Film Aadim Vichar. Best Punjabi Film Punjab 1984. Best Telugu Film Chandamama Kathalu. Best Rabha Film Orong. Best Haryanvi Film Pagdi The Honour. Best Music Direction Songs Haider (Hindi). Background Score Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam). Best Choreography Bismil for Haider. Special Mention Ain (Malayalam). Nachom IA Kumpasar (Konkani) Killa Marathi. Bhootnath Returns Hindi. Best Educational Film: Komal & Behind the Glass Wall. Best Exploration/Adventure Film Life Force – India’s Western Ghats. Best Investigative Film Phum Shang.

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Best Animation Film Sound of Joy Best Short Fiction Film Mitraa. Best Film Critic Tanul Thakur. Silent Cinema:(1895-1930)- Pasupuleti, Best Writing on Cinema Purnachandra Rao. G.Dhananjayan for Pride of Tamil Cinema(Special Best Writing on Cinema Mention). Best Costume Designer Dolly Ahluwalia for Haider. Uttara Unnikrishanan for song Azhagu in Saivam Best Female Playback Singer (Tamil). Best Male Playback Singer Sukhwinder Singh for song Bismil from Haider. Best Actress Kangana Ranaut for Queen. Best Supporting Actress Baljinder Kaur for Pagdi The Honour (Haryanavi). Best Supporting Actor Bobby Simhaa for Jigarthanda (Tamil). Best Actor Vijay for Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada). Best Direction Srijit Mukherji for Chotushkone (Bengali). Best Film On Environment Conservation/ Ottaal (Malayalam). Preservation Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Mary Kom. Entertainment Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film Of A Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali). Director Best Feature Film Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English). Folio Prize for Fiction Akhil Sharma. 1.Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang Award: Sister Mariola (Rajasthan). 2.Rani Lakshmibai Award: Seema Prakash (Madhya Pradesh). 3.Rani Rudramma Devi Award: Astha Sansthan- Stree Shakti Puraskar 2014 NGO (Rajasthan). 4.Mata Jijabai Award: Chandraprabha Bokey (Maharashtra). 5. Kannagi Award: P. Bhanumati (Kerala). Devi Ahily Man Booker International Prize Amitav Ghosh. Women in Parliaments Award Bangladesh. Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award Balbir Singh Senior. Dada Saheb Phalke Award Shashi Kapoor. Kirti Chakra Award Captain Jaidev of Parachute Regiment. 1.Subedar Prakash Chand Shaurya Chakra (Posthumously) 2. Lieutenant Commander Manoranjan Kumar 3.Major Abhijai of Corps of Engineers. 1.Major Mukul Sharma 2.Commander Gosavi Kaustubh Vijaykumar 3.Major R Vamshi Krishnan 4.Rifleman Manga Ram Shaurya Chakra 5.Wing Commander Huvey Upadhyaya 6.Major Abhishek Kumar 7.Major Satnam Singh 8. Naik Ansaigra Basumatary. 6th Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) Awards Maharatna of the year – Manufacturing National Thermal power corporation Limited

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(NTPC). Most Efficient Maharatna – Manufacturing Bharat Heavy electrical Limited (BHEL). Fastest Growing Navaratna of the year -Non Rural electrification Corporation Manufacturing Limited(REC). Best General Insurance Company of the year New India Assurance Company. Outstanding Performance in Mega Project Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Implementation. National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. Highest Wealth Creator among listed PSUs (NBCC). Navratna of the year – Non-Manufacturing Power Finance Corporation Limited(PFC). Outstanding performer in Retail Banking Canara Bank. Most Consistent Performer of the year- General United India Insurance Company Insurance Maharatna of the year – Non-Manufacturing Oil and Natural gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). Biggest e-commerce portal in India Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). Most Efficient Miniratna of the year- Non- Container Corporation Of India Limited Manufacturing (CONCOR). Most Efficient Public Sector Bank Bank of Baroda. National Mineral Development Corporation Most Efficient Navratna –Non- Manufacturing (NMDC). Fastest Growing Maharatna – Non-Manufacturing COAL India Web Ratna Awards 2014 Citizen Centric Service Category Platinum Award Passporte Seva Project. National Safai Karmchari Finance Development Gold Award Corporation. Silve Award National Institute of Open schooling. Open Data Champion category Office of Registrar General & Census Platinum Award Commissioner. Planning Commission and Union Minister of Gold Award Statistics & Program Implementation. Silver Award Union Minister of Water Resources. Outstanding Content category Platinum Award Minister of External Affairs. Gold Award Minister of Tribal Affairs and Kerala Tourism. Silver Award Minister of Development of North Eastern Region. Innovative Use of Technology category Platinum Award MKisan-Government of India Portal for Farmer Centric Services. Gold Award MP and Tamil Nadu Commertial Tax Department . E-Sahakar, an online Cooperative Society Process Silver Award Management System of Maharashtra Government. Comprehensive Web presence category Platinum Award Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Gold Award Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Silver Award Controller General of Accounts. Comprehensive Web Presence State category Platinum Award Maharashtra. Gold Award Tamil Nadu. Silver Award Uttarakhand. 7 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO). Abel Prize 2015 Dr. John Forbes Nash and Louis Nirenberg. Bishwaratna Dr International Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Solidarity Award Aditi Arya. Bharat Ratna Madan Mohan Malviya. International Achievement Award 2015 Dr Subadhra Devi Rai. Sir Richard Hadlee Medal Brendon McCullum. Golden Peacock National Quality Award 2015 International Airport Limited (DIAL) Laureus World Sports Awards 2015 Sportsman of the year Novak Djokovic. SportsWoman of the year Genzebe Dibaba. Team of the year Germany MEN’s Football Team. Come-back of the year Schalk Burger. Break-through of the year Daniel Ricciardo. Action-sports-person of the year Alan Eustace. Sportsperson of the year with a disablity Tatyana Mcfadden. Sport for good Award Skateistan. Demy Exceptioanal Achievement Li Na. Spirit of Sport Yao Ming. 6th AIMA Managing India Awards 2015 Director Of The Year Rajkumar Hirani. Transformational Business Leader Of The Year Kunal Bahl. MNC In India Of The Year Hyundai Motor India Ltd. Outstanding Contribution To Media Shekhar Gupta. Outstanding Institution Builder M V Subbiah. Entrepreneur Of The Year Nita M Ambani. Business Leader Of The Year Aditya Puri. Indian MNC Of The Year Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Lifetime Contribution Award G M Rao. Champion Of Change Award Satya Nadella. Time Magazine-100 Most Influential People In World 1.Kanye West(American Musician), 2.Lorne Michaels (T.V-Producer, Writer And A The List Of Titans Comedian), 3.Mellody Hobson(CEO Of Dream Works- Animations). 1.Bradley Cooper(American-Actor & Producer), The Top Pioneers List 2.Richard-Linklater(Director & Screen-Writer), 3. Chris Ofili(British-Painter). 1.Jorge Ramos(Mexican-American Journalis), The Top Leaders List 2.Narendra Modi(PM Of India), 3.Angela Merkel, (German Chancellor). 1.Ruth Bader Ginsburg(Associate-Justice Supreme Court,US), The Top Icons List 2.Taylor Swift, American(Singer & Song-Writer), 3.Diane Von Furstenberg(American Fashion- Designer). Editor of the Year Aroon Poorie. CEO of the year Arundhati-Bhattacharya. Game-Changer of the year Uday-Shankar. 8 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Marketer of the year B. Sriram. Insurance of the year Sanjay-Tripathi. Mahatma Ganthi Biennial Hindi Writing Award First prize Bajrange Chhara(Boodhan Bolta Hai). Second prize Nishant Singh(Baal Shoshan aur Apradh). Pulitzer Prize Winners 2015 Journalism Public Service The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Breaking News Reporting The Seattle Times Staff. Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Investigative Reporting (two prizes) Street Journal Staff. Explanatory Reporting Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News. Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of Local Reporting the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif. National Reporting Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post. International Reporting The New York Times Staff. Feature Writing Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times. Commentary Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle. Criticism Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times. Editorial Writing Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe. Editorial Cartooning Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Breaking News Photography St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff. Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer,The New Feature Photography York Times. Letters And Drama All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Fiction (Scribner). Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Drama Guirgis. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of History the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn(Hill and Wang). The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius Biography XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I.

Kertzer (Random House). Poetry Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by General Nonfiction Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt). Music Anthracite Fields Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy/G. Schirmer,Inc.) Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2015 Actor . Outstanding Service Award Gopinath Pillai. Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo. Hevesy Medal Award 2015 Susanta Lahiri and Kattesh V Katti. Web Ratna Award 2014 Development of North East Region (DoNER). Asian Business Leader of year Hinduja brothers. Asian Awards 2015 Outstanding Contribution to Cinema . Outstanding Contribution to Sport Kumar Sangakkara. Outstanding Achievement in Science and Tejinder Singh Virdee. Technology Outstanding Achievement in Television award Sanjeev Bhaskar. 9 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Asian Squash Federation awards Outstanding Team of the Year award India’s men’s team. Coach of the year award Cyrus Poncha. Hassan Musa Award Kush Kumar. Best Film award at Stockholm International Film Mary Kom film Fest (SIFFJ) Orwell Prize Rana Dasgupta. President's Medal in Israel Adiel Yosef. Heinz Award Sangita Bhatia. London Marathon Lifetime Achievement Award Paula Radcliffe. 50 th Jnanpith Award Bhalchandra Nemade. Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation Dr Ananda Kumar and Dr Pramod Patil. Japan’s highest civilian award Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao. Lifetime Achievement Award Pranoy Roy Golden Medal For Merit In Work Rafael Nadal. Spring imperial decorations award of Japan 2015 C.N.R Rao,T.K.A Nair,Parekh and Bhutia. World’s Best airport for the year 2014 Indira Gandhi International Airport. 62 nd National Film Awards Ceremony Dadasaheb Phalke Shashi Kapoor. UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Mazen Darwish. Prize 2015 UN Public Service Award Nadia district. G.K Reddy Memorial National Award Vinod Mehta. Palme d’Or Agnes Varda. Florence Nightingale Awards 35 nurses. UK literary award- Encore Award Neel Mukherjee. University of North Carolina[ UNC] 2015 awards Sivanadane Mandjiny. Tolkappiyar award SV Shanmugam. Kural Pitam award Eva Maria Wilden E.Ezhuilvasanthan, K.Jwahar and K.Iyappan for Young scholar awards 2011-12 and R.Venkatesan,A.Sathish, MR.Devak, U.Alibava and B.Jaiganesh. Akshay Tambe, Victor Lalbeiseia,Ashwini Ugadhe, Ghanshyam Binali Children’s Bravery Award for Mhonbeni Ezung, Shaurya Veer Singh and Rhea 2014 Chaudhary. Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award Anurradha Prasad. Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award Karan Jerath. Top Civilian Supervisor of the Year Harkeert Singh Saini. Man Booker International Prize Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Radcliffe fellowship by Harvard university Shivani Agarwal and Maharaja Pandit. Grand Vermeil Rafael Nadal. UN Dag Hammarsjold Medal 2015 Lance Naik Nand Ram and Raju Joseph. Platts Global award 2015 NMDC. 68th Cannes Film Festival Palm d’Or award Dheepan. Runner- up award Son of Saul. Best Director award Hou Hsiao-hsien. Best Actor award Vincent Lindon. Best Actress award Emmanuelle Bercot and Rooney Mara. Best Screenplay Michel Franco for Chronic. Annual CEAT awards for 2015 International cricketer of the year Kumar Sangakkara. 10 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Domestic cricketer of the year R.Vinay. Indian player of the year Ajinkya Rahane. T20 player of the year West Indian player Dwayne Bravo. International batsman of the year Hashim Amla. International bowler of the year Sri Lankan Rangana Herath Popular choice award West Indian Keiran Pollard. Special award Rohit Sharma. Young player of the year Deepak Hooda. Munich International Film Festival honour Alexander Payne. University of Oxford Inspirational Teacher Award Gurnimrat Nimmy Sidhu. Sathiskumar,Anusuya,Ponnusami,Shashank,Agarw 4th Edition of Airbus Fly Your Ideas global al,Dhamotharan Veerasamy, Mojit Gupta and Ajith competition Winner Mosses. Times Of India Sports awards Sportsperson of the year Jitu Rai. Lifetime Achievement Of The Year Milkha Singh. Popula Choice Awards. Pankaj Adwani, Sanjitha Channu. Upcoming or emerging player award Malaika Goel. Best cricketer award in men’s category Virat kohli. Best cricketer Women’s category the Harmanpreet Singh. award Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 16 th International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) Awards 2015 Best picture Queen Best regional film Lai Bhari ( Marathi ). Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar & Parvez Shaikh Best story (Queen). Best direction Rajkumar Hirani (PK). 1.Avinash Mehra 2., Nisha Agnihotri, 3.Prashant Pathak, 4. Neeru Gupta, 5.Manjul Bhargava, ICCC Annual Awards 2015 6.Hargurdeep Singh, 7. Avish Sood, 8.Asim Ghosh, 9.Jag Parmar, 10.Venkatesh Mannar, 11. , Rajiv Manucha. Bjornson Prize for Freedom of Expression Edward Snowden. King and Queen of Social Media Shah Rukh Khan and . Asian Athletics Association President’s Award Suresh Kalmadi. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Miniratna ( Category-1) award Limited(IREDA). 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction UK author Ali Smith. Space Pioneer Award ISRO. Best Outsourcing Thought Leadership Award for Wipro. 2015 2015 Sant Namdev National Award Parkash Singh Badal. Pride of Community Award Vivek Murthy. Queen’s Young Leaders Award Devika Malik. Dr.Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Chirag Bahiri.

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Year Award 1.Musicologist S R Janakiraman, Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships for the year 2. Filmmaker M S Sathyu 2014 3. Indian classical singer Vijay Kichlu, 4.Musician Tulsidas Borkar. 1.Luxme Hariharan. Shortlister for White House fellowship programme 2.Payal Patel. 3.Anil Yallapragada. Ludovic Trarieux Prize Waleed Abu Al-Khair. UK’s Young Writers-2015 creativity award Priyam Kamble. 1. Babusha Kohli. 10 th Navlekhan Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith 2. Upasana. Fukuoka Prize in academics category . Swathi Puraskar Award Amjad Ali Khan. Sangita Kalanidhi Award For 2015 Shri Sanjay. VK Menon Award Benni Joseph Mavelil. Best Welfare Organiztion Award-2015 National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI). Columbia’s highest civilian award Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Five novelists, four writers of short stories, and Bal Sahitya Puraskar for the year 2015 three authors of poetries. United Nations Public Services Award 2015 District Magistrate of Nadia 28 th Moorti Devi Award Vishwanath Tripathi. Punyabhushan Award Prataprao Pawar. PATA Award Kerala Tourism. Champion of Change award Sunita Viswanath. 1.Hasan Arif 2.Kafeel Akhtar William Harvey Award for 2015 3. Shagufta Qadri 4. Suhailur Rahman 18th Youth Parliament Competition for Jawahar Churachandpur. Navodaya Vidyalayas Economic Development Innovation Award Make in India. Leading Oil & Gas Corporate of the Year award Indian Oil Corporation-8th Year. IEEE award for developing curriculum lab Professor Jamia Golden Peacock environment management award Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh. French Civilian Award Commandeur de la Lgion Sayed Haider Raza . dHonneur 1.Mishi Choudhary 2. Manish Dahiya.. 21 Young Leaders Class of 2015 list 3. Sanjay Vijayakumar. 4. Aarti Wig. An India-based software products and technology Microsoft Country Partner of Year Award services. 2015 Miss USA pageant Oklahoma and Olivia Jordan Golden Peacock Environment Management Award Tata Steel’s West Bokaro Division. 2015 Vivek Agnihotri’s political irony “Buddha In A Madrid International Film Festival Traffic Jam”-Best Original Screenplay . -12 th . Top 20 technology-rich cities in the world 1.London

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2.San Jose. 3.Beijing. Prestigious Royal Society Award Kamal Bawa . International Indian of the Year for 2014-15 Lord Karan Bilimoria. International Indian Business Woman of the year Uma Wadhwani. International Indian Lifetime Services to Maritime Captain Nalin Pandey. Trade India and the World 2014-15 International Indian Promoting Healthcare for Ravinder Singh Gidar. elderly. International Indian Promoting Community Pravinkant Amin. relations Worldwide International Indian Promoting Tourism through Bajrang Bahadur Mathur. writing and art International Indian Young entrepreneur 2014-15 Sanjay Wadhwani. 1. Attorney. 2. Rakesh Khurana. Great Immigrants award 2015 3. Madhulika Sikka. 4. Abraham Verghese. G D Birla Award for Scientific Research 2014 Prof. Sanjeev Galande Peru’s Highest Award-Grand Officer Sri Sri Ravi Shanka. World Food Prize 2015 Fazle Hasan Abed. 2015 World Agriculture Prize laureate R Paul Singh. Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Darshan Jain and Science Teaching LGBT scholarship from California University Shakthi Nataraj. World’s second largest smartphone market India,US-1st . Varanasi,Glasgow,Hanover and Mannheim UNESCO-Cities of Music Ghent,Hamamatsu,Brazzaville,Bogota,Seville and Bologna . 1. Aqueduct of Padre, Mexico 2. Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale, Italy 3. Baekje Historic Areas, Republic of Korea 4. Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al- Maghtas), Jordan 5. Champagne Hillsides,Houses andCellars, France 6. Christiansfeld,a Moravian Church Settlement, Denmark 7. Climats, terroirs of Burgundy, France 8. Cultural Landscape of Maymand, Iran UNESCO-Heritage list 9. Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape, Turkey 10. Ephesus, Turkey 11. Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape Uruguay 12. Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape, Mongolia 13. Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal, Israel 14. Rjukan–Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, Norway

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15. Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia 16. San Antonio Missions, USA 17. Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore 18. Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, Japan 19. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus, Germany 20. Susa, Iran 21. The Forth Bridge, United Kingdom 22. The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, Denmark 23. Tusi Sites, 24. Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica Nelson Mandela prize Dr. Helena Ndume Chaudhary Charan Singh Award Gargi Parsai India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) Ramon Magsaysay Award 2015 Anshu Gupta International Dairy Foods Association Award Harjinder singh 72 nd Venice film festival Visaaranai(Nomination) Arjuna Award Ravichandran Ashwin Bharat Bharti literary award 2014 Kashinath Singh Best Electoral Practices Award-2014 Rajan Vishal Amitabh Bachchan(7 th ), (9 th ) and Akshay World’s top ten highest-paid actors in Forbes Kumar(18 th )and (30 th ). 2015 Ramanujan Prize Dr. Amalendu Krishna Bharat Bharti literary award 2014(UP) Kashinath Singh ESRI(Environmental Systems Research Institute) National Dairy Development Board Special Achievement in GIS Award 2015 Zhanna Nemtsova Poland’s Solidarity Prize 2015 Sanjiv Sambandan Google Pitch Fest Bill Gates - rank 1 ,Larry Ellison -rank 2,Shiv nadir rank Top 20 Tech Billionaires -5th , -11th place PATWA awards Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar Germany’s highest civilian honor “The Cross of Order Raghavendra Gadagkarwas of the Merit”. 2015 International Emmy Awards Kashmir Valley flood coverage(Nomination) Youngest US Republican presidential. Bobby Jindal Prem Bhatia Memorial Award Suhasini Haidar Gold medal by IGNOU for topping in Diploma in Ajeet Kumar Saroj Tourism Studies (DTS). Kerala State film awards 2014 Best Actors Nivin Pauly and Sudev Nair Best Actress Nazriya Nazim Best Movie Ottal Best Popular Movie Om Shanti Oshana 24th Saraswati Sammaan for the year 2014 award Dr. M Veerappa Moily Indian city to join World Tourism Cities Federation Kochi (WTCF) Council. Vaidya Ratna award Martha Bhaskar Rao Fellow of prestigious Royal Society Ajay Sood World’s largest cash transfer program PAHAL scheme 14 | P a g e Follow Us - FB.com/AffairsCloudOfficialPage Copyright 2015 @ AffairsCloud.Com

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Rakesh Sharma and Vikramjit AIATF awards APJ Abdul Kalam award N. Valarmathi Best actress award, Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) Bhumi Pednekar 2015. Khel ratna Award Sania Mirza 1. P R Sreejesh (Hockey) 2. Dipa Karmakar (Gymnastics) 3. Jitu Rai (Shooting) 4. Sandeep Kumar (Archery) 5. Mandeep Jangra (Boxing) 6. Babita (Wrestling) 7. Bajrang (Wrestling) 8. Rohit Sharma (Cricket) 9. K Srikanth (Badminton) Arjuna Awards 10. Swarn Singh Virk (Rowing) 11. Satish Sivalingam (Weightlifting) 12. Yumnam Santhoi Devi (Wushu) 13. Sharath Gaekwad (Para-sailing) 14. M R Poovamma (Athletics) 15. Manjeet Chhillar (Kabaddi) 16. Abhilasha Mhatre (Kabaddi) 17. Anup Kumar Yama (Rollerskating)

Gujar Mal Modi Award 2015 Prof. Mustansir Barma World’s fifth most attractive travel hotspot Taj Mahal 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year award Lionel Richie Britain’s oldest literary award -James Tait Black Zia Haider Rahman Literary Prizes 'Twin national heritage cities' Rishikesh and Haridwar Maharashtra Bhushan award Balwant Moreshwar Purandare TCS(64) ,Hindustan Unilever(41),Larsen & Toubro(58), World’s 100 most innovative companies by Forbes Sun Pharma Industries(65) and Bajaj Autonamed (96). 1 .Jennifer Lawrence 2. Scarlett Johansson 3. Melissa McCarthy 4. Bingbing Fan 5. Jennifer Anisto List of highest-paid actresses according to the annual the 6. Julia Roberts spian earnings survey by Forbes 7. Angelina Jolie 8. Reese Witherspoo 9. Anne Hathaway 10.Kristen Stewart.

Asian of the Year 2014 award Vijay Singh Thakur Fortune magazine’s ‘Change the World’ list of Jain Irrigation Systems(7 th ) companies 2015 Peter Mackler Award Zaina Erhaim Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA ) Trophy Punjabi University of Patiala Mark Zuckerberg-wealthiest individual under the age of Wealth-X report. 35, Dustin Moskovitz-second place, Huiyan Yang, Huiyan Yang- third spot. Dronacharya Award 2015 1)Naval Singh- Athletics Para-sports coach,

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2)Harbans Singh- Athletics coach. 3)Anoop Singh– Wrestling coach. 4)Swatantar Raj Singh- Boxing coach. 5)Nihar Ameen- Swimming coach. 1)Romeo James– Hockey, 2)Shiv Prakash Mishra- Dhyan Chand Award 2015 Tennis, 3)P.P Nair– Volleyball. 1)Directorate General of Military Training (DGMT), 2)Coal India Limited (CIL) . Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2015 3)Haryana State Police. 4).Sports Coaching Foundation (SCF). Anote Tong and Dr. M. Vijay Gupta Sunhak Peace Prize 2015

Pradeep Goyal, Vivekanand Kain, and Gankidi Fellows this year by the American Society for Metals Madhusudhan Reddy World’s richest Indian Mukesh Ambani Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2015 Border Police official and mountaineer Jot Singh. American Book Award 2015 Naomi Klein Grand Prix World Press Cartoon Award for 2014 Pamarthy Shankar Best Documentary Producer award, Madrid Benoy Behl International Film Festival Copley Medal, Royal Society Peter Higgs Boson Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Ramachandra Guha

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