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Current Affairs List of Important Honors & Awards January to October 2018

Dear readers,

This PDF is a complete docket of the important list of Honors & Awards which was announced in last 10 months (1st January 2018 – 31st October 2018). This file is important and relevant for all competitive exams like, Banking, SSC, UPSC, PCS, State, and other Govt. Exams.

Honours & Awards

National October

1. First World Agriculture Prize – Prof. M.S. • The Seoul Peace Prize was established in 1990 to Swaminathan commemorate the success of the 24th Olympic • M.S. Swaminathan won the first World Games held in Seoul. Agriculture Prize. 3. BEML Received Top Challengers’ & Best Mining • This prize instituted by the Indian Council of Equipment Seller Award Food and Agriculture (ICFA) was presented by • Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a Mini Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu at Vigyan Ratna Public Sector Undertaking, under the Bhawan in . Ministry of Defence, received the prestigious • Prof. Swaminathan is known as Father of Green ‘Top Challengers Award 2018’ for the excellent Revolution in . performance during the financial year 2017-18. 2. Narendra Modi wins Seoul Peace Prize 4. for Cultural Harmony • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been • Union Government (Ministry of Culture) has conferred with the Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for announced winners of Tagore Award for Cultural his contribution to international cooperation and Harmony for year 2014, 2015 and 2016. fostering global economic growth.

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Winners are – • Union Minister Piyush Goyal will receive the For 2016 - Vanji Sutar. prestigious Carnot Prize from the Ivy League • He is renowned sculptor. University of Pennsylvania in recognition of his • His first notable work was the 45-feet Chambal work for rural electrification while he held the monument at the Gandhi Sagar Dam in Madhya power and renewable energy portfolios. Pradesh. • The Carnot Prize is given "for distinguished • He is also receipient of and contributions to energy policy". . 9. Hridaynath Award for Lifetime Achievement - • The Statue of Unity has been designed by Veteran composer, lyricist, writer and music director renowned sculptor Ram Vanji Sutar. Hashmi, famously known as For 2015 - Chhayanaut. Khayya was 2018 Hridaynath Award for Lifetime • It is cultural organization of Bangladesh established Achievement. in 1961. Note: The award will be conferred by Chief • It has played leading role in promoting Tagore’s Minister Devendra Fadnavis in . works in Bengali culture, music and literature not 10. India Social Entrepreneur of The Year 2018 - Prema only within Bangladesh, but all across the world. Gopalan, founder of Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) was For 2014 - Singhajit Singh. awarded with the 8th Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, 2018, for her work in promoting women’s • He is doyen of Manipuri dance. He is also teacher, entrepreneurship at the grassroots and ensuring rural performer and choreographer. livelihood. 5. INSA Teachers Award-2018 11. India's 1st Miss Trans Queen - Veena Sendre from • Prof Ashis Mukherjee, a senior faculty member of the Chhattisgarh has been chosen as India's first 'Miss Trans prestigious Tezpur University was awarded the Queen' prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) 12. Swachh Survekshan Grameen Awards 2018 - Prime Teachers Award (2018). Minister Narendra Modi gave awards to top Ranked 6. 19th Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for State, District and State with maximum citizen Excellence in Public Administration - participation based on the National Swachh Survekshan • Eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman (89) was awarded Grameen 2018 commissioned by Ministry of Drinking 19th Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Water and Sanitation. Excellence in Public Administration. • Haryana was ranked as the best State while • He was presented the award by Vice President Satara District of Maharashtra was ranked as the Venkaiah Naidu at a function held in New Delhi. best district as per the ranking undertaken by 7. Wins FAO's Future Policy Award 2018 Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018. • The North-eastern state Sikkim won the UN Food Overall Ranking: and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Future • Top 3 States- Haryana, Gujarat & Maharashtra. Policy Award 2018 for being the world's first • Top 3 Districts- Satara, Maharashtra, Rewari, 100% organic state. Haryana, Pedapalli, Telangana. • Future Policy Award 2018, also known as “Oscar • States with maximum citizen participation- Uttar for Best Policies”. Pradesh, Gujarat & Maharashtra. 8. Carnot Prize for Rural Electrification Effort

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• Districts with maximum citizens’ participation- Nashik, Maharashtra, Solapur, Maharashtra & Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.

September

1. National Tourism Awards 2016-17 - Andhra Pradesh 5. PNB Wins Implementation Award - State- bagged the first prize in state category for Punjab National Bank (PNB) bagged the "Rajbhasha comprehensive development of tourism. Kirti" award for outstanding performance in 2. UN’s Highest Environmental Honour - Prime Minister implementing the Official Language Policy during 2017- Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN’s highest 18. environmental honour. 6. 39th Sarala Puraskar - Noted Odia poet Satrughna 3. Award - Anushka Sharma received the Smita Pandav will be honoured with the prestigious 'Sarala Patil award for best actor. Puraskar' for his poetry collection 'Misra Dhrupad'. 4. Tenzing Norgay Award - All-women crew of INSV Tarini 7. 2018 Dr B.C. Roy National Award - Dr B.K. Misra was has bagged the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National named for prestigious Dr B.C. Roy National Award for Adventure award for beating the odds in water with their year 2018 as Eminent Medical Person of the Year. enduring skills and sailing across the world for eight long Note: It is the highest medical honour of India. months.

National Sports Awards 2018

• Clarence Lobo - Hockey (Life Time) 1. 2018 - It is India’s highest • Tarak Sinha - (Life Time) sporting award given for the spectacular and most • Jiwan Kumar Sharma - Judo (Life Time) outstanding performance in the field of sports by a • V.R. Beedu - Athletics (Life Time) sportsperson over a period of four years. 3. Award 2018 - It is India’s second highest sporting • Ms. S. Mirabai Chanu – Weightlifting award bestowed upon sportsperson for consistently • – Cricket outstanding performance for four years. 2. Dronacharya Awards 2018 - It bestowed upon coaches • Neeraj Chopra (Athletics), for producing medal winners at prestigious international • Jinson (Athletics), sports events. • Hima Das (Athletics), • Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa – Boxing • Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy (Badminton), • – Weightlifting • Satish Kumar (Boxing), • A. Srinivasa Rao - Table Tennis • Smriti Mandhana (Cricket), • Sukhdev Singh Pannu – Athletics • Shubhankar Sharma (Golf),

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• Manpreet Singh (Hockey), • Ankur Dhama (Para-Athletics) and • Savita (Hockey), • Manoj Sarkar (Para-Badminton). • Rathore (Polo), 4. Award 2018 - It is bestowed upon • Rahi Sarnobat (Shooting), sportspersons for life time contribution to sports • Ankur Mittal (Shooting), development.

• Shreyasi Singh (Shooting), • Satyadev Prasad – • Manika Batra (Table Tennis), • Bharat Kumar Chetri – Hockey • G. Sathiyan (Table Tennis), • Bobby Aloysius – Athletics • Rohan Bopanna (Tennis), • Chougale Dadu Dattatray - Wrestling • Sumit (Wrestling), • Pooja Kadian (Wushu),

August

1. ‘Legion of Merit’ 2018 - The United States government • Bhartruhari Mahtab (for year 2017) has awarded the Legion of Merit (Degree of Commander) • Dinesh Trivedi (for year 2016) to General Dalbir Singh Suhag (Retired), of the Indian • Ghulam Nabi Azad (for year 2015) Army. • Hukum Dev Narayan (for year 2014) 2. - Rifleman Aurangzeb and Major Aditya • Dr Najma Heptullah (for year 2013) Kumar of will be conferred the Shaurya 4. 24th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award - Chakra. Gopalkrishna Gandhi has been chosen for the 24th Rajiv 3. Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards - President Ram Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award for his contribution Nath Kovind presented the Outstanding Parliamentarian in promoting communal harmony, peace and goodwill. Award for the years 2013-2017, in New Delhi. The list of winners is:

July

1. Mohun Bagan ‘Ratna’ – Pradip Chowdhury (former Mohun Bagan captain) 2. Kalidas Samman: Noted artist had received the National Kalidas Samman in Delhi for visual arts from the Madhya Pradesh government. • Beside her, Artist A. Ramachandran was also conferred with the Kalidas Award.

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June

1. Award: Virat Kohli • Vishwas Mandalik from Nasik and the Yoga • Indian captain Virat Kohli received the Polly Institute in Mumbai have been selected as Umrigar Award for being the best international recipients of the Prime Minister’s award for cricketer for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons outstanding contribution for promotion and at the annual BCCI awards. development of yoga for the year 2018. 2. Miss India 2018 - Anukreethy Vas 7. ‘City Award’ Under India Smart Cities Award 2018 – • Anukreethy Vas, a 19-year-old Tamil Nadu Surat college student, has been crowned Femina Miss • Under ‘India Smart Cities Award' 2018, Surat has India 2018. been awarded for showcasing "great 3. Best Actor award at IIFA Awards 2018 - Irfan Khan momentum" in the implementation of projects • Irfan Khan has been bagged as the Best Actor under the Smart Cities Mission, according to the award at IIFA Awards 2018 for Hindi Medium Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) Ministry. movie. • Bhopal and Ahmedabad were selected in the • Here's the complete list of winners: ‘Innovative Idea' category for their • Best Actor in a leading role (Female) - "transformative approach towards sustainable (MOM) integrated development". 8. SKOCH Award for ‘Best performing Social Sector • Best Director - Saket Chaudhary (Hindi Medium) Ministry’ award - Ministry of Women & Child • Outstanding Achievement by an Actor in Indian Development Cinema - • SKOCH Group has conferred the ‘Best performing 4. ‘Chief Minister of the Year’ award for her remarkable Social Sector Ministry’ award on the Ministry of work in e-governance - Vasundhara Raje Women and Child Development for the • Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was achievements in delivering the promises made conferred the ‘Chief Minister of the Year’ award and for its significant achievements and for her remarkable work in e-governance. initiatives from the last 4 years. • The award was given at the 52nd Skoch Summit 9. 'Santokbaa Humanitarian Award' - Kailash Satyarthi & held in New Delhi. A S Kiran Kumar 5. India’s first Tribal Queen -- Pallavi Durua • President Ram Nath Kovind presented the • Pallavi Durua, who belongs to Odisha's Koraput 'Santokbaa Humanitarian Award' to Child rights district, was crowned as the first Tribal Queen at activist and Noble Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and the Adi Rani Kalinga Tribal Queen competition space scientist A S Kiran Kumar, former held at Utkal Mandap. Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation 6. Prime Minister’s award for outstanding contribution for (ISRO) in Surat, Gujarat. promotion and development of yoga for the year 2018 –

Vishwas Mandalik from Nasik and the Yoga Institute in Mumbai

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May

1. International Cricketer of the Year at the CEAT Cricket of Mirror Now channel, for her coverage of issues Ratings awards - Virat Kohli that touch the lives of common people. Other CEAT Cricket Ratings awards Presented are: 4. Red Ink award for lifetime achievement in • International Batsman of the Year Award: journalism – Sir William Mark Tully Shikhar Dhawan (India). • Veteran British journalist and former BBC India • International Bowler of the Year Award: Trent correspondent Sir William Mark Tully chosen for Boult (New Zealand). this year’s RedInk award for lifetime • T20 Bowler of the Year Award: Rashid Khan achievement in journalism. • The award, a part of the National RedInk (Afghanistan). • Outstanding Innings of the Year Award: Awards for Excellence in Journalism, has been Harmanpreet Kaur (India). instituted by the Mumbai Press Club. • Lifetime Achievement Award: 5. 11th KISS Humanitarian Award 2018 - Muhammad (India). Yunus • T20 Batsman of the Year Award: Colin Munro • Nobel laureate and noted economist (New Zealand). Muhammad Yunus conferred with the KISS • Domestic Player of the Year Award: Mayank Humanitarian Award 2018. Agarwal (India). • He is second Nobel laureate to be conferred the • U19 Player of the Year award: Shubman Gill award. Last year it was presented to the 14th (India). Dalai Lama. • Popular Choice Award: Chris Gayle (West Indies). • Yunus, is the founder of Grameen Bank and 2. 2017 presented to the members of known as the Father of Microfinance. INSV Tarini team • KISS Humanitarian Award is an international • The Six-member all-women team led by award given to someone who has made Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi have exceptional contribution to the society in various received the Puraskar from the Minister. fields relating to social issues. 6. Swara Mauli Award - • The crew of the Sailing Vessel • Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar was honoured 'Tarini' is a part of the Indian Navy’s unique with the Swara Mauli title by Shankarcharya project 'Navika SagarParikrama', an all-women Vidyanarsimha Bharati Swami in Mumbai. team circumnavigating the globe, promoting 7. T.K. Ramanathan Award For 2017-18 – Prajnesh ocean sailing activities in the Navy and depicting Gunneswaran (Tennis player) 'scommitment towards • Prajnesh Gunneswaran won the prestigious T.K. women empowerment. Ramanathan award for the year 2017-18 at the 3. Red Ink Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ - Faye Tamil Nadu Tennis Association (TNTA). D’Souza 8. award - Akshay Kumar won the • The RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ has best actor awards at the for been awarded to Faye D’Souza, executive editor film Padman (Jury) and for Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.

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• Bhumi Pednekar won the best actress award award for his contribution to the industry as for the film ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’. an actor, producer, and a director. • Veteran director & actor Rakesh had been awarded with the lifetime achievement

April

65th for 2017 - The central panel of the 65th National Film Awards (NFA) is headed by . List of winners - ➢ Dada Saheb Phalke Award - ➢ Best Director - for Bhayanakam (Malayalam) ➢ Best Feature Fim - (Assamese) (Director – Rima Das) ➢ Best Hindi Film – Newton (Director – Amit V Masurkar) ➢ Best Actress - Sri Devi posthumously for her role in the film ‘Mom’. ➢ Best Actor (Male) - Riddhi Sen for his role in Bengali film ‘Nagarkirtan’. ➢ Best Popular Film – Baahubali 2

Other Awards

1. Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award 2018 - Anushka 3. Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award - Pankaj Sharma Roy (posthumous) & Anshuman Gaekwad • Ranveer Singh selected for 2018 Dadasaheb • Former Indian batsman and two-time national Phalke Excellence Award as Best Actor for his coach Anshuman Gaekwad and former opener, movie ‘Padmaavat’. the late Pankaj Roy, have been recommended 2. Saraswati Samman for 2017 - Sitanshu Yashaschandra for the prestigious Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime • Eminent Gujarati poet and playwright ‘Sitanshu Achievement award. Yashaschandra’ is the winner of the 2017 • Former India women's team captain Diana Saraswati Samman. Edulji, and former India batter and coach Sudha • He won the Saraswati Samman for his collection Shah also selected for Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime of verses titled ‘Vakhar’ (published in 2009). Achievement award. • The Saraswati Samman was instituted in 1991 by 4. 2018 National Intellectual Property award - Council of the K. K. Birla Foundation. Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

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5. Lifetime Achievement award - 6. The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) • On the other hand, Director Rajkumar Hirani has recommended Manika Batra for the prestigious Arjuna been selected for the Raj Kapoor Special Award Contributions Award. • Manika Batra created history by winning the • Veteran Marathi actor Vijay Chavhan has been Gold medal in the women’s singles Table Tennis selected for the prestigious V Shantaram Lifetime at the 21st . Achievement award at the 55th Maharashtra • She became the first Indian woman to win gold in State Marathi Film Festival. the TT women's singles event at the Commonwealth Games. • Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement award is instituted by the Maharashtra state government.

February

1. Times Power Woman 2017 Award - Shabnam Asthana 3. Sahitya Akademi's Bhasha Samman - Magahi writer 2. V. Shantaram lifetime achievement Award - Shyam Shesh Anand Madhukar Benegal (Veteran film producer and director) January

1. Bharat Bharti Award - Eminent writer Anand Prakash 3. Memorial Award 2018 - Dixit was awarded the Bharat Bharti Award, the highest ( playback singer) literary award given by the Uttar Pradesh government. 4. Padma Awards 2018 – This year the • Mr Dixit was awarded by UP government for his has approved conferment of 85 Padma Awards. research paper published in 1960 ‘Ras The list comprises 3 , 9 Padma Sidhhant’. Bhushan and 73 Padma Shri Awards.

2. Five MPs Chosen for Outstanding Parliamentarian Padma Vibhushan Award - The Indian Parliamentary Group (IPG) headed 1. Shri Illaiyaraja – Field – Art-Music. State – Tamil Nadu by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan announced that 2. Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan - Field – Art-Music. State – five members of parliament (MPs) selected for the Maharashtra Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards. 3. Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran - Literature and This includes Education. State – (i) Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad (2015) (ii) Trinamool Congress’ Dinesh Trivedi (2016), Padma Bhushan (iii) Manipur’s governor Najma A Heptulla (2013) 1. Shri – Field - Sports- (iv) BJP’s Lok Sabha member Hukumdev Narayan Yadav Billiards/Snooker. State – . (2014) and 2. Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom – Field - Others- (v) five-time Rajya Sabha member Bhartruhari Mahatab Spiritualism. State – Kerala. of the Lok Biju Janata Dal (BJD) (2017). 3. Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Field – Sports Cricket. State – Jharkhand.

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4. Shri (Foreigner/Posthumous) Here is the list of important awards – – Filed – Public Affairs. Country – Russia • Best Film - 'Hindi Medium' (Director – Saket 5. Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy – Field - Others- Chaudhary) Archaeology. State - Tamil Nadu • Best Actor in A Leading Role (Female) - 6. Shri Ved Prakash (OCI) – Field - Literature for 'Tumhari Sulu' (Director – Suresh Triveni) and Education – Country – USA • Best Actor in A Leading Role (Male)- 7. Shri – Field - Art-Painting – State – Goa for 'Hindi Medium' 8. Shri – Field - Art-Music -State - • Best Director - Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari for 'Bareilly Ki Maharashtra Barfi' 9. Ms. – Field - Art-Music. State - • Best Actor in A Supporting Role (Male) - for 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' Padma Shri – List of some sports personalities • Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) - Meher 1. Ms. –Weightlifting. State – Vij for 'Secret Superstar' Manipur • People's Choice Award for Best Short Film 'Anahut' 2. Shri –Tennis. State - Tripura • Best Short Film (Fiction) - 'Juice'. 3. Shri – Swimming. State – • Best Short Film (Non-Fiction) - 'Invisible Wings' Maharashtra • Lifetime Achievement Award - & Bappi 4. Shri Kidambi Srikanth –-Badminton. State - Andhra Lahiri Pradesh

5. Shri Murlikant Petkar –Swimming. State - Maharashtra Janakavi P Sawlaram Award - Sudhir Dalvi (Actor)

5. 63rd Jio 2018 held in Mumbai.

International Awards

October

1. 2018 Gleitsman Award - Malala Yousafzai book “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable • Malala Yousafzai will be honored by Harvard Family and the Making of Modern India”. University for her work promoting girls' Note: education. • The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize is funded by • Harvard's Kennedy School stated that Yousafzai the Shakti Bhatt Foundation. will be conferred with the 2018 Gleitsman Award • It was set up in 2008 in memory of young writer at a ceremony on 6th December. and editor Shakti Bhatti. 2. 2018 Man Booker Prize - Anna Burns • It honours first-time writers from Indian sub- • Northern Irish author Anna Burns has won the continent for their outstanding work of fiction or 2018 Man Booker Prize for her novel 'Milkman'. non-fiction. 3. Shakti Bhatt Prize 2018 - Sujatha Gidla • US-based Dalit writer Sujatha Gidla (55) has won 2018 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for her debut

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4. Miss Grand International 2018 - Clara Sosa at a White House ceremony attended by President • Miss Paraguay Clara Sosa won the Miss Grand Donald Trump. International 2018 title at the 6th edition of the • Davis is Special Adviser on Human Trafficking to beauty pageant in Yangon, Myanmar. Houston Mayor. • India’s, FBB Colors Femina Miss Grand India 10. Wildlife Photographer of The Year 2018 - Marsel Van 2018 Meenakshi Chaudhary was named 1st Oosten runner-up. • The powerful image of a pair of golden snub- 5. Winners of United Nations Human Rights Prize – nosed monkeys seated in contemplation amid 2018 iridescent foliage has been awarded one of the • The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human most prestigious prizes in photography, the Rights (UN Human Rights Prize) was announced Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018. recently by María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, • The image, called "The Golden Couple," was President of the 73rd Session of United Nations captured by Dutch photographer Marsel van General Assembly. Oosten in the Qinling Mountains of southwestern The winners of 2018 award are: China – the endangered monkeys’ only habitat. • Asma Jahangir – ’s late human rights 11. Arshdeep Singh Wins Top Wildlife Photo Award in activist Junior Category • Rebeca Gyumi – A Tanzanian human rights • Arshdeep Singh, a 10-year-old boy from Punjab, activist has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year • Joenia Wapichana – Brazil’s first indigenous award in 10 Years and Under category given by lawyer UK's Natural History Museum. • Front Line Defenders – A human rights 12. UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Future organisation of Ireland Policy Award 2018 - The North-eastern state Sikkim 6. Roopam Sharma Wins World Health Summit Startup won the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) • Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, Future Policy Award 2018 for being the world's first won the World Health Summit Startup award, 100% organic state. Note: 2018 for his invention, Manovue – the world’s • Sikkim defeated 51 nominated policies from 25 first intelligent personal assisting system for the countries, winning the Gold Prize of the Future visually impaired. Policy Award 2018, also known as “Oscar for 7. India wins CAPM Award, 2018 Best Policies”. • India has won Commonwealth Association for Public 13. Deming Prize for 2018 - Indus Towers, world's largest Administration and Management (CAPAM) Award, telecom tower company (outside China), won the 2018. The award was announced at Annual General Deming Prize for 2018, being the first Indian company in Members Meet held at Georgetown, Guyana. the service sector and the fifth in the world to achieve 8. Invest India wins UN Investment Promotion Award this. • The ‘Invest India’ initiative of the Union Government Note: won the top United Nations Investment Promotion • Indus Towers is only the 29th Indian company to Award in recognition of its efforts to boost win this coveted award, with other notable investments in the renewable energy sector in India. names including Tata Steel, Ashok Leyland, 9. Minal Patel Davis won the US' Presidential Medal Mahindra and Mahindra, and NBC Bearings, etc. • Minal Patel Davis won the US' Presidential Medal for 14. ESIC Wins ‘ISSA GOOD Practice Award, Asia & The her work against sex slavery and labor exploitation Pacific 2018’ - The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has won the ‘ISSA Good Practice

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Award’ for Administrative Solution for Coverage only the third cricketer behind Sir Donald Bradman and Extension at the “Regional Social Security Forum for Asia Keith Miller to be given Legend status. and the Pacific” held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 16. UNEP Champions of The Earth Award - Prime Minister 15. Richie Benaud named Sport Australia Hall of Fame Narendra Modi was honoured with United Nations' Legend - Sport Australia Hall of Fame has announced highest environmental award- UNEP Champions of the cricketing great Richie Benaud, who died in April, 2015, Earth, along with French President Emmanuel Macron in will become the 40th Legend of Australian Sport. He is New Delhi.

Nobel Prize Winners 2018

1. Physiology or Medicine – James P. Allison (USA), Tasuku • Field - For their efforts to end the use of sexual Honjo (Japan) violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. • Field - For their discovery of cancer therapy by 5. Economic Sciences – William Nordhaus (US), Paul Romer inhibition of negative immune regulation (US) 2. Physics - Gérard Mourou (France), Arthur Ashkin (USA), • Field - For work on climate change, and the Donna Strickland (Canada) endogenous growth theory. • Field - For their method of generating high- 6. Alternative Nobel Literature Prize - Maryse Conde intensity, ultra-short optical pulses in the field of Note: laser physics. • Maryse Conde, one of the Caribbean's most 3. Chemistry - George Smith (USA), Frances Arnold (USA), renowned authors, has won an award created to Greg Winter (UK) replace this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. • Field - For control of evolution and used it for • The Nobel Prize for Literature was suspended purposes that bring the greatest benefit to after a crisis over its handling of allegations humankind. against Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault, the 4. Peace - Denis Mukwege (Democratic Republic of the husband of one of the academy's members. Congo), Nadia Murad (Germany)

September

1. 'UEFA Men's Player of The Year Award' - Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric has been named UEFA Men's Player of the Year for 2017/18.

August

1. Game Changer of The Year - PepsiCo's India-born CEO Power Netherlands BV has won an international Indra Nooyi will be honoured with the Game Changer of arbitration award of $56 million (Rs 390 crore) against the Year award by a global cultural organisation Asia Prestige Capital Holdings (a Seychelles-based company) Society. and Kokos Jiang. 2. International Arbitration Award - Reliance Power has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Reliance

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3. 2018 UEFA President's Award - David Beckham were declared winners 2018 Albany Medical Center Note: David Beckham will become the third Englishman Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. to receive the UEFA President's Award. 6. International Geography Bee World Championship - 4. WHO World No Tobacco Day 2017 Award - SK Arora Avi Goel (Indian-American high school student) was awarded prestigious World Health Organization 7. Nobel prize for math: Akshay Venkatesh, a renowned (WHO) World No Tobacco Day 2017 Award for his Indian-Australian mathematician, is one of four winners extraordinary contribution towards tobacco control. of mathematics’ prestigious Fields medal, known as the 5. 2018 Albany Medical Center Prize Award - Three US Nobel prize for math. scientists James Allison, Carl June and Steven Rosenberg

July

1. 3rd BRICS Film Festival – The 3rd BRICS Film Festival • Sonam Wangchuk - won the award for his took place in Durban, South Africa, along with the contribution in harnessing nature, culture and International Durban Film Festival (DIFF). education for community progress. Awards won by Indian films: Other winners are – • Best Actress: Bhanita Das, Village Rockstars • Youk Chhang – Cambodia • Best Film: Newton by Amit Masurkar • Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz - East Timor • Special Jury Award: Village Rockstars by Rima Das. • Howard Dee – Philippines 2. Ramon Magsaysay Award Winners 2018 - Magsaysay • Vo Thi Hoang Yen - Vietnam Awards are regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel 3. Golden Man Booker Prize: Michael Ondaatje’s Prize. bestselling novel 'The English Patient' was announced Indians as the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize at the • Bharat Vatwani - was awarded for leading the Southbank Centre in London. rescue of thousands of mentally ill street paupers • The prize was instituted as part of celebrations to treat and reunite them with their families. to mark the Booker’s having completed 50 years.

June

1. 2018 World Food Prize - Lawrence Haddad & Dr David 2. Pulitzer Prize in music for his album “Damn - Kendrick Nabarro Lamar • Lawrence Haddad, who is a British economist • Kendrick Lamar received the Pulitzer Prize in and food policy researcher, and Dr David music for his album “Damn.” Nabarro, who has worked with the World Health • Lamar is the first rapper in history to be given Organization and United Nations on health and the award. hunger issues, were named the 2018 World Food 3. During his 3-nation visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prize recipients in a ceremony at the U.S. handed over the Padma Shri award, one of India's Department of Agriculture in Washington. highest civilian awards, to former Singaporean diplomat ___ Tommy Koh

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• Koh was among 10 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) receipts of the prestigious award this year.

May

1. Man Booker International Prize 2018 - Polish author • She is the first Polish writer to win the award. Olga Tokarczuk 2. 2018 Nikkei Asia Prize - Dr. Bindeshar Pathak • Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the Man • The founder of Sulabh International, Dr Booker International Prize for her novel Bindeshwar Pathak, has been honoured with the ‘Flights’. Nikkei Asia Prize in Japan for his contribution to • The novel, translated by Jennifer Croft, Asia's development, interweaves narratives of travel with explorations of the human body.

April

1. 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Andrew Sean Greer • Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 in United • Andrew Sean Greer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize States by Joseph Pulitzer. for his novel ‘Less’. • Pulitzer Prize awarded for excellence in • He is an American novelist and short story newspaper, journalism, literary, achievements, writer. musical composition. The list of other winners of– 2. 2018 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize - Mahmoud • Martyna Majok won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Abu Zeid Drama for ‘Cost of Living’. • Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, • Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for known as Shawkan, won the 2018 music for his album ‘Damn’. UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom • Frank Bidart won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Prize. Poetry for his collected poems ‘Half-light’. 3. President Kovind conferred with Order of the Lion award • The 2017 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Colson by Swaziland country. Whitehead for his novel ‘The Underground Railroad’.

March

1. Abel Prize 2018 - Robert Langlands 2. Pritzker Architecture Prize 2018 - Balkrishna Doshi • Robert Langlands is a Canadian mathematician • Balkrishna Doshi is an Indian architect & urban won the Abel Prize for 2018 “for his visionary planner. programme connecting representation theory to number theory”.

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• He is the first Indian architect to be selected for Note: the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize. • ICMR awarded for its contribution to the national 3. International Kochon Prize 2017 - Indian Council of programme in Tuberculosis research. Medical Research (ICMR) • The headquarter of ICMR is in New Delhi.

Oscar Awards 2018 List of Winners – ➢ Best Picture - The Shape of Water ➢ Best Director - Guillermo del Toro (For the movie "The Shape of Water) ➢ Best Actor - Gary Oldman (For acted in movie ‘Darkest Hour’) ➢ Best Actress - Frances McDormand (For acted in the movie ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’) ➢ Best Animated Feature Film – Coco ➢ Best Foreign Language Film - A Fantastic Woman (Chile) (Spanish)

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1. Grammy Awards 2018 - The 60th Annual Grammy Here is the list of important Awards - Awards were held at Madison Square Garden in New • Best Picture - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, York City, the USA. Missouri. Here is the complete list of winners • Best motion picture, musical or comedy: Lady Bird. • Album of The Year: Bruno Mars • Best Director - Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of • Song of the Year: Bruno Mars', That's What I Like Water”. • Record of The Year: Bruno Mars, 24K Magic • Best Actress - Frances McDormand. • Best Pop Solo Performance: Ed Sheeran, Shape of • Best Actor - Gary Oldman. You • Best motion picture, animated: Coco • Best Pop Vocal Album: Ed Sheeran, Divide • Best motion picture, foreign language: In the Fade • Best Dance Recording: LCD Soundsystem, Tonite • Best television series, drama: The Handmaid’s Tale, • Best Music Film: The Defiant Ones Hulu • Best Children's Album: Feel What U Feel, Lisa Loeb 4. Best Central Bank Governor in Asia – Pacific - Ravi • Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: La La Menon Land • The Managing Director of the Monetary • Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost Authority of Singapore (MAS), Ravi Menon, has 2. World Economic Forum 24th Crystal Award - Shah been named the best central bank governor in Rukh Khan (Bollywood actor) Asia-Pacific for 2018 by UK-based magazine, The Banker. 3. Golden Globe Awards 2018 - The 75th Golden Globe Award ceremony was held in Los Angeles, the USA.

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List of Nobel Prize 2017

1. Nobel Prize in Peace University of Texas at Austin, Stanford ● Winner - International Campaign to Abolish University School of Medicine. Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 5. Nobel Prize in Physics ● Field - ICAN for its work to draw attention to the ● Winner - Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any S. Thorne. use of nuclear weapons and for its ground- ● Field - Their decisive contributions to the LIGO breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave prohibition of such weapons. Observatory) detector and the observation of ● ICAN headquarter at – Geneva, Switzerland. gravitational waves. ● ICAN Executive Director - Beatrice Fihn ● Rainer Weiss born in Berlin, Germany. He is a 2. Nobel Prize in Literature Professor at Massachusetts Institute of ● Winner - Kazuo Ishiguro. Technology. ● He is a British author and best known for his ● Barry C. Barish born in Nebraska, U.S. He is a novel “The Remains of the Day”. professor at California Institute of Technology. ● He was born in Nagasaki, Japan. ● Kip S. Thorne born in Utah, U.S. He is a 3. Nobel Prize in Economics professor at California Institute of Technology. Winner - Richard Thaler ● 6. Nobel Prize in Chemistry ● Field – for his work in behavioral economics. Winner - Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and ● Richard Thaler born in New Jersey, United ● States. He is a professor of behavioural sciences Richard Henderson. and economics at University of Chicago. ● Field - They developed cryo-electron 4. Nobel Prize in Medicine microscopy for the high-resolution structure ● Winner - Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and determination of biomolecules in solution. It’s Michael W. Young a method of simplifying and improving the ● Field - for their discoveries on how plants, imaging of biomolecules. animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the ● Jacques Dubochet born in Aigle, Switzerland. Earth's revolutions. He is a professor at University of Lausanne. ● Jeffrey C. Hall – He is from New York, US and ● Joachim Frank born in Siegen, Germany. He is currently Professor at Brandeis University. a professor at Columbia University. ● Michael Rosbash – He is from Missouri, US ● Richard Henderson born in Edinburgh, and currently Professor at Brandeis University. Scotland. He is a professor at Laboratory of ● Michael W. Young – He is from Miami, Florida, Molecular Biology. US and Professor at Rockefeller University,

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