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Awards / Prizes

National year 2006. The prestigious award is given was due to court cases. The awardees by the London-based Gandhi in different categories are : Award : Veteran Foundation. Best Feature Film : Budhadeb film maker was honoured Dasgupta’s Kaalpurush Best Non-Feature Film : Gaurav A. with the for Indira Gandhi Award for National Jani’s Riding Solo to the Top of The World 2005 in New on September 14, Integration 2006 : The 22nd Indira Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First 2007 by the Hon’ble President Gandhi Award for National Integration Film of a Director : Parineeta Ms. Pratibha Patil. for 2006 has been awarded jointly to Mr. J.S. Bandukwala and Mr. Best Popular Film : Best Actor : (Black) Awards : Rang De Basanti Puniyani for promoting communal Best Actress : (Parzania) won the Award for Best Film at the harmony. Best Direction : Rahul Dholakia 52nd ceremony held in (Parzania) , on February 24, Jnanpith Award, 2004 : Eminent Kashmiri poet Mr. Rehman Rahi was Best Audiography : Nakul Kamte for 2007. The list of winners is given below: Rang De Basanti Best Film : Rang De Basanti chosen for the Jnanpith Award for 2004. Mr. Rahi, 82, is one of the most Best Editing : P. S. Bharathi for Rang Best Director : Rakeysh Omprakash De Basanti Mehra (Rang De Basanti) eminent poets and critics of the Kashmiri language. His notable creations Best Playback Singer (Male) : Naresh Best Actor : Iyer for Rang De Basanti ( 2) include Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz. Best Playback Singer (Female) : Best Actress : (Fanaa) for Critic’s Award for Best Film : Lage Khel Ratna Award 2006 for Dutt Award for Best Feature Raho Munnabhai Film on National Integration : Manavjit : Ace trap shooter Manavjit Critic’s Award for Best Actor : Aamir Daivanamathil (Malayalam) Singh Sandhu was conferred the Khan (Rang De Basanti) Best Film on Family Welfare : prestigious Khel Ratna Critic’s Award for Best Actress : Thavamai Thavamiranthe (Tamil) Award for 2006 by Hon’ble President (Omkara) Best Film on Other Social Issues : Ms. Pratibha Patil on August 29, 2007 at Best Actor in a Supporting Role : Iqbal the Ashoka Hall in the Rashtrapati (Kabhi Alvida Na Best Film on Environment Bhawan in . Kehna) Conservation/ Preservation : Kannada Best Actress in a Supporting Role : film Thutturi (Omkara) Lal Bahadur Shastri National Best Children’s Film : Blue Umbrella Best Actor in a Comic Role : Arshad Award : Renowned agricultural scientist Best Child Artist : Sai Kumar for Warsi (Lage Raho Munnabhai) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan has been chosen Bommalata – A Bellyful of Dreams Best Actor in a Villainous Role : Saif for the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Best Supporting Actress : for Ali Khan (Omkara) Award for Excellence in Public Achhuvinte Amma (Malayalam) Best Playback Singer (Male) : Shaan, Administration, Academics and Best Supporting Actor : Nasseeruddin – ‘Chand Sifarish’ (Fanaa) Management, 2006. Dr. Swaminathan Shah for Iqbal Best Playback Singer (Female) : has been selected in recognition of his Best Cinematography : Ambat – ‘Beedi Jalai Le’ pioneering work in the field of for Sringaram (Tamil) (Omkara) agricultural research. Best : , Sridhar Best Music Award : A.R. Rahman Raghavan and Manoj Tyagi for Apaharan (Rang De Basanti) National Communal Harmony Best Art Direction : C.B. More for Best Lyricist : Prasoon – Chand Awards 2006 : Octogenarian social Taj Mahal – An Eternal Love Story Sifarish (Fanaa) activist from Assam Mr. Rabindra Nath Best Costume Designer : Anna Singh Best Debut : Upadhyay and Delhi-based Institute for (Taj Mahal – An Eternal Love Story) and R.D. Burman Award : Naresh Iyer Socialist Education were presented the Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Black) (Rang De Basanti) National Communal Harmony Awards Special Jury Award : Lifetime Achievement Awards : Jaya for 2006 by the then President Dr. A.P.J. (Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara) Bachchan and Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on May 23, Best Music Direction : Lalgudi 2007. Jayaraman for Sringaram (Tamil) Gandhi International Peace Prize, Best Lyrics : Barguru Ramachandrappa 2006 : Noted actress 2005 : The (Thaayi) (Kannada) Ms. has been awarded National Film Awards for 2005 were Special Effects : Tata Elexi () the Gandhi International Peace Prize the announced on August 7, 2007. The delay (Tamil)

1 Best Choreography : Saroj Khan anniversary of the birth of the great Golden Palm Award : Romanian (Sringaram) (Tamil) Norwegian mathematician, Niels Henrik Director Cristian Mungiu won the Abel. Golden Palm Award in the Cannes Film Outstanding Parliamentarian Festival 2007 for his movie 4 Months, Awards : Hon’ble President Annual 2007 : At Three Weeks and Two Days. The film is Ms. Pratibha Patil presented the the 79th Annual Academy Awards about a young women seeking an illegal Oustanding Parliamentarian Awards to (popularly known as the Oscars) abortion during Romania’s communist Union Agriculture Minister Mr. Sharad ceremony held in Los Angeles (USA) rule. Pawar (2003), BJP leader Ms. Sushma on February 25, 2007, The Departed won Swaraj (2004), Union Finance Minister the award for Best Motion Picture. Abroad Person of the Year Mr. P. Chidambaram (2005) and Following is the list of major winners : Awards, 2006 : The weekly India Abroad Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar, Minister of Best Motion Picture of the Year : The presented the India Abroad Person of Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs and Sports Departed the Year Awards in New York on (2006) in New Delhi on September 13, Best Director : Martin Scorsese (The March 24, 2007. Ms. Indra Nooyi, CEO 2007. Departed) and Chairperson-designate of Co., Best Actor in a Leading Role : Forest was chosen as the Indian Abroad Person Phalke Ratna Award : Bollywood Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland) of the Year 2006. Mr. Swadesh legend was conferred the Best Actress in a Leading Role : Chatterjee was presented the First Phalke Ratna Award on April 30, 2007 in Mirren (The Queen) Community Leader Award 2006. Mumbai on the occasion of 138th birth Best Actor in a Supporting Role : Alan Novelist Salman Rushdie was chosen for anniversary of Dada Saheb Phalke, the Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) the first India Abroad Lifetime father of Indian cinema. The award was Best Actress in a Supporting Role : Achievement Award for his stellar corpus given to him by noted filmmaker Yash Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) of work, and for his tireless Chopra and Mumbai Mayor Dr. Shubha Best Animated Feature Film of the encouragement to young writers. Raul during a function. Year : Happy Feet Astronaut , who is Best Foreign Language Film : The currently orbiting the Earth, was Sahitya Akademi Awards : The Lives Of Others (Germany) conferred the India Abroad Publisher’s Sahitya Akademi selected two scholars – Award for Excellence. Mr. Ananada Murty and Dr. Ham. Annual Pulitzer Prizes : The 91st Pa. Nagarajaiah – for ‘Bhasha Samman- annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism International Gandhi Award : The 2006’ for their contribution to classical were announced in New York on April 16, Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation of and medival literature. 2007. Following are the prominent Maharashtra has awarded its 10th winners : International Gandhi Award to Mr Yohei Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize : Public Service : The Wall Street Sasakawa, Chairman of the Nippon The Council of Scientific and Industrial Journal Foundation and the World Health Research (CSIR) announced the winners Investigative Reporting : The Wall Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize to Street Journal the Elimination of Leprosy on April 12, 11 scientists for their oustanding Breaking News : Oregonian 2007 in Mumbai. At the award ceremony, contributions in various disciplines of Investigative Journalism : Brett Vice-President Mr. Bhairon S. science in New Delhi on September 26, Blackledge, Birmingham News Shekhawat handed a certificate to 2007. The list of awardees included Explanatory Journalism : Kenneth R. Mr. Sasakawa. Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Pundi Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times Narasimham Rangarajan, Rama Nobel Prize 2007 : The list of Nobel Local Reporting : Debbie Cenziper, Govindarajan, B.V. Rajarama Bhat, Prize winners for 2007 was announced Miami Herald Budaraju Srinivasa Murthy, A.Ajayaghosh, by Royal Swedish Academy in National Reporting : Charlie Savage, Anil Bhardwaj, Upinder Singh Bhalla, 2007. The distinguished awardees Boston Globe Amalendu Chandra,Yashwant Gupta and associated with six different fields are Pinaki Majumdar. International Reporting : as follows : International Chinua Achebe awarded 2007 Man Peace : The UN’s Intergovernmental Booker International Prize : Famous Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Abel Prize : Mr. Srinivasa Varadhan, Nigerian novelist Mr. Chinua Achebe former US Vice-President Mr. . a mathematician of Indian origin in the was awarded the ‘2007 Man Booker United States was presented the International Prize’ for fiction in London Literature : Ms. Doris Lessing (UK) prestigious Abel Prize in Oslo on May 22, on June 13, 2007. Mr. Achebe is best 2007 for his work on Probabilities. The known for his first novel ‘Things Fall Physics : Prof. Albert Fert (France) prize was created by the Norwegian Apart’. Most of Achebe’s work centres and Prof. Peter Gruenberg (Germany) Government in 2002 to mark the 200th on African society and politics. for a discovery that has minimised the

2 size of hard disks in computers, iPods Economics : Prof. Leonid Hurwicz Jovito R. Salonga (The ) : and other devices. (USA), Prof. Eric S. Maskin (USA) and Government Service Prof. Roger B. Myerson (USA). Rev. Kim Sun-Tae (Korea) : Public Medicine : Prof. Mario R. Capecchi Service (USA), Prof. Martin J. Evans (UK) and Ramon Magsaysay Award 2007 : () : Community Prof. Oliver Smithies (USA) for the Noted media person, Mr. Palagummi Leadership creation of ‘designer mice’ to track the Sainath of India has been honoured with Tang Xiyang () : Peace & roles of different genes in human the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award International Understanding development and disease. for 2007 in recognition of his (China) : Emergent outstanding contribution to the fields Leadership Chemistry : Prof. Gerhard Ertl for of journalism, literature and the art of (China) : his studies of chemical reactions on creative communication. The other Emergent Leadership solid surface, vital for understanding prominent awardees are as follows : questions related to the thinning of ozone layer.

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