Current Affairs - January 2021 Month January 2021 Type Awards 7 Current Affairs were found in Month - January 2021 for Type - Awards Awards 1. 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa, with Bangladesh as country of focus. Opening Film was Another Round (Denmark), and Closing film was Wife of a Spy (Japan). Awards - Best Film (Golden Peacock Award) - Into the Darkness (Denmark), Directed by Anders Refn. Silver Peacock - Best Director - Chen-Nien Ko for Taiwanese film Silent Forest Best Actor (Male) - Tzu-Chuan Liu for Silent Forest Best Actor (Female) - Zofia Stafiej for Polish film I Never Cry Special Jury Award - February by Kamin Kalev Best Debut Director: Valentina by Cássio Pereira dos Santos Lifetime Achievement Award - Vittorio Storaro (Italian cinematographer) Special Mention Jury Award - Kripal Kalita for Bridge ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal - 200 Meters by Ameen Nayfeh Indian Film Personality of the Year - Biswajit Chatterjee Jury - International Jury headed by Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar Feature Film Jury headed by John Matthew Matthan. Non-feature film jury headed by Haobam Paban Kumar. 2. Padma Awards 2021 Announced - This year, President approved conferment of 119 Padma Awards - List comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards. 29 awardees are women, 10 are persons from category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 12 Posthumous awardees. Awardees - Padma Vibhushan (7) - SN Name Field State/Country Shri Shinzo Abe Public Affairs Japan Shri S P Balasubramaniam Art Tamil Nadu (Posthumous) Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine Karnataka Shri Narinder Singh Kapany United States of Science and Engineering (Posthumous) America Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Others- Spiritualism Delhi Shri B. B. Lal Others- Archaeology Delhi Shri Sudarshan Sahoo Art Odisha Padma Bhushan (10) Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Art Kerala Chithra Shri Tarun Gogoi Public Affairs Assam (Posthumous) Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara Literature and Education Karnataka Ms. Sumitra Mahajan Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh Shri Nripendra Misra Civil Service Uttar Pradesh Shri Ram Vilas Paswan Public Affairs Bihar (Posthumous) Shri Keshubhai Patel Public Affairs Gujarat (Posthumous) Shri Kalbe Sadiq Others-Spiritualism Uttar Pradesh (Posthumous) Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Trade and Industry Maharashtra Shri Tarlochan Singh Public Affairs Haryana Padma Shri (102) - Shri Gulfam Ahmed Art Uttar Pradesh Ms. P. Anitha Sports (Basketball) Tamil Nadu Shri Rama Swamy Annavarapu Art Andhra Pradesh Shri Subbu Arumugam Art Tamil Nadu Shri Prakasarao Asavadi Literature and Education Andhra Pradesh Ms. Bhuri Bai Art Madhya Pradesh Shri Radhe Shyam Barle Art Chhattisgarh Shri Dharma Narayan Barma Literature and Education West Bengal Ms. Lakhimi Baruah Social Work Assam Shri Biren Kumar Basak Art West Bengal Ms. Rajni Bector Trade and Industry Punjab Shri Peter Brook Art United Kingdom Ms. Sangkhumi Bualchhuak Social Work Mizoram Shri Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat Art Assam Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty Public Affairs Assam Shri Sujit Chattopadhyay Literature and Education West Bengal Shri Jagdish Chaudhary (Posthumous) Social Work Uttar Pradesh Shri Tsultrim Chonjor Social Work Ladakh Ms. Mouma Das Sports (Table Tennis) West Bengal Shri Srikant Datar Literature and Education United States of America Shri Narayan Debnath Art West Bengal Ms. Chutni Devi Social Work Jharkhand Ms. Dulari Devi Art Bihar Ms. Radhe Devi Art Manipur Ms. Shanti Devi Social Work Odisha Shri Wayan Dibia Art Indonesia Shri Dadudan Gadhavi Literature & Education Gujarat Shri Parshuram Atmaram Gangavane Art Maharashtra Shri Jai Bhagwan Goyal Literature and Education Haryana Shri Jagadish Chandra Halder Literature and Education West Bengal Shri Mangal Singh Hazowary Literature and Education Assam Sports (Mountaineer and first woman in world to scale the Ms. Anshu Jamsenpa Arunachal Pradesh summit of Mount Everest twice in a season) Ms. Purnamasi Jani Art Odisha Matha B. Manjamma Jogati Art Karnataka Shri Damodaran Kaithapram Art Kerala Shri Namdeo C Kamble Literature and Education Maharashtra Shri Maheshbhai & Shri Nareshbhai Kanodia (Duo) * Art Gujarat (Posthumous) Shri Rajat Kumar Kar Literature and Education Odisha Shri Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap Literature and Education Karnataka Ms. Prakash Kaur Social Work Punjab Shri Nicholas Kazanas Literature and Education Greece Shri K Kesavasamy Art Puducherry Shri Ghulam Rasool Khan Art Jammu and Kashmir Shri Lakha Khan Art Rajasthan Ms. Sanjida Khatun Art Bangladesh Shri Vinayak Vishnu Khedekar Art Goa Ms. Niru Kumar Social Work Delhi Ms. Lajwanti Art Punjab Shri Rattan Lal Science and Engineering United States of America Shri Ali Manikfan Others-Grassroots Innovation Lakshadweep Shri Ramachandra Manjhi Art Bihar Shri Dulal Manki Art Assam Shri Nanadro B Marak Others- Agriculture Meghalaya Shri Rewben Mashangva Art Manipur Shri Chandrakant Mehta Literature and Education Gujarat Dr. Rattan Lal Mittal Medicine Punjab Sports (Noted Athlete PT Shri Madhavan Nambiar Kerala Usha's coach) Shri Shyam Sundar Paliwal Social Work Rajasthan Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji Pandav Medicine Delhi Dr. J N Pande Medicine Delhi (Posthumous) Shri Solomon Pappaiah Literature and Education- Tamil Nadu Journalism Ms. Pappammal Others- Agriculture Tamil Nadu Dr. Krishna Mohan Pathi Medicine Odisha Ms. Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat Trade and Industry Maharashtra Shri Girish Prabhune Social Work Maharashtra Shri Nanda Prusty Literature and Education Odisha Shri K K Ramachandra Pulavar Art Kerala Shri Balan Putheri Literature and Education Kerala Ms. Birubala Rabha Social Work Assam Shri Kanaka Raju Art Telangana Ms. Bombay Jayashri Ramnath Art Tamil Nadu Shri Satyaram Reang Art Tripura Dr. Dhananjay Diwakar Medicine Kerala Sagdeo Shri Ashok Kumar Sahu Medicine Uttar Pradesh Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Singh Sanjay Medicine Uttarakhand Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal Social Work Maharashtra Shri Chaman Lal Sapru Literature and Education Jammu and Kashmir (Posthumous) Literature and Education- Shri Roman Sarmah Assam Journalism Shri Imran Shah Literature and Education Assam Others- Agriculture Shri Prem Chand Sharma Uttarakhand Shri Arjun Singh Shekhawat Literature and Education Rajasthan Shri Ram Yatna Shukla Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh Shri Jitender Singh Shunty Social Work Delhi Shri Kartar Paras Ram Singh Art Himachal Pradesh Shri Kartar Singh Art Punjab Dr. Dilip Kumar Singh Medicine Bihar Shri Chandra Shekhar Singh Others-Agriculture Uttar Pradesh Ms. Sudha Hari Narayan Singh Sports (Athlete) Uttar Pradesh Shri Virender Singh Sports (Wrestler) Haryana Ms. Mridula Sinha Literature and Education Bihar (Posthumous) Shri K C Sivasankar Art Tamil Nadu (Posthumous) Guru Maa Kamali Soren Social Work West Bengal Shri Marachi Subburaman Social Work Tamil Nadu Shri P Subramanian Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu (Posthumous) Ms. Nidumolu Sumathi Art Andhra Pradesh Shri Kapil Tiwari Literature and Education Madhya Pradesh Father Vallés Literature and Education Spain (Posthumous) Dr. Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan Medicine Tamil Nadu (Posthumous) Shri Sridhar Vembu Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu Shri K Y Venkatesh Sports (para-athlete and shot Karnataka putter ) Ms. Usha Yadav Literature and Education Uttar Pradesh Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir Public Affairs Bangladesh 3. Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has been honoured by Hindi Writers Guild (Canada), for his literary work. 4. India's noted Philanthropist Ravi Gaikwad has been honored with Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award, for his services to humanity. 5. Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been named winner of 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize, along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs. Other winners are Adam Marcus (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and Daniel Alan Spielman (Yale University). Prize consists of a medal and USD 100000 Cash. Srivastava, Marcus and Spielman solved long-standing questions on Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs, and uncovered a deep new connection between linear algebra, geometry of polynomials, and graph theory. 6. Industrial Awards (January 2021) - Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency organised 30th National Energy Conservation Awards. Notably, Railways won 13 awards in 3 categories. During the event, SAATHEE (State-wise Actions on Annual Targets and Headways on Energy Efficiency), portal for State Designated Agency for state level activities was launched. Railways Officer Amresh Kumar Chaudhary has been awarded noted Chief of Army Staff Commendation, for his outstanding contribution to Armed Forces during Covid-19 pandemic. During 70th SKOCH Summit, Ministry of Panchayati Raj received SKOCH Challenger Award under Transparency in Governance category and Ministry of Tribal Affairs received SKOCH Challenger Award under Best Performance in e- Governance. Federal Bank Chief Shyam Srinivasan has been named Business Standard Banker of Year for 2019-20. Swedish Firm IKEA's India Unit won UN Women’s top prize in Gender-Inclusive Workplace category at inaugural Asia- Pacific Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Awards. 7. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju conferred awards to participants of Republic Day Parade 2021. Among 32 tableaux (17 from States / UTs, 9 from various Ministries/Departments / Paramilitary Forces and 6 from Ministry of Defence) - Among States /UTs - Tableau of Uttar Pradesh, based on theme Ayodhya: Cultural Heritage of Uttar Pradesh, was adjugded Best among all. Tripura