Awards and Honors Flashcards
“Pride of India Award” for his work in feeding the hungry in India during the pandemic at 3rd India International Film Festival of Boston (2020)
Vikas Khanna
India International Film Festival of Boston 2020 (IIFFB)
October 16-18, 2020
third film festival
first to be held virtually
Lifetime achievement award at 3rd India International Film Festival of Boston (2020)
Om Puri
Louise Gluck
2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
American poet
She is known for themes of childhood and family life that draw inspiration from myths and classical motifs.
Pulitzer Prize in 1993 “The Wild Iris”
Louise Gluck
National Book Award Virtuous Night”, in 2014
Louise Gluck
Nitin Sethi
prestigious Asian College of Journalism’s Award for Investigative Journalism in the year 2020
Shiv Sahay Singh
K. P. Narayana Kumar Memorial Award for Social Impact Journalism
IIT Kharagpur- Researchers
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards for developing a mechanism for generating electricity from wet clothes left under sunlight to dry
S.L. Bhyrappa
prestigious Dr. Kota Shivaram Karanth Huttoora Prashasti-2020
World Food Programme
Nobel Peace Prize 2020
food assistance branch of United Nations
Shai Evra
2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
Sir David Attenborough
ndira Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2019
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad
‘National Energy Leader’ and Excellent Energy Efficient Unit awards at 21st National Awards for Excellence in Energy Management organized by CII
‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA 2020
Odisha’s CM Naveen Patnaik
Bank of Ghana
Central bank of the year award 2020
Governor of the Bank of England (Mark Carney)
Governor of the year -Central bank of the year award 2020
Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for For the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.
Harvey J Alter (US)
Michael Houghton (UK)
Charles M. Rice (US)
Nobel Prize for Physics
Roger Penrose (UK) -discovery on black holes Reinhard Genzel (Germany) Andrea Ghez (US)-discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of the galaxy’.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry for method for genome editing
Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) Jennifer A. Doudna (US)
Nobel Prize for Economic for improvements to auction theory and invention of new auction forats
Paul R Milgrom (US) Robert B Wilson (US)
Oscars- Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Parasite
Oscars- Best Actress
Renée Zellweger, Judy
Oscars- Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Oscars-Best Director
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Oscar- Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Oscar- Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Oscar- Best Animated Feature
Toy Story 4
Sachin Awasthi
“Top Publicist” award in Global Humanitarian awards 2020
centenarian freedom fighter award, in August 2020
Punjab Singh
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020
“The Great Indian Tee & Snakes”
Kritika Pandey
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
International Booker Prize 2020
The Discomfort of Evening
PATA (Pacific- Asia Travel Association) Grand Award 2020
Kerala
internationally acclaimed ‘Human by Nature’ campaign
Udit Singhal
United Nations to the 2020 cohort of young leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals
Fiumicino International Airport, Rome
first airport in the world to be certified with “COVID-19 5-star airport rating
United Nations WMO Research Award for Young – Scientists
B. Rohith
Diana Award 2020
Freya Thakral, student of the British School, New Delhi
prestigious SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Sonu Sood
C. Rangarajan
Former RBI Governor
P. C. Mahalanobis Lifetime Achievement award 2020
Contribution to official statistics
World Food Prize 2020
presented by Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Rattan Lal
e-Panchayat Puraskar 2020
Himachal Pradesh for effective implementation of the e-application developed by the Centre and other applications developed by the state government.
Star 2020 Certificate by World Book of Records, London
Ganesh Vilas Lengare
first Divyanga Sportsperson of the country to get prestigious Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2020
Satyendra Singh Lohia
Pulitzer Prize 2020
Dar Yasin
Mukhtar Khan
Channi Anana
for “feature photography” of Kashmir coverage
first Indian to win the Richard Dawkins Award
presented by the Center for Inquiry (CFI)
worlds of science, scholarship,
education, or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead.”
Javed Akhtar
Major Suman Gawani
UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year 2019
served with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
‘Medal of the Order of Australia’
Shobha Shekhar
founder of Kalakruthi Music Organization
service to the community and the
country
‘Order of Rising Sun’by Japan
Thangjam Dhabli Singh
Mr Sachin Awasthi
Global Humanitarian Awards 2020 were recently announced to felicitate popular men and women, who’ve worked selflessly towards the greater good of society and the world.
an initiative of the World Humanitarian Drive (WHD).
“Nayi Disha”
Brandon Human Capital Management (HCM) Excellence Award 2020
HR initiative of State Bank of India
Sitara Karthikeyan
Young Photographer Award-Dust bathing Elephant Photo at Corbett national park in Uttarakhand
Kayakalp Award for 2019-2020
Karnataka
three hospitals
instituted by the Union Health Ministry
- The Emergency and Trauma Care Centre on Victoria Hospital campus - Bengaluru 2. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases - Bengaluru
- Ballari District Hospital - Ballari
▪ The hospitals have achieved the highest score of 100%.
