Awards, Personalities, Books Flashcards

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Who got NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE 2020 & FOR WHAT?

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Harvey J ALTER(usa),Michael M RICE(usa),HOUGHTON(britain) = for Discovering HEPATITIS C Virus.

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NOBEL PRIZE In Physics 2020 & FOR WHAT?

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PENROSE(UK, for Black hole formarion), GENZEL(germany) jointly with GHEZ(usa) for discovery of object at milky way.

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NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2020 & FOR WHAT?

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EMMANULLE (france), Jennifer (usa) for discovery of Genetic scissor CRISPR-CAS9- both WOMEN

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NOBEL PRIZE IN Literature 2020 & FOR WHAT?

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LOUSIE GLUCK- for Poetic voice

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2020 & FOR WHAT?

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World Food Program (HQ- Rome italy, UN bodyfor hunger )

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NOBEL PRIZE ECONOMICS 2020 & FOR WHAT?

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PAUL MILGRAM & WILSON- for Auction Theory

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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2020

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Rohit sharma(cricket),Mariyappam(para atheletic), Vinesh Phogat(wrestling),Rani Rampal(hockey),Manika batra(table tennis)

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Padma Vibhusan 2021 (2nd highest award)

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Shizo abe, SP Balasburmaniam, Dr. Hegde,B B Lal,

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Padma Bhushan 2021(3rd highest award)

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Sumitra Mahajan, Tarun Gogoi, Ram Vilas Paswan, Nirpendra Mishra, Rajnikant Shroff( trade & Industry), Nair Shantikumari chitra(art)

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Bharta Ratna (highest civilian award)

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Pranab Mukherjee, Bhupendra Hazarika(singer,poet,film), Nana ji Deshmukh(social activist)

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Arjuna Award 2020

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Ishant sharma(cricket), Saurabh chaudhary & Manu bhaker(shooting), Dutee chand(sprinter),Sandesh jhingan(footballer),Lovlina Boroghain(boxer),Shiva keshavan(Sport Luge)

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Dronacharya award 2020

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Purshotam rai(atheletics), Romesh Pathania (hockey)

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Booker Prize 2020

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Douglas Stuart- for novel “Shuggie Bain”

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Prdhan Mantri Awas Yojna 2019 award

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Winner - Kanchipuram TN, Best performing State- UP, in NE- Tripura

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2020 UNCTAD Investment award

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Winner- Invest India

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Central Bank of year 2020 & CB Governor of Year

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Bank of Ghana & Mark Carney(governor of Bank of England)

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Asia Safest Bank 2020

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DBS bank Singapore, Worlds safest(KFW bank Germany), India’s safest(SBI)

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Human Capital Mgmt Exellence award

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SBI

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International Emmiy Awards 2020

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Delhi crime

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2020 World Food Laurette Nobel (prize)

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Dr Rattan Lal(soil sceintist)

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Author of Purna Abhinandan is___

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Kazi Nazrul Islam

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Book “Yes Man- Untold story of Rana Kapoor” authored by __

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Pavan C. Lall

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Who was awarded with BHARAT Asmita National Award 2021 __

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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

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India’s first Centre for Wetland Conservation & Mgmt

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in Chennai

25
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Who authored book “ The Little book of encouragement “

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by Dalai Lama

26
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World Cancer day

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4 Feb

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Allan Border Medal associated with ____and who won it recently for 3rd time…

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Cricket (given by australian), Steve Smith won it.

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ASSOCHAM Enterprise of Century award

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Ratan TATA

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2020 Dada saheb phalke award…

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Kezang D Thaongdok

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ICC Mens Test & ODI , t20 cricketer of the Decade

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Steve smith (TEST) Virat Kohli(ODI), Rashid khna(T20)

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OSCARS 2020
1-Best Picture
2-Best Actor
3-Best Animated Film

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1-Parasite
2-Phoenix for joker
3-Toy Story 4

32
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Who authored book - 
1-The Battle of belonging
2- Child of destiny
3-Shuttling to the top(story of p v sindhu)
4-Relentless
5- Pandemonim : Great Indian Baking Tragedy
6-A Promised land 
7-"Louiz Banks: A symphony of love"
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1- Shahsi tharoor
2- Prof K Ramakrishna Rao
3- V Krishnamurthy 
4-Yashwant sinha
5-T Bandyopadhyay
6- Barack obama
7-Ashis Ghatak
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India’s ranking in Index 2020

a-Ease of Doing Business Index = 
b-Global Innovation Index = 
c-Human development Index = 
d-Human Capital Index = 
e-Global gender gap Index =
f-Global Competitiveness Index=
g-Sustainable development Index=
h-Climate change performance Index (2021)=
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Ranking & (prepared by)

a-63 (by World Bank)
b-48(by WIPO & Cornell)
c-131 (by UNDP, topped=Norway  Last=Niger)
d-116 (World bank)
e-112 (WEF)
f-46 (WEF)
g-117
h-10
34
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Soil health card day celebrated on …

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19 Feb

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Who has authored the Book “ Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis : impact of Coronavirus & Road ahead”

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Arun Kumar

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Good governance day (Susasan diwas) celebrated on …

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25 dec on memory of Atal B Bajpyee.