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1st woman officer in IAF to be presented with a gallantry award

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Deepika Mishra - Vayu Sena Medal

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1st Disabled astronaut from UK

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John Mc’fal

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1st woman and 1st African American ever assigned as astronaut to a lunar mission by NASA

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Christina Koch
- other astronauts are Reid Wiseman, Jeremey Hanson, Victor Glover(Ex-Navy)
- Mission Name - Artemis II

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Best Film at Oscars 2023

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’’ Everything Everywhere all at one ‘’
directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

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Indian nominee of Best Documentary feature film at oscars 2023

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’’ All that breathes ‘’ directed by Shaunak Sen
(Loses to Navalny)

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Best Actor at Oscars 2023

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Brendon Freser

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Best Actress at Oscars 2023

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Michelle Yeoh

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Director of Elephant Whispers

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Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

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Ramon Magsaysay Award in1959

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Dalai Lama

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1st woman wildlife rescued from J&K , honoured with Wildlife Conservation Award

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Alia Mir

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Who won Abel Prise 2023 one of the most coveted awards in Mathematics

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Argentina-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli

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Who was awarded with French Civilian Award Chevalier’’ de la Légion d’Honneur’’

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Philanthropist and Art Collector Kiran Andar

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2023 International Prize in Statistics

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Indian American statisticians Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao.
This prize ia equivalent to Nobel Prize

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Femina Miss India World 2023

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Rajasthan’s Nandini Gupta

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Germany’s highest honour Grand Gross Award awarded to

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Angela Merkel

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Who received BAFTA FELLOWSHIP Award by British Academy of Films and Television Arts

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Meera Syal

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3 imprisoned Iranian female journalist to awarded with World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO on World Press Freedom Day

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Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi, Narges Mohammadi

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The title of Shatabdi Purush(Man of Century) was given to

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Former Lok Sabha MP Pandit Ramkishan

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Who has been awarded with Palme d Or for his outstanding career and contribution

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Michael Douglas

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Who among the following is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2023?

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Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction - Trust

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Gucci ‘s 1st global ambassador from India

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Alia Bhatt

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Who received France’s Highest Civilian Award de la Legion d’honneur

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Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran for his contribution to strengthen the trade relationship b/w India and France

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Who received Order of Australia Award

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Ratan Tata

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Who is conferred with Companion of the Order of Fiji, Companion of Order of Logohu(Papua New Guinea), Order of Nile(Egypt) and Order of Drug Gylapo (Bhutan)

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PM Modi

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International Booker Prize

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Georgi Gospodinov for Time Shelter
Translated into English by Angela Rodel

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Who received Jnanpith Award, country’s highest literary honour

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Damodar Mauzo
He is the epitome of Konkani literary culture

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1st rank in the National Water Award 2022

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Chandigarh

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Who is appointed as brand ambassador of tripura tourism

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Sourav Ganguly

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Who scaled Mt. Everest with Prosthetic legs

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Hari Budha Magar, a double amputee ex british Gorkha soldier from Nepal

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Who received Order Of Nile By HE Mr. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

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PM modi
Also Order of Drug Gyalpo by Bhutan

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Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 given to

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Gita Press, Gorakhpur
Started in 1995

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BC Roy Award

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Award for Medicine

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______ to receive International Mother Language Award 2023

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DR Mishra for Odiya

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GERMAN PEACE PRICE 2023 was won by?

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Salman Rushdie who wrote books - Satanic Verses and Midnights children

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SAHITYA AKADEMI CHILDREN’s LITERATURE AWARD was won by?

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PRIYA A.S
for Perumazahayathe Kunjithalukal
(Children Who never Withered)

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1st Indian to win Nobel Prize

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Rabindranath Tagore 1913

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1st woman to win Bharat Ratna

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Indira Gandhi

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1st Indian to win Bharat Ratna Postmously

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Gandhi Peace Prize 2021

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Geeta Press

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Higest gallantry award

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Param Veer Chakr
Maha Veer Chakr
Veer Chakr

42
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Peace time defence awards

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Ashok Chakra
Kirti Chakra
Shuarya Chakr

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Wildlfie Conservation Award 2023

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Aliya Mir

44
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Oscars 2023

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Best original song - Naatu- Naatu by MM Keervani

Best film - Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor - Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Director - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert for EEATO

Best Documentary- The Elephant Wisperers by Kartiki Ginsalves (Tamil)

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Which Indian film won WHO Health For All Award

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When climate change turns violent

46
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2023 Lautreate of Pritzker Architecture Prize

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Sir David Alan Chipperfeild

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Only person to receive both oscar and nobel prize

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GB Shaw

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1st Indian to win Pritzker Prize

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BV Doshi

49
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Who won Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award on 24 April 2023

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Asha Bhosle

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1st Person to win Dadasaheb Phalke award

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Devika Rani 1969

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Who won order of merit 2023

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Angela Markel

52
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1st winner of Gandhi Peace Prize

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Julius Nyere 1995

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Abel Prize 2023 - Nobel of Mathematics

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Luis Caffarelli for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation.

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Marconi Prize 2023 - Nobel Prize of Telecommunications

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Hari Balkrishnan

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Best Picture of 2023

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Karthik Subramaniam

56
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Indian to win Lifetime Achievement Awards 2023 by UK

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Manmohan Singh

57
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Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandan Puraskar

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Odisha State Disaster Management Authority

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Assam baibhav 2023

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Dr Tapan Saikia for his contribution to Cancer treatment

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Miss India 2023

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Nandini Gupta

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Saraswati Samman 2022

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Sivasanskari

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Vyas Samman is awared by?

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KK Birla Foundation

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57th Jnanpith Award

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Damodar Mauzo

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Leipzig Book Award 2023

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Russian Poet Maria Stepanova for Girls Wothout Clothes

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1st in 1917)

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Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver

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