23.

Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen won

the newly established Charleston-EFG John
Maynard Keynes Prize 2015.
24. Eminent Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade on 6
February 2015 was chosen for the Jnanpith Award
2014 by the Jnanpith Selection Board.
25. Dr. Zakir A. Naik, the founder and President of the
Islamic Research Foundation of India on 3
February 2015 won the King Faisal International
Prize (KFIP) for the year 2015. Naik, an
international preacher on Islam was awarded for
Service to Islam.
26. Madhya Pradesh won the 10th National