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Awards (Jan-Dec), 2015

Name of the Award Name of the Person

Business Person of the Year 2014 Larry Page
State Pre-eminent Science and Technology Award
Yu Min
2014.
Essop Goolam Pahad from South Africa
Ashraf Pellarkunnmal from UAE.
Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi from New Zealand.
Rajamal Parakh from Oman.
Duraikannu Karunakaran from Seychelles.
Dr Rajaram Sanjaya from Mexico.
Bharat Kumar Jayantilal Shah from UAE.
Mahendra Nanji Mehta from Uganda.
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards
Nathuram Puri from the United Kingdom.
Lord Raj Lumba from the United Kingdom.
Mala Mehta from Australia.
Satyanarayan Nadela from USA.
Kamlesh Lulla from the US.
Nandani Tandon from US.
President Donald Rabindernauth Ramaotar from
Guyana.
72nd Golden Globe Awards
Movies
Best motion picture (drama) Boyhood.
Best motion picture (musical or comedy) The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Best animated feature film How to Train Your Dragon 2.
Best director Richard Linklater,”Boyhood”.
Best screenplay Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”.
Best original song Glory from “Selma”.
Best foreign language film “Leviathan”(Russia).
Television
Best TV series (drama) The Affair
Best actor in a TV series (drama) Kevin Spacey,”House of Cards”.
Best actress in a TV series (drama) Ruth Wilson,”The Affair”.
Best TV series (comedy) Transparent.
Best TV movie or miniseries Fargo.
ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) or Mangalyaan
2015 Space Pioneer Award
Team.
2014 Asian Tour Players’ Player of the year. Anirban Lahiri
Ballon d’Or 2014 Award Cristiano Ronaldo.
Raghuram Rajan Governor of the Year Award.
National e-Governance Award Jammu and Kashmir.
Vyas Samman Award Kamal Kishore Goyanka.
National Tiger Conservation Authority(NTCA)
Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala.
award
Vikram Sarabhai memorial award M Y S Prasad.
Sahitya Akademi Award Prabhu Nath Dwivedi.
National Special Category Award for the Best
C V Anand.
Electoral Practices in 2014.
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Media Person of the Year 2015 Amitabh Bachchan.

Giraffe Hero Award 2015 Subash Chandra Agarwal.
Hindu Literary Prize 2014 Ashok Srinivasan.
Martin Luther King Award Frank Islam.
DSC Prize for South Asian fiction Jhumpa Lahiri.
Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize Arundhathi Subramaniam.
National Bravery Awards 2014
Sanjay Chopra Award Devesh Kumar.
Bapu Gaidhani Award Monika, Rumoh Meto and Riya Chaudhary.
Geeta Chopra Award Gunjan Sharma.
Bharat Award Resham Fatma
General National Bravery Award 18 Young People.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani,
Actors Amitabh Bachchan,
Padma Vibhushan Award
Dilip Kumar and Punjab Chief,
Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Padma Bhushan Award Melinda
Best Indian Language Website in India navbharattimes.com.
Bharat Gaurav award Nasrin Ejner.
Yash Bharti Award Vinod Mehta.
60th Filmfare Awards
Best Actor (Male) Shahid Kapoor for Haider.
Best Actor (Female) Kangana Ranaut for Queen.
Best Film Queen.
Best Director Vikas Bahl for Queen.
Best Film (Critics) Ankhon Dekhi.
Best Actor (Critics) Sanjay Mishra for Ankhon Dekhi.
Best Actress (Critics) Alia Bhatt for Highway.
Best Supporting Actor (Male) Kay Kay Menon for Haider.
Best Supporting Actor(Female) Tabu for Haider.
Best Story Rajat Kapoor for Ankhon Dekhi.
Best Dialogue Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi for PK.
Best Screenplay Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi for PK.
Best Debutant (Female) Kriti Sanon for Heropanti.
Best Debutant(Male) Fawad Khan for Khoobsurat.
Best Music Director Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for 2 States.
Best Lyrics Rashmi Singh for Muskurane Ki Wajah(CityLights).
Best Playback Singer (Male) Ankit Tiwari for Galliyan (Ek Villain).
Best Playback Singer (Female) Kanika Kapoor for Baby Doll (Ragini MMS2).
Best Choreography Ahmed Khan for Jumme Ki Raat for Kick
Best Action Sham Kaushal for Gunday
Best Cinematography Bobby Singh and Siddharth Diwan for Queen.
Best Background Score Amit Trivedi for Queen.
Best Editing Abhijit Kokate and Anurag Kashyap for Queen.
Best Production Design Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray for Haider.
Best Sound Design Anilkumar Konakandla and Prabal Pradhan for
Mardaani.
King Faisal International Award 2015 Dr. Zakir Naik.
Hindol Sengupta’s Book(How Entrepreneurship is
Hayek Prize
Revolutionizing the World’s Largest Democracy.
Jnanpith Award Bhalchandra Nemade.
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68 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)
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Best Film Boyhood.

Outstanding British Film The Theory of Everything.
Best Director Richard Linklater (Boyhood).
Best Actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything).
Best Actress Julianne Moore (Still Alice).
Best Supporting Actor K. Simmons (Whiplash).
Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood.
Best Original Screenplay The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Best Adapted Screenplay The Theory of Everything.
Best Editing Whiplash.
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman).
Best Production Design The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Best Costume Design The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Best Original Music The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Best Sound Whiplash.
Best Visual Effects Interstellar.
Best Film Not in the English Language Ida.
Best Animated Film The Lego Movie.
Best Documentary Citizenfour.
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Stephen Beresford
Producer (Writer) and David Livingstone (Producer).
Best British Short Film Boogaloo and Graham.
Best British Short Animation The Bigger Picture.
The EE Rising Star Award Jack O’Connell.
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema BBC Films.
Most awards The Grand Budapest Hotel (5).
Most nominations The Grand Budapest Hotel (11).
Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015 Amartya Sen.
57th Annual Grammy Awards
Best New Age Album Trophy Ricky Kej.
Children’s Album category Neela Vaswani.
National Science Foundation(NSF) CAREER
Gurpreet Singh.
award
Espncricinfo Award Rohit Sharma.
CIO Choice Honour and Recognition 2015 Wipro.
AIFF Presents Player of the Year Awards 2014
Player of the year (Men) Sunil Chhetti.
Player of the year (Women) Bala Devi.
Emerging Player of the Year Sandesh Jhingan.
Best Referee Santosh Kumar.
Best Assistant Referee Sappam Kennedy.
Best Grassroots Programme Western India Football Association (WIFA).
Long Time Contribution to Indian Football Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
Honorary Life Membreship Sourav Ganguly.
National Award for Renewable Energy
Himachal Pradesh.
Popularisation
Y Nayudamma Memorial Award Tessy Thomas and Geeta Varadan.
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87 Academy Awards
Best Picture Birdman
Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu(Birdman).
Best Actor Eddie Redmayne(The Theory of Everything).
Best Actress Julianne Moore(Still Alice).
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Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Achievement in Costume Design
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Live Action Short Film
Original Screenplay
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Visual Effects
Best Animated Short
Best Animated Movie
Achievement in Production Design
Achievement in Cinematography
Achievement in Film Editing
Best Documentary Feature
Best Original Song
Best Original Score
Best Adapted Screenplay
J Calvin Giddings Award 2015
The Grand Prix of the Generation
International Jury
Forbes Honors 6 Powerful Businesswomen in India
Doctorate of Automotive Engineering
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10 National Award for excellence in MGNREGA Madhya Pradesh.
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
National award
Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership 2014
Golden Gate Award
Top Employer in Europe
Saraswati Samman Award
Stockholm Water Prize
International Women of Courage Award 2015
4th National Photography Awards
Life-Time Achievement Award
Best Professional Photographer of the Year
Best Amateur Photographer of the Year
The theme for Professional Photographer category
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J.K. Simmons (Whiplash).
Patricia Arquette (Boyhood).
Milena Canonero(The Grand Budapest Hotel).
Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier(The Grand
Budapest Hotel).
Ida(Pawel Pawlikowski).
The Phone Call(Matt Kirkby and James Lucas).
Birdman.
American Sniper(Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman).
Interstellar(Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew
Lockley and Paul Franklin).
Feast(Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed).
Big Hero Six(Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy
Conli).
The Grand Budapest Hotel(Adam Stockhausen and
Anna Pinnock).
Birdman(Emannuel Lubezki).
Whipalsh(Tom Cross).
Citizen Four(Laura Poitras,Mathilde Bonnefoy and
Dirk Wilutzky).
Glory(John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn).
The Grand Budapest Hotel(Alexandre Desplat).
The Imitation Game (Graham Moore).
Purnendu Dasgupta.
Kplus
Nagesh Kukunoor's film Dhanak.
1.Arundhati Bhattacharyya.
2.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.
3.Chanda Kochchar.
4. Akhila Srinivasan.
5.Shika Sharma.
6. Usha Sangwan.
Ratan Tata.
Martin Crowe.
Rani Mukerji.
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba.
Kerala Tourism Department.
TCS-3rd time.
Veerappa Moily.
Rajendra Singh.
1.Captain Niloo far Rahmani from Afghanistan Air
Force.
2.Nadia Sharmeen- Journalist and Women’s rights
activist from Bangladesh.
3.Tabassum Adnan- founder of Khwendo Jirga from
Pakistan.
Surendra R Patel.
Swarup Duta.
Sasikumar.
Hamara Bharat Swachh Bharat
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The theme for Amateur Category Mother and Child.

1.Jayesh Navinchandra Shah.
2.Atul Vasant Ghag.
Special Mention Award in Professional Category 3.Pravin Rawat.
4.Arvind Kumar Jain.
5.Umesh Nikam.
.1Joydeep Mukherjee.
2.Akhil Hardia.
Special Mention Award in Amateur Category 3.Nimai Chandra Ghosh.
4.Mukesh J Thakkar.
5.Tabeenah Anjum Qureshi.
Voice of the Century Award Lata Mangeshkar.
Young Global Leader by WEF Smriti Irani.
Woman of the Year 2015 in New South Wales Minoti Apte.
1. Harvard university in US.
2. Cambridge university in UK.
3. University of Oxford in UK.
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Times Higher Education World Reputation 5. Stanford University in US.
Rankings 6. University of California,Berkeley in US.
7. Princeton university in US.
8. Yale University in US.
9. California Institute of Technology in US.
10. Colombia Institute of Technology in US.
France’s Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters Bharti Kher.
National Kavi Pradeep Samman Award Gopaldas Neeraj.
62nd National Film Awards
Best Hindi Film Queen.
Best Bengali Film Nirbashito.
Best Tamil Film Kuttram Kadithal.
Best Marathi Film Killa.
Best Kannada Film Harivu.
Best Konkani Film Nachom – IA Kumpasar.
Best Malayalam Film Ain.
Best Assamese Film Othello.
Best Odiya Film Aadim Vichar.
Best Punjabi Film Punjab 1984.
Best Telugu Film Chandamama Kathalu.
Best Rabha Film Orong.
Best Haryanvi Film Pagdi The Honour.
Best Music Direction Songs Haider (Hindi).
Background Score Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam).
Best Choreography Bismil for Haider.
Special Mention Ain (Malayalam).
Nachom IA Kumpasar (Konkani)
Killa Marathi.
Bhootnath Returns Hindi.
Best Educational Film: Komal & Behind the Glass Wall.
Best Exploration/Adventure Film Life Force – India’s Western Ghats.
Best Investigative Film Phum Shang.
Best Animation Film Sound of Joy
Best Short Fiction Film Mitraa.
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Best Film Critic Tanul Thakur.

Silent Cinema:(1895-1930)- Pasupuleti,
Best Writing on Cinema
Purnachandra Rao.
G.Dhananjayan for Pride of Tamil Cinema(Special
Best Writing on Cinema
Mention).
Best Costume Designer Dolly Ahluwalia for Haider.
Uttara Unnikrishanan for song Azhagu in Saivam
Best Female Playback Singer
(Tamil).
Best Male Playback Singer Sukhwinder Singh for song Bismil from Haider.
Best Actress Kangana Ranaut for Queen.
Best Supporting Actress Baljinder Kaur for Pagdi The Honour (Haryanavi).
Best Supporting Actor Bobby Simhaa for Jigarthanda (Tamil).
Best Actor Vijay for Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada).
Best Direction Srijit Mukherji for Chotushkone (Bengali).
Best Film On Environment Conservation/
Ottaal (Malayalam).
Preservation
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome
Mary Kom.
Entertainment
Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film Of A
Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali).
Director
Best Feature Film Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English).
Folio Prize for Fiction Akhil Sharma.
1.Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang Award: Sister Mariola
(Rajasthan).
2.Rani Lakshmibai Award: Seema Prakash (Madhya
Pradesh).
3.Rani Rudramma Devi Award: Astha Sansthan-
Stree Shakti Puraskar 2014
NGO (Rajasthan).
4.Mata Jijabai Award: Chandraprabha Bokey
(Maharashtra).
5. Kannagi Award: P. Bhanumati (Kerala). Devi
Ahily
Man Booker International Prize Amitav Ghosh.
Women in Parliaments Award Bangladesh.
Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award Balbir Singh Senior.
Dada Saheb Phalke Award Shashi Kapoor.
Kirti Chakra Award Captain Jaidev of Parachute Regiment.
1.Subedar Prakash Chand
Shaurya Chakra (Posthumously) 2. Lieutenant Commander Manoranjan Kumar
3.Major Abhijai of Corps of Engineers.
1.Major Mukul Sharma
2.Commander Gosavi Kaustubh Vijaykumar
3.Major R Vamshi Krishnan
4.Rifleman Manga Ram
Shaurya Chakra
5.Wing Commander Huvey Upadhyaya
6.Major Abhishek Kumar
7.Major Satnam Singh
8. Naik Ansaigra Basumatary.
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6 Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) Awards
National Thermal power corporation Limited
Maharatna of the year – Manufacturing
(NTPC).
Most Efficient Maharatna – Manufacturing Bharat Heavy electrical Limited (BHEL).

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Fastest Growing Navaratna of the year -Non Rural electrification Corporation

Manufacturing Limited(REC).
Best General Insurance Company of the year New India Assurance Company.
Outstanding Performance in Mega Project
Steel Authority of India (SAIL)
Implementation.
National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd.
Highest Wealth Creator among listed PSUs
(NBCC).
Navratna of the year – Non-Manufacturing Power Finance Corporation Limited(PFC).
Outstanding performer in Retail Banking Canara Bank.
Most Consistent Performer of the year- General
United India Insurance Company
Insurance
Maharatna of the year – Non-Manufacturing Oil and Natural gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
Biggest e-commerce portal in India Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation
(IRCTC).
Most Efficient Miniratna of the year- Non- Container Corporation Of India Limited
Manufacturing (CONCOR).
Most Efficient Public Sector Bank Bank of Baroda.
National Mineral Development Corporation
Most Efficient Navratna –Non- Manufacturing
(NMDC).
Fastest Growing Maharatna – Non-Manufacturing COAL India
Web Ratna Awards 2014
Citizen Centric Service Category
Platinum Award Passporte Seva Project.
National Safai Karmchari Finance Development
Gold Award
Corporation.
Silve Award National Institute of Open schooling.
Open Data Champion category
Office of Registrar General & Census
Platinum Award
Commissioner.
Planning Commission and Union Minister of
Gold Award
Statistics & Program Implementation.
Silver Award Union Minister of Water Resources.
Outstanding Content category
Platinum Award Minister of External Affairs.
Gold Award Minister of Tribal Affairs and Kerala Tourism.
Silver Award Minister of Development of North Eastern Region.
Innovative Use of Technology category
Platinum Award MKisan-Government of India Portal for Farmer
Centric Services.
Gold Award MP and Tamil Nadu Commertial Tax Department .
E-Sahakar, an online Cooperative Society Process
Silver Award
Management System of Maharashtra Government.
Comprehensive Web presence category
Platinum Award Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
Gold Award Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Silver Award Controller General of Accounts.
Comprehensive Web Presence State category
Platinum Award Maharashtra.
Gold Award Tamil Nadu.
Silver Award Uttarakhand.
Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO).
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Abel Prize 2015 Dr. John Forbes Nash and Louis Nirenberg.
Bishwaratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika International
Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
Solidarity Award
Femina Miss India 2015 Aditi Arya.
Bharat Ratna Madan Mohan Malviya.
International Achievement Award 2015 Dr Subadhra Devi Rai.
Sir Richard Hadlee Medal Brendon McCullum.
Golden Peacock National Quality Award 2015 Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL)
Laureus World Sports Awards 2015
Sportsman of the year Novak Djokovic.
SportsWoman of the year Genzebe Dibaba.
Team of the year Germany MEN’s Football Team.
Come-back of the year Schalk Burger.
Break-through of the year Daniel Ricciardo.
Action-sports-person of the year Alan Eustace.
Sportsperson of the year with a disablity Tatyana Mcfadden.
Sport for good Award Skateistan.
Demy Exceptioanal Achievement Li Na.
Spirit of Sport Yao Ming.
6th AIMA Managing India Awards 2015
Director Of The Year Rajkumar Hirani.
Transformational Business Leader Of The Year Kunal Bahl.
MNC In India Of The Year Hyundai Motor India Ltd.
Outstanding Contribution To Media Shekhar Gupta.
Outstanding Institution Builder M V Subbiah.
Entrepreneur Of The Year Nita M Ambani.
Business Leader Of The Year Aditya Puri.
Indian MNC Of The Year Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
Lifetime Contribution Award G M Rao.
Champion Of Change Award Satya Nadella.
Time Magazine-100 Most Influential People In World
1.Kanye West(American Musician),
2.Lorne Michaels (T.V-Producer, Writer And A
The List Of Titans Comedian),
3.Mellody Hobson(CEO Of Dream Works-
Animations).
1.Bradley Cooper(American-Actor & Producer),
The Top Pioneers List 2.Richard-Linklater(Director & Screen-Writer),
3. Chris Ofili(British-Painter).
1.Jorge Ramos(Mexican-American Journalis),
The Top Leaders List 2.Narendra Modi(PM Of India),
3.Angela Merkel, (German Chancellor).
1.Ruth Bader Ginsburg(Associate-Justice Supreme
Court,US),
The Top Icons List 2.Taylor Swift, American(Singer & Song-Writer),
3.Diane Von Furstenberg(American Fashion-
Designer).
Editor of the Year Aroon Poorie.
CEO of the year Arundhati-Bhattacharya.
Game-Changer of the year Uday-Shankar.
Marketer of the year B. Sriram.
Insurance of the year Sanjay-Tripathi.
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Mahatma Ganthi Biennial Hindi Writing Award

First prize Bajrange Chhara(Boodhan Bolta Hai).
Second prize Nishant Singh(Baal Shoshan aur Apradh).
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2015
Journalism
Public Service The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Breaking News Reporting The Seattle Times Staff.
Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall
Investigative Reporting (two prizes)
Street Journal Staff.
Explanatory Reporting Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News.
Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of
Local Reporting
the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif.
National Reporting Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post.
International Reporting The New York Times Staff.
Feature Writing Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times.
Commentary Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle.
Criticism Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times.
Editorial Writing Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe.
Editorial Cartooning Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News.
Breaking News Photography St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff.
Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer,The New
Feature Photography
York Times.
Letters And Drama
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Fiction
(Scribner).
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly
Drama
Guirgis.
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of
History the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn(Hill and
Wang).
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius
Biography
XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I.
Kertzer (Random House).
Poetry Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books).
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by
General Nonfiction
Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt).
Music
Anthracite Fields Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy/G. Schirmer,Inc.)
Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2015 Actor Anil Kapoor.
Outstanding Service Award Gopinath Pillai.
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo.
Hevesy Medal Award 2015 Susanta Lahiri and Kattesh V Katti.
Web Ratna Award 2014 Development of North East Region (DoNER).
Asian Business Leader of year Hinduja brothers.
Asian Awards 2015
Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Shah Rukh Khan.
Outstanding Contribution to Sport Kumar Sangakkara.
Outstanding Achievement in Science and
Tejinder Singh Virdee.
Technology
Outstanding Achievement in Television award Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Asian Squash Federation awards
Outstanding Team of the Year award India’s men’s team.
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Coach of the year award Cyrus Poncha.

Hassan Musa Award Kush Kumar.
Best Film award at Stockholm International Film
Mary Kom film
Fest (SIFFJ)
Orwell Prize Rana Dasgupta.
President's Medal in Israel Adiel Yosef.
Heinz Award Sangita Bhatia.
London Marathon Lifetime Achievement Award Paula Radcliffe.
th
50 Jnanpith Award Bhalchandra Nemade.
Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation Dr Ananda Kumar and Dr Pramod Patil.
Japan’s highest civilian award Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao.
Lifetime Achievement Award Pranoy Roy
Golden Medal For Merit In Work Rafael Nadal.
Spring imperial decorations award of Japan 2015 C.N.R Rao,T.K.A Nair,Parekh and Bhutia.
World’s Best airport for the year 2014 Indira Gandhi International Airport.
nd
62 National Film Awards Ceremony
Dadasaheb Phalke Shashi Kapoor.
UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom
Mazen Darwish.
Prize 2015
UN Public Service Award Nadia district.
G.K Reddy Memorial National Award Vinod Mehta.
Palme d’Or Agnes Varda.
Florence Nightingale Awards 35 nurses.
UK literary award- Encore Award Neel Mukherjee.
University of North Carolina[ UNC] 2015 awards Sivanadane Mandjiny.
Tolkappiyar award SV Shanmugam.
Kural Pitam award Eva Maria Wilden
E.Ezhuilvasanthan, K.Jwahar and K.Iyappan for
Young scholar awards 2011-12 and R.Venkatesan,A.Sathish, MR.Devak,
U.Alibava and B.Jaiganesh.
Akshay Tambe, Victor Lalbeiseia,Ashwini Ugadhe,
Ghanshyam Binali Children’s Bravery Award for
Mhonbeni Ezung, Shaurya Veer Singh and Rhea
2014
Chaudhary.
Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award Anurradha Prasad.
Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award Karan Jerath.
Top Civilian Supervisor of the Year Harkeert Singh Saini.
Man Booker International Prize Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
Radcliffe fellowship by Harvard university Shivani Agarwal and Maharaja Pandit.
Grand Vermeil Rafael Nadal.
UN Dag Hammarsjold Medal 2015 Lance Naik Nand Ram and Raju Joseph.
Platts Global award 2015 NMDC.
68th Cannes Film Festival
Palm d’Or award Dheepan.
Runner- up award Son of Saul.
Best Director award Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Best Actor award Vincent Lindon.
Best Actress award Emmanuelle Bercot and Rooney Mara.
Best Screenplay Michel Franco for Chronic.
Annual CEAT awards for 2015
International cricketer of the year Kumar Sangakkara.
Domestic cricketer of the year R.Vinay.
Indian player of the year Ajinkya Rahane.
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T20 player of the year West Indian player Dwayne Bravo.

International batsman of the year Hashim Amla.
International bowler of the year Sri Lankan Rangana Herath
Popular choice award West Indian Keiran Pollard.
Special award Rohit Sharma.
Young player of the year Deepak Hooda.
Munich International Film Festival honour Alexander Payne.
University of Oxford Inspirational Teacher Award Gurnimrat Nimmy Sidhu.
Sathiskumar,Anusuya,Ponnusami,Shashank,Agarw
4th Edition of Airbus Fly Your Ideas global
al,Dhamotharan Veerasamy, Mojit Gupta and Ajith
competition Winner
Mosses.
Times Of India Sports awards
Sportsperson of the year Jitu Rai.
Lifetime Achievement Of The Year Milkha Singh.
Popula Choice Awards. Pankaj Adwani, Sanjitha Channu.
Upcoming or emerging player award Malaika Goel.
Best cricketer award in men’s category Virat kohli.
Best cricketer Women’s category the
Harmanpreet Singh.
award
Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
16th International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) Awards 2015
Best picture Queen
Best regional film Lai Bhari ( Marathi ).
Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar & Parvez Shaikh
Best story
(Queen).
Best direction Rajkumar Hirani (PK).
1.Avinash Mehra
2., Nisha Agnihotri,
3.Prashant Pathak,
4. Neeru Gupta,
5.Manjul Bhargava,
ICCC Annual Awards 2015 6.Hargurdeep Singh,
7. Avish Sood,
8.Asim Ghosh,
9.Jag Parmar,
10.Venkatesh Mannar,
11. , Rajiv Manucha.
Bjornson Prize for Freedom of Expression Edward Snowden.
King and Queen of Social Media Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra.
Asian Athletics Association President’s Award Suresh Kalmadi.
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
Miniratna ( Category-1) award
Limited(IREDA).
2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction UK author Ali Smith.
Space Pioneer Award ISRO.
Best Outsourcing Thought Leadership Award for
Wipro.
2015
2015 Sant Namdev National Award Parkash Singh Badal.
Pride of Community Award Vivek Murthy.
Queen’s Young Leaders Award Devika Malik.
Dr.Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the
Chirag Bahiri.
Year Award
Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships for the year 1.Musicologist S R Janakiraman,
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2014 2. Filmmaker M S Sathyu

3. Indian classical singer Vijay Kichlu,
4.Musician Tulsidas Borkar.
1.Luxme Hariharan.
Shortlister for White House fellowship programme 2.Payal Patel.
3.Anil Yallapragada.
Ludovic Trarieux Prize Waleed Abu Al-Khair.
UK’s Young Writers-2015 creativity award Priyam Kamble.
1. Babusha Kohli.
10th Navlekhan Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith
2. Upasana.
Fukuoka Prize in academics category Ramachandra Guha.
Swathi Puraskar Award Amjad Ali Khan.
Sangita Kalanidhi Award For 2015 Shri Sanjay.
VK Krishna Menon Award Benni Joseph Mavelil.
Best Welfare Organiztion Award-2015 National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI).
Columbia’s highest civilian award Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Five novelists, four writers of short stories, and
Bal Sahitya Puraskar for the year 2015
three authors of poetries.
United Nations Public Services Award 2015 District Magistrate of Nadia
28th Moorti Devi Award Vishwanath Tripathi.
Punyabhushan Award Prataprao Pawar.
PATA Award Kerala Tourism.
Champion of Change award Sunita Viswanath.
1.Hasan Arif
2.Kafeel Akhtar
William Harvey Award for 2015
3. Shagufta Qadri
4. Suhailur Rahman
18th Youth Parliament Competition for Jawahar
Churachandpur.
Navodaya Vidyalayas
Economic Development Innovation Award Make in India.
Leading Oil & Gas Corporate of the Year award Indian Oil Corporation-8th Year.
IEEE award for developing curriculum lab Professor Jamia
Golden Peacock environment management award Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh.
French Civilian Award Commandeur de la Lgion
Sayed Haider Raza .
dHonneur
1.Mishi Choudhary
2. Manish Dahiya..
Asia 21 Young Leaders Class of 2015 list
3. Sanjay Vijayakumar.
4. Aarti Wig.
An India-based software products and technology
Microsoft Country Partner of Year Award
services.
2015 Miss USA pageant Oklahoma and Olivia Jordan
Golden Peacock Environment Management Award
Tata Steel’s West Bokaro Division.
2015
Vivek Agnihotri’s political irony “Buddha In A
Madrid International Film Festival
Traffic Jam”-Best Original Screenplay .
Bangalore-12th .
1.London
Top 20 technology-rich cities in the world
2.San Jose.
3.Beijing.
Prestigious Royal Society Award Kamal Bawa .
International Indian of the Year for 2014-15 Lord Karan Bilimoria.

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International Indian Business Woman of the year Uma Wadhwani.

International Indian Lifetime Services to Maritime
Captain Nalin Pandey.
Trade India and the World 2014-15
International Indian Promoting Healthcare for
Ravinder Singh Gidar.
elderly.
International Indian Promoting Community
Pravinkant Amin.
relations Worldwide
International Indian Promoting Tourism through
Bajrang Bahadur Mathur.
writing and art
International Indian Young entrepreneur 2014-15 Sanjay Wadhwani.
1. Attorney.
2. Rakesh Khurana.
Great Immigrants award 2015
3. Madhulika Sikka.
4. Abraham Verghese.
G D Birla Award for Scientific Research 2014 Prof. Sanjeev Galande
Peru’s Highest Award-Grand Officer Sri Sri Ravi Shanka.
World Food Prize 2015 Fazle Hasan Abed.
2015 World Agriculture Prize laureate R Paul Singh.
Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics
Darshan Jain
and Science Teaching
LGBT scholarship from California University Shakthi Nataraj.
World’s second largest smartphone market India,US-1st .
Varanasi,Glasgow,Hanover and Mannheim
UNESCO-Cities of Music Ghent,Hamamatsu,Brazzaville,Bogota,Seville and
Bologna .
1. Aqueduct of Padre, Mexico
2. Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral
Churches of Cefalú and Monreale, Italy
3. Baekje Historic Areas, Republic of Korea
4. Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-
Maghtas), Jordan
5. Champagne Hillsides,Houses andCellars, France
6. Christiansfeld,a Moravian Church
Settlement, Denmark
7. Climats, terroirs of Burgundy, France
8. Cultural Landscape of Maymand, Iran
9. Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural
Landscape, Turkey
10. Ephesus, Turkey
UNESCO-Heritage list
11. Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape
Uruguay
12. Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its
surrounding sacred landscape, Mongolia
13. Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of
Jewish Renewal, Israel
14. Rjukan–Notodden Industrial Heritage
Site, Norway
15. Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi
Arabia, Saudi Arabia
16. San Antonio Missions, USA
17. Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore
18. Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution:
Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal
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Mining, Japan
19. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with
Chilehaus, Germany
20. Susa, Iran
21. The Forth Bridge, United Kingdom
22. The par force hunting landscape in North
Zealand, Denmark
23. Tusi Sites, China
24. Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica
Nelson Mandela prize Dr. Helena Ndume
Chaudhary Charan Singh Award Gargi Parsai
India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL)
Ramon Magsaysay Award 2015 Anshu Gupta
International Dairy Foods Association Award Harjinder singh
72nd Venice film festival Visaaranai(Nomination)
Arjuna Award Ravichandran Ashwin
Bharat Bharti literary award 2014 Kashinath Singh
Best Electoral Practices Award-2014 Rajan Vishal
Amitabh Bachchan(7th), Salman
World’s top ten highest-paid actors in Forbes Khan(9th) and Akshay Kumar(18th)and Ranbir
Kapoor(30th).
2015 Ramanujan Prize Dr. Amalendu Krishna
Bharat Bharti literary award 2014(UP) Kashinath Singh
ESRI(Environmental Systems Research Institute)
National Dairy Development Board
Special Achievement in GIS Award 2015
Zhanna Nemtsova Poland’s Solidarity Prize 2015
Sanjiv Sambandan Google Pitch Fest
Bill Gates - rank 1 ,Larry Ellison -rank 2,Shiv nadir
Top 20 Tech Billionaires
rank -5th, Azim premji -11th place
PATWA awards Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar
Germany’s highest civilian honor “The Cross of
Raghavendra Gadagkarwas
Order of the Merit”.
2015 International Emmy Awards Kashmir Valley flood coverage(Nomination)
Youngest US Republican presidential. Bobby Jindal
Prem Bhatia Memorial Award Suhasini Haidar
Gold medal by IGNOU for topping in Diploma in
Ajeet Kumar Saroj
Tourism Studies (DTS).
Kerala State film awards 2014
Best Actors Nivin Pauly and Sudev Nair
Best Actress Nazriya Nazim
Best Movie Ottal
Best Popular Movie Om Shanti Oshana
24th Saraswati Sammaan for the year 2014 award Dr. M Veerappa Moily
Indian city to join World Tourism Cities Federation
Kochi
(WTCF) Council.
Vaidya Ratna award Martha Bhaskar Rao
Fellow of prestigious Royal Society Ajay Sood
World’s largest cash transfer program PAHAL scheme
Rakesh Sharma and Vikramjit AIATF awards
APJ Abdul Kalam award N. Valarmathi
Best actress award, Film Festival of Melbourne
Bhumi Pednekar
(IFFM) 2015.
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Khel ratna Award Sania Mirza

1. P R Sreejesh (Hockey)
2. Dipa Karmakar (Gymnastics)
3. Jitu Rai (Shooting)
4. Sandeep Kumar (Archery)
5. Mandeep Jangra (Boxing)
6. Babita (Wrestling)
7. Bajrang (Wrestling)
8. Rohit Sharma (Cricket)
9. K Srikanth (Badminton)
Arjuna Awards
10. Swarn Singh Virk (Rowing)
11. Satish Sivalingam (Weightlifting)
12. Yumnam Santhoi Devi (Wushu)
13. Sharath Gaekwad (Para-sailing)
14. M R Poovamma (Athletics)
15. Manjeet Chhillar (Kabaddi)
16. Abhilasha Mhatre (Kabaddi)
17. Anup Kumar Yama (Rollerskating)

Gujar Mal Modi Award 2015 Prof. Mustansir Barma

World’s fifth most attractive travel hotspot Taj Mahal
2016 MusiCares Person of the Year award Lionel Richie
Britain’s oldest literary award -James Tait Black
Zia Haider Rahman
Literary Prizes
'Twin national heritage cities' Rishikesh and Haridwar
Maharashtra Bhushan award Balwant Moreshwar Purandare
TCS(64) ,Hindustan Unilever(41),Larsen &
World’s 100 most innovative companies by Forbes Toubro(58), Sun Pharma Industries(65) and Bajaj
Autonamed (96).
1 .Jennifer Lawrence
2. Scarlett Johansson
3. Melissa McCarthy
4. Bingbing Fan
List of highest-paid actresses according to the 5. Jennifer Anisto
annual the spian earnings survey by Forbes 6. Julia Roberts
7. Angelina Jolie
8. Reese Witherspoo
9. Anne Hathaway
10.Kristen Stewart.
Asian of the Year 2014 award Vijay Singh Thakur
Fortune magazine’s ‘Change the World’ list of
Jain Irrigation Systems(7th )
companies
2015 Peter Mackler Award Zaina Erhaim
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy Punjabi University of Patiala
Mark Zuckerberg-wealthiest individual under the
Wealth-X report. age of 35, Dustin Moskovitz-second place, Huiyan
Yang, Huiyan Yang- third spot.
1)Naval Singh- Athletics Para-sports coach,
2)Harbans Singh- Athletics coach.
Dronacharya Award 2015 3)Anoop Singh– Wrestling coach.
4)Swatantar Raj Singh- Boxing coach.
5)Nihar Ameen- Swimming coach.
Dhyan Chand Award 2015 1)Romeo James– Hockey, 2)Shiv Prakash Mishra-
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Tennis, 3)P.P Nair– Volleyball.

1)Directorate General of Military Training
(DGMT),
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2015 2)Coal India Limited (CIL) .
3)Haryana State Police.
4).Sports Coaching Foundation (SCF).
Anote Tong and Dr. M. Vijay Gupta
Sunhak Peace Prize 2015
Fellows this year by the American Society for Pradeep Goyal, Vivekanand Kain, and Gankidi
Metals Madhusudhan Reddy
World’s richest Indian Mukesh Ambani
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2015 Border Police official and mountaineer Jot Singh.
American Book Award 2015 Naomi Klein
Grand Prix World Press Cartoon Award for 2014 Pamarthy Shankar
Best Documentary Producer award, Madrid
Benoy Behl
International Film Festival
Copley Medal, Royal Society Peter Higgs Boson
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Ramachandra Guha
Award for achievement in rooftop solar power
Punjab
output
UNESCO prize ‘Award of Excellence’ 2015- Asia
Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple, Thrissur
Pacific Heritage Award
UNESCO’s “Award of Merit” Thai aristocrat
National Humanities Medal - Obama Jhumpa Lahiri
Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-
Haryana
governance and IT initiatives
Seacology Prize M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman)
Chhattisgarh, Haveri in Karnataka,Dharampuri in
National Literacy Award
Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod.
5 world records - IQ and IELTS K Vilasini
The Great Australian Spelling Bee Contest Anirudh Kathirvel
Honoured Guest” award by U.S. state of Texas Anupam Kher
Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)
Royal Aeronautical Society - Silver Medal Dr G Satheesh Reddy
Golden Lion prize at the Venice film festival Afar (Desde Alla)
10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry
Rajeev Bansal,Manmohan Agarwal,Kush Puri
Awards
Rajbhasha award SK Biswas
UN Champions of the Earth award Sheikh Hasina
Champions of Change award Swetha Prabhakaran
Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2015 Sunjeev Sahota
UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Aqeela Asifi
1. Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque – Malaysia
2. Candido Figueredo Ruiz – Paraguay
Press Freedom Awards
3. Raqqa– Syria
4. Zone 9 bloggers – Ethiopia
Icon Award Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Arjuna Award Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra
Certificate of Recognition from the California
Anupam Kher
legislature
National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 Gujarat(4 awards)
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and 28 awardee
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National Safety Awards (NSA),2013

Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement
Global Road Achievement Award (GRAA) 2015
Project (TCRIP)
Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award Shamim Hanfi
Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of
P Sivakumar
Defense.
Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme - 1st prize Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan)
67th Emmy Awards Game of Thrones(12 awards)
PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan
2015 Global Leadership Award
Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia
th
88 Academy Awards - entry Marathi film ‘Court’
24th Vyaas Samman, 2014 Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka
Skoch Order-of-Merit Award Konte Venkata Narayana, CMD of TSNPDCL
Community Impact Award Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai., Odisha
Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps Gaia Vince
Community Champion Award Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan
Guild’s Actors Inspiration Award Leonardo DiCaprio
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award
Biological Science Category Balasubramanian Gopal
Field Of Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean And Planetary Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
Sciences
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015 Jacob Tsimerman
Lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film
Shashi Kapoor
Festival
Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize Ludmilla Alexeeva(Russia)
Porter Prize 2015
Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities JSW Steel
Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs Abbott India
Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value DHL
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare Apollo
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress Reliance Foundation
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration
Tata Power
& Governance
Vayoshreshtha Samman 2015
Award for Iconic mother Leelaben Chhabildas Gurjar (91)
Award for centenarian Uday Singh Mann (104)
Yashwant Narayan Kadam and Manohar
Life Time Achievement Award
Vishwanath Bhale
Creative Art Award Rabindranath Das Shastri (78), Jitendra Udhampuri
Award In sports & adventure Bahadur Singh
Panchayats of Dindori(Madhya Pradesh) and
Best District Panchayat
Udupi(Karnataka)
Parsihad(Assam) Pravara Rural Hospital
Best Institutions Gram Vikas
(Maharashtra)
Forbes India Leadership lifetime achievement Maruti Suzuki Chairman RC Bhargava
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Rising Director Asia Star award
Honour by Gurgaon-based group “Skoch”
Youngest Chartered Accountants, UAE
Magnolia Gold award of Shanghai.
“Gandhi Grama” award
Merlin award
2015 Right Livelihood Awards
FILA event 2015
Best CEO - Public Sector
Best CEO – Private Sector
Best CEO
Entrepreneur for the Year
Entrepreneur with Social Impact NextGen
Entrepreneur for the Year
Outstanding Startup for the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award
Conscious Capital for the Year
Noble Prize Winners -2015
Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Peace
SWEDISH Riksbank Prizen Economics
Safaigiri Summit and Awards 2015 - India Today Group
Garbage Guru Award
Toilet Titan Award
Safaigiri Tech Icon Award
Safaigiri Water Warrior Award
Safaigiri Community Mobiliser Award
Safaigiri Cleanest Park Award
Safaigiri Cleanest Marketplace Award
Safaigiri Cleanest Hill Station
Safaigiri Award for Cleanest
Safaigiri Award for Cleanest Monument
Safaigiri Award for Corporate
Safaigiri Award for Cleanest Beach
Safaigiri Award for Cleanest Temple
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“Zubaan” movie director Mozez Singh
Solid waste management of Trichy Corporation
Ramkumar Raman
Infosys China CEO Rangarajan Vellamore
Kanamadi of Vijayapura taluk, Chimmalagi of
Basavanabagewadi, Rudagi of Muddebihal, Baradol
of India and Gabasavalagi of Sindgi taluk of the
district of Karnataka
Magician Zenia Bhumgara
1. Canada’s Sheila Watt-Cloutier
2. Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera from Uganda,
3. Italian surgeon Gino Strada
4. Pacific islandsforeign minister, Tony de Brum.
Arundhati Bhattacharya (State Bank of India)
CP Gurnani (Tech Mahindra Ltd)
MNC Uday Shankar (Star India Pvt. Ltd)
Uday Kotak (Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd)
Samit Ghosh (Ujjivan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd)
Siddhartha Lal (Eicher Motors)
Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati (OLA)
RC Bhargava (Maruti Suzuki India Ltd)
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd & Gujarat
Cooperative
Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (Amul)
Takaaki Kajita, Arthur McDonald
Tomas Lindahl,Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar.
William C. Campbell, Avermectin Satoshi, Omura
Youyou Tu
Svetlana Alexievich
National Dialogue Quartet
Angus Deaton
Colonel (Retired) Suresh Rege
Siddeek Ahmed, Chairman Eeram Solutions
Dr. R Vasudevan, Dean Thiagarajar Engineering
College
Anoop Ratnaker Rao, CEO , Naandi Community
Water
PB Salim
Rock Garden, Chandigarh (Vijay Dev, Adviser to
Chandigarh
Connaught place (NDMC Chairman Naresh Kumar)
Gangktok (Gangtok Municipal Corp Commissioner
CP Dhakal)
Ghat Assi Ghat, Varanasi Town
Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
Trailblazer,Piramal Group
Havelock Island, Andaman
Town Tirupati
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1. Anita Abraham-executive director of Meal
Exchange (MX),
Fellowship in Canada 2. Ritesh Kotak-cyber-whiz
3. Mrinalini Menon-Royal Bank of Canada
4. Pam Sethi-health policy
Popular Choice Award in the field of
Indian firm Nualgi
nanotechnology
5th Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award AR Rahman
Vayalar Award Subhash Chandran(Malayalam Writer)
J C Daniel award I V Sasi
ISO 9001:2008 certificate Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
“Avvaiyaar Award 2015” Dr Shanthi Ranganathan
Vishnudas Bhave Award Vikram Gokhale
Finance Minister of the year ,Asia award Arun Jaitley
Central Bank Governor of the Year award for Asia
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
2014
List of taking investor confidence by Bank of
India (top)
America Merill Lynch
Lifetime achievement award - Elephant Assam’s lady mahout
Winner of the top treasury team(Asia) awards Bharti Airtel
Golden Peacock Global Award for Sustainability
Tata Steel
(GPGAS) 2015
Fourth Golden Boot honour Cristiano Ronaldo
Hurvard Humanitarian of the Year Award Kailash Satyarthi
Honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University
Shah Rukh Khan
Scotland
Information during travel – Rank 1st Delhi Metro
Lifetime achievement award – Cricket Journalism Mihir Bose
Maharaja Sayajirao Bhasha Samman Prasoon Joshi
Tostan human rights award Bill Clinton
Best short film award at London Film Festival 2015 An Old Dog’s Diary
Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2015 Urvashi Rautela
O V Vijayan Literature Award Usha Kumari
2015 Vishnudas Bhave Award Vikram Gokhale awarded
CII-EXIM Bank awards Bhilai Steel Plant and Rallis India
NASA Award Sameer Panda
Kala Shikhar award Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma
UK’s Point of Light Muna Chauhan
Transgender Champion Award Caitlyn Jenner
2015 International Children’s Peace Prize Abraham M. Keita
FICCI Higher Education Awards 2015 Manipal University
DRR Asia Champion Kiren Rijiju
Reporters without Borders Prize Zaina Erhaim
US public service award Ushir Pandit-Durant
Danish literature prize Haruki Murakami
2015 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace UNHCR
Honorary doctorate by the University of East Ashok Amritraj
London
Guinness Book of World Records UP’s Plantation
5 Golden Horse awards Hou Hsiao-hsien
Dinanath Mangeshkar award Prashant Damle
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12th Lok Nayak Foundation Award & Life Garikapati Narasimha Rao & Chalasani Gandhi
Time Achievement Award
Shakti Bhatt prize Rohini Mohan
Kalinga Samman 2014 Trilochan Pradhan
Freedom of the City of Cape Town award Ahmed Kathrada
Bengali film “Cinemawala”
2015 UNESCO Fellini Medal(Shortlisted)
Marathi film “Katyar Kaljat Ghusali”
New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2015 Vanessa and Her Sister( Priya Parmar)
DRDO's Scientist of the Year Award 2013 CVRDE scientist V Balaguru
Four Guinness World Record certificates for
Robert Lewandowski
scoring five goals in nine minutes
Lifetime achievement award at Asian Business
Hinduja Brothers
Leadership Forum 2015
Best film of 46th IFFI Colombian film Embrace of The Serpent
ITC Sangeet Samman L Subramaniam
E-India Award Delhi Development Authority
INBA Award Pulin Kumar
Excellence in Technology for Education by FICCI Nirma University
Express IT excellence award Hyderabad Police
Uttar Pradesh Ratna Award Frank Islam
Award for innovation from PM Narendra Modi INS Sindhudhwaj
Nobel Peace Prize amid state of emergency Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet
Queen's Young Leaders award in UK Neha Swain, Kartik Sawhney
'Forbes Top 100 Middle East - Global Meets Local
Tech Mahindra
2015' Award
2015 Time’s Person of the Year Angela Merkel
Honorary lifetime membership of MCC Mahela Jayawardene
Lifetime Achievement Award Naseeruddin Shah
2015 Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement Salman Rushdie
UNESCO - members of Creative Cities Network Varanasi and Jaipur
2015 Aegis Graham Bell Award for innovation in
Wipro
IoT
CEO of the Year HPCL CMD Nishi Vasudeva
South East Asia Write award Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali
Padma Vibhushan Dilip Kumar
World’s leading airline award Etihad Airways
West Bengal Gov Lifetime Achievement Awards Bappi Lahiri and Kumar Sanu
2016 Genesis Prize Violinist Itzhak Perlman

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