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Sports Journalists Federation of India 2019 Awards

 SJFI Medal (Highest Honour): Prakash Padukone (Badminton)
 Sportsperson of the Year Award: Pankaj Advani (Billiards and Snooker) and Bajrang
Punia (Wrestling).
 Emerging Talent of the Year Award: Saurabh Choudhary (Shooting).
 Team of the Year Award: Vidarbha Cricket Team
 The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) :
 Prestigious 2019 Global Excellence Awards : Mastercard CEO and President Ajay
Banga and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji
 Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award at the 23rd Bucheon
International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in South Korea : Gully Boy

All India Football Federation's AIFF Awards 2019

 Men’s footballer of the year : Sunil Chhetri
  Women footballer of the year : Ashalata Devi

Best Innovation Award’ in Indian Railways for the 2018-19

 Northeast Frontier Railways' (NFR) Plan Bee

 Golden Bat award at ICC World Cup 2019 : Rohit Sharma

 Player of the Tournament: Kane Williamson
 Player of the Match: Ben Stokes
 9th edition of the SAARC film festival 2019 : Nagarkirtan (Four awards)

 Arjuna Awards Rohan Bopanna and Smriti Mandhana

 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award, 2019 : Tourism Ministry
Campaign Find the Incredible You

 New Zealander of the Year award Ben Stokes

 Sangita Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy : S. Sowmya

 The House of Lords (United Kingdom Parliament, London) has awarded the ‘Indian
Woman of Influence’ award : Priya Priyadarshini Jain

 People’s Choice Award at 2019 Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival
in U.S : Sudarsan Pattnaik
 Best managed tiger reserve award from the Union ministry of environment, forest
and climate change : Sathyamangalam tiger reserve

 Champions of Empathy Award : Doordarshan

 Bharat Gaurav Award by East Bengal club : Kapil Dev

 Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism : Ravish Kumar

 National order of Merit by the President of Guinea : Ram Nath Kovind
 First Class Order of Zayed II award by UAE : Indian Diplomat Navdeep Singh Suri '
 The Order of the Green Crescent', the highest Civilian Honour of Comoros : Vice
President M Venkaiah Naidu
 'Global Goalkeeper Award' by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation : Narendra
Modi
 Changemaker Award at the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards : Payal Jangid

 Karthik Bose Lifetime Achievement award of the Cricket Association of Bengal’s

(CAB’s) : Arun Lal
 Best Hindi Film award at the 66th National Film awards : Andhadhun
 Most Film-Friendly State at 66th National Film Awards : Uttarakhand

List of winners of the 66th National Film awards

 Best Director: Uri : The Surgical Strike- Aditya Dhar
 Best Actor: Ayushmann Khuranna for Andhadhun and Vicky Kaushal for Uri : The
Surgical Strike
 Best Actress: Keerthy Suresh for Mahanati
 MS Swaminathan award for Environment Protection : Kenneth M Quinn
 Vir Chakra : Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman

 FIFA Player of the Season award for 2018-19 6th Golden Boot award
 First Indian chef to be awarded the French honour (‘Ordre du Mérite Agricole’
(Order of Agricultural Merit)) : Priyam Chatterjee

 2019 Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting : Rajdeep Sardesai
 Best Innovation And Initiative Leadership Award” in the World Education Summit-
2019 : Rajasthan
 Lata Mangeshkar Award” for the year 2019-20 : Usha Khanna

National Sports Awards -2019 : List of All the winner

 RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD

1. Bajrang Punia (Wresting)

2. Ms. Deepa Malik (Para Athletics)

 Dhyan Chand Award:

1. Manoj Kumar (wrestling)

2. C Lalremsanga (archery)
3. Arup Basak (table tennis)
4. Nitten Kirrtane (tennis)
5. Manuel Fredricks (hockey)

 Arjuna Award: Ravindra Jadeja (cricket), Mohammed Anas Yahiya (athletics),

Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (football), Sonia Lather (boxing), Chinglensana Singh
Kangujam (hockey), S Bhaskaran (bodybuilding), Ajay Thakur (kabaddi), Anjum
Moudgil (shooting), Sai Praneeth (badminton).
 Tajinder Pal Singh Toor (athletics), Pramod Bhagat (para sports-badminton),
Harmeet Rajul Desai (table tennis), Pooja Dhanda (wrestling), Fouaad Mirza
(equestrian), Simran Singh Shergill (polo), Poonam Yadav (cricket), Swapna Burman
 (athletics), Sundar Singh Gurjar (para sports-athletics) and Gaurav Singh Gill
(motorsports).
 Dr A P J Abdul Kalam award for the year 2019 by the Tamil Nadu government : K
Sivan

President Awards Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for

2019
 PALI: Anoma Shriram Sakhare
 PRAKRIT: Ashish Kumar Jain
 Guinness Award in the category of longest documentary : 100 Years of Chrysostum

 JC Bose Fellowship : K Thangaraj - scientist of Centre for Cellular and Molecular

Biology (CCMB)
 World’s Best Bank’ Award by Euromoney magazine : DBS Bank

 Clark R Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award for the year 2019 : Vivek Menon
 ‘Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2019’ by the Institution of Engineers (India)
: Prabhakar Singh
 2019 UEFA President’s Award : Eric Cantona
 2019 UEFA Player of the Year : Virjil Van Dijk
 SKOCH Governance Gold Award : Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-NULM
 ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis’ award by the Vatican Nobel Laureate Professor
Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh
 IT Excellence Award, 2019 for using information technology in the field of disaster
management : Odisha
 Oscars of science was awarded to the team of Event Horizon Telescope

 Daughter Of The Nation’ title : Lata Mangeshkar

 Nominated for the prestigious Padma Vibhushan award : Mary Kom

 Aga Khan Architecture Award 2019 : An innovative project for constructing a floating
school for marginalised children in Bangladesh
 Best Actress award at the Indian International Film Festival of Boston: Neena
Gupta

 11th International Hrant Dink Award : Agnes Kharshiing

 Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award 2019 : Sheikh Hasina

 US prestigious Education Excellence Award 2019 & Mahaveer award Anand Kumar
20th edition of International Indian Film Academy Awards
(IIFA) 2019
 Best Film – Raazi
 Best Actor (Female) – Alia Bhatt for Raazi
 Best Actor (Male) – Ranveer Singh for Padmaavat
 Best Director – Sriram Raghavan for Andhadhun
 Best film of the past 20 years – Kaho Na Pyaar Hai
 Magnificent Performing Arts Award at the annual 21st Century Icon Awards in
London : Sonu Nigam
 First Gauri Lankesh award for Journalism : Ravish Kumar

 Three prestigious Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold awards in NurSultan
(Astana), Kazakhstan for tourism : Kerala
 First Indian Railways station to be awarded with green ‘Platinum rating’ by the
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) : Secunderabad junction

 Dada Sahab Phalke award 2019 : Amitabh Bachchan

 Peter Mackler Award for Mafia Coverage in Italy : Paolo Borrometi

National Tourism Awards 2017-18

 Andhra Pradesh bagged the Best State award for overall growth in tourism category
 Goa and Madhya Pradesh were the joint winners in the Adventure Tourism category
 Uttarakhand won the award for the Best Film Promotion-Friendly State
 Telangana won the award for the Best State for the innovative use of IT
 United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category :
Infosys
 The IAU – International Astronomical Union has named a minor planet between Mars
and Jupiter after an Indian classical singer Pandit Jasraj

 Pushkin Medal 2019 : Meeta Narain

 SASTRA Ramanujan prize for 2019 : Adam Harper
 The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance (Bahrain) and Order of Zayed (UAE)

 Bharat Ratna 2019 Bhupen Hazarika, Nanaji Deshmukh and Pranab Mukherjee
 Honorary doctorate by the La Trobe University in Melbourne : Shah Rukh Khan
 Doctorate degree from University Of Salford in England : Asha Bhosle

 Saraswati Samman award for his collection Pakkaki Ottigilite in 2018 : K Siva Reddy
 MP Birla Memorial Award : Scientist Thanu Padmanabhan
 President’s Colors award : Corps of army air defense
 UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award 2019 : Azizbek Ashurov (Kyrgyz
human rights lawyer)

 ‘Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador’ Award : Sachin Tendulkar

 Face of Asia Award at Busan International Film Festival : Bhumi Pednekar

 Asia Environmental Enforcement Award by UNEP Ramesh Pandey

 Nobel Prize in Medicine Americans William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza shared the
prize with Peter Ratcliffe of the U.K.
 Nobel Prize for Physics 2019
 James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz get Nobel Prize for Physics
 Nobel Prize 2019
 Olga Tokarczuk Wins 2018 Nobel For Literature, Peter Handke For 2019

 The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry John D Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham

and Akira Yoshino
 The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 : Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of
Ethiopia

 Nobel Prize 2019 for Economic : Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer

 Ashleigh Barty : Australian sport’s highest individual honour ‘The Don’ Award
 Chandi Prasad Bhatt : Indira Gandhi award for national integration for the years 2017
and 2018

 AIIMS Delhi Wins Top Cleanliness Award from Centre at Kayakalp Awards
 MP govt’s Kishore Kumar award : Director Priyadarshan
 Indian Sports Honours (ISH)- Lifetime Achievement Award Milkha Singh

 2019 Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
 India wins four UNESCO heritage awards
1. Vikram Sarabhai Library, IIM Ahmedabad – Award of Distinction
2. Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Mumbai – Award of Merit
3. Our Lady of Glory Church, Mumbai – Award of Merit
4. Flora Fountain, Mumbai – Honourable Mention