List of Important Awards and Honours 2020 (Updated)

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List of Important Awards and Honours

2020 (Updated)
S. No. Award Awardee
1. Nobel Prize in Peace 2020 World Food Programme (WFP)
2. Sarala Puraskar Odia poet, Nityanand Nayak
3. Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable
poetic voice that with austere beauty makes
individual existence universal”.
4. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for
the development of a method for genome editing”.
5. Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole
formation is a robust prediction of the general theory
of relativity. The other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel
and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive
compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
6. The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) Ratan Tata
lifetime achievement Award
7. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 Harvey J. Alter(America), Charles M. Rice (America)
and Michael Houghton (Britain) for the discovery of
the Hepatitis C virus.
8. Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Grand Title Kerala Tourism’s ‘Human by Nature Print Campaign’
Winner 2020 for Marketing
9. Right Livelihood Award 2020 The four activists Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Nasrin
Sotoudeh of Iran, Bryan Stevenson of the United
States(US) and Lottie Cunningham Wren of
Nicaragua.
10. ‘National Energy Leader’ and ‘Excellent Energy Hyderabad International Airport or GMR led Rajiv
Efficient Unit’ Awards at National Award for Gandhi International Airport
‘Excellence in Energy Management’
11. ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ award by Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Vizag Steel Plant)
Confederation of Indian industry and Godrej
Green Business Centre
12. Lifetime Achievement Awards by Euromoney Aditya Puri
Awards for Excellence 2020
13. Asia Game Changer Award 2020 Chef Vikas Khanna
14. 2020 Dayton Literacy Peace Prize’s Lifetime Margaret Atwood
Achievement
15. Ig Noble Prize 2020 for Medical Education Prime Minister Narendra Modi
16. All India Football Federations Men’s Footballer of Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (Goalkeeper)
the Year 2019-20
17. All India Football Federations Women’s Footballer Sanju Yadav (Midfielder)
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of the Year 2019-20
18. Gan Samragni Lata Mangeshkar Award 2020-21 Usha Mangeshkar
19. SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award Sonu Sood
20. Asian College of Journalism’s (ACJ) Award 2019 Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay Singh
21. ‘Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2019 Wing Commander Gajanand Yadava
22. Rashtritya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2020 Army Sports Institute, Pune
23. International Booker Prize 2020 for her debut Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
novel ‘The Discomfort of Evening'
24. National Award to Teachers 2020 Sudha Painuli
25. First Gold Medal for India in Mental Calculations Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash Jonnalagadda
World Cup (MCWC)
26. P C Mahalanobis Lifetime Achievement Award C Rangarajan
27. Carnegie Corporation of New York’s 2020 list of Siddhartha Mukherjee and Raj Chetty
‘Great Immigrants’
28. 2020 Diana Award Freya Thakral
29. Overall Winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Kritika Pandey
Story Prize
30. Virtual Race Across America (VRAAM) 2020 Lt Col Bharat Pannu
31. Natvarya Prabhakar Panshikar Award Ratnakar Matkari
32. EU Green Building Award 2020 International Olympic Committee
33. CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019 NTPC Ltd
34. 2020 Dada Saheb Phalke Award Kezang D Thongdok
35. ‘Development Marketplace Award Institute for Human Development (IHD)
2020:Innovations to Address Gender-Based
Violence’
36. Von Karman Award 2020 by International K Sivan
Academy of Astronautics (IAA)
37. Mohun Bagan Ratna Award Hockey Player Gurubux Singh and Cricketer Palash
Nandi
38. Elites Excellence Award 2020 Chhattisgarh CM Darpan website and mobile app
39. US-India Business Council (USIBC) Global N Chandrasekaran and Jim Taiclet
Leadership Award 2020
40. ‘Infra Business Leader of the year 2020 award by Ved Prakash Dudeja
Rail Infra and Mobility Digital Award (RIMBDA)’
41. Global Humanitarian Award 2020 Sachin Awasthi
42. CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh), Mohammad Mosaed
International Press Freedom Award 2020 (Iran), Dapo Olorunyomi (Nigeria) and Svetlana
Prokopyeva (Russia)
43. 2020 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Kate Winslet
Tribute Actor Award
44. Nelson Mandella Prize 2020 Guinean doctor Morissana Kouyate and Marianna
Vardinoyannis from Greece
45. ‘Legend of Animation’ Arnab Chaudhuri
46. Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity Greta Thunberg
47. President’s Award for Nurse in Singapore Kala Naryanasamy
48. Gustave Trouve Award for Excellence in Electric Aditya
Boats and Boating
49. Premier League Golden Boot Football Award Jamie Vardy
50. ‘Karamveer Chakra Award’ Sunil YDV SS
51. EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
52. Richard Dawkins Award 2020 Javed Akhtar
53. ‘NASA Distinguished Service Medal’ Renjith Kumar
54. Medal of the order of Australia (OAM) Shobha Sekhar
55. World Food Prize 2020 Rattan Lal
56. QualityNZ Culinary Cup 2020 in the category of Chef Angad Singh Rana
Seafood challenge
57. QualityNZ Culinary Cup 2020 in the category of Chef Vaibhav Bhargava
Mutton/lamb challenge
58. German Book Trade for 2020 Peace Prize Amrtya Sen
59. Lifetime Achievement Award of Vithabai Gulabbai Sangamnerkar
Naryangaokar
60. 20th Annual BET Awards 2020 Popstar Beyonce
61. Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 Kritika Pandey
62. Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award Deccan Development Society
63. e-Panchayat Puraskar-2020 Himachal Pradesh
64. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan
65. Naming NASA’s 1st Mars Helicopter Vaneeza Rupani
66. Russia’s 1st Satellite to Monitor Arctic Climate Arktika-M
67. Young Career Award in Nano Science and Saurabh Lodha
Technology for the year 2020
68. 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography Indian journalist Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and
Channi Anand
69. Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020 Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring, and Nicholas C
Coops
70. Startup India Animal Husbandry Grand Challenge White Gold Technologies LLP, Mumbai
Awards
71. SKYTRAX Award 2020 in the category of Best Kempegowda International Airport, Bangalore
Regional Airport in India and Central Asia
72. SKYTRAX Award 2020 in the category of World’s Changi Airport of Singapore
Best Airport
73. Best airport staff in India and Central Asia Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport,
category Mumbai
74. Fed Cup Heart Award for Aisa/Oceania Zone Sania Mirza
75. VMware 2020 Regional Partner of the Year Anunta
Award for the Services Excellence category
76. Vice Admiral G.M. Hiranandani Memorial Rolling Lieutenant Commander Akshay Kumar
Trophy for the year 2020
77. UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year 2019 Suman Gawani
78. NYIPLA “Inventor of the Year award” for the year Rajiv Joshi
2020
79. Christophe Merieux Prize Quarraisha Abdool Karim
80. ‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA India Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik
81. Chinese Virtual Grand Prix Championship Charles Leclerc
82. Inclusion in The Medicine Maker Power List 20 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
For 2020
83. William E. Colby Award 2020 Adam Higginbotham
84. 13th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Novelist Abdelouahab Aissaoui
Fiction (IPAF) in 2020
85. Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Men England All-rounder Ben Stokes
86. Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Women Ellyse Perry of Australia
87. Edison Award Tata Power for campaign ‘Club Enerji
#Switchoff2SwitchOn’
88. Forbes billionaires list “The Richest in 2020” Jeff Bezos
89. 128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award Jadav Payeng
winner
90. MS Swaminathan Award V Praveen Rao
91. Chameli Devi Jain Award Arfa Sherwani & Rohini Mohan
92. Hemingway Award 2020 Novelist Ruchika Tomar
93. IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 Zoya Akhtar
94. 2019 Road Safety Media Fellowship Award Prachi Salve, Pradeep Dwivedi
95. Moghai Ojah Award Paramananda Majumder
96. Ugandas Highest Civilian Award Rajesh Chaplot
97. National Award DRDO
98. 1st Position for the Implementation of Pradhan Madhya Pradesh
Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
99. 1st Men's section Khelo India Ice Hockey Ladakh Scouts Regimental Centre (LSRC) Red
tournament 2020
100. 2019 FIH Women's Rising Star of the Year Lalremsiami
101. SERB Women Excellence Award-2020 Dr Niti Kumar
102. 34th Cannes Open D Gukesh
103. ‘Central Banker of the Year 2020’ for the Asia- Shaktikanta Das
Pacific region
104. 1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award Vinod Kumar Shukla
105. Lifetime Achievement Award by International Pullela Gopichand
Olympic Committee’s (IOC)
106. Dan David Prize 2020 Gita Sen
107. Miss Diva Universe 2020 Adline Castelino
108. National e-Governance Award RailMadad
109. Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award Lewis Hamilton and Footballer Lionel Messi
110. Mystic Kalinga Literary Award Manoj das
111. French honour for Theatre Artiste Sanjana Kapoor
112. National Award for Implementation of the South Salmara Mankachar of Assam
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
113 Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 Jadav Payeng
113. ‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award Dr M S Swaminathan
for Excellence’
114. ‘Muppavarapu National Award for Social Service’ Dr Gutta Muniratnam
115. Polly Umrigar Award Jasprit Bumrah
116. 'World Games Athlete of the Year' Award Rani Rampal
117. Global Bihar Excellence Award 2019 Piyush Jaiswal
118. Miss Teen International 2019 Aayushi Dholakia
119. Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 Indian girl Sucheta Satish & Indian Yoga Boy Ishwar
Sharma
120. Costa Children’s Award 2019 Jasbinder Bilan
121. 29th Saraswati Samman Vasdev Mohi
122. “Merck Young Scientist Award 2019” Sakya Singha Sen
123. Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2019 Priya Prakash
124. Kerala National Media Award N. Ram
125. ‘Harit Ratna Award 2019’ Dr N Kumar
126. 1st Prize at the Republic Day Parade, 2020 Tableaux of Assam
127. Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) by Calcutta University Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
128. 2020 Tyler Prize Pavan Sukhdev
129. Padma Shri award from Telangana Farmer Chinthala Venkat Reddy
130. 2020 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Disaster Mitigation & Management Centre (DMMC)
Puraskar Award
131. Plastic Waste Management Award 2020 Assam's Dibrugarh district
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