Different awards and prizes including Nobel Prize 2011 1) Who among the following has bagged the

The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011'? Rahul Bhattacharya 2) Which Hindi authors were honoured with the country's highest literary h onor Jnanpeeth for 2009? Shrilal Shukla and Aman Kant 3) The AP Transco has bagged the prestigious 5th Enertia National best perfo rming State power utility award for its excellent performance in which one of the following sector? Reducing transmission and distribution losses 4) Who was awarded the Sanskriti Award for 2011? Shahida Shabnam from Kupwara in Kashmir, who brought alive the anguish of women in the Valley through words in her native language 5) ABLF woman of power award in 2011, by the Asian Business Leadership Forum, was awarded to: Hind S. Bhawan, Chairperson of the Chennai-based Bahwan CyberTek and Director, S uhail Bahwan Group. 6) Who won the International Committee of the Red Cross award for the best Ind ian print media article on humanitarian issues? Aman Sethi, the Chhattisgarh correspondent 7) Which playback singer has been selected for the prestigious Akshaya Moha nty Samman for 2011 in recognition of her outstanding contribution in the field of music? Asha Bhosle Nobel Prize 2011: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was divided, one half awarded to Saul Perlmutter , the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discover y of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 was awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discover y of quasicrystals". The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "for their discoveries concerning the act ivation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his dis covery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity". The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to Tomas Transtromer "because, th rough his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality". The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of wo men and for women s rights to full participation in peace-building work". The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empi rical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy" 8).Indira Gandhi National award for national integrity and unity 2011 was given to MOHAN DHARIA!!

9).Lal bahadur Shastri award for excellance in Public Administration and managme nt 2011 was Given to Prof. Yashpal..!! 10).Jnanpith award(highest literary Houner) 2011 was Given to Urdu Writer... Akh laq Mohammed Khan..!!! 11)Templeton prize 2011 Martin John Rees 12)2011 Voltaire Award Awarded to Julian Assange & WikiLeaks 13)Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers Prize 2011 Best Book for The Memory o f Love 14) Who, among the following writers,have not been chosen for the 2011 Kendra Sa hitya Akademi's Bala Sahitya Puraskar for lifetime contribution to children's li terature?--- Mayanath Jha 15) Noted Kashmiri writer and poet has bagged the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Aw ard in the children's literature category in 2011. ----- Gulam Nabi Aatish