Current Affairs
Awards in 2014
Nobel Prize 2014
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Nobel Prize 2014
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Field
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Winners
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Countries
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For
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Physiology
/ Medicine
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John
O’Keefe
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U.S.-British
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For discovering the brain’s positioning
system.
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May—Britt
Moser
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Edward
Moser
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Physics
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Isamu
Akasaki
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For the invention of blue light-emitting
diodes a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source.
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Hiroshi
Amano
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Shuji
Nakamura
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Chemistry
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Eric
Betzig
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For super-resolved fluorescence
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William
Moerner
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Stefan
Hell
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Literature
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Patrick
Modiano
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Peace
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Kailash
Satyarthi
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Children’s rights activists
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Malala
Yousfazi
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Economics
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Jean
Triole
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for his work on market power and
regulation.
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India & Nobel Prize Winners
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#
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Year
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Laureates
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Subject
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Origin
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1902
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Ronal Ross
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Medicine
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Foreign citizens born in
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1907
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Rudyard Kipling
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Literature
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Foreign citizens born in
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1
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1913
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Literature
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Citizen of
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2
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1930
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C V Raman
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Physics
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Citizen of
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3
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1968
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Hargobind Khorana
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Medicine
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Foreign citizen of Indian origin
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4
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1979
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Mother Teresa
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Peace
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Foreign born citizen of
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5
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1983
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Physics
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Indian-born American citizen
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6
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1998
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Amartya Sen
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Economics
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Citizen of
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7
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2001
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V S Naipaul
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Literature
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Indian descendant of
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8
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2009
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Chemistry
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Indian born American Citizen
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9
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2014
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Kailash Satyarti
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Peace
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Citizen of
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Infosys Prize 2014
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Winner
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Field
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Awarded for
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Engineering and Computer Science
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Jayant Haritsa
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Awarded for his contributions to the design
and optimization of database engines.
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Humanities
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Shamnad Basheer
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Awarded this prize for his contributions to
the analysis of a range of legal issues, including pharmaceutical patent
injunctions and enforcement.
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Life Sciences
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Shubha Tole
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Awarded this prize for her significant
contributions to studying the hippocampus and amygdala - centers of learning
and memory in the brain. Her work can lead to a better understanding of human
behavior, cognition and emotions.
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Mathematical Sciences
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Madhu
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Awarded for his seminal contributions to
probabilistically checkable proofs and error-correcting codes.
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Physical Sciences
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Srivari Chandrasekhar
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Awarded for his contributions in the
general area of synthetic organic chemistry with a special focus on the
synthesis of complex molecules from natural sources.
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Social Sciences
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Esther Duflo
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Awarded for her pioneering contributions to
development economics, especially work related to countries such as
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v Lokmanya Tilak
National Award for Excellence in Journalism - Mammen Mathew (MD of Malayala
Manorama)
v French government has
bestowed the prestigious award of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of
the Order of Arts and Letters) on Indian actor-director Rahul Vohra for his
contribution to cinema and theatre
v Golden Globe Awards
2014
Ø Best Motion Picture,
Drama: 12 Years a slave
Ø Best Director -
Motion Picture: Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity
v Kerala-based writer
Anees Salim won The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 for his second novel, Vanity
Bagh for consistent writing and humour and imagination
v Cyrus Mistry wins the
DSC prize for South Asian literature; book “Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer”
v Padma Awards 2014:
totally 127(two Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 101 Padma Shri) Awardees
v Centre for Study of
Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai, has been selected for the National
Communal Harmony Award 2013
v Anand Kumar, a
mathematician and founder of Super30 classes was conferred with the 2014
Ramanujan Award
v
Eminent
scientist Prof C N R Rao and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and were conferred the
country’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by President Pranab
Mukherjee (Feb 04,2 014)
v
Tomas
Halik, won the 2014 Templeton Prize on for religious and spiritual progress
v
Russian
mathematician Yakov Grigorevich Sinai, one of the most influential
mathematicians of the 20th Century, has been chosen for the 2014 Abel Prize by
the Norwegian Academy
v
Shigeru
Ban, Japanese architect known for his creative and inexpensive designs for
disaster relief shelters, has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize (often
called as Nobel Prize in architecture)
v
Govind
Mishra, the renowned Hindi author will receive Sarawasti Samman for the year
2013 for his book Dhool Paudho Par published in 2008
v
Indian
journalist and founder of CGnet Swara, a mobile news service, has won the 2014
Freedom of Expression Award, beating the US
v
Eminent
Gandhian and environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt has been selected for the
2013 Gandhi Peace Prize
v
Oscar
Awards 2014
Ø
Best
Motion Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Ø
Best
Actor: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas
Ø
Best
Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
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Oscar
Awards - 2014
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Category
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Winner
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Film
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Best
Motion Picture
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12
Years a Slave
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Best
Actor
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Matthew
McConaughey
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Best
Actress
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Cate
Blanchett
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Blue
Jasmine
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Best
Supporting Actor
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Jared
Leto
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Best
Supporting Actress
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Lupita
Nyong’o
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12
Years a Slave
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Best
Director
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Alfonso
Cuaron
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Gravity
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Best
Foreign Language Film
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The
Great Beauty (
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Best
Animated Feature Film
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Frozen
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v
Environmental
activist Ramesh Agrawal has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental
Prize (Green Nobel)
v
61st
National Film Awards — 2013
Ø
Dadasaheb
Phalke Award: Gulzar
Ø
Best
Feature Film: Ship of Theseus (English / Hindi)
Ø
Best
Feature Film on National Integration: Thalaimuraigal (Tamil)
v
Ratan
Tata received the Knight Grand Cross (GBE) award by UK Government.
v
Vishwanath
Tripathi, eminent Hindi writer was awarded with the prestigious Vyas Samman for
the year 2013
v
For
the first time in 52 years, two spellers have been declared co-champions of the
Scripps National Spelling Bee. Indian-Americans Sriram Hathwar of New York and Ansun Sujoe of Texas
v Cannes
v
The
project Mobile Seva under Department of Electronics and Information Technology
(DeitY) won second rank in the 2014 United Nations Public Service Award.
Department of Electronics and Information Technology comes under Ministry of
Information and Technology
v
Turkish
investigative journalist Ahmet Sik won 2014 UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press
Freedom Prize
v
Salman
Rushdie wins Pen Pinter 2014
v
Salman
Rushdie has received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
v
Noted
Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh was chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith award for
2013. He is the 10th Hindi writer to receive the honour.
v
Sanjay
Rajaram won the World Food Prize 2014
v
Indian
origin physicist Tejinder Virdee was honoured knighthood Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth
II
v
Lord
Swraj Paul, the leading NRI industrial was honoured with the Lifetime
Achievement Award by a UK-based business association
v Irish author Eimear McBride won the
2014 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction for her first novel A Girl is a
Half-Formed Thing
v
Malala
Yousafzai, won the 2014 Liberty Medal
v
Shah
Rukh Khan was conferred with top French civilian award Knight of the Legion of
Honor
v
Legendary
actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao - the first Indian actor to be honoured with a
postage stamp by the U.S. Post Service (USPS)
v
Mister
World 2014: Nicklas Pedersen of Denmark
v
Noted
filmmaker and poet Muzaffar Ali was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award
v
President
Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards on Arun
Jaitley (2010), Dr Karan Singh (2011) and Sharad Yadav (2012)
v
World
Health Organisation (WHO) honoured Bangladesh
v
Dr.
Kamal Bawa, an Indian Scientist, won the MIDORI Prize in Biodiversity 2014
v
Manjulatha
Kalanidhi, a 38-year-old Hyderabad
v
Girl's
rights champion Malala Yousafzai won the World's Children's Prize after a
global vote involving millions of children
v
Ashwika
Kapur became the first Indian woman to win prestigious Wildscreen Panda Award.
She won the coveted wildlife photography award in best newcomer category for
her film, Sirocco - how a dud became a stud.
v
UK
v
UK
India Business Council chair Patricia Hewitt in the commerce category
v
Dame
Asha Khemka for services in the field of education and
v
Actor
Madhav Sharma for culture
v
Singapore
v
Australia
v
Lal
Bahadur Shastri National Award 2014 for Excellence in Public Administration,
Academics and Management to Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai
v
Anoop
Jain won 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen Award
v
Saiyid
Hamid was conferred with Sir Ross Masood Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
v
Two mathematicians of Indian origin, Manjul Bhargava and
Subhash Khot, are among the eight winners of the prestigious awards of the
International Mathematical Union (IMU); Maryam Mirzakhani of Iran
v
Shah
Rukh Khan received Global Diversity Award 2014 at the House of Commons
v
2014
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize to Dr. James Maynard (27) of the Oxford University
v
Lahore-based
author Bilal Tanweer’s maiden novel The Scatter Here is Too Great has bagged
the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize
v
Achyuta
Samanta, a social entrepreneur from India
v
Indian
space agency ISRO will be conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
Disarmament and Development for 2014 in recognition of its contribution in
strengthening international cooperation in peaceful use of outer space
v
Dilip
Vengsarkar has been chosen for the BCCI’s Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement
Award for 2013-14
v
Neha
Gupta (18), an Indian-American from Philadelphia ,
has won the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize for her work to
help orphans in India
v
2014
IFFI (International Film Festival of India
Ø
Best
Film: ‘Leviathan’ (Russian)
v
Centenary
Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year to Mr. Rajinikanth
v
Miss
International 2014 to Puerto Rico 's Valeire
Hernandez
v
Adoor
Gopalakrishnan to get Bhupen Hazarika Award for 2015
v
Former
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been chosen for one of Japan
v
The
Darjeeling Zoo or the Padmaja
Naidu Himalayan
Zoological Park
v
Former
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpee and freedom fighter Pandit Madan Mohan
Malaviya (posthumously) will receive the Bharat Ratna
v
India
v
Miss.
Rolene Strauss (South Africa )
was crowned Miss World 2014 at the final of the beauty pageant held in London , UK
v Miss World honoured
Aishwarya Rai Bachan for charitable work.
She was honoured with a special award at the Miss World 2014 ceremony in
London
v Ruhi Singh of India
v “First Justice
Nagendra Singh International Peace Award” to Justice Dalveer Bhandari
v Film artist of Ireland
Duncan Campbell won Turner Prize 2014 for a video called It For Others
v Novak Djokovic and
Serena Williams were named the men’s and women’s World Champions for 2014
respectively b the International Tennis Federation (ITF)
v Eight books of
poetry, five of novels, three of essays, three of short stories, one each of
literary criticism, autobiography and play have won the Sahitya Akademi Award
2014
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Beauty Queens of 2014
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Crown
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Winner
|
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Ms.
Universe 2014
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<to
be held in Jan 2015>
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Ms.
World 2014
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Ms. Rolene Strauss
(
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Ms.
International 2014
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Ms. Valeire
Hernandez
(Puerto Rico)
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Ms.
Earth 2014
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Ms. Jaime Herrell
(The
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Man Booker Prize – a look
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Recent Winners
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Year
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Author
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Title
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Genre(s)
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Country
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2010
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Howard Jacobson
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The Finkler Question
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Comic
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2011
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Julian Barnes
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The Sense of an Ending
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Novel
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2012
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Hilary Mantel
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Bring Up The Bodies
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Historical
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2013
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Eleanor Catton
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The Luminaries
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Historical
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2014
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Richard Flanagan
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The
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Historical
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From
India
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#
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Winner
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Year
|
Book
|
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1
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Salman
Rushdie
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1981
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The
Midnight’s Children
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2
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Arundhati
Roy
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1997
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The
God of Small Things
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3
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Kiran
Desai
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2006
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Inheritance
of Loss
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4
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Aravind
Adiga
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2008
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White
Tiger
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Stree Shakti Puaraskar Awards 2013
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Rani
Lakshmibai Award
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Manasi
Pradhan of Odisha
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for
her contribution to women’s empowerment
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Rani
Rudramma Devi Award
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M.
Venkaih of
Andhra
Pradesh
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for
his contribution to women’s health
|
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Mata
Jijabai Award
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Sheth
Lashkari of
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for
her achievement in education and training
|
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Kannagi
Award
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T.
Radha K. Prashanti of Andhra Pradesh
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for
providing support to orphans, visually impaired, handicapped and destitute
women
|
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Rani
Gaidinliu Zeliang Award
|
Vartika
Nanda of
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for
creating awareness of women’s issues through the media
|
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Devi
Ahilyabai Holkar Award
|
Seema
Sakhare of
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for
highlighting women’s rights and gender issues, and offering women and girls
legal counselling and support
|
National Sports Awards 2014:
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award ( medal + Rs. 7.5 lakh)
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Arjuna Award (statuette +
citation + Rs. 5 lakh each)
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01
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Abhishek
Verma
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Archery
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02
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Tintu
Luka
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Athletics
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03
|
H
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Para-athletics
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04
|
V
Diju
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Badminton
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05
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Geethu
Anna Jose
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Basketball
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06
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Jai
Baghwan
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Boxing
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07
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R
Ashwin
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Cricket
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08
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Anirban
Lahiri
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Golf
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09
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Mamta
Pujari
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Kabaddi
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10
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Saji
Thomas
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Rowing
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11
|
Heena
Sidhu
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Shooting
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12
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Anaka
Alankamony
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Squash
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13
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Tom
Joseph
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Volleyball
|
14
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Renubala
Chanu
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Weightlifting
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15
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Sunil
Kumar Rana
|
Wrestling
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Dronocharya Award
(statuette + citation + Rs. 5 lakh each)
|
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01
|
Mahabir
Prasad
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Wrestling
|
02
|
N.
Lingappa
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Athletics
– lifetime achievement
|
03
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G.
Manoharan
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Boxing
– lifetime achievement
|
04
|
Gurcharan
Singh Gogi
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Judo
– lifetime achievement
|
05
|
Jose
Jacob
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Rowing
– lifetime achievement
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Dhyan Chand Award
|
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01
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Gurmail
Singh
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Hockey
|
02
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K.P.
Thakkar
|
Swimming-diving
|
03
|
Zeeshan
Ali
|
Tennis
|
TN Government Awards 2014:
#
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Award
|
Winner
|
1
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Perarignar Anna Award
பேà®°à®±ிஞர் அண்ணா விà®°ுது
|
Panruti Ramachandran
பண்à®°ுட்டி
ச.இராமச்சந்திரன்
|
2
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Thiruvallur Award
திà®°ுவள்ளுவர் விà®°ுது
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Poet Yusi (
கவிஞர் யூசி (தைவான்)
|
3
|
Annal Ambedkar Award
அண்ணல் à®…à®®்பேத்கர் விà®°ுது
|
Prakash
பேà®°ாயர் à®®ுனைவர்
எம்.பிரகாà®·்
|
4
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Kamaraj Award
பெà®°ுந்தலைவர் காமராசர்
விà®°ுது
|
Ayyaru Vaandayar
கி.அய்யாà®±ு
வாண்டையாà®°்
|
5
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Thanthai Periyar Award
தந்தை பெà®°ியாà®°் விà®°ுது
|
Sulochana Sambath
சுலோச்சனா சம்பத்
|
6
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Bharathiyar Award
மகாகவி பாரதியாà®°் விà®°ுது
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Ganansambandhan
à®®ுனைவர் கு.ஞானசம்பந்தன்
|
7
|
Bharathidasan Award
பாவேந்தர் பாரதிதாசன்
விà®°ுது
|
Radha Sellapan
à®®ுனைவர் இராதா செல்லப்பன்
|
8
|
K. A. P. Viswanathan Award
à®®ுத்தமிà®´்க்காவலர்
கி.ஆ.பெ. விசுவநாதம் விà®°ுது
|
Jeyadevan
பேà®°ாசிà®°ியர் à®®ுனைவர்
வ.ஜெயதேவன்
|
9
|
Thiru. Vi. Ka. Award
தமிà®´்த்தென்றல்
திà®°ு.வி.க. விà®°ுது
|
Ashokamithran
அசோகமித்ரன்
|
Miscellaneous:
Awards
|
Winners
|
International Women of Courage Award
|
* Laxmi (Indian; Acid attack victim)
* Award given by US First Lady (Michelle Obama)
|
Heinz Award
|
* 2 Indian Origins
* Abraham Verghese and Sanjeev Arora
|
2014
|
* Pankaj Mishra
* Book: "From the Ruins of Empire"
|
2014
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* Pankaj Mishra (in nonfiction category)
|
Goldman Environmental Prize / Green Nobel
|
Ramesh Agarwal
|
Millennium Technology Prize 2014
|
* Stuart Parkin (British-American Physicist)
* for discoveries leading to a thousand-fold
increase in digital data storage on magnetic disks
|
Knight Grand Cross Award (GBE)
|
* Ratan Tata
* Given by
* Already honoured with a KBE (Knight Commander) in
2009
|
2014 Yale World Fellows
|
* Nandita Das
* Parmesh Shahani
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honorary Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar Award
|
Harry Belafonte (
|
Presidential Award for Certificate of Honour for
lifetime achievement in Sanskrit language
|
S. Sambanda Sivacharya (Sanskrit scholar)
|
Mister World 2014
|
* Nicklas Pedersen of
* From
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Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
|
Salman Rushdie
|
MIDORI Prize in Biodiversity 2014
|
Dr. Kamal Bawa
|
G.K. Reddy Memorial Award 2014
|
Vinod Mehta
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award 2014
|
Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai
|
Waislitz Global Citizen Award 2014
|
Anoop Jain
|
Global Diversity Award 2014
|
Shah Rukh Khan
|
UNESCO World Freedom Prize 2014
|
Ahmet Sik (
|
Avvaiyar Award 2014
|
* Dr K Mathangi Ramakrishnan
* By Government of Tamil Nadu
|
M
|
Sunil R Gargyan (19 year old)
|
World Media Summit
World Media
|
|||
Award
|
Category
|
Winner
|
Honourable mention
|
Public Welfare Awards
|
Award for Exemplary News Teams in Developing
Countries
|
Al Jazeera
|
This Week,
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Truth Vs Hype, NDTV
|
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Rural Damasus, Al Jazeera
|
|||
Award for Exemplary News Professionals in
Developing Countries
|
Sainath,
The Hindu
|
Meera Srinivasan, The Hindu
|
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Surendra Paudel, Nepal
Republic Media Pvt. Ltd., Nepal
|
|||
Tan EE Long,
|
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Sheuli Akter, Ns
|
|||
Adow Jubat, The Standard Group Limited,
|
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Award for Media Innovation
|
Behind the Bloodshed,
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Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn, Seattle
Times
|
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Live Blog of Israel-Gaza Conflict,
|
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3dAnimated Videographics, AFP
|
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The Change for Health App, the Standard Group Ltd,
|
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Putin’s Q&A,a s it Happened: All the best
Quotes and Realtime Reaction, Russia Today
|
|||
Award for new media
reporting
|
|||
Meteorite hits Russian Urals, Russia Today
|
|||
Privacy and Information Security, AL Jazeera
|
|||
Overdose,
|
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Mandela: The Father of Rainbow Nation, Al Jazeera
|
|||
Right Livelihood Award 2014:
(i) Bill McKiben and 350.org (USA
(ii) Basil Fernando and AHRC (Hong
Kong )
(iii) Asma Jahangir
(Pakistan)
(iv) Alan Rusbrdger UK)
(v) Edgard Snowden (USA)
·
Right
livelihood Award is also called as “Alternate Nobel Prize”
·
Established
in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Mr. Jakob von Vexkulx
·
Indians
who won this award so far –
(i) Ela Bhatt (1984)
(ii) Rajni Kothari (1985)
(iii) Ladakh Ecological Development Group (1986)
(iv) Chipko Movement
(1987)
(v) Narmada Bacho Andolan
(1990)
(vi) Vandana Shiva (1993)
(vii) H Sudharshan (1994)
(viii) People’s Movement of Kerala (1996)
(ix) Swami Agnivesh (2003)
(x) Ruth Manorama (2006)
(xi) Krishnamal Jaganathan and Sankarlingam
Jaganathan (2007)
Ramon Magsaysay Award 2014:
è Under Uncategorized Category
(i) Hu Shuli (China
(ii) Wang Canfa (China
(iii) Saur Marlina Manrung (Indonesia
(iv) Omara Khan Masoudi
(Afghanistan)
(v) The Citizen Foundation (Pakistan
è Under Emergent Leadership
Category
(i) Randy Halassan (The Philippines
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