National & International Awards – Current Affairs – 2019

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National Awards – 2019

Bharat Ratna Award

• The highest civilian award of India
• Started in 1954.
• The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President
• He can recommend maximum of three nominees per year.
• The award was suspended twice
  • 1977-80 by Morarji Desai government
  • 1992-95 by PIL filed in Kerala & MP High Court (constitutional validity of awards)
• 1st recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954 were
  • C. Rajagopalachari
  • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • C. V. Raman
• Non-citizen recipient
  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pakistan) in 1987
  • Nelson Mandela (South Africa) in 1990
• Lal Bahadur Shastri became the 1st individual to be honored posthumously in 1966
• Recipients of 2019
  • Pranab Mukherjee – West Bengal
  • Bhupen Hazarika – Assam
  • Nanaji Deshmukh –  – Maharashtra

Padma Vibhushan Award

• 2nd highest civilian award in India
• Recipients of 2019
  • Balwant Moreshwar Purandare – Maharashtra – Arts
  • Teejan Bai – Chhattisgarh – Arts
  • Anil Manibhai Naik – Maharashtra – Trade & Industry
  • Ismaïl Omar Guelleh – President of Djibouti – Public Affairs

Padma Bhushan Award

• 3rd highest civilian award in India
• Famous recipients of 2019
  • Mahashay Dharampal Gulati – owner of MDH
  • Budhaditya Mukherjee
  • Bachendri Pal – 1st Indian woman to climb Mount Everest
  • Mohanlal Viswanathan – Malayalam actor
  • Nambi Narayanan
  • Kuldip Nayar

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Ashok Chakra

• Ashok Chakra is highest peacetime military decoration awarded for self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.
• Established in 1952
• Latest recipient
  • Jyoti Prakash Nirala – 2018
  • Nazir Ahmad Wani – 2019

Film Awards in India

66th National Film Awards – 2018

• Established in 1954
• Dadasaheb Phalke award started in 1969

• 1st winner – Devika Rani – 1969
• 1st Bengali – Birendranath Sircar -1970
• Latest recipient
  • Manoj Kumar – 2015
  • Kasinathuni Viswanath – 2016
  • Vinodh Khanna – 2017
  • Amitabh Bachchan – 2018

Other winners of National Film Awards – 2018

• Best Actress – Keerthy Suresh (Telugu movie – Mahanati)
• Best Actor – Ayushman Khurrana (Andhadhun)  & Vicky Kaushal (Uri: The Surgical Strike)
• Best Feature Film – Hellaro (Gujarati)
• Best Direction – Aditya Dhar (Uri: The Surgical Strike)

International Film Festival

• Held on Goa
• It was founded in 1952
• Theme of 2018 – Celebrating the Future of Cinema
• Country of Focus – Israel
• State in Focus – Jharkhand
• Best film – Golden Peacock Award – Ukrainian film ‘Donbass’

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64th Filmfare Award – 2019

• Best Film – Raazi
• Best Director – Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)
• Best Actor – Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju)
• Best Actress – Alia Bhatt (Raazi)
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Sridevi
• Critics’ awards Best Film – Andhadhun

Art & Cultural Awards in India

Jnanpith Award

• Jnanpith Award is an literary award presented to an author for contribution towards literature.
• Established in 1961
• 1st recipient is G. Sankara Kurup in 1965
• 1st Bengali Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay in 1966
• Latest recipient
  • Shankha Ghosh – 2016
  • Krishna Sobti – 2017
  • Amitav Ghosh – 2018

Saraswati Samman

• Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works.
• It given in any of the 22 languages of 8th Schedule.
• It was started in 1991
• Latest recipient
  • Sitanshu Yashaschandra – 2017 – ‘Vakhar’ (Gujarati)
  • K Siva Reddy – 2018 – ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’ (Telugu)

Sahitya Akademi Award

• It is a literary award given by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
• Award given in 24 languages, 22 official and English and Rajasthani
• The award was designed by Satyajit Ray.
• Started in 1954
• Bengali recipients
  • Jibanananda Das – 1955
  • Sanjib Chattopadhyay – 2018

Other Art & Cultural Awards

• Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award
  • Madhur Bhandarkar, Salim Khan and Helen
• Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize
  • Literature – Rana Dasgupta (novel “Solo”)
  • For Social achievement – Yohei Sasakawa
• Sangita Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy
  • S. Sowmya
• Lata Mangeshkar Award
  • Usha Khanna

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Peace Prizes in India

International Gandhi Peace Prize

• Gandhi Peace Prize is sponsored by Govt. of India for the contributions in social, economic and political transformation through Gandhian methods.
• 1st winner was Julius Nyerere – Tanzania
• Latest recipient
  • Ekal Abhiyan Trust – 2017
  • Yohei Sasakawa – 2018 – Japan – contribution in Leprosy Eradication

Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace

• Given by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust for the Outstanding contributions in peace.
• Established in 1986
• Latest recipient
  • Indian Space Research Organisation – 2014
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – 2015
  • Manmohan Singh – 2107
  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) – 2018

Other Important National Awards 2019

• Vir Chakra
  • Abhinandan Varthaman
• Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar
  • Abhinandan Varthaman – 1st recipient
• Kirti Chakra
  • Tushar Gauba & Prakash Jadhav (posthumously)
• Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award
  • Javed Akhtar – 2017
  • Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi – 2018
• Journalist of the Year – Mumbai Press Club
  • Rachna Khaira
• 56th Miss India World – 2019
  • Suman Rao – Rajasthan
• Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award
  • Sheikh Hasina
• Gauri Lankesh National Award for Journalism
  • Ravish Kumar – 1st recipient
• SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
  • Adam Harper
• Narad Samman
  • Achyutanand Sahu
• Indira Gandhi award for national integration
  • Chandi Prasad Bhatt

Swachh Bharat Awards

• Swachh Survekshan award
  • Cleanest city
    • 1st – Indore, MP
    • 2nd – Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh
    • 3rd – Mysuru, Karnataka
  • Cleanest Big city
    • Ahmedabad, Gujarat
  • Cleanest Capital
    • Bhopal, MP
• Swachh Rail, Swachh Bharat
  • Cleanest railway station
    • 1st – Jaipur
    • 2nd – Jodhpur
    • 3rd – Durgapura
  • Cleanest Railway zone – Southern Railway zone
• Best Swachh Iconic place – Ministry of Jal Shakti
  • Vaishno Devi Shrine – J&K
• Most effective Swachchta Ambassador Award
  • Sachin Tendulkar

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National Awards owned by Organizations

• Best Miniratna PSU
  • Numaligarh Refinery Limited
• Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar
  • 8th Battalion of the National Disaster Response Force
• META Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Mahesh Elkunchwar (screenplay writer)
• DD Mahila Kisan Award
  • Swati Shingade
• Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman
  • Gyanaditya Shakya
• National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)
  • IIT Madras
• 27th Lifetime PC Chandra Puraskaar
  • Dr Devi Prasad Shetty
• Best Police Station in the country
  • Kalu – Rajasthan
• President’s award for utilization of CSR fund in social development
  • National Aluminium Company (NALCO)
  • “Aliali Jhia” a new scheme on the line of ‘BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO”

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International Awards

Nobel Prize

• 1895, Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel established 5 Nobel prizes
• 1901, prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded
• 1968, Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, established Nobel Prize in Economic.
• Nobel Prize in Economic, officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm, Sweden given by Sweden
• Peace Prize ceremony take place in Oslo, Norway given by Norway
• Oldest ever winner – Mr Goodenough
• Youngest ever winner – Malala Yousafzai

Nobel Prize 2019

Ramon Magsaysay Award

• Magsaysay Awards are regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize
• It was started in 1958
• 1st Indian – 1958 – Vinoba Bhave in Community Leadership
• Latest recipients
  • 2018 – Bharat Vatwani & Sonam Wangchuk
  • 2019 – Ravish Kumar for his news show ‘Prime Time’

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Oscars – Academy Awards

• 24 awards given annually by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Highest no of Oscer won by Titanic, Ben-Hur and Lord of the Rings – 11 each
• Walt Disney won 22 Oscars, highest as individual
• Bhanu Athaiya 1st Indian to win Oscar in 1983 as costume designer in ‘Gandhi’ movie.
• Satyajit Ray received Honorary Academy Award in 1992
• Gulzar became 1st Indian lyricist to win Oscar for ‘Jai Ho’
• A R Rahman won 2 Oscars in 2009

91st Academy Awards – 2019

• Best Picture – Green Book
• Best Actor – Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
• Best Actress – Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
• Best Director – Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
• Best Foreign Film – Roma (Mexico)
• Best Documentary in Short Subject – Period. End of Sentence (Hindi)

Other Awards in Films & Music – 2019

• Golden Globe Award
  • Best Picture Drama – Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Best Picture Musical or Comedy – Green Book
  • Best Actor – Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
  • Best Actress – Glenn Close (The Wife)
• 72nd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)
  • Best Film – Roma
  • Film The Favourite has won seven honors
• Palme d’Or – France
  • It is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival
  • Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”)
• 61st Grammy Awards
  • Song & Record of the Year – “This Is America ” – Childish Gambino
  • Album of the Year – Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
• NETPAC – The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema
  • Award for Best Asian Film – Gully Boy
• 9th SAARC Film Festival – Colombo
  • Best Film – Nagarkirtan

Awards Presented by United Nations

• UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
  • Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo (Myanmar)
• UN Human Rights Prize
• UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
  • Azizbek Ashurov – kyrgyzstan
• UNEP – Champions of the Earth Prize
  • Policy Leadership – Costa Rica
• UNEP – Asia Environmental Enforcement Award
  • Ramesh Pandey
• UN – Global Climate Action Award
  • Climate Neutral Now Category – Infosys
• UN World Summit on the Information Society awards
  • Utkarsh Bangla & Sabooj Sathi (WB govt. project)
• UN medal for courage and sacrifice
  • Jitender Kumar
• Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Sasakawa Award
  • Pramod Kumar Mishra
• Martin Ennals Human Rights Prize
  • Abdul Aziz Muhamat – Sudan
• UNSDG 10 Most Influential People in Healthcare Award
  • Acharya Balkrishna
• We Care Film Festival
  • Under 30 min category – I’m Jeeja

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Other Important Awards

• Man Booker Prize
  • Margaret Atwood (Novel – The Testaments) – Canada
  • Bernardine Evaristo (Novel – Girl, Woman, Other) – UK
• Man Booker International
  • Jokha Alharthi (Celestial Bodies) – Oman
• Pulitzer Prize
  • Fiction – Richard Powers (The Overstory)
  • Drama – Jackie Sibblies Drury (Fairview)

• Abel Prize
  • Karen Uhlenbeck – 1st women

• Pritzker Prize
  • Nobel Prize of architecture
  • Balkrishna Doshi – 2018
  • Arata Isozaki (Japan) – 2019
• Young Global Leader
  • Presented by World Economic Forum
  • Nara Lokesh (Andhra Pradesh IT minister) – 2019
• Barbie role model
  • Dipa Karmakar
• Bodley Medal
  • Amartya Sen
• Most viewed comedian in the World
  • Presented by World book of Records London
  • Kapil Sharma
• World Press Freedom Hero award
  • Presented by International Press Institute
  • Cyril Almeida (Pakistani journalist)
• Global Leadership Awards
  • Sundar Pichai & Adena Friedman
• International Sand Art Championship
  • People’s Choice Prize – Sudarsan Pattnaik
• Changemaker Award – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Payal Jangid – Rajasthan

Beauty Contest Awards

• Miss Universe
  • 68th edition – 2019 –
  • 67th edition – 2018 – Catriona Gray – Philippines
• Miss World
  • 69th edition – 2019 –
  • 68th edition – 2018 – Vanessa Ponce – Mexico

• Miss World Diversity (transsexual) beauty pageant
  • Naaz Joshi – India – 3rd consecutive year

International Awards owned by Organizations

• World’s busiest airport
  • Dubai International Airport – for 5th consecutive year
• World’s Most Punctual Airline
  • Sri Lankan Airlines
• Public Water Agency of the Year
  • Namami Gange project
• Gold Award in South Africa 
  • Mahindra & Mahindra
• BBC World Service Global Champion Award
  • Akshaya Patra – Bengaluru based NGO
• Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award
  • “Find the Incredible You” campaign by Ministry of Tourism
  • Kerala Tourism

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Important Awards by other Countries

• Legion of Honour – France
  • Highest civilian award of France
  • Started in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Soumitra Chatterjee – 2018
  • Azim Premji – 2018
  • A.S. Kiran Kumar (Former ISRO Chairman) – 2019
• Fellow of the Royal Society – UK
  • Gagandeep Kang – 1st Indian female scientist
  • Yusuf Hamied (Cipla chairman)
• Freedom of the City of London
  • Sanjiv Chadha
  • Alice G. Vaidyan
• The Structural Awards – UK
  • Statue of Unity
• Dan David Prize – Israel
  • Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• Missile Systems Award – USA
  • Given by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • Satheesh Reddy (DRDO Chairman)
• Medal of Freedom – USA
  • Tiger Woods
• Beijing International Film Festival – China
  • Best cinematography – Malayalam film ‘Bhayanakam’
• Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca – Mexico
  • highest civilian award of Mexico given to foreigners
  • Pratibha Patil
• Pushkin Medal – Russia
  • Meeta Narain
• Russian Order of Courage
  • Nick Hague – U.S. astronaut

Awards Received by Indian President & PM

Received by Narenda Modi

• Philip Kotler Presidential Award
• Seoul Peace Prize – 2018
• Zayed Medal
  • Highest civilian award of UAE
• Order of St Andrew the Apostle
  • Highest state honor of Russia
• Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen
  • Highest honour of Maldives
• Global Goalkeeper Award
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Received by Ram Nath Kovind

• Grand Order of the King of Tomislav
  • Highest civilian award of Croatia

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