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Awards and Honors 2013:
2013 Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Pran
2013 Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis
Arjuna Award - Virat Kohli
Asia Pacific International Award - Dr. Mujeeb Athar
Asom Ratna Award - Indira Goswami
Asom Ratna Award for the year 2012 - Indira Goswami
Cecil B Demile Award - Woody Allen
Champion for Global Change Award 2013 - Malala Yousafzai
First Mahathir Award for Global Peace - Nelson Mandela
German Whistleblower Prize 2013 - Edward Snowden
Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival - Sacro GRA (Italian Documentary)
Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision Festival Baraksat
(Lebanese Documentary)
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Kevin Barry
INDEX Design Award - Kavitha Shukla
ISRO Young Scientist Award - Jenita Mary
ISRO Young Scientist Award 2013 - Jenita Mary Nongkynrih
Jnanpith Award 2011 - Pratibha Ray (recently recieved this award)
Jnanpith Award 2012 - Ravuri Bharadhwaja
Knighthood, which is the highest honour of Britain - Anish Kapoor (sculptor)
Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran - Hariharan
Legend of Planet' award - Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder)
Library of Congress Gershwin Award - Carole King (first woman)
Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis
Man Booker Prize (shortlisted) - Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book "The Low Land")
Manoj Das (Odisha) - NTR Literacy Award
National Literacy Award - Chattisgarh
NSS Wernher von Braun Memorial Award - Abdul Kalam
NTR National Literary Award - Manoj Das (a Noted Oriya writer)
Presented to Shashi Tharoor
Presidential medal of freedom - Dr.Sally Ride (First American female astronaut)
Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 - Adam Johnson (for the novel The Orphan
Masters son)
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Ranjan Sodhi
Rajiv Gandhi Wild Life Conservation Award, 2009 - S. P. Yadav
Saraswati Samman (2013) Sugathakumari
Skoch Group Award - Jharkhand
Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular Peace Award 2013 (1st time) - Shashi Tharoor
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Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony - Zubin Mehta
Tagore Peace Prize- Shihab Ghanem (first Arab)
The Palme d'Or (The top honor) at the 66th Cannes Film Festival - Blue is the
Warmest Color
The Simn Bolvar National Award of Journalism 2013 - Hugo Chavez (late
Venezuelan President )
U. N. Champions of the Earth Award - V. Ramanathan
UEFA Best Player in Europe Award - Franck Ribry
UNs Public Service Award - Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)
Unique Female Leader Award - Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)
United Nation's Public Service Award - Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala)
US "woman of courage" award - Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)
Vyas Samman (2012) Narendra Kohli
Whitley award (Green Oscar) - Dr. Aparajita Datta
Womens Prize for Fiction - AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven)
Youngest Indian to scale the Mount Everest - Raghav Joneja
Polar Music Prize 2013:
o Youssou Ndour (Singer)
o Kaija Saariaho (Composer)
Parliamentarian Awards:
o 2010 - Arun Jetly
o 2011 - Karan Singh
o 2012 - Sharad Yadav
SAARC Literature Award 2013:
o Abhay K - India
o Abdul Khaliq Rashid- Afghanistan.
o Daya Dissanayake - Sri Lanka
o Farheen - Pakistan.
Suman Pokhrel Nepal.
Sports Persons / Sports Winners 2013:
o US Open 2013
o Men's Singles - Rafael Nadal
o Women's Singles - Serena Williams
o Men's Doubles - Leander Paes / Czech Republic Radek tepnek
o Women's Doubles - Andrea Hlavkov / Czech Republic Lucie Hradeck
o Mixed Doubles - Andrea Hlavkov / Belarus Max Mirnyi
o Wimbledon 2013
o Men Singles Andy Murray
o Women Singles Marion Bartoli
o Men Doubles Bob and Mike Briyan
o Women Doubles - Hsieh Su-wei / China Peng Shuai
o Mixed Doubles - Daniel Nestor / France Kristina Mladenovic
o 2013 Sony Open Tennis
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o Men's Singles - Andy Murray
o Women's Singles - Serena Williams
o Men's Doubles - Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi / Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer
o Women's Doubles - Russia Nadia Petrova / Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik
o French Open 2013
o Men Single- Rafael Nadal
o Women Single - Serena Williams
o Men Double- Bob Bryan / United States Mike Bryan
o Women Double - Ekaterina Makarova / Russia Elena Vesnina
o Mixed Double - Lucie Hradeck / Czech Republic Frantiek ermk
o Australian Open 2013
o Mens Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
o Womens Singles Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
o Mens Doubles Bob Bryan (America) and Mike Bryan (America)
o Womens Doubles Sara Errani (Italy) and Roberta Vinci (Italy)
o Mandrid Open 2013
o Men's Singles - Rafael Nadal
o Women's Singles - Serena Williams
o Men's Doubles - Bob Bryan / United States Mike Bryan
o Women's Doubles - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Czech Republic Lucie
afov
o 2013 Internazionali BNL d'Italia (Italian Open)
o Men's Singles - Spain Rafael Nadal
o Women's Singles - United States Serena Williams
o Men's Doubles - United States Bob Bryan / United States Mike Bryan
o Women's Doubles - Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / China Peng Shuai
o Malaysian Open Badminton Championship 2013
o Mens Singles - Lee Chong Wei
(Indonesia)
o Mens Doubles-MohdAhsan
(Indonesia) Hendra Setiawan
(China)
o Womens Singles- Tai Tzu-ying (Thailand)
o Womens Doubles-BaoYixin-Tian Qing (China)
o Brisbane International Tennis 2013
o Womens Singles - Serena Williams (USA)
o Mens Singles - Andy Murray from (Scotland)
o Womens Doubles -SaniaMirza and BethanieMattek-Sands
o Mens Doubles - Marcelo Melo and Tommy Robredo
o Davis Cup 2012 -
o Winner- Czech Republic Runner- Spain
o Champions League T-20
o Winner-Sydney Sixers Runner-Highveld Lions
o 52nd National Open Athletics Championships 2012:
o Venue: Chennai
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o Winner: Raiways; Runner up: Service
o U-19 World Cup 2012
o Venue-Australia
o Winner-India ;Runner-Australia
o Man of The Match-Unmukt Chand(Indian Captain)
o Azlan Shah cup -
o Venue- Malaysia
o Winner-NZ; Runner-Argentina; 3rd Place-India
o Thailand Open Grand Prix Single
o Venue-Bangkok; Winner-SainaNehwal
o Runner-RatchanokInathon(thiland)
o Indonesia Open Single
o Venue- Jakarta; Winner-SainaNehwal
o Runner -Li Xuerui(China)
o Euro Cup-2012
o Venue- Poland And Ukrain; Winner-Spain; Runner-Italy
o Cincinnati Masters
o Men Single- Roger Federer bt Novak Djokovic
o Women Single- Li Na bt Angelique Kerber (Germany)
o 74th National Table Tennis Championship
o Mens Singles - Soumyajit (youngest national champion)
o Womens Singles - ShaminiKumaresan
o Mens Doubles Sourav Chakraborty and GaneshanSathiyan
o Women doubles - K. Spoorthy and NikhatBanu
Swiss Athletes of the
Year 2012
o Roger Federer (Men)
o Nicola Spirig (Women)
12th Asian Billiards championship - Rupesh Shah
2013 Senior National Women's Boxing Championship - Preeti Beniwal
Canadian Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel
Confederations Cup 2013 - Brazil
First captain to win all ICC Trophies - MS Dhoni becomes f
First Indian to win a medal in Youth World
Weightlifting Championship - Chandrika Tarafdar
German Cup 2013 - Bayern Munich
Grenke Chess Classic Trophy 2013 - Viswanathan Anand
ICC Womens World Cup 2013 - Australia (6th title)
Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament - Air India
National Weightlifting Championship 2013 - Manpreet Kaur
Sudirman Cup China
Youngest national Table Tennis Champion - Somyajeet Ghosh
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award:
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Sl. No. Name Discipline
1. Mr. Ronjon Sodhi Shooting

Arjuna Awards:

Sl. No. Name Discipline
1. Ms. Chekrovolu Swuro Archery
2. Mr. Ranjith Maheshwari Athletics
3. Ms. P.V. Sindhu Badminton
4. Ms. Kavita Chahal Boxing
5. Mr. Rupesh Shah Billiards & Snooker
6. Mr. Virat Kohli Cricket
7. Mr. Abhijeet Gupta Chess
8. Mr. Gagan Jeet Bhullar Golf
9. Ms. Saba Anjum Hockey
10. Ms. Rajkumari Rathore Shooting
11. Ms. Joshna Chinnappa Squash
12. Ms. Mouma Das Table Tennis
13. Ms. Neha Rathi Wrestling
14. Mr. Dharmender Dalal Wrestling
15. Mr. Amit Kumar Saroha Athletics (Para)
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Dronacharya Awards for 2013:

Sl.No. Name Discipline
1. Ms. Poornima Mahato Archery
2. Mr. Mahavir Singh Boxing
3. Mr. Narinder Singh Saini Hockey
4. Mr. K.P. Thomas Athletics*
5. Mr. Raj Singh Wrestling*
* Lifetime contribution in coaching

Dhyan Chand Awards:

Sl.No. Name Discipline
1. Ms. Mary DsouzaSequeira Athletics
2. Mr. Syed Ali Hockey
3. Mr. Anil Mann Wrestling
4. Mr. Girraj Singh Para Sports (Athletics)

Important Organizations and their Heads:

United Nations Organizations (UNO) :
Secretary-General - Ban Ki Moon, South Korea (2007present)
President of the General Assembly -
o Vuk Jeremic (20122013)
o John William Ashe (2013-2014)
Security Council members
o Permanent Members : China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United
States
o Elected for 2012-13 : Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, Togo
o Elected for 2013-14 : Argentina, Australia, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg,
Rwanda (elected for 20132014)
International Organizations related to UN :
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Food and Agriculture Organization : Director-General - Jos Graziano da Silva,
Brazil (2012present)
International Atomic Energy Agency : Director-General - Yukiya Amano, Japan
(2009present)
International Civil Aviation Organization :
President of the Council - Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006present)
Secretary-General - Raymond Benjamin, France (2009present)
International Labour Organization (ILO) : Director-General - Guy Ryder, UK
(2012present)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) : Director-General - Jose Graziano da
Silva, USA (2012-present)
International Telecommunication Union : Secretary General - Dr. Hamadoun
Toure, Mali (2007-present)
Universal Postal Union (UPU) : Director-General - Bishar Abdirahman Hussein,
Kenya (2012-present)
International Court of Justice (ICJ) : President - Peter Tomka, Slovakia (2012-
present)
Internatiional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) : Director General - Yukiya Amano,
Japan (200-present)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) : Executive Director - Anthony Lake,
United States (2010present)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) :
Director-General - Irina Bokova, Bulgaria (2009present)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : High Commissioner -
Navanethem Pillay, South Africa (2008present)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) : High Commissioner
- Antnio Guterres, Portugal (2005present)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) : Director-general
- Kandeh Yumkella, Sierra Leone (2005present)
World Food Programme (WFP) : Executive Director - Josette Sheeran, United
States (2007present)
World Health Organization (WHO) : Director-General - Margaret Chan, China
(acting) (2007present)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) :
o President - Alexander Bedritsky, Russia (2003present)
o Secretary-General - Michel Jarraud, France (2004present)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) :
o Secretary-General - Taleb Rifai, Jordan (2010present)
Heads of International Organizations :
Kamalesh Sharma : Secretary-General, Commonwealth of Nations
Ahmed Saleem : Secretary-General, SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional
Co-operation)
Roberto Azevdo : Director-General, WTO (World Trade Organization)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen : Secretary-General, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation)
Muratbek Sansyzbayevich Imanaliyev : Secretary-General, SCO (Shanghai
Cooperation Organization)
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Dr. Le Luong Minh : Secretary-General, ASEAN (Association of South East Asian
Nations)
Abdullah Salem el-Badri : Secretary-General, OPEC (Organization of Petrolium
Exporting Countries)
Christine Lagarde : Managing Director, IMF (International Monetary Fund)
Jim Yong Kim : President, WB (World Bank)
Takehiko Nakao : President, ADB (Asian Development Bank)
Jose Angel Gurria : Secretary-General, OECD (Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development)

Heads of Important Indian Government Offices
President - Pranab Mukherjee
Vice-President - Mhd Hamid Ansari (Chairman of Rajya Sabha)
Prime Minister - Dr. Manmohan Singh
Defence Minister - A. K. Antony
Finance Minister - P. Chidambaram
Home Affairs Minister - Sushilkumar Shinde
Heads of Indian Organizations :
ASSOCHAM - Rana Kapoor
Attorney General of India - G.E. Vahanvati
Bombay Stock Exchange - Ashish Chauhan
CAG - Shashi Kant Sharma
CBDT - Sudha Sharma
CBI - Ranjeet Sinha
CCI - Ashok Chawla
Chief Economic Advisor - Raghuram Rajan
Chief Election Commissionor - V.S.Sampath
DRDO - Avinash Chander
FICCI - Naina Lal Kidwai
IB - Saiyad Ashif Ibrahim
IBPS - K.R. Kamath
IRDA - T.S.Vijayan
ISRO - Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
NABARD - Prakash Bakshi
NASSCOM - Krishna kumar Natrajan
National Commission for women - Mamta Sharma
National Innovation Commission - Sam Pitroda
National Security Advisor - Shivashankar Menon
National Security Council - Yakov Amridor
National Stock Exchange - Chitra Ramkrishna
PM Economic Advisor - C.Rangrajan
Press Council of India - Marandey Katju
Press Trust of India - K N Shanth Kumar
RBI Raghu Ram Rajan
RAW - Alok Joshi
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SBI - Pratip Chaudhary
SEBI - U.K. Sinha
SSC - Amitava Bhattacharyya
TRAI - Rahul Khullar
UGC - Ved Prakash
UPSC - D.P. Agarwal
Heads of Indian Armed Forces:
Commander-in-Chief : Pranab Mukherjee (President)
Chief of the Army Staff : Gen. Bikram Singh
Chief of the Naval Staff : Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi
Chief of the Air Staff : Norman Anil Kumar Browne
Chief of Border Security Force : Subhash Joshi
List of New Appointment of 2013:
1st Female MD of SBI - Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA) - K R Kamath
Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) - S. K. Roy
Chairman of Nasscom for the year 2013 - Krishnakumar Natarajan
Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and
Development (AFPPD) - P.J.Kurien
CMD of Central Bank of India - Rajeev Rishi
Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) -
Kushal Singh
Chief Minister of Meghalaya (second term) - Mukul Manda Sangma
Chief Minister of Nagaland (third term) - Neiphiu Rio
Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh government - Prasanna Kumar Mohanty
CRPF Chief - Dilip Trivedi
Deputy Mayor of a London Borough - Sunil Chopra (NRI)
Director General, National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence
(NDRF&CD) - Krishna Chaudhary
Director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI) - G. Satheesh Reddy
Editor of the London morning daily The Independent (first non-white editor) -
Amol Rajan
First Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court - Justice T Meena Kumari
First woman elected to the FIFA executivecommitee - Lydia Nsekera
Governor of Arunachal Pradesh - Nirbhay Sharma
Governor of Kerala. - Nikhil Kumar
Head of the World Trade Organisation - Roberto Azevedo
Home Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs - Anil Goswamy
Italy's President - Giorgio Napolitano
Lebanon new Prime Minister - Tammam Salam
Member of Executive Council of WMO - Laxman Singh Rathore
National Council of the Arts - Renee Ramaswamy, a Bharatanatayam exponent
National Security Adviser of US President Barack Obama - Susan Elizabeth Rice
New chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) - B Ashok Reddy
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New Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes - Sudha Sharma
New Chief Justice of the AP High Court - Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta
New Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India - Shashi Kant Sharma
New Director General of Defense Research and Development Organization
(DRDO) - Avinash Chander
New director Oil and Natural Gas Corps (ONGC) - Narendra Kumar Verma
New Editor of Time International - Bobby Ghosh
New Executive Director of UBI - Rakesh Sethi
New Head of Google'sAndroid division - SundarPichai
New High Commissioner to Maldives - Rajeevo Shahare
New president of Asian Football Confederation - Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-
Khalifa
New president of Asian Football Confederation - Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-
Khalifa
New President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Takehiko Nakao
Next Chief Justice of India (CJI) - Justice P. Sathasivam
Next FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Director - James Comey
Nodal officer for relief and rescue operations in the rain-ravaged Uttrakhand -
V.K.Duggal
Pakisthan's Prime Minister - Nawaz Sharif
Paraguays new President - Horacio Cartes
President of Editors Guild of India - N. Ravi
President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India - Rajan Bharti
Mittal
President of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) - S.
Gopalakrishnan
The President of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) for the fifth
consecutive term - Maulana Syed Raabe Hasani Nadvi
Union Home Secretary - Anil Goswami
Venezulea's New Precident - Nicolas Maduro
Deaths / Obituaries of Famous People in 2013:
Sushmitha Banarji - Writer (Kabuliwalar Bangali Bau)
V C Shukla - Veteran Congress leader
Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar - Dhrupad vocalist
The veteran Indian journalist (Assam) - Profulla Borua
The President of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman
The master of visual effects and stop-motion animation - Ray Harryhausen
Tamil playback singer - T M Soundararajan
Surendra Tiwari - Hindi writer
Surendra Tiwari - Hindi story writer
Sir David Frost - British Broadcaster
Shanu Lahiri - Bengali Painter
Shamshad Begum (94) - Legendary singer (one of the first few play back singers
of bollywood)
Shakuntala Devi - Indian Mathematician (Human Computer)
Seamus Heany - Ireland's Foremost Poet (Nobel winner in 1995)
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Satya Pal Dange - Veteran CPI leader
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Oscar and Booker Prize winner
Ruma Chatterjee - National Cycling Coach
Rudra Prasad Shadangi - Former Minister of Bihar
Roger Ebert - American film critic
Zao Wou-ki - Chinese Painter
Vithura Baby - Malayalam Journalist and Writer
Vithal Bhai Patel - Lyricist / Congress Leader
V.S. Ramadevi - Former Governor of Karnataka
Robert Edwards - British scientist
Robert Edwards - Master mind behind the worlds first test tube baby
Rituparno Ghosh - Noted filmmaker of Bengal
Ray Dolby - Founder of Dolby Labouratories
Ranganath Misra - Former Chief Justice of India
Ramankutty Nair - Padma Bhushan-winning Kathakali exponent
Prof Veer Bhadra Mishra - Noted Environmentalist
Hugo Chavez - Venezuelan President
Haradhan Bandopadhyay - Bengali Actor
Dr. Abdul Samad Abdullah - Maldievs Foreign Minister
Dr Hilary Koprowski- Polio Vaccination Developer
Douglas Engelbar - Creator of the computer Mouse
Chinua Achebe - father of African literature
Brajesh Mishra - First National Security Advisor of India
Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi - Odisha's classical Singer and music director
Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi - Classical Singer / Music Director
P.Shanmugam - former CM of Puducherri
Norman woodland - Bar Code Inventor
Niani Nathung - Former minister of Arunachal Pradesh
Mrinal Gore - Social Activist
Michael Henry Denness - former England captain
Mary Thom - American Journalist and feminist
Margaret Thatcher - Former Prime Minister of Britain
Mahasundari Devi - Madhubani painting artist & Padma Shree Awardee
Lonappan Nambadan - former Member of Parliament from Kerala
Leslie Claudius - Indian Hockey Player
Lalgudi Jayaraman - Renowned violinist and composer
Kamala Sadagopan - Tamil writer
Justice JS Verma - The former Chief Justice of India
Julie Harris - American Actress
Joy Mukherjee - Film Actor
Jiroemon Kimura - World's oldest ever man (Japan) died at the aged 116
Jetti Veera Raghavulu - Telugu music director
James Gandolfini - Three time Emmy Award winner
J.S. Verma - former Chief Justice of India
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