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Important Awards and Honors in 2013:
Allard Prize 2013 for International Integrity Anna Hazzare
Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013
Raghuram Rajan (Governor of RBI)
Miss World 2013 Megan Young (Miss Philippines)
Inaugural award by America Abroad Media (AAM) Amir
Khan for Satyamev Jayate
International Childrens Peace Prize 2013 Malala Yousafzai
Gujar Mal Modi Award 2013 Vinod Prakash Sharma
Saraswati Samman 2012 - Sugathakumari for Manalezhuthu
(the Writings on the Sand), a collection of poems in
Malayalam
Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013 -
Indonesias Corruption Eradication Commission
German Whistleblower Prize for year 2013 Edward
Snowden
Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013 Zubin Mehta
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 2013 Amzad Ali
Khan
First National Award For Senior Citizens 2013 -
Vayoshreshtha Samman
Humanitarian Achievement Award 2013 Nelson Mandela
Lifetime Achievement Award at UK's House of Commons -
Jawaharlal Darda (freedom fighter)
Indira Gandhi Official Language Award NTPC
Pride of the Nation Award John Abraham
Sher-e-Kashmir Navjot Singh
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Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (the Liberian
President)
IIFA Awards 2013:
o Best Actor: Ranvir Kapoor for Barfi
o Best Actress: Vidya Balan for Kahaani
o Best Film: Barfi
Knighthood honour by England Queen Anish Kapoor
Man Booker Prize 2013 Lydia Davis (American)
Vyas Samman 2012 (given in 2013) Narendra Kohli
Britains Lifetime achievement award Hinduja Group
INDEX Design award Kavita Shukla
Gershwin Prize for music 2013 Carole King
Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran (By MP Govt)
Hariharan
National Florence Nightingale Award 2013 - 35 Nursing
professionals
Asom Ratna Award Indira Goswami
Whitley Award (Green Oscar) Aparajita Datta (wildlife
biologist)
ISRO Young scientist award - Jenita Mary Nongkynrih
Padam Awards by President of India:
o Padma Vibhushan
Raghunath Mohapatra, Art, Orissa
S Haider Raza, Art, Delhi
Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh
Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering,
Karnataka
o Padma Bhushan
Dr Ramanaidu Daggubati, Art, Andhra Pradesh
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Sreeramamurthy Janaki, Art, Tamil Nadu
Dr (Smt) Kanak Rele, Art, Maharashtra
Sharmila Tagore, Art, Delhi
Dr (Smt) Saroja Vaidyanathan, Art, Delhi
Abdul Rashid Khan, Art, West Bengal
Late Rajesh Khanna, Art, Maharashtra
Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Art, Punjab
Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, Public Affairs, Maharashtra
Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai, Science, Engineering
Delhi
Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Science and Engineering,
Delhi
Dr Ashoke Sen Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh
B N Suresh, Science and Engineering, Karnataka
Prof Satya N Atluri, Science and Engineering, USA
Prof Jogesh Chandra Pati, Science and Engineering,
USA
Ramamurthy Thyagarajan, Trade and Industry, Tamil
Nadu
Adi Burjor Godrej, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra
Dr Nandkishore Shamrao Laud, Medicine,
Maharashtra
Mangesh Padgaonkar, Literature and Education,
Maharashtra
Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Literature &
Education USA
Hemendra Singh Panwar, Civil Service, Madhya
Pradesh
Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Civil Service, Delhi
Rahul Dravid, Sports, Karnataka
H Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, Sports, Manipur
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John Bates Clark medal (Baby Nobel) Raj Chetty
Dadasaheb Falke Award Pran (Actor)
Nobel Medicine Prize 2013:
o James Rothman
o Randy Schekman
o Thomas C. Suedhof
Indian Entry for Oscar Awards The Good Road (film)
Bengal govt Lifetime Achievement Award- Saurav Ganguly
PATWA award for Best Destination for Cultural Festivals
Gujarat
Most Efficient Maharatna Award NTPC
British Physics Journalism Award Anil Ananthaswamy
Miss India 2013 Navneet Kaur Dhillon
National Bioscience Award Venkata Mohan
National Tourism Award Fatehpur Sikari
Moortidevi Award Haraprasad Das (Vamsha)
Various Sports Awards 2013:
Sports Awards 2013:
o Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Ronjan Sodhi
Arjun Awards:
o Chekrovolu Swuro (Archery)
o P V Sindhu (Badminton)
o Kavita Chahal (Boxing)
o Rupesh Shah (Billiards & Snooker)
o Virat Kohli (Cricket)
o Abhijeet Gupta (Chess)
o Gagan Jeet Bhullar (Golf)
o Saba Anjum (Hockey)
o Rajkumari Rathore (Shooting)
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o Joshna Chinnappa (Squash)
o Mouma Das (Table Tennis)
o Neha Rathi (Wrestling)
o Dharmender Dalal (Wrestling)
o Amit Kumar Saroha (Para Athletics)
Dronacharya Awards:
o Poornima Mahato (Archery)
o Mahavir Singh (Boxing)
o Narinder Singh Saini (Hockey)
o K P Thomas (Athletics)
o Raj Singh (Wrestling)
Dhyan Chand Awards:
o Mary D'souza Sequeira (Athletics)
o Syed Ali (Hockey)
o Anil Mann (Wrestling)
o Girraj Singh (Para Sports)
National Film Awards 2013:
o Best Film: Paan Singh Tomar
o Best Actor: Irfan Khan & Vikram Gokhle
o Best Actress: Usha Jadhav
o Best Director: Shivaji Lotan Patil
Man Asian Literary Prize Tan Twan Eng (Malasiya)(for
The Garden of Evening Mists)
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award - BJP leader Arun
Jaitley, Congress MP Karan Singh and JD(U) MP Sharad
Yadav
Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant Tata Steel
Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal Harshwanti
Bisht
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Ashok Chakra (highest peace time gallantry award in India)
Prasad Babu (Inspector in AP Police)
Major Port of the year award Paradip Port
Bihari Puruskar Hariram Meena
Internation Women Courage award Delhi Braveheart
Ernst & Young life time achievement award Ratan Tata
Lifetime achievement Grammy award Pandit Ravishankar
Important Organisations & Their Heads:
UN Secratory General Ban Ki Moon (S. Korea)
IMF Chief Christine Lagarde
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
Asian Development Bank Chairmen - Takehiko Nakao
WHO Chairman Margret Chan
WTO Chairmen Roberto Azevedo
International Olympic Committee Chairman Thomas Bach
RBI:
o Governer Raghuram Rajan
o Deputy Governers - K C Chakrabarty,Anand Sinha , H
R Khan and Urjit Patel
State Bank of India Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya
EXIM Bank Chairmen - T.C.A Ranganathan
NABARD Chairmen Snehlata Shrivastava
National Housing Bank Chairmen R V Verma
SIDBI Chairmen Sushil Muhnot
IRDA Chairmen T S Vijayan (former LIC Chief)
IDBI Chairmen M S Raghavan
SEBI Chairmen U K Sinha
CBI Chairmen Ranjit Sinha
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UPSC Chairmen D P Agarwal
NASSCOM Chairmen - Krishnakumar Natarajan
IBA & IIBF Chairmen K R Kamath
IPL Chairmen Ranjib Biswal
Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) Sundeep
Sikka
National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) CEO Saji Cherian
CRPF director general Dilip Trivedi
TRAI Chairmen Rahul Khullar
BCCI President N Shrinvasan
Union Bank of India CEO Rakesh Sethi
Central Bank of India CEO Rajeev Rishi
DRDO Chairmen Avinash Chander
CAG India Shashikant Sharma
Chief Justice of India P Sathashivam
Chief Election Commissioner of India V S Sampath
Indian Cricket Team coach Duncan Fletcher
Indian Hockey Team Coach M K Kaushik
Indian Football Team Coach Wim Kovermans
Deaths, Key People & Persons in News 2013:
Ranjan Mathai - Indian High Commissioner in UK
Ruchira Kamboj - Indias permanent representative in
UNESCO
Sri Srinivasan - Judge in US Court
Justice Vangala Eswaraiah - National Commission for
Backward Classes (NCBC) chairmen
Baba Jumdev Postal Stamp released by Hamid Ansari
Ravinder Kumar Indian Newspaper Society chairmen
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Rahul Dravid Ambassador of National Tobacco Control
Campaign
Angela Merkel won 3
rd
time as Germany Chancellor
Deepak Sandhu - First woman Chief Information
Commissioner in India
Ratan Thiyam Chairmen of National School of Drama
Vinay Mittal appointed member in UPSC
Bhim Sain Bassi appointed Delhi Police commissioner
Mamnoon Hussain appointed as Pakistan President
K K Paul New governor of Meghalaya
Srinivas Patil New governor of Sikkim
Anil Goswami New Union Home Secretary
John W. Ashe New president of United Nations General
Assembly
Virat Kohli Brand Ambassador of Border Security Force
(BSF)
Ranjit Singh Freedom fighter, passed away
Bo Xilai Chinas communist party leader, got life
imprisonment
Prem Watsa Indian origin Canadian businessman, offered
deal to purchase Blackberry company
Ayaz Sadiq Speaker of National Assembly Pakistan
Rami Hamdallah President of Palestine
Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola Miss Muslimmah World 2013
Nina Davuluri First Indian- American who become Miss
America
Puneet Talwar Assistant Secretary in Obama Govt
Nirbhay Sharma New governor of Arunachal Pradesh
Siddharamaiya New Chief Minister of Karnataka
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Gareth Bale footballer signed 100 Million Euros contract
with Real Madrid (Biggest sports agreement so far)
Abdul Hamid Bangladesh President (replaced Zilur
Rehman)
Sunil Bharati Mittal appointed Vice-president of
International Chamber of Commerce
Nicolas Maduro New President of Venezuela
Aruna Bahuguna First women director general of CRPF
Seamus Heaney - Irish poet and winner of Nobel Prize,
passed away
Parathsarthi Shome appointed chairmen of Tax
Administration Reform Commission (TARC)
Brigalia Bam - former head of South Africas election body,
received Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace
and Reconciliation
Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe
Bradley Manning U. S. Soldier, convicted of the biggest
disclosure of classified data by leaking files to WikiLeaks and
was sentenced to 130 years in prison.
Narendra Achyut Dabholkar - Indian rationalist and author
from Maharashtra, shot dead in Pune.
Uhuru Kenyatta President of Kenya
Rajan Bharati Mittal - President of International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC) India
Rajeev Sahare Indian Ambassador in Maldives
Ibrahim Kieta Elected President of Mali
Sakar Khan Rajasthani Folk Musician, passed away
Lalit Kumar Chaturvedi appointed chairmen of Lalit Kala
Akademi
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Ganeshan Chauhan won Nehru Boat race trophy 2013
Zafar Futehally Notable Naturist, passed away
Hassan Rohunni New President of Iran
Anil Kumble Chairmen of ICC
K D Singh Indian Hockey Federation Chairmen
Kumar Mangalam Birla Stepped down from RBI Board
Christopher Froome won 100
th
Tour-de-france cup
George Alexander Louis New Baby Prince born in England
Price Phillipe Belgiums 7
th
King (after father King Albert)
Raul Castro Re-elected President of Cuba
Park Geun Hye First women President of S. Korea
Manik Sarkar Tripura CM for 5
th
time
Martina Hingis Included in Tennis Hall of Fame
Parveez Rasool First cricketer from J&K in Team India
David Backhem Retired from Football
Harmanpreet Kaur New India Womens Cricket Team
Captain
Shane Warne Included in ICC Hall Of Fame
Important Books and their authors:
Haunted by fire- Mathily Shivaraman
Gandhi Before India Ramchandra Guha
India and Malaysia Veena Sikri
Ahmev Radha Ahmev Krishan - Gulab Kothari
The Guide R K Narayanan
Life of PI Yann Markel
A bend in river V S Naipal
How not to make money Raj Kundra
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My Journey: transforming dreams into actions APJ Abdul
Kalam
Moonballer Nirupama Vidyanathan
A Garland Memories Ruskin Bond
Superstar India Shobha De
The Kalaam Effect P M Nayar
Sonia, A biography Rashid Kidvi
A Passage to England Nrad C Choudhary
Waiting for Mahatma R K Narayanan
Cricket My Style Kapil Dev
Sunny Days Sunil Gavaskar
Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography- I K Gujral
The Test of My life Yuvraj singh (cricketer)
Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
Non-stop India Mark Tully
Joseph Anton Salman Rushdie
When Loss is Gain Pawan Verma
Sports Cup & Titles Winner:
Tennis:
US Open 2013:
Mens Singles: Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Womens Singles: Serena Williams (America)
Mens doubles: Leander Paes (India),
Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic)
Womens doubles: Andrea Hlavackova (Czech Republic),
LucieHradecka (Czech Republic)
Mixed doubles: Max Mirnyi (Belarus),
Andrea Hlavackova (Czech Republic)
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French Open 2013:
Mens Singles: Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Womens Singles: Serena Williams (America)
Mens doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (America)
Womens doubles: Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina
(Russia)
Australian Open 2013:
Mens Singles: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Womens Singles: Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
Mens doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (America)
Womens doubles: Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci (Italy)
Wimbledon 2013:
Mens Singles: Andy Murray (UK) (1
st
Briton after 77 yrs)
Womens Singles: Marion Bartoli (France)
Mens doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (America)
Womens doubles: Hseih Su-wei (Taipei) & Peng Shuai
(China)
Others:
Davis Cup (Tennis): Finalists (Serbia & Czech Republic)
Hopman Cup (Tennis): Spain
ATP Dubai Open: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Brazil Open: Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Mens Rogers Cup: Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Womens Rogers Cup: Serena Williams (America)
Cricket:
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ICC Champions Trophy 2013: India (winner)
West indies Triangular series: India (winner)
India Zimbabwe series: India (winner)
IPL 2013: Mumbai Indians (winner)
Champions League T20: Mumbai Indians (winner)
Womens Cricket World Cup 2013: Australia (winner)
Border Gavaskar Trophy: India (winner)
Ranji Trophy Mumbai (winner)
Irani Trophy Rest of India (winner)
Duleep Trophy East Zone (winner)
Vijay Hazare Trophy Delhi (winner)
Santosh Trophy - Service (winner)
Chris Gayle scored fastest century in IPL in 30 balls
Others Sports events and their winner:
Archery World Cup 2013: US (top), India (4th)
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup of Football: Brazil (winner)
2013 International Champions Cup (football): Real Madrid
(win)
Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament: Australia (winner)
Australian Grand Prix: Kimi Raikkonen
Hockey India League 2013: Ranchi Rhinos (winner)
Indian Badminton League 2013: Hyderabad Hotshots
(winner)
SAFF U Football Cup: India (winner) Nepal (Runner-up)
Politiken Cup of Chess: Parimarjan Negi
IAAF World Athletics Championships:
o 100m & 200m race men: Usain Bolt
o 100m & 200m race women: Shelly Ann Fraser
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o Top nation in medals: Russia (7 Golds)
Junior Women Hockey Cup: Netherlands (Gold) India
(Bronze)
Italian Grand Prix 2013: Sebastian Vettel (Germany)
2013 FILA World Wrestling Championship: India (6
th
place)
Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey Tournament: India (winner)

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