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2017 Awards by AffairsCloud PDF
2017 Awards by AffairsCloud PDF
2017 Awards by AffairsCloud PDF
January
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
‘Power & Energy Person’s Award
Shri K M Singh
at the 10th ENERTIA Awards 2016
Bharatiya JananpithNavlekhan award 2016 Shraddha and Ghyansham Kumar Devansh
Nishan-e-Imtiaz by Pakistan Pakistan’s Army chief QamarBajwa
Best Performing Power Distribution Utility in Power
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL)
Sector
4th Yash Chopra Memorial Award Shah Rukh Khan
`Technical Oscar’ by the Academy of Motion Pictures Parag Havaldar
and Sciences
La La LandWins Record 7 Awards
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone were honored as best
74th Golden Globe Awards
actor and actress while Damien Chazelle was awarded
best director
Honoured by the US Embassy for TB Awareness Amitabh Bachchan
Best FIFA Football Awards 2016
The Best FIFA Men’s Player Award Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Best FIFA Women’s Player Award Carli Lloyd.
The Best FIFA Men’s Coach Award Claudio Ranieri.
The Best FIFA Women’s Coach Award Silvia Neid.
The FIFA Puskás Award 2016 MohdFaizSubri.
The FIFA Fair Play Award Atletico National.
The FIFA Fan Award Dortmund fans and Liverpool fans.
The FIFA lifetime achievement award Falcao.
The FIFA FIFPro World11 Neuer, DaniAlves, Pique, Ramos, Marcelo, Modric,
Kroos, Iniesta, Messi, Suarez, Ronaldo.
UNWTO Award for Innovation in the category of Non- ISKCON’s Govardhan eco village
Governmental Organisations(NGO)
Highest US civilian honour Vice President of US Joe Biden
2017 Crafoord Prize Fred Ramsdell , Alexander Rudensky from US and
Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan
Young Travel Photographer Of The Year (TPOTY) Darpan Basak & Ankit Kumar
award 2016
62nd Filmfare Award 2017
Best Film Dangal
Best Director NiteshTiwari for Dangal
Best Actor (Male) Aamir Khan for Dangal
Best Actor (Female) Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab
Best Actor (Male) in a Short Film ManojBajpayee for Taandav.
Best Male Debut DiljitDosanjh for Udta Punjab.
Best Female Debut Ritika Singh for SaalaKhadoos.
Best Director Debut AshwiniIyerTiwari for ‘Nil BatteySannata’
Best Film People’s Choice Khamakha
Best Short Film (Fiction) Chutney
Best Short Film (Non-fiction) MatitaliKusti
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PADMA BHUSHAN
Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Art-Music Rajasthan
Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
Shri Tehemton Udwadia Medicine Maharashtra
Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj Others-Spiritualism Gujarat
Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati Yoga Bihar
H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner) Literature & Education Thailand
Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous) Literature & Education – Tamil Nadu
Journalism
PADMA SHRI
Smt. Basanti Bisht Art-Music Uttarakhand
Shri Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair Art-Dance Kerala
Smt. Aruna Mohanty Art-Dance Odisha
Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan Art-Cinema Karnataka
Shri Sadhu Meher Art-Cinema Odisha
Shri T K Murthy Art-Music Tamil Nadu
Shri Laishram Birendrakumar Singh Art-Music Manipur
Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary Art-Music Uttar Pradesh
Smt. Baoa Devi Art-Painting Bihar
Shri Tilak Gitai Art-Painting Rajasthan
Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao Art-Sculpture Telangana
Shri Jitendra Haripal Art-Music Odisha
Shri Kailash Kher Art-Music Maharashtra
Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal Art-Music Kerala
Smt. Sukri Bommagowda Art-Music Karnataka
Shri Mukund Nayak Art-Music Jharkhand
Shri Purushottam Upadhyay Art-Music Gujarat
Smt. Anuradha Paudwal Art-Music Maharashtra
Shri Wareppa Naba Nil Art-Theatre Manipur
Shri Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary Civil Service Telangana
Shri T.K. Viswanathan Civil Service Haryana
Shri Kanwal Sibal Civil Service Delhi
Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla Literature & Education Sikkim
Smt. Eli Ahmed Literature & Education Assam
Dr. Narendra Kohli Literature & Education Delhi
Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah Literature & Education Karnataka
Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri Literature & Education Kerala
Shri Kashi Nath Pandita Literature & Education Jammu & Kashmir
Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry Literature & Education Delhi
Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh
Shri Michel Danino Literature & Education Tamil Nadu
Shri Punam Suri Literature & Education Delhi
Shri VG Patel Literature & Education Gujarat
Smt. V Koteswaramma Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh
Shri Balbir Dutt Literature & Education Jharkhand
Journalism
Smt. Bhawana Somaaya Literature & Education Maharashtra
Journalism
Shri Vishnu Pandya Literature & Education Gujarat
Journalism
Dr. Subroto Das Medicine Gujarat
Dr. (Smt.) Bhakti Yadav Medicine Madhya Pradesh
Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed Medicine Telangana
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February
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Best IT Startup At National Entrepreneurship Awards Lucideus
2016
BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award Shanta Rangaswamy – First Women
Radhanagar beach
World’s Travellers’ Choice Award-Winning Beaches’
8th position in the world and 1st spot in Asia.
by TripAdvisor.
First : Baia do Sancho Fernando de Noronha in Brazil
‘Asia’s Greatest Brands – 2016’ SpiceJet
at the Asia One Awards held in Singapore.
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British
England Test captain Alastair Cook
Empire (CBE) by Prince Charles
$1 million 2017 Genesis Prize Renowned Indian-origin British sculptor Anish Kapoor
Civil Service Awards - State awards introduced Arunachal Pradesh
B C Roy Award Dr P Raghu Ram
Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Chairman’s GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL)
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Order of Merit
Guinness Record by Making World’s Tallest Sand
Sudarsan Pattnaik
Castle
at the Puri beach in Puri
Kayakalp Award AIIMS, New Delhifor Sanitation & Hygiene
Indian-origin Scotland Yard officer Shand Panesar along
2017 Outstanding Bravery of the Year Award
with his colleague Craig Nicholson
Dr Yogini Satarkar-Pande
Vishakha Awards– Maharashtra Mohan Kumbhar
Vishnu Thore
Surendra Verma for his novel Kaatna Shami Ka Vriksha
2016 Vyas Samman
Padma Pankhuri Ki Dhar Se
2017 Legendary Award by Brand Laureate Lata Mangeshkar
Best Green Organization Award Katamati Iron Mine, owned by Tata Steel
Stya Paul Memorial Award– UK Virendra Sharma
Vivek Chaand Sehgal, Chairman Motherson Sumi
EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016
Systems
Top Honour at Berlin Film Festival “Newton” directed by Amit Masurkar
2017 National MSME Excellence Award Corporation Bank
ISO 27001: 2013 certification South Indian Bank for tech security practices
IBA Banking Technology Awards Karnataka Bank – 2 awards
World’s First Robot Table Tennis Tutor FORPHEUS, Japan
eGovernance awards
Awards for Excellence 2016 Rajasthan and Telangana
Award of Recognition for the year 2016 Odisha and Nagaland
70th British Academy Film Awards
Best Film La La Land
Best Director Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
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March
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Audience Award at Glasgow Film Festival Lipstick Under My Burkha
Receives Raksha Mantri’s Trophy for Best Service
INHS ASVINI Mumbai
Hospital in the AFMS
‘Visitor’s Award’ For Best Varsity Amid
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Controversies
‘Most Popular Tourism Destination Award’
Sri Lanka s
at the International Travel Fair (GITF) Travel Fair
Moortidevi Award M P Veerendra Kumar
New world record by playing the maximum
number of songs in the shortest time on Gayathri Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
veena
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April
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
US India Business Council Award N Chandrababu Naidu
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom
Dawit Isaak, Eritrean-Swedish journalist
Prize, 2017
Lance Havildar Prem Bahadur Resmi Magar of
Kirti Chakra
Gorkha Rifles
'Asian Businesswoman of the Year' Asha Khemka
2017 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction “The Underground Railroad” written by Colson
Whitehead
Fujii Takeshi (Japan) and Gabriela NikIIieva(USA)
National Hindi Sevi Samman Awards Pushpitaavasthi (Netherland) and Padmesh Gupta
(London) – Total 26
National Geoscience Awards 2016- Young Scientist Dr. Abhishek Saha, NIO, Goa
Award
UN challenge for open source tools Abdulqadir Rashik
Living Legend Lifetime Award by Punjab
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar
Association
'World's Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Dr. Arvind Sinha
Leadership Award'
Cartier Women’s Initiative Award Tirupati Jain
6th M.S. Swaminathan Award Rayappa Ramappa Hanchinal
60th San Francisco International Film
Shah Rukh Khan
Festival (SFIFF) honour
Shambhavi Puraskar, 2017 Hari Sankar Rout
Gururaja Bhat Award A.V. Narasimha Murthi
Aniruddhan Vasudevans for novel "One Part
Sahitya Academy award
Woman"
US Emerging Young Leaders Award Raj Kumar
Veteran Bollywood actress Saira Banu and
Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award
actor Jackie Shroff
UNESCO Peace Prize Italy’s Mayor Glusi Nicolini
Dinanath Mangeshkar Award Actor Aamir Khan and kapildev cricketer
Golden Peacock Award for Innovation of Cashless Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd
Township (GNFC)
Padma Shri Award, first woman doctor from Indore Dr Bhakti Yadav
Golf Industry Awards Golfers Aditi Ashok, S.S.P Chawrasia and Ali Sher
BFJA lifetime achievement award Moushumi Chatterjee
Lelte Award All India Radio (AIR) Aizawl
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May
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Wisden-MCC Cricket 'Photo of the Year' award Saqib Majeed
INSA Young Scientist Medal Sanjay Pratihar
special jury remi award to Indian actress Shabana
50th annual world fest houstan international film
Azmi and singer-poet Satinder Sartaaj for 'The Black
festival
Prince'
Krishna Chatterjee, Subhash Khot and Yadvinder
UK Royal Society
Malhi
UK Fellowship Award Sachin Tendulkar
MSME Banking Excellence Awards 2016 Village Financial Services
Avvaiyar Award Padma Venkataraman
Rajive Kaul
Diplomatic Service Award from South Korea
First major gender-neutral movie award Emma Watson
Sunny Pawar
7th Annual Asian Awards - Rising Star Award
Best Director and Best Actress awards
New York Indian Film Festival
- Konkona Sensharma
Honorary Life Member of MCC V V S Laxman
'Woodrow Wilson Award' for global corporate
ICICI Bank Chief Chanda Kochhar
citizenship
2017 Footballer of the Year N’GoloKante
Smart Village Award ISKCON's Govardhan Eco Village
2014 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize ISRO
'CEO of the Year' award in UK Indian-origin steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta
Intel science award in US Prashant Ranganathan
Green Oscars’ Award Assam’s Purnima Barman & Karnataka’s Sanjay Gubbi
Dan David Prize Shrinivas Kulkarni
David Letterman
Mark Twain Prize 2017 for American humour
UN Peacekeepers medal Brijesh Thapa and Private Ravi Kumar
Soumitra Chatterjee
Bengal's highest civilian award
Y.C. Deveshwar
INSA Young Scientist award Aravind Kumar
BS Shekhawat award Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling
Adiyogi bust’ declared world’s largest by Guinness Book of World Records
Nepalese mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa has broken her own world record for the most Everest summits by a
woman
world’s busiest single-runway airport Mumbai
Humanitarian award for her philanthropic work in Jacqueline Fernandez
India
WWF International President’s Award Rohan Chakravarty
Billboard Music Awards Drake has beaten the Adele's record
Porter Prize 2017 EDII and ITC
1.S K Thorat, a well-known scholar
Dr. Ambedkar National Awards 2.Samta Sainik Dal’ a non-political organization
founded by Dr. Ambedkar
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June
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
APQN Quality Award 2017 for International Co- National Assessment and Accreditation
operation in Quality Assurance Council (NAAC)
90th Scripps National Spelling Bee competition of
Ananya Vinay
US
Raksha Mantri’s Award for Excellence BEML
MGNREGA National Award Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh
Bharat Gaurav Award Madhur Bhandarkar
Kalinga Awards Anand Neelakantan & Haraprasad Das
Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Adam Zagajewski
Literature
RedInk Awards for Excellence Indian Express
France's Legion of Honour Soumitra Chatterjee
Little Miss Universe Internet 2017 crown Padmalaya Nanda
national award for excellence in the Mahatma
Bihar's Nalanda model of water conservation
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
‘Project Jal Sanchay’
Programme (MGNREGP)
NASA Public Service Medal Michael A’Hearn
David Grossman (Israel) for his novel "A Horse
Man Booker International Prize
Walks Into a Bar."
Nanniyode Rajan award E. Sreedharan
Dorothy Arzner Directors Award Mira Nair
Bhupen Hazarika National Award 2017 Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi
Kusumagraja Rashtriya Puraskar H S Shivaprakash
Guinness World Record for maximum number of
Vivid Sydney
light installations
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