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Topic-Wise Current Affairs

(January 2022 to September 2022)

1. Awards & Prizes

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1. QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Award 2021- Rhapsody
Music Foundation

2. Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022- Harshaali Malhotra

3. Knighthood- Clive Lloyd

4. Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research bureau - Shinzo Abe

5. Global Private Banking Awards 2021 - HDFC Bank

6. First-ever Guinness World Record - JC Chaudhry (India)

(Numerology)

7. National Water Awards 2020 - Uttar Pradesh

8. International Craft Award for 2021 - Kerala Arts and Crafts

Village

9. TX2 award 2022 - Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in

Erode, Tamil Nadu and Nepal’s Bardiya National Park

10. Dr Subhas Mukherjee Award for 2020 - Satish Adiga

11. Mrs World 2022 - Shaylyn Ford (USA)

12. 2022 Genesis Prize - Dr Albert Bourla

13. 1st Woman of Colors to make solo trip to South Pole - Captain
Harpreet Chandi

14. UNDP India’s 1st Youth Climate Champion - Prajakta Kohli

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15. 1st Indian to complete NASA’s International Air and Space
Program - Jahnavi Dangeti (Andhra Pradesh)

16. Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF) Awards

2022 - Ranveer Singh (83) and Kriti Sanon (Mimi)

17. The World Games Athlete of the Year 2021 - Parattu

Raveendran (PR) Sreejesh - Hockey goalkeeper (India)

18. Digital Transformation Award (DX 2021 Awards) - Karnataka

Bank

19. Hilal-e-Pakistan - Bill Gates

20. Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21 - Sandeep

Bakhshi (MD & CEO of ICICI)

21. 18th Late Madhavrao Limaye Award - Nitin Gadkari

22. Excellence in ‘Financial Reporting’ for the year 2020-21 –

RailTel Corporation of India Ltd.

23. Most Dependable Public Sector in India award 2022 - COAL

India organised by ASSOCHAM

24. Youngest Woman to Fly Solo Around the World - Zara

Rutherford (Belgium British Pilot)

25. Sports star of the Year Award 2022 - Male (Neeraj Chopra)
Female (Mirabai Chanu)

26. Sports Icon Award - Suresh Raina

27. Pritzker Architecture Prize 2022 - Diebedo Francis Kere

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28. Boltzmann Medal 2022 - Deepak Dhar

29. Special Jury Award National - Mission for Clean Ganga

(NMCG)

30. Miss World 2021 - Karolina Bielawska (Poland)

31. Asian Bank of The Year 2021 and India Bond House - Axis
Bank

32. National Award for Outstanding Performance for FY 2020-21 -

Jammu and Kashmir Bank (J&K Bank)

33. GD (Ghanshyam Das) Birla Award for Scientific Research 2022

- Narayan Pradhan

34. Abel Prize for 2022 - Dennis Parnell Sullivan (USA)

35. Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022 - Wilfried Brutsaert

36. Chameli Devi Jain Award for 2021 - Aarefa Johar

37. Saraswati Samman 2022 - Ramdarash Mishra for “Mein to

yahan hun” poem

38. First Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2022 - Narendra

Modi

39. EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 India - Falguni Nayar

For year 2022 - Vivek Lall

40. The International Gandhi Award for Leprosy 2021 - Bhushan

Kumar & Sahyog Kushtha Yagna Trust

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41. 2022 Malcom Adiseshiah Award - Prabhat Patnaik

42. Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration

2020 - UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik).

43. Entrepreneur Leadership Awards 2022 - Vivek Lall

44. Champions of the Earth Award 2021 - Sir David

Attenborough

45. Commonwealth Point of Light award - Kishore Kumar Das

46. ‘2021 Tree City of the World' - Mumbai and Hyderabad

47. V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award - Sanjit Narwekar

48. Whitley Gold Award 2022 - Charudutt Mishra

49. World Food Prize 2022 - Cynthia Rosenzweig

50. Romain Rolland Book Prize 2022 - Meursault, contre-

enquête

51. Royal Gold Medal 2022 - Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

52. Templeton Prize 2022 - Dr Frank Wilczek

53. Honorary Commander of the Order of The British Empire

(CBE) - Ajay Piramal

54. First Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2022 - Anna

Qabale Duba

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55. 2022 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award - Cécile
Ndjebet

56. Order of the British Empire (OBE) Award - Kishore

Jayaraman

57. 2022 International Booker Prize - Geetanjali Shree (Tomb of

Sand)

58. William E. Colby Award 2022 - Wesley Morgan

59. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)
Award 2022 - Guruswamy Krishnamoorthy

60. First Indian Woman to Scale Five Peaks Above 8,000m –

Priyanka Mohite (Maharashtra)

61. L’OEil D’Or Award 2022 - Shaunak Sen (All That Breathes
documentry)

62. UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize - CIET (NCERT)

63. Order of British Empire - Ajay Piramal

64. 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee - Harini Logan

65. Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022- Ruth Ozeki (The Book of
Form & Emptiness)

66. Miss India Worldwide 2022 - Khushi Patel

67. First Indian to be recognised as the Global Sustainable

Development Goal (SDG) Pioneer for water stewardship by the
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) - Ramkrishna
Mukkavilli

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68. Shiromani Award - Michelle Poonawalla

69. JC Daniel Award 2021 - KP Kumaran

70. International Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2021 - Lleyton
Hewitt

71. Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum,

posthumously - Shinzo Abe

72. Kempegowda International Award (2022) - S M Krishna, N

R Narayana Murthy & Prakash Padukone

73. Time Business Award 2022 - Rasmi Sahoo

74. Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute Award 2021 -

The National Academy of Agriculture Research
Management (NAARM)

75. Fields Medal 2022 - Maryna Viazovska

76. Global Energy Prize 2022 - Kaushik Rajashekara

77. Ayurveda Ratna Award 2022 - Tanuja Nesari

78. Femina Miss India World 2022 - Sini Shetty (Karnatka)

79. Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star Award (Japan) -
Narayanan Kumar

80. Mrs Universe Divine Title - Pallavi Singh

81. First woman and 2nd Indian to feature on IMF’s ‘Wall of

former Chief Economists’ - Gita Gopinath

82. 2022 Liberty Medal - Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine’s Presi.)

83. UNESCO Peace Prize - Angela Merkel

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84. Footballer of the Year 2021- 22 : Men's - Sunil Chhetri
Women's - Manisha Kalyan

85. Mrs India World 2022-2023 - Mrs. Sargam Koushal

86. Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (French Award) -

Kannan Sundaram

87. World Women Entrepreneurs’ Award 2022 – Sangeetha

Abhayan

88. Miss India USA 2022 - Aarya Walvekar

89. ICCR Distinguished Indologist for 2021 - Jeffrey Armstrong

(Kavindra Rishi)

90. Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (the Legion of Honour) -

Shashi Tharoor

91. Best Growth Performance Award - Muthoot Finance Limited

92. President’s Colour - Tamil Nadu (TN) Police

93. ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’ (Knight of the Legion of

Honour) Award of France - Dr Swati Piramal

94. Lata Mangeshkar Award - Kumar Sanu & Shailendra Singh

and Anand & Milind Shrivastav

95. 2022 United Nations (UN) Interagency Task Force, and WHO
Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award - India

96. Outstanding Narrator Award - Barack Obama

97. Honorary General of the Nepali Army - General Manoj

Chandrashekhar Pande

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98. Ramon Magsaysay Award 2022 – Sotheara Chhim
(Cambodia), Bernadette Madrid (Philippines), Tadashi
Hattori (Japan) and Gary Bencheghib (Indonesia)

99. International Travel Award 2023 - West Bengal

100. 31st Vyas Samman Award - Dr. Asghar Wajahat

101. Meritorious Service Medal - Admiral Sunil Lamba

102. Airport Service Quality Award-2022 - Cochin International

Airport Limited

103. Ayushmann Utkrishta award 2022 - Uttar Pradesh

104. Excellence in Cinema Award - Nawazuddin Siddiqui

105. 1st Queen Elizabeth II Woman of the Year award - Suella

Braverman

106. Lok Nayak Foundation Sahitya Puraskar - Tanikella Bharani

107. Green Channel Certification by Defence Ministry - Garden

Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE)

108. Time100 impact award - Deepika Padukone

109. Rastriya Jal Puraskar - Uttar Pradesh

110. International association of working women award 2021-

Susmita Sen

111. Ramnath Goenka Prize - Jishan e Siddiki

112. Red ink award - Danish siddiki

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113. Sushila Devi Puraskar - Anukriti Upadhyay (novel
kintsugi)

114. Global Women Health Tech Award - Niramai and Innaccel

115. US International Women of courage award - Rijwana Hasan

116. Governor of the year in central banking 2022 award - Mario

Marsel

117. Covid champion award - Cochin airport

118. Hermann Kesten (German PEN) Prize - Meena Kandasami

119. Smita Patil memorial 2022 - Alia Bhatt

120. Rajbhasa Kirti award vigyan -Pragati patrika

121. Vishwa Sahitya Shikshak Award – Professor Arun Kr Jha

122. Dinkar Rastriya Samman - Dr Satish Kumar Ray

123. Pulitzer prize - Fahmida Azeem (Bangladesh)

124. Lok Seva prize - Jim Latis

125. Sir Winston Churchill leadership award - Volodymyr

Zelenskyy (Ukraine’s President)

126. Karnatak Ratna - Puneet Rajkumar

127. dPal rNgam Duston’ award - the highest civilian honour of

Ladakh - Dalai Lama

128. International Rangers Award - Orang National Park

129. Best Airports Award - Hamad International Airport (Qatar)

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130. Bangala Academy - Mamta Banarjee

131. Pratham Purskar (MSME) - Odisha

132. National Energy Leader Award 2021 – Rashtriya Ispat

Nigam Limited (RINL)

133. Emmy award for narration in Netflix documentary “Our Great

National Parks” – Barack Obama

SOME SPECIFIC AWARDS

➢ Important ICC Awards 2021

• ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2021- Shaheen Afridi

(Pakistan)

• ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021 - Smriti Mandhana

(India)

• ICC Test Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2021 - Joe Root

(England)

• Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Babar Azam (Pakistan)

• Men's T20I Cricketer of the Year – Mohammad Rizwan (Pak)

• Men's Emerging Cricketer of the Year – Janneman Malan

(South Africa)

• Men's Associate Cricketer of the Year – Zeeshan Maqsood

(Oman)

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• Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year – Lizelle Lee

(South Africa)

• Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year – Tammy Beaumont

(England)

• Women’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year – Fatima Sana (Pak)

• Spirit of Cricket – Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)

• Umpire of the Year - Marais Erasmus

➢ Padma Award 2022

Total : 128 Personalities

A) Padma Vibhushan (2nd Highest Civilian Award) : 4 Persons

1. Ms. Prabha Atre (Art) – Maharashtra

2. Radheyshyam Khemka (Literature) – UP (Posthumous)

3. General Bipin Rawat (Civil Service) - Uttarakhand

4. Shri Kalyan Singh (Public Affairs) – UP

B) Padma Bhushan : Total 17 Persons

Important Names - Gulam Nabi Azad, Satya Nadella, Sundar

Pichai, Cyrus Poonawalla

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C) Padma Shri : Total 1O7 Persons

Important Names - Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra

Olympians - Pramod Bhagat (Para Badminton)
Vandana Kataria (Hockey)
Sumit Antil (Javelin Throw)
Avani Lekhra (Para Shooting) &
Sonu Nigam (singer).

➢ 94th Academy Awards OR Oscar Awards 2022 Held at USA

• Best Actor : Will Smith (King Richard)

• Best Film : CODA

• Best Actress : Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

• Best Director : Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

➢ Jnanpith Award : Oldest & Highest Indian Literary Award

• First Winner :1965 → G. Sankara Kurup

• 56th (2021) : Nilamani Phookan (Assamese)

• 57th (2022) : Damodar Mauzo (Konkani)

➢ 2022 Laureus World Sports Award

• Sportsman of the Year : Max Verstappen (F1 Racing

Driver - Red Bull)
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• Sportswoman of the Year: Elaine Thompson- Herah

(Jamaican Athlete)

• Breakthrough of the Year Award: Emma Raducanu

➢ The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021

• Best Men’s Player of the Year for 2021: Robert Lewandowski

(Poland)

• Best Goalkeeper: Edouard Mendy (Senegal)

• Best Women’s Player: Alexia Putellas

• Special Award : Cristiano Ronaldo & Christine Sinclair

➢ 22nd IIFA awards held in 2022

• Best Film : Shershaah

• Best Director : Vishnuvardhan (Shershaah)

• Best Actor : Vicky Kaushal (Sardar Udham)

• Best Actress : Kriti Sanon (Mimi)

• Best Supporting Actor : Pankaj Tripathi (Ludo)

• Best Male Playback Singer : Jubin Nautiyal for song

“Raatan Lambiyan” (Shershaah)

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• Best Female Playback Singer : Asees Kaur for song “Raatan
Lambiyan” (Shershaah)

• Best Lyrics : Kausar Munir for song ‘Lehra Do’ (Film -83)

• Best Debut Male – Ahan Shetty (Tadap)

• Best Debut Female – Sharvari Wagh (Bunty Aur Babli 2)

• Best Music Direction : AR Rahman (Atrangi Re) &

Tanishk Bagchi, Jasleen Royal, Javed-Mohsin, Vikram
Montrose, B Praak, Jaani for ‘Shershaah’

➢ 64th Grammy Awards 2022 held at MGM Grand Garden

Arena (Las Vegas) USA

• Album Of The Year - We Are (Jon Batiste - American

Singer)

• Song Of The Year - Leave The Door Open

• Record Of The Year - Leave The Door Open

• Best New Artist - Olivia Rodrigo (American)

• New Age Album - Divine Tides : Ricky Kej (Indian Music

Composer)

➢ 75th BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film & Television

Arts) 2022 held at London

• Best Film : The Power Of The Dog

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• Best Actor : Will Smith (King Richard)

• Best Actress : Joanna Scanlan (After Love)

• Best Director : Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)

• Best Film Not in the English Language : Drive My Car

➢ International Gandhi Award for Leprosy, 2021

• Instituted by : Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation

1. Individual Category : Dr Bhushan Kumar (Chandigarh)

2. Institutional Category :Sahyog Kushtha Yagna Trust (Gujarat)

➢ Republic Day Parade 2022

Best State Tableau Award –

1. First - Uttar Pradesh

• Theme -“One district one product and Kashi Vishwanath Dham”

2. Karnataka

3. Meghalaya

• Best Marching Contingent : Indian Navy

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➢ 75th - 2022 Cannes Film Festival held at France

• *Deepika Padukone was one of The Jury Members.

• Palme d’Or – Highest Prize : Triangle of Sadness

• Best Director : Park Chan-wook for ‘Decision to Leave’

• Best Actress : Zar Amir Ebrahimi for ‘Holy Spider’

• Best Actor : Song Kang-ho for ‘Broker’

• L’Oeil d’Or 2022 : ‘All That Breathes’ (Shaunak Sen’s

Documentry – India)

➢ Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2022

• Individual Category - Vinod Sharma

• Institutional Category – GIDM : Gujarat Institute of

Disaster Management

➢ Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2022”

• Total 29 Children

• Innovation (7), Social service (4), Scholastic (1),

Sports (8) Art and culture (6), Bravery (3).

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➢ Winners of 2022 Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards by Bill

Gates and Melinda French Gates - Ursula von der Leyen

(Germany )

➢ 2022 Campaign Award by Malala Yousafzai - Vanessa Nakate

(Uganda)

➢ 2022 Changemaker Award by Angelina Jolie - Zahra Joya

(Afghanistan)

➢ 2022 Progress Award by Lilly Singh - Dr. Radhika Batra

(India)

➢ Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2022

• Film of the Year Award – Pushpa : The Rise

• Best Film Award – Sher Shah

• Best Actor Award – Ranveer Singh for the film 83

• Best Actress Award – Kriti Sanon for the film Mimi

• Outstanding contribution to films – Asha Parekh

• Critics Best Actor Award – Sidharth Malhotra

• Critics Best Actress Award – Kiara Advani

• Best Web Series – Candy

• Best Actor in Web Series – Manoj Bajpayee for The Family

Man 2

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➢ 68th National Film Awards held in 30 Sep 2022

• Best Hindi Film : Toolsidas Junior

• Best Feature Film : Soorarai Pottru (Director : Sudha Kongara)

• Best Non-feature Film : Testimony of Anna

• Best Actor : Suriya (Soorarai Pottru) and Ajay Devgn (Tanhaji)

• Best Actress : Aparna Balamurali (Soorarai Pottru)

• Best Director : Sachidanandan KR (Ayyappanum Koshiyum)

• Best Male Playback Singer : Rahul Deshpande (Mi Vasantrao)

• Best Female Playback Singer : Nanchamma (Ayyappanum

Koshiyam)

• Best Choreography : Sandhya Raju (Natyam)

• Best Cinematography : Supratim Bhol (Avijatrik)

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Nobel Prize 2022
1) Economics - Ben S Bernanke
Douglas W Diamond &
Philip H Dybvig

(For research on banks and financial crises)

2) Nobel Peace Prize 2022 -

A) Ales Bialiatski (Belarus)

B) Russian human rights organisation (Memorial)

C) Ukrainian human rights organisation (Center for Civil

Liberties)

3) Literature - French Author ‘Annie Ernaux’

(For “the Courage & Clinical acuity with which she uncovers the
roots, estrangements & collective restraints of personal memory”)

4) Physiology or Medicine - Svante Paabo (Sweden)

(For his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins

and human evolution)

5) Chemistry - Carolyn R. Bertozzi (US)

K. Barry Sharpless (US) &
Morten Meldal (Denmark)

(For developing a way of “snapping molecules together" )

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6) Physics - Alain Aspect (France)
John F. Clauser (US) &
Anton Zeilinger (Austria)

(For their work on Quantum Mechanics)

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