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2017 Awards (Jan - Dec)

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
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Best Short Film (Non-fiction) MatitaliKusti

Best Actor (Female) in a Short Film Tisca Chopra for Chutney.
Best Dialogue Ritesh Shah for Pink.
Best Screenplay ShakunBatra, Ayesha DevitreDhillon for Kapoor& Sons
Best Story ShakunBatra, Ayesha DevitreDhillon for Kapoor& Sons
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) Rishi Kapoor for Kapoor& Sons.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) ShabanaAzmi for Neerja.
Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award ShatrughanSinha.
Best Music Director Pritam for AeDilHaiMushkil.
Best Lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya-
‘ChannaMereya’,AeDilHaiMushkil
Best Male Playback Singer Arijit Singh for the song AeDilHaiMushkil
Best Female Playback Singer NehaBhasin for ‘Jag Ghoomeya’ from Sultan
Best Visual Effects Red Chillies for Fan
Best Editing MonishaBaldawa for Neerja
Best Costume PayalSaluja for Udta Punjab
Best Action ShyamKaushal for Dangal
Best Background Score Sameer Uddin for Kapoor& Sons
Best Choreography AdilShaikh for ‘KarGayiChull’ from Kapoor& Sons
RD Burman Award for New Music Talent Amit Mishra for ‘Bulleya’ from AeDilHaiMushkil
Best Cinematography MiteshMirchandani for ‘Neerja’
Filmfare Critics Award
Best Film Neerja
Best Actor (Male) ManojBajpayee (Aligarh) and ShahidKapoor (Udta
Punjab)
Best Actor (Female) SonamKapoor for Neerja
Award Winner
Best Film Dangal
Best Director NiteshTiwari for Dangal
Best Actor (Male) Aamir Khan for Dangal
Best Actor (Female) Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab
The Hindu Prize 2016 KiranDoshi for Jinnah Often Came to Our House
UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Kolkata’s Sitalpati
2016 TS Eliot Prize British Poet Jacob Polley
for Jackself
2016 National Bravery Awards 25 Children including 12 Girls
Bharat Award Winners: Late Km. TarhPeeju
Geeta Chopra Award Winners TejasweetaPradhan and ShivaniGond
Sanjay Chopra Award Winners Master SumitMamgain
BapuGaidhani Award Winners Late Km. Roluahpuii, Late Km. H Lalhriatpuii, Master
TusharVerma
People’s Choice Award Priyanka Chopra for TV Series Quantico
Best feature film award at international Borrego Springs Himachali dialect “Saanjh directed by Ajay Saklani
Film Festival held in California, US
Australia’s highest civilian award Purushottam Sawrikar
Makhan Singh Khangure
Vijay Kumar
2016 National Geoscience Award Dr. A Keshav Krishna
Sena Medal Major Sandeep Kumar, Captain Manik Sharma and Naik
Arvind Singh Chauhan.
Golden Peacock Award for CSR in Aviation Sector Delhi International Airport Ltd.(DIAL)
First Hugo Chavez Peace Prize by Venezuela Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
Honoured by Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) Reliance Foundation Founder and Chairperson Nita
Ambani
NTPC award 2015-16 Damodar Valley Corporation

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Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards 2016

Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak
Ms. Roluahpuii (Posthumous) Mizoram
Shri Shishir Kumar Yadavannavr (Posthumous) Karnataka
Shri Vadmitra Choudhary, (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh
Shri Rakesh Kumar CN (Posthumous) Karnataka
Shri Suresh NB (Posthumous) Kerala
Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak
Shri Mrigesh Narayan Barua Assam
Dr. C. Gopakumar (Posthumous) Kerala
Shri Govind Laxman Tupe Maharashtra
Shri Churchill Mizoram
Smt. Roluahpuii Mizoram
Shri Bir Bajrangbali Pandey West Bengal
Master Maurice Yengkhom Manipur
Master Shivansh Singh (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh
Jeevan Raksha Padak
Shri Yashwant Kumar Pisda Chhattisgarh
Shri Dara Singh Haryana
Shri Dinesh Kumar Himachal Pradesh
Shri Ratheeshan Nambolan Kerala
Master Anandhakrishnan A Kerala
Master Akhil K. Shibu Kerala
Shri Tejesh Brijlal Sonawane Maharashtra
Shri Manoj Sudhakarrao Barahate Maharashtra
Shri Isac Lalrinchhana Mizoram
Shri Lalmohan Mohanta Odisha
Kum. Nazia Uttar Pradesh
Shri Pankaj Kumar Pandey Tamil Nadu
Shri Anoop Mishra Uttar Pradesh
Shri Kapil Kumar Shishodia Uttar Pradesh
Shri Neelkant Ramesh Harikantra Maharashtra
Shri Manohar Mahato West Bengal
Shri Balen Rajbongshi West Bengal
Shri Dharmendra Kumar Yadav West Bengal
Master Kamlesh Pradhan Chhattisgarh
Kum. Angelica Tynsong Meghalaya
Master Sai Krishna Akhil Kilambi Telangana
Shri Tshewana Thinlay Lachungpa Sikkim
Shri Altaf Ahmed Khan Jammu & Kashmir
Ophthalmology Hall of Fame Dr.Gullapalli N Rao

Best Marching Contingent in Services Category at the Madras Engineer Group

Republic Day Parade – 2017
Miss Universe 2017 Iris Mittenaere of France
Padma Awards 2017
PADMA VIBHUSHAN
Shri K J Yesudas Art-Music Kerala
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Others-Spiritualism Tamil Nadu
Shri Sharad Pawar Public Affairs Maharashtra
Shri Murli Manohar Joshi Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh

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Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao Science & Engineering Karnataka

Late Shri Sunder Lal Patwa (Posthumous) Public Affairs Madhya Pradesh
Late Shri PA Sangma (Posthumous) Public Affairs Meghalaya

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

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Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed Medicine Telangana

Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole Medicine Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel Medicine Gujarat
Prof. Harkishan Singh Medicine Chandigarh
Dr. Mukut Minz Medicine Medicine Chandigarh
Shri Arun Kumar Sharma Others-Archaeology Chhattisgarh
Shri Sanjeev Kapoor Others-Culinary Maharashtra
Smt. Meenakshi Amma Others-Martial Art Kerala
Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel Others-Agriculture Gujarat
Shri Chandrakant Pithawa Science & Engineering Telangana
Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray Science & Engineering West Bengal
Shri Chintakindi Mallesham Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh
Shri Jitendra Nath Goswami Science & Engineering Assam
Shri Daripalli Ramaiah Social Work Telangana
Shri Girish Bhardwaj Social Work Karnataka
Shri Karimul Hak Social Work West Bengal
Shri Bipin Ganatra Social Work West Bengal
Smt. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide Social Work Tamil Nadu
Shri Appasaheb Dharmadhikari Social Work Maharashtra
Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal Social Work Punjab
Shri Virat Kohli Sports-Cricket Delhi
Shri Shekar Naik Sports-Cricket Karnataka
Shri Vikasa Gowda Sports-Discus Throw Karnataka
Smt. Deepa Malik Sports-Athletics Haryana
Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu Sports-Athletics Tamil Nadu
Smt. Dipa Karmakar Sports-Gymnastics Tripura
Shri P R Shreejesh Sports-Hockey Kerala
Smt. Sakshi Malik Sports-Wrestling Haryana
Shri Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu Trade & Industry Telangana
Shri Imrat Khan (NRI/PIO) Art-Music USA
Shri Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO) Literature & Education USA
Shri H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO) Literature & USA
EducationJournalism
Late (Smt.) Suniti Solomon (Posthumous) Medicine Tamil Nadu
Shri Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous) Others-Archaeology West Bengal
Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous) Social Work Maharashtra
Smt. Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner) Social Work Nepal

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
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B C Roy Award Dr P Raghu Ram

Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Chairman’s
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL)
Order of Merit
Guinness Record by Making World’s Tallest Sand Sudarsan Pattnaik
Castleat 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)

Best Actor Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Actress Emma Stone (La La Land)
Best Supporting Actor Dev Patel (Lion)
Best Supporting Actress Viola Davis (Fences)
Best Original Music La La Land
Best Original Screenplay Manchester by the Sea
Best Adapted Screenplay Lion
Best Cinematography La La Land
Best Editing Hacksaw Ridge
Best Production Design Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Best British Short Film Home
Best British Film I, Daniel Blake
Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Babak Anvari (Writer/Director), Emily Leo, Oliver
Roskill, Lucan Toh (Producers) for Under the Shadow
Best Film Not in the English Language Son of Saul
Best Documentary 13th
Best Animated Film Kubo and the Two Strings
Best Costume Design Jackie
Best Make Up & Hair Florence Foster Jenkins
Best Sound Arrival
Best Special Visual Effects The Jungle Book
Best British Short Animation A Love Story
EE Rising Star Award Tom Holland
BAFTA Fellowship Mel Brooks
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Curzon Cinemas

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2017 Grammy Awards

Album Of The Year Adele for ’25’
Record Of The Year ‘Hello’ by Adele
Song Of The Year Hello by Adele and Greg Kurstin
Best Rap Album ‘Coloring Book’ by Chance The Rapper
Best Urban Contemporary Album ‘Lemonade’ by Beyonce
Best Country Solo Performance Maren Morris for ‘My Church’
Best Rock Song ‘Blackstar’ by David Bowie
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance ‘Stressed Out’ by Twenty One Pilots
Best Pop Vocal Album ’25’ by Adele
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album ‘Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin’ by Willie
Nelson
Best Pop Solo Performance Adele for ‘Hello’
Best Alternative Music Album ‘Blackstar’ by David Bowie
Best Rock Album ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ by Cage the Elephant
Best Rock Performance ‘Blackstar’ by David Bowie
Best Metal Performance- ‘Dystopia’ by Megadeth
Best New Artist Chance The Rapper
Best Rap Performance Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz for
‘No Problem’
Best Rap/Sung Performance Drake for ‘Hotline Bling’
Best Rap Song ‘Hotline Bling’ by Drake
Best R&B Performance Solange for ‘Cranes In The Sky’
Best Traditional R&B Performance Lalah Hathaway for ‘Angel’
Best R&B Song ‘Lake By The Ocean’ by Maxwell
Best R&B Album Lalah Hathaway for ‘Lalah Hathaway Live’
Best Country Album Sturgill Simpson for ‘A Sailor’s Guide to Earth’
Best Country Song ‘Humble And Kind’ by Tim McGraw
Best Country Duo/Group Performance Pentatonix feat. Dolly Parton for ‘Jolene’
Best Jazz Instrumental Album ‘Country For Old Men’ by John Scofield
Best Jazz Vocal Album Gregory Porter for ‘Take Me to the Alley’
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ‘Culcha Vulcha’ by Snarky Puppy
Best Dance/Electronic album Flume for ‘Skin’
Best Dance Recording The Chainsmokers for ‘Don’t Let Me Down’
Best Music Film ‘The Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years’ by
The Beatles
Best Music Video Beyonce for ‘Formation’
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album ‘Love Remains’ by Hillary Scott & The Family
Best Gospel Album ‘Losing My Religion’ by Kirk Franklin
Best Americana Album ‘This Is Where I Live’ by William Bell
Best Latin Pop Album ‘Un Besito Mas’ by Jesse & Joy
Best Song Written for Visual Media Justin Timberlake for ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling’
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media John Williams for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media ‘Miles Ahead’
Best Musical Theater Album ‘The Color Purple’
Best World Music Album ‘Sing Me Home’ by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road
Ensemble. Indian musician Sandeep Das was also a part
of the Ensemble.
Laureus World Awards or the ‘Oscar of Sports’
Sportsman of the Year Usain Bolt
Sportswoman of the Year Simone Biles
Comeback of the Yearaward Michael Phelps
Breakthrough of the Year award Nico Roseberg
Laureus Team of the Year award American Baseball side Chicago Cubs
Special Laureus Spirit of Sport award English Premier League champions Leicester City
Disability award Italy’s Beatrice Vio

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Honorary Doctorate Degree by Desh Bhagat University Hockey player Sandeep Singh

FIH Hockey Stars Award 2016

Best Male Player of the Year Award John-John Dohmen
Best Female Player of the Year Naomi van
Best Male Goalkeeper of the Year David Harte
Best Female Goalkeeper of the Year Maddie Hinch
Rising Male Star of the Year Arthur Van Doren
Rising Female Star of the Year Maria Granatto
Male Coach of the Year Danny Kerry
Female Coach of the Year Karen Brown
Male Umpire of the Year Christian Blasch
Female Umpire of the Year Laurine Delforge
ESPNcricinfo Awards
Captain of the Year Virat Kohli
Test Batting Performance of the Year Ben Stokes
Test Bowling Performance of the Year award Stuart Broad
ODI Batting Performance of the Year Quinton de Kock
ODI Bowling Performance of the Year award Sunil Narine
T20 Batting Performance of the Year award Carlos Brathwaite
T20 Bowling Performance of the Year award Mustafizur Rahman
Batting Performance of the Year award Hayley Williams
Bowling Performance of the Year award Leigh Kasperek
89th Academy Award (Oscar Award)
Award Category Winner Movie
Best Picture Moonlight
Best Actres Emma Stone La La Land
Best Actor Casey Affleck Manchester By The Sea
Best Director Damien Chazelle La La Land
Best Supporting Actress Viola Davis Fences
Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay Kenneth Lonergan Manchester By The Sea
Best Adapted Screenplay Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney Moonlight
Best Cinematography Linus Sandgren La La Land
Best Original Score Justin Hurwitz La La Land
Best Original Song Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul La La Land
Best Sound Editing Sylvain Bellemare Arrival
Best Foreign Language Film Asghar Farhadi The Salesman
Best Film Editing John Gilbert Hacksaw Ridge
Best Visual Effects Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones The Jungle Book
and Dan Lemmon
Best Production Design David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds Wasco La La Land
Best Sound Mixing Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Hacksaw Ridge
Mackenzie and Peter Grace
Best Documentary-Feature Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow O.J.: Made in America
Best Animated Feature Film Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer Zootopia
Best Animated Short Film Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer Piper
Best Documentary-Short Subject Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara The White Helmets
Best Live Action Short Film Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy Sing
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Suicide Squad
Christopher Nelson
Best Costume Design Colleen Atwood Fantastic Beast and
Where To Find Them

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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 Controversies Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
‘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 Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
songs in the shortest time on Gayathri veena
Airport Service Quality Survey Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) – First
Best Actress for Sarbjit at IFFA Australia Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
SERB Distinguished Fellow’ award Lalji Singh
Saraswati Samman 2016 Konkani author Mahabaleshwar Sail
Harvard’s Artist of the Year Award 2017 Viola Davis
2017 IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of
IIT-M solar inverter system
Society Award
Miss International Queen 2016 Thailand’s Model, Jiratchaya Sirimongkolnawin
US’s oldest and most prestigious science and math
Indrani Das(17)
competition Regeneron Science Talent Search Awards
Gala
First prize in the implementation of Official Language
Central Bank of India
Policy in the western region for the year 2015-2016
‘Women Icons’ Award in Singapore 25 Asian Women
Indian-American computer scientist, Anshumali
NSF’s CAREER Award
Shrivastava
Global Teacher Prize 2017 Canadian Teacher Maggie MacDonnell
Kirti Chakra Major Rohit Suri
Smart Technology of the Year 2016 ABB India
2017 Abel Prize Yves Meyer, a French mathematicianfor Wavelets Theory
2017 Hal David Starlight Award Ed Sheeran
First Kuldip Nayar Journalism Awards Ravish Kumar
Indra Nooyi
Fareed Zakaria
Dinesh Paliwal
2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honour
Dr Annapoorna S Kini
Yashvant Patel
Mohan H Patel
National Photography Awards Raghu Rai
1.Historic City of Ahmedabad,
2.Delhi – A Heritage City,
Five Indian Cities 3.Jaipur City, Rajasthan,
4.Ekamra Kshetra- The Temple City, Bhubaneswar and
5.The Victorian & Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai.
Kala Ratan Award Anupam Kher
11th Water Digest Water Awards under the
ISKCON's Govardhan Eco Village
category "Best Water NGO-Water Education"
'Best Small Bank 2016' Award Karur Vysya Bank
Sikh Jewel Award Gurinder Chadha
1.Geethalakshmi
Dr. B. C. Roy National Awards 2.Palanivelu
3.Anand K. Khakhar
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1.Rajasekaran
2.Sundaresan
Hari Om Ashram Alembic Research Awards
3.R Rakesh Kumar
4.Neena Srivastava
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman UK Minister Priti Patel
Glefiddich's Emerging Artist 2017 Odia Installation Artist Sitaram Swain
Asian Hockey Player of Year
Asian Player of the Year 2016 SV Sunil
Asian Promising Player of the Year 2016 (Junior team). Harmanpreet Singh
BCCI Annual Award 2017
Col. CK. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar
BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award For Women Shantha Rangaswamy
BCCI Special Award VV Kumar, Late Ramakant Desai
Polly Umrigar Award Virat Kohli
Dilip Sardesai Award (For India’s Best Cricketer In The Ravichandran Ashwin
West Indies Series 2016)
Lala Amarnath Award (For The Best All-Rounder In The Jalaj Saxena Of Madhya Pradesh
Ranji Trophy 2015-16)
Lala Amarnath Award (For The Best All-Rounder In Axar Patel Of Gujarat
Domestic Limited-Overs Competitions, 2015-16 )
Madavrao Scindin Award (Highest Scorer In The Ranji Shreyas Iyer Of Mumbai
Trophy 2015-16)
Madavrao Scindin Award (Highest Wicket-Taker In The Shahbaz Nadeem Of Jharkhand
Ranji Trophy 2015-16)
M.A. Chidambaram Trophy (Highest Scorer In (U-23) Col. Jay. G. Bosta Of Mumbai
CK. Nayudu Trophy 2015-16)
M.A. Chidambaram Trophy (Highest Wicket-Taker In (U- Satyajeet Bachhav Of Maharashtra
23) Col. CK. Nayudu Trophy 2015-16)
NKP Salve Award (Highest Scorer In (U-19) Cooch Behar Arman Jaffer Of Mumbai
Trophy In 2015-16 )
NKP Salve Award (Highest Wicket-Taker In (U-19) Cooch Ninad Rathva Of Baroda
Behar Trophy In 2015-16)
Raj Singh Dungarpur Award ( Highest Scorer In (U-16) Abhishek Sharma Of Punjab
Vijay Merchant Trophy In 2015-16)
Raj Singh Dungarpur Award ( Highest Wicket-Taker In (U- Abhishek Sharma Of Punjab
16) Vijay Merchant Trophy In 2015-16)
Jagmohan Dalmiyra Award (Best Woman Cricketer (Sr.) Mithali Raj Of Railways
Of 2015-16)
Jagmohan Dalmiyra Award (Best Woman Cricketer (Jr.) Of Deepti Sharma Of Uttar Pradesh
2015-16)
Best Umpire In Domestic Cricket In 2015-16 Nitin Menon
Best Performance In BCCI Domestic Tournaments Of Mumbai Cricket Association
2015-16

April
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
US India Business Council Award N Chandrababu Naidu
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize,
Dawit Isaak, Eritrean-Swedish journalist
2017
Lance Havildar Prem Bahadur Resmi Magar of Gorkha
Kirti Chakra
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'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 Association Veteran actor Dilip Kumar
'World's Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Leadership Dr. Arvind Sinha
Award'
Cartier Women’s Initiative Award Tirupati Jain
6th M.S. Swaminathan Award Rayappa Ramappa Hanchinal
60th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF)
Shah Rukh Khan
honour
Shambhavi Puraskar, 2017 Hari Sankar Rout
Gururaja Bhat Award A.V. Narasimha Murthi
Sahitya Academy award Aniruddhan Vasudevans for novel "One Part Woman"
US Emerging Young Leaders Award Raj Kumar
Veteran Bollywood actress Saira Banu and actor Jackie
Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award
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
Goldman Environmental Prize Prafulla Samantra
P C Chandra Puraskaar Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi
Best Film At The Hong Kong International Film Festival Rajkummar Rao's 'Newton'
Dadasaheb Phalke award Legendary filmmaker and actor Kasinathuni Viswanath
Golden Peacock Award 2017 for innovative product Yes Bank
Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj
e-Puraskar award
Depthas
Miss Teen Universe 2017 at Managua. Srishti Kaur
Ghantasala national award Vani Jairam
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Foundation Dileep K Nair
award
2017 Pierre L'Enfant International Planning Excellence
Bhubaneswar
Award by American Planning Association (APA).
Queen's Enterprise Award 2017 Yusaffali’s Y International (UK) Ltd
ACE fellowship Ritu Raju and Sundeep R Muppidi
‘Indian MNC of the Year’ Hero MotoCorp
'Order of the Rising Sun' – Japan Former Minister Ashwani Kumar
10th Moscow Sand art Championship Sudarsan Pattnaik , Gold
NTR National Awards
NTR National Film Award 2012 S. P. Balasubrahmanyam(Singer)
NTR National Film Award 2013 Hema Malini(Actor)
Krishi Karman Award
Category I Tamil Nadu
Category II Himachal Pradesh
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64th National Awards

Category Film Awardee/s
Best FEATURE FILM Kasaav (Marathi) Director: Sumitra Bhave & Sunil
Sukthankar
Producer: Sumittra Bhave, Sunil
Sukthankar & Mohan Aghase
Best Popular Film Providing Sathamanam Bhavathi (Telugu) Director: Satish Vagesna Producer:
Wholesome Entertainment V.Venkata Ramana Reddy
Best Film On Social Issues Pink (Hindi) Director: Anniruddha Roy
Chowdhury
Producer: Rashmi Sharma Films
Best Film On Environment Loktak Lairembee (Manipuri) Director & Producer: Haoban Paban
Conservation/ Preservation Kumar
Best Children’s Film Dhanak (Hindi) Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Producer: Drishyam Film
Best Animation Film Mahayodha Rama (Hindi) Director: Rohit Vaid
Producer: Contiloe Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Animator: Deepak S.V
Nargis Dutt Award For Best Feature Dikchow Banat Palaax (Assamese) Director: Sanjib Sabha Pandit
Film On National Integration Producer: Canvascope
Best Actor Rustom (Hindi) Akshay Kumar
Best Actress Minnaminungu – the Firefly Surabhi C.M
(Malayalam)
Best Child Artist a). Kunju Daivam (Malayalam) b) a) Adish Praveen
Sahaj Pather Gappo (Bengali) c) b) Nur Islam and Samiul Alam
Railway Children (Kannada) c) Manohara. K
Best Supporting Actor Dashakriya (Marathi) Manoj Joshi
Best Supporting Actress Dangal (Hindi) Zaira Wasim
Best Male Playback Singer Film: Praktan (Bengali) Song : Tumi Iman Chakraborty
Jaake Bhalo Basho
Best Female Playback Singer Film: Joker (Tamil) Song : Jasmine Sundharayyar
E
Best Cinematography 24 (Tamil) S. Thirunavukarasu
Best Screenplay Writer (Original) Maheshinte Prathikooram Syam Pushkaran
(Malayalam)
Best Screenplay Writer (Adapted) Dashakriya (Marathi) Sanjay Krishnaji Patil
Best Dialogues Peli Chuplu (Telugu) Tarun Bhascker
Best Editing Ventilator (Marathi) Rameshwar
Best Production Design 24 (Tamil) Subrata Chakraborthy, Shreyas
Khedekar & Amit Ray
Best Costume Designer Cycle (Marathi) Sachin Lovalekar
Best Make-Up Artist Allama (Kannada) NK Ramakrishna
Best Special Effect Shivaay (Hindi) Naveen Paul
Best Choreography Janatha Garrage (Telugu) Raju Sundaram
Best Music Direction – Song & Allama (Kannada) Bapu Padmanabha
Background Score
Special Jury Award Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol, Mohan Lal
Janatha Garrage and Pullimurugan,
Special Mention Neerja (Hindi) Sonam Kapoor
Special Mention Mukti Bhawan (Hindi) & Maj Rati Adil Hussain
Keteki (Assamese)
Special Mention Mukti Bhawan (Hindi) Producer: Red Carper Moving
Pictures And Director: Shubhashish
Bhutiani
Special Mention Kadvi Hawa (Hindi) Producer: Eleeanora Images Private
Ltd. And Director: Nila Madhab
Panda
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Best Environment Film Including
Agriculture
Best Short Fiction Film
Best Non Feature Film
The Tiger Who Crossed The Line
Aaba
Fireflies In The Abyss
Producer & Director: Krishnendu
Bose Director
Producer: Raj Kumar Gupta
Director: Amar Kaushik
Producer & Director:
Chandrashekhar Reddy

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
50th annual world fest houstan international film special jury remi award to Indian actress Shabana Azmi and
festival singer-poet Satinder Sartaaj for 'The Black Prince'
UK Royal Society Krishna Chatterjee, Subhash Khot and Yadvinder Malhi
UK Fellowship Award Sachin Tendulkar
MSME Banking Excellence Awards 2016 Village Financial Services
Avvaiyar Award Padma Venkataraman
Diplomatic Service Award from South Korea Rajive Kaul
First major gender-neutral movie award Emma Watson
7th Annual Asian Awards - Rising Star Award Sunny Pawar
Best Director and Best Actress awards -Konkona
New York Indian Film Festival
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
Mark Twain Prize 2017 for American humour David Letterman
UN Peacekeepersmedal 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
Jacqueline Fernandez
Humanitarian award for her philanthropic work in 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
2.Samta Sainik Dal’ a non-political organization founded by
Dr. Ambedkar National Awards
Dr. Ambedkar
3.Amar Sewa Sangam an institution working in the field of
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empowering differently abled persons.

4.Shri BabuLal Nirmal, a social activist from Rajasthan.
FICCI Smart Policing Award 2017 Pune city Police
Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar Satyabrata Rout
Cannes Film Festival 2017 The Square
European Golden Shoe for a fourth time Lionel Messi
Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award Priyanka Chopra
2017 PEN/Malamud award Author Jhumpa Lahiri
'HR Innovation of the Year' Tata Motors
Hero I-League 2016-17 Awards
Best Goalkeeper Debjit Majumder of Mohun Bagan
'Jarnail Singh Best Defender' of the league Award Anas Edathodika of Mohun Bagan
Best Midfielder Alfred Kemah Jaryan of Aizawl FC
Best Striker Aser Pierrick Dipanda Dicka of Shillong Lajong
'Best Emerging Player of Hero I-League' Award Jerry Lalrinzuala of DSK Shivajians FC
(awarded for the first time)
'Syed Abdul Rahim Best Coach Award' Khalid Jamil of Aizawl FC
'Fairplay Award' of Hero I-League 2016-17 Churchill Brothers FC Goa
'Best Organiser Award' DSK Shivajians FC and Bengaluru FC
2017 Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Talk Show – Entertainment The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Outstanding Talk Show – Informative The Dr. Oz Show
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series Lexi Ainsworth as Kristina Davis on General Hospital
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series Bryan Craig as Morgan Corinthos on General Hospital
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Gina Tognoni as Phyllis Summers on The Young and the
Restless
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Scott Clifton as Liam Spencer on The Bold and the
Beautiful
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Kate Mansi as Abigail Deveraux on Days of Our Lives
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Steve Burton as Dylan McAvoy on The Young and the
Restless
Outstanding Morning Program Good Morning America
Outstanding Entertainment News Program Entertainment Tonight
Outstanding Culinary Program Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse
Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series Jim O'Heir as Matt Cannistra on The Bold and the Beautiful
Outstanding Drama Series General Hospital
Outstanding Game Show Host Steve Harvey – Family Feud
Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler,
and Sheryl Underwood – The Talk
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Game Show Jeoprady!
Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team General Hospital
Outstanding Entertainment Program in Spanish Destinos
Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host Steve Harvey – Steve Harvey
Outstanding Daytime Talent in a Spanish Language Gaby Natale – SuperLatina with Gaby Natale
Program
Lifetime Achievement Award Mary Hart
Presidential Awards for classical Tamil for 2013-14
Tholakpiyyar Award Dr. S.N.Kandaswamy
Young Scholar Award Dr. Ula Balasubramaniyan
Dr. Kalai Chezhian
Dr. S. Rajalakshmi
Dr. T. Mahalakshmi
Dr. S. P. Salavanisree
Presidential Awards for classical Tamil for 2014-15
Tholakpiyyar Award Dr. A. Dakshinamurthy
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Young Scholar Award Dr. A. Sathish

Dr. J. Muthuselvan
Dr. P. Thirugnanasammandam
Dr. M. Vasanthakumari
Dr. G. Sathish
Presidential Awards for classical Tamil for 2015-16
Tholakpiyyar Award Dr. R.Kalaikkovan
Young Scholar Award Dr. M. Vanitha
Dr. V. Prakash
Dr. S. Premkumar
Dr. G. Balaji
Dr. M. Munees Moorthy

June
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
APQN Quality Award 2017 for International Co-
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
operation in Quality Assurance
90th Scripps National Spelling Bee competition of US Ananya Vinay
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 Gandhi
Bihar's Nalanda model of water conservation ‘Project Jal
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme
Sanchay’
(MGNREGP)
NASA Public Service Medal Michael A’Hearn
David Grossman (Israel)for his novel "A Horse Walks
Man Booker International Prize
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 light
Vivid Sydney
installations
Kerala's first beauty pageant for transgender women Syama Sanju
winner
Queen's Young Leaders Award Ankit Kawatra
International Dublin Literary Award Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Best Sportsperson of the Year award : P V Sindhu and
SJFI annual awards Best Team of the Year award :Indian Junior Hockey
Squad.
Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence Lalit Mohan
MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) Annabel Mehta
2017 Orwell Prize John Bew
Best Action Movie at 20th Shanghai International Film Sultan
Festival
United Nations (UN) Public Service Award West Bengal government for the 'Kanyashree Prakalpa'
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Sahitya Akademi
Bal SahityaPuraskar Quadros
Yuva Puraskar 2017 Amey Naik
Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nisha Dutt
Skoch Awards - 9 categories Vijaya Bank
Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Wipro Chairman Azim Premji
Ministry of Environment Award for 2017 in Japan Shrihari Chandraghatgi
Miss India 2017 Manushi Chhillar from Haryana
Bharat Gaurav Former Indian hockey captain Dhanraj Pillay
Award of excellence at the 2nd Global Skill Uttarakhand
Development Summit held in Paris
Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej and Dow Chemical
USIBC Global Leadership Awards
CEO Andrew Liveries
SIERRA ODC building of Coimbatore-based IT
world's second highest green rating
Solutions Company
Higher in an IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen
Indian-origin boy Arnav
Hawking
‘Best astrologer of world’ award TS Vineeth Bhatt
Health Ministry's mobile app EVIN (Electronic Vaccine
GSMA Asia Mobile Award
Intelligence Network)

July
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Great Immigrants award by US Shantanu Narayen&Vivek Murthy
Mohun Bagan Ratna Subrata Bhattacharya
Indian of the Year award Preeti Shenoy
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Heroes Award by
Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat
the US state department.
United Nations Development Programme’s
Swayam Shikshan Prayog
EquatorPrize
Australia’s highest civilian award Guruswamy Jayraman
Unilever Global Development Award Water Health International (WHI)
PM’s trophy for best integrated steel plant Tata Steel
GQ’s Most Influential Young Indians list Actor Ranveer Singh & Prabhas
Intellectual Property of Missionaries of Charity Mother Terasa’s blue border sari
Maruti Suzuki- Sportsperson of the Year P V Sindhu
Coach of the Year award P Gopichand
Living Legend of the Year award Sikh Milkha Singh
Game changer of the Year K L Rahul
Lifetime Achievement Award Abhinav Bindra
Golden Peacock environment management award Danfoss India

Golden Peacock Award for Eco Innovation Indian Railways Organization for Alternate Fuel (IROAF)
Personality of the Year’ award by Skoch Consultancy
Kishore Sansi(Vijaya Bank MD)
Services
Most powerful Arab women Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (UAE Minister)
Toronto Film Festival Gala Honour Priyanka Chopra
Mahanayak Samman 2017 Shakuntala Barua
Mohun Bagan Ratna award Subrata Bhattacharya
America’s highest military Medal of Honour James McCloughan
Ramon Magsaysay Awards

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Yoshiaki Ishizawa Japanese historian

Gethsie Shanmugam Sri Lankan teacher

Parliamentarian Awards-Lok Sabha

Lifetime Achievement Award in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani
Best Parliamentarian K. Premachandran
Best Woman Parliamentarian Kumari Sushmita Devi
Best Debut Woman Parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi
Parliamentarian Awards-Rajya Sabha
Lifetime Achievement Award in the Rajya Sabha Sharad Yadav
Best Parliamentarian Sitaram Yechury
Best Woman Parliamentarian Jaya Bachchan
Best Debut Woman Parliamentarian Rajni Patil
IIFA Awards 2017
Best Actor Shahid Kapoor(Udta Punjab)
Best Actress Alia Bhatt(Udta Punjab)
Best Film Award Neerja
Aniruddha Roy(Pink)
Best Director

Name of the Awards
Bharat Gaurav Award by East Bengal Football
Club
World’s highest paid author by Forbes
Prem Nazir Award
UAE’s prestigious Community Service Medal.
Asia Society Game Changers Award
Hindu playwright Award 2017”
First-ever Kesari Media Award
Hugo for Best Science Fiction Novel
Gallantry Awards to Armed Forces Personnel,
Members of Paramilitary Forces
Kriti Chakra Award to 5 persons
Best performance awards for SHG-bank linkage
programme for Karnataka
FICCI’s Healthcare Personality award
Kalpana Chawla award
Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence
NRDC wins two awards
Agriculture Leadership Award-2017
UK’s ‘Child Genius’
National sports award 2017
(i) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Name of the Person
Shri Devendra
Shri Sardar Singh
August
Name of the Persons
Dhanraj Pillay
JK Rowling
Veteran Actress Sharada
Indian Philanthropist Firoz Merchant
Indian-origin actor Dev Patel
Gerish Khemani and Akshat Nigam for their play ‘In Search of
DariyaSagar
Veteran journalist T J S George
African-American author Nora K. Jemisin
Chetan Kumar Cheetah , Pramod Kumar, Major David Manlun,
Havildar Giris Gurung and Major Preetam Singh Kunwar
Corporation Bank
Dr Nanda Kumar Jairam,
Preethi Srinivasan, the former State under-19 cricket captain
Prof Digambar Behera.
Assocham Services Excellence Award 2017 and its CMD, H
Purushotham an international recognition
Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao
Indian –origin boy Rahul Doshi
Fields
Para Athlete
Hockey

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(ii) Dronacharya Awards 2017

Late Dr. R. Gandhi Athletics
Mr. Heera Nand Kataria Kabaddi
Mr. G.S.S.V. Prasad Badminton (Lifetime)
Mr. Brij Bhushan Mohanty Boxing (Lifetime)
Mr. P.A. Raphel Hockey (Lifetime)
Mr. Sanjoy Chakraverthy Shooting (Lifetime)
Mr. Roshan Lal Wrestling (Lifetime)
(iii) Dhyan Chand Award
Name of the Person Fields
Mr. Bhupender Singh Athletics
Mr. Syed Shahid Hakim Football
Ms. Sumarai Tete Hockey

September
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Dhyan Chand Award Sumurai Tete
Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance from Canada
King Sejong prize
and the We Love Reading programme from Jordan
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar Reliance Foundation
National Award for ‘Excellence’ in Energy
Hyderabad International Airport
Management
IDRBT award Karnataka Bank
Government-honour for resolving public
CBDT
grievances
PLuS Alliance Prize Veena Sahajwalla
Co-patron of Kolkata archdiocese Mother Teresa
ASSOCHAM Services Excellence Awards GIFT City
Best University by Times Higher Education Oxford University
(THE) Cambridge University
N R Madhava Menon Best Law Teacher Award Tahir Mahmood
Honour for work in organic farming Sikkim CM Pawan Chamling
BAI’s first Lifetime Achievement Award Prakash Padukone
Balzan Prize Bina Agarwal
Krishi Pragati Award Raghunandan Industries Pvt Ltd
Most valuable company on BSE Reliance
HDFC
Container Terminal of the Year Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT)
Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar award Vijaya Bank
UN peace prize Zannah Mustapha
Rajbhasha Keerti Award The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA)
Global Diversity Award Salman Khan
Best News Website award at WAN-IFRA The Hindu
President’s medal Former DIG D Roopa
UN Equator Prize Pune NGO “Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)”
ANR award S S Rajamouli
Spirit of Humanity’ award ISKCON’s Govardhan Eco village in Mumbai
Prestigious award in Israel Indian start-up Kheyti
First man of Asian to win an acting award at Riz Ahmed
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Emmy
International honour for materials research
GQ Actor of the Year Award
Sarala award
Living legend award of International Union of
Nutritional Sciences (IUNS).
Bhimsen Joshi award
prestigious Swedish rights award
best airport security’
World’s Most Valuable Brand
Comprehensive development of tourism award
2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
Best Airports under National Tourism Awards
Name of the Awards
TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice awards 2017
International Business Person of the Year at
the Asian Achievers Awards in London
Best Tourist Guide
Best ‘Swachh Iconic Place’ in India
Noble Prize Winner List
Swacchhata awards
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Scientist CNR Rao
Rajkummar Rao
Banaj Devi
Mahtab Bamji
singer Manik Bhide
Colin Gonsalves
CISF for Mumbai airport
Apple
Gujarat
Maryna Viazovska
Srinagar and Raipur Airports
OCTOBER
Name of the Persons
Indian Accent (2nd)
Ghana-based Indian entrepreneur named Birendra Sasmal.
Rama Khandwala (Mumbai)
Madurai’s Meenakshi Temple
 Economics : Richard H. Thaler for behavioural
economics
 Peace Award: The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 was
awarded to International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) "for its work to draw
attention to the catastrophic humanitarian
consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for
its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based
prohibition of such weapons".
 Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro"who, in novels of great
emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our
illusory sense of connection with the world".
 Physiology or Medicine :Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael
Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their
discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the
circadian rhythm".
 Chemistry: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and
Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron
microscopy for the high-resolution structure
determination of biomolecules in solution".
 Physics : Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry
C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive
contributions to the LIGO detector and the
observation of gravitational waves".
1)My Delhi Keep It Clean’ – was awarded for promoting
efforts to clean public places.
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Swachhta Pakhwada’
Most Clean Campus award
Golden Peacock Award
Anna Politkovskaya Award
Vayalar award
Karanth award
Mathrubhumi Literary Award
Centenary National Award for Literature
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
‘Best performer’ subtitle at the ‘Little Miss
World 2017’ pageant held in Greece
‘Kalakar Puraskar’ award
Padma Prabha Puraskaram
Time Achievement Award for contributions
to manufacturing, education.
UK’s youngest millionaires
Philanthropy Award
Man Booker Prize
Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award
Swachh Bharat Inter-Ministerial Award
NASSCOM Customer Service Excellence
Award 2017
Airports Council International’s (ACI)
Blue Planet Prize
Green platinum award
World Food Prize Laureate Award
Lata Mangeshkar Award
Forbes Rich List of sport stars
America’s Top Young Scientist
FIFA player-of-the-year awards
Limca Book of Records
CII Industrial Innovation 2017
US award for AIDS research
Britain’s most influential black person
‘Golden Peacock Award’ in London
Lifetime Achievement Award
AICTE award
Mobexx Awards 2017
Parmod Mahajan Smriti Award
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2)Fertiliser Cooperative KRIBHCO-- marketing of compost
made from municipal solid waste.
3)Kasturba Gandhi Balika Awasiya Vidyalaya,
Ambikar(School and college)
4) Swacch Ambikapur Sahakari Samiti was chosen for the
award for women empowerment and livelihood generation
by converting garbage into wealth.
Pemayangste Monastery in Sikkim was felicitated for being
a Zero-waste institution.
Ministry of Health awarded as the best department in
‘Swachhta Pakhwada’
Manipal Institute
TAKE Solutions
Gauri Lankesh
Noted Novelist T D Radhakrishnan’s
Actor Prakash Raj
M K Sanu
Eminent writer Namita Gokhale
Singer T M Krishna
Poorvi G B
Konkani folk artiste Gopal Gowda
Eminent poet Prabha Varma
Swraj Lord Paul
Indian-origin teenager Akshay Ruparelia
Indian-American Attorney Ajay Raju
US author George Saunders
Javed Akhtar
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
CSS Corp
Hyderabad airport No. 1 in 5 to 15 million category
Environmental scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
ISKCON’s Govardhan Eco Village
DR. AKINWUMI AYODEJI ADESINA,the President of the
African Development Bank
Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan
Cristiano Ronaldo
11-Year-Old Gitanjali Rao
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lieke Martens
Meghalaya Election Department
L&T Technology Services
South African Indian-origin couple Salim Abdool Karim and
Quarraisha Abdool Karim
Indian-Origin Gina Miller
AP CM Naidu
Sharmila Tagore
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII)
Cleartrip named ‘Best Mobile App for Travel and Leisure’
Anupam Kher
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European Union’s Sakharov Prize for human
rights
Top-earning dead celebrity for 5th time
NOVEMBER
Name of the Awards
Ezhuthachan Puraskaram award
Forbes 100 most powerful women
UNESCO heritage award
Asia’s richest person
Dun & Bradstreet award
Jnanpith award 2017
Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement
Award 2017
UNESCO award
Guinness Record
Best Urban Transport Practices Awards
Vishnudas Bhave award
Nobel Prize Series-India 2018
Entrepreneur of the Year by ASSOCHAM
‘General Insurance Company of the Year’
Best Short Film Award at the South Asian
Film Festival of Montreal (SAFFM) in
Montreal.
Goncourt Prize 2017 award
Israel’s 2018 Genesis Prize
Sumitra Charat Ram Award for Lifetime
Achievement
Mother Teresa Award 2017 for social justice
National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017
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Venezuela’s opposition
Michael Jackson
Name of the Persons
K Satchidanandan(Kerala government’s highest literary
honour)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel-1st
ICICI Bank Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing
Director (MD) Chanda Kochhar and Bollywood actress
Priyanka Chopra have featured.
Mumbai’s restored Royal Opera House
Mukesh Ambani
Tata Power Solar
Krishna Sobti
Indian playwright, actor, film director, and writer Girish
Karnad.
Srirangam temple of Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
India set a Guinness world record by cooking 918 kg khichdi
at‘World Food India’ 2017 event in New Delhi.
• Mysuru’s ‘Public Bicycle Sharing’ has been chosen
for ‘Best Non-Motorised Transport’ Award
• Kochi (Kerala) has been chosen for the ‘Best City in
Urban Transport Initiative’ Award.
• Hyderabad’s Traffic Integrated Management System
(H-TRIMS) has won ‘Commendable Initiative
Award’ under ‘Best Intelligent Transport Project’
category.
• Chittor in Andhra Pradesh has been chosen for
the ‘Commendable Initiative Award’ for the city
police’s initiative for improving road safety.
Mohan Joshi for his contribution to theatre.
Goa State Government
Maya Swaminathan Sinha
Apollo Munich Health Insurance
Indian short film ‘School Bag’
Eric Vuillard’s novel L’ordre du jour (in English ‘Agenda’),
story of how German industry and finance backed Adolf
Hitler won.
Natalie Portman
Girija Devi’s daughter, Sudha Datta
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1.Mentor (Government) Category awarded to – Dr. Renu
Swarup
2.Best State Engaging Apprentices awarded to – Haryana
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Kalinga Safety Award
D.Litt. degree from NIT Agartala
Bad Grammar Award
Indian Sports Honours 2017
Miss International 2017
Forbes list of highest-earning women in
music
Forbes list of Asia’s Richest Families
Nandi awards
ADI PEC Excellency in Energy Awards 2017
Spain’s Cervantes prize
Rashtriya Bal Kalyan Award
Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
Miss World 2017
Miss Universe 2017
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
IMF award
UNICEF celebrity advocate status
Big Little Book Award
NITI Aayog prize
Best Book of the year 2017
Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2017
Highest Profile Registration category award
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
European Golden Shoe award
‘Most visited place of the world’
India International Trade Fair(37th)
Turkish Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
ICCR distinguished Indologist Award
India International Trade Fair (IITF) award
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3.Champion Sector Skill Council awarded to – Textile
Sector Skill Council
4.Champion Corporate (Special Recognition) awarded to –
ICICI Bank
Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited (NINL)
Olympic gymnast Dipa karamakar Conferred
Transport for London
Mithali Raj named Sportswoman of the Year (Team Sports)
Kevin Lilliana of Indonesia
Beyonce
Ambani family-1st
2nd position was secured by, South Korea’s Lee
family with $40.8 billion wealth. Hong Kong’s Kwok
family ranks 3rd with a net worth of $40.4 billion.
Baahubali: The Beginning
Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan won the NTR National
Award for the year 2014 and 2015
Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation
(APMDC)
Nicaragua’s Sergio Ramirez
Anand Kumar of Super 30
Dr Manmohan Singh
Haryana girl Manushi Chhillar
Miss South Africa Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam
Veteran journalist Manik Banerjee
Tamil actor Trisha Krishnan
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Indian Institute of Information Technology and
Management-Kerala (IIITM-K)
1.First Book Award – Prayaag Akbar’s ‘Leila’ & Pranay
Lal’s ‘Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian
Subcontinent’
2.Book of the Year for fiction – Easterine Kire’s ‘Son of the
Thundercloud’
3.Business Book of the Year – YV Reddy’s ‘Advice and
Dissent: My Life in Public Service’
4.Publisher of the Year – Penguin Random House India
5.Big Little Book Award – Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam
Pondicherry University library
Rajkummar Rao, ‘Newton’ win
Lionel Messi
Golden Temple
Health Ministry wins Bronze Medal
Beyond The Clouds’ has been directed by Iranian filmmaker
Majid Majidi.
Music for this film has been composed by A. R. Rahman.
Ruskin Bond
Japan’s Hiroshi Marui
Pavilion of Ministry of Water Resources, River
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Indian Sports Honours 2017
Freedom of Oxford award
Nelson Mandela Innovation Award
International Film Festival of India(IFFI)
Geographical Indications (GI) status
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Development and Ganga Rejuvenation bagged gold medal
 Indian Sports Honors is a joint initiative by Indian
Men’s Cricket Team’s Captain Virat Kohli
Foundation RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group to honor Indian
sports stars and support the development of Indian
sports.
 Indian Badminton players, Srikanth Kidambi and PV
Sindhu were honored with sportsman and woman of
the year respectively for individual sports.
 Off-spinner R Ashwin was awarded Sportsman of the
year for team sportwhereas Indian Women’s Cricket
Team Captain Mithali Raj was awarded
Sportswoman of the year for team sport.
 Tennis star Sania Mirza was awarded Inspirational
Honor by the jury.
 Emerging Sportswoman of the year- Aditi Ashok
(Golfer)
 Emerging Sportsman of the year- Neeraj Chopra
(Javelin Thrower)
 Differently abled Sportswoman of the year- Deepa
Malik
 Differently abled Sportsman of the year- Devendra
Jhajharia
 Breakthrough Performance of the Year- Hardik
Pandya (Cricketer)
Aung San Suu Kyi
Egyptian journalist Khaled el-Balshy
 Canada the focus country at IFFI 2017
Canada was the focus country at International Film
Festival of India (IFFI) 2017.
 IFFI opened with Iranian filmmaker’s Beyond The
Clouds International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
2017 opened with renowned Iranian filmmaker Majid
Majidi’s ‘Beyond The Clouds’.
 ‘Beyond The Clouds’ is a tale of a brother and sister,
and how they find happiness in separation and
turbulent time.
 A R Rahman has composed the music for this film,
while, Ishaan Khatter and Malavika Mohanan are the
lead actors.
 Subhash Ghai and Shraddha inaugrate Bioscope
Village at IFFI.
 Filmmaker Subhash Ghai, actors Padmini
Kolhapure and ShraddhaKapoor inaugurated ‘Biosco
pe Village’.
 Indo-Argentinian co-production “Thinking of Him”,
directed by Pablo Cesar.
 IFFI personality of the year award for Amitabh
Bachchan Bollywood superstar.
 Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan to get lifetime
achievement.
West Bengal has been awarded the Geographical Indications
(GI) status for ‘Rosogolla’.
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DECEMBER
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Global Sustainability Film Awards 2017 Top prize for"Lipstick Under My Burkha"
Miss Supranational 2017 Miss Korea Jenny Kim
Foreign Policy magazine’s 2017 list of ‘50
Kamala Harris
Leading Global Thinkers’
Ballon d'Or for world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo
27th Vyas Samman Mamta Kalia for novel "Dukkham Sukkham"
Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman Odia poet Rabi Singh
Highest earning musician of 2017 Diddy
FE Best Banks Awards 2015-16 State Bank of India (SBI)
'Yeraringan' Award Prof .M.S. Swaminathan
Mother Teresa Memorial award for social
Actress Priyanka Chopra
justice 2017
23rd Edition of the Annual Star Screen i.Vidya Balan won the ‘Best Actress (Popular)’ Award for
Awards film ‘Tumhari Sulu’.
ii.Best Actor (Critics) Award, went to Rajkumar Rao for
film ‘Newton’.
Highest-Paid Athlete of All Time Michael Jordan
'Police Jeevan Gaurav Award' Julio Ribeiro
Peter England Mr India 2017 Jitesh Singh Deo
Moortidevi Award for the year 2017 Bengali poet Joy Goswami
National Design Award G Satheesh Reddy
BBC Team of the Year Award 2017 England’s women cricket team
BBC overseas sports personality of the year Roger Federer
Golden Peacock Innovation Management Tata Steel’s Joda East Iron Mine (JEIM)
Award 2017
‘Miss India USA 2017’ Shree Saini
Seventh Australian Academy of Cinema and
Dangal
Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
i.Best Actor (Male)- Varun Dhawan
ii.Best Actor (Female) - Sridevi
Zee Cine Awards 2018 iii. Best Director - Ashwini Iyer Tiwary
iv. Best Film - Golmaal Again
v. Global Icon Award - Priyanka Chopra
Pichichi award and the Alfredo Di Stefano Lionel Messi
award 2016 -2017
Sahitya Akademi award winners for 2017 Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh
2017 NASSCOM-DSCI excellence award Cyber section of Kolkata Police
SKOCH Awards 2017 Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC)
2017 'Harivarasanam' award Singer K S Chitra
’ Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) 2017 Actress Anushka Sharma
Person of the Year
Mrs India-Pride of Nation 2017 Mayanka Patel and Poonam Gaur
Globe Soccer's Best Player award Cristiano Ronaldo
Best Asian Film at the , in Sydney. Dangal directed by Nitesh Kumar
Best UNESCO world heritage site 1. Cambodia's Angkor Wat
2. Tajmahal

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UNESCO 'intangible' status KumbhMela

Time magazine Person of the Year The Silence Breakers
Certificate of Commendation India’s Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) for its effort to
combat illegal wildlife trade for its ‘Operation Save Kurma’
Grand Champion in the catalyst pitch competition Ajaita Shah
held by Global Innovation
Presidential Colours Submarine arm of the Indian Navy Eastern Naval Command
(ENC) at Vishakapatnam
"Power of One" award Six top diplomats, including India's Lakshmi Puri
India's top-ranking celebrity brand according to
The 'Rise of the Millennials: India's Most Virat Kohli
Valuable Celebrity Brands' report for 2017
Forbes' rankings of best countries in the world for United Kingdom
business
Forbes India Celebrity 100 List Actor Salman Khan has been ranked number one
world's biggest sand Santa-face with the message Sudarsan Pattnaik
"world peace" at Puri beach, Odisha
Felicitation by the Writers and Publishers of Sri Ramendra Kumar
Lanka for his contribution to children's literature

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