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Awards & Honours of 2017

Ophthalmology Hall of Fame Dr Gullapalli N Rao

By the American Society of

Cataract and Refractive Surgery

(ASCRS)

National Geoscience Award for 2016 Keshav Krishna

He is a scientist of National

Geophysical Research Institute

(NGRI)

Miss Universe 2016 Iris Mittenaere France

Bharatiya Jananpith Navlekhan

Award 2016

Writers Shraddha and

Ghyansham Kumar

Devansh

Devansh for the poem ‘Akash Mein

Deh’

Power & Energy Persona’s Award

for Individual Excellence’ K M Singh

He is National Hydroelectric Power

Corporation (NHPC) Chairman and

Managing Director

US Embassy for TB awareness Amitabh Bachchan He is brand ambassador for the

cause.

ICC Cricket Hall of Fame Arthur Morris Former Australia cricketer

Silver Award for Excellence in

Citizen Centric Services Petroleum Ministry

Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL

collectively received silver Award

2017 Laureus World Sportsman of

Year Cristiano Ronaldo FIFA World Player of the Year

The highest civilian honour of

America Joe Biden Vice President of America

Sena Medal Lance Naik

Hanamanthappa

2017 Crafoord Prize

Fred Ramsdell,

Alexander Rudensky and

Shimon Sakaguchi

To discovery of regulatory T cells,

cells that can be regarded as our

immune system’s security guards.

Italian football hall of fame Diego Maradona He is Former Argentine footballer

UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural

Heritage

Sitalpati or cool mat from

the Cooch Behar district

These mats are used for sitting or to

hang on doors or by windows

during summer.

People’s Choice history Award Ellen Degeneres She is an Actress and comedienne

UN award ISKCON’s Govardhan eco

village

For taking innovative measures of

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Australian Cricket Hall of Fame David Boon

Matthew Hayden

2017 Allan Border Medal ceremony

in Sydney.

2016 National Entrepreneurship

Awards Rajiv Pratap Rudy

To recognize the entrepreneurial

spirit of India’s youth

eGov awards Rajasthan and Telangana

CSI -Nihilent eGovernance Awards

is Instituted by the Computer

Society of India’s (CSI)

world’s most valuable brand Google

Most Excellent Order of the British

Empire (CBE) Alastair Cook England Test captain

Hivor Tiger Award “Sexy Durga” Malayalam

film

At International Film Festival of

Rotterdam

2016 B C Roy Award Dr P Raghu Ram For ‘outstanding service in the field

of socio medical relief’ for 2016.

BAFTA Awards 2017 Dev Patel Best Supporting Actor

Best Film at BAFTA Awards La La Land Britain’s main film awards

Outstanding Bravery of the Year

Award Shand Panesar Scotland Yard has been awarded

Singapore Tata Quiz 2017 Rohan Naidu and Shivam

Bhardwaj

Tata Crucible Campus Quiz

Singapore 2017.

Honorary Doctorate Sandeep Singh

He is the second Indian hockey

player to receive this award.

The only first player was Dileep

Tirkey

The Brand Laureate Legendary

Award Lata Mangeshkar

To recognises world-class

achievement

2016 Vyas Samman Surendra Verma Veteran Hindi Scholar and Novelist

International Mercury Award 2016-

17

Entrepreneurship

Development Institute of

India (EDII)

For the best overall presentation of

its 2015-2016 annual report.

Best Green Award Tata Steel’s Katamati

Mine

To recognition of its environmental

protection measures.

IBA-Banking Technology’ awards Karnataka Bank For Best financial inclusion

initiatives

Entrepreneur of the year’ award Vivek Chaand Sehgal Chairman of Motherson Sumi

Systems Ltd

BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award Ms. Shanta Rangaswamy

The BCCI for the first time, has

introduced the Lifetime

Achievement Award for Women

2017 Harvard Humanitarian of the

Year award Rihanna She is a Singer

Prestigious Polly Umrigar Award Virat Kohli He is the first to receive the award

thrice





Dilip Sardesai Award R Ashwin First time he received this award

Best University of 2017 Jawaharlal Nehru

University (JNU)

The annual Visitor’s Award for the

‘Best University’, 2017.

Most Popular Tourism Destination

Award Sri Lanka

At the Guangzhou International

Travel Fair (GITF) in China.

Moortidevi award M P Veerendra Kumar He is Eminent Malayalam author

and journalist

Best Actress Award at the

International Film Festival

Actress Aishwarya Rai

Bachchan

International Film Festival and

Awards of Australia (IFFAA).

Saraswati Samman 2016 Mahabaleshwar Sail For his novel Hawthan

Honorary degree of Doctor of

Science Mohan Bhagwat

For his contribution in the field of

veterinary sciencesand social work.

Transgender beauty pageant

Jiratchaya

Sirimongkolnawin

She belongs to Thailand

World’s richest man Bill Gates Forbes magazine’s annual ranking

of global billionaires.

India’s richest person Reliance Industries

Chairman Mukesh Ambani According to the latest Forbes list.

world’s richest woman L’Oréal’s Liliane

Bettencourt According to the latest Forbes list.

KCK International Award for

excellence in print Journalism Rajasthan Patrika

Pranab Mukherjee presented this

Award

Kirti Chakra Award Major Rohit Suri For part of the surgical strikes last

year

2017 Abel Prize Yves Meyer Mathematician

Lifetime Achievement award Raghu Rai Photojournalist

Kala Ratan Award Anupam Kher Awarded by Hamid Ansari

US India Business Council Award N Chandrababu Naidu The award of ‘Transformative Chief

Minister

A.M. Turing Award Berners-Lee Computing’s version of the Nobel

Prize.

2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano

World Press Freedom Prize. Dawit Isaak

This prestigious award in

recognition of his courage,

resistance and commitment to

freedom of expression.

Asian Businesswoman of the Year Dame Asha Khemka An Indian-origin educationist in the

UK

Shaurya Chakra’ award Atu Zumvu He is Nagaland Police

National Geoscience Awards 2016 Keshav Krishna National Geophysical Research

Institute

Pulitzer prize The Underground

Railroad(Book) Author Colson Whitehead





Honorary Canadian citizen Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace laureate

Krishi Karman Award 2015-16 Himachal Pradesh For commendable increase in food

grains production.

Miss Congo UK 2017 Horcelie Sinda Wa

Mbongo

She has HIV-positive at the age of

11

FICCI’s gender parity award Mahavir Singh Phogat

Prathap C Reddy

country’s first gender parity index

by Ficci’s Ladies Organisation

(FLO)

Raj Kapoor awards Saira Banu, Jackie Shroff Lifetime achievement award’ of the

Maharashtra

M.S. Swaminathan Award R.R. Hanchinal

Chairperson of Protection of Plant

Varieties and Farmers Rights

Authority

Cartier Women’s Initiative award’ Trupti Jain Indian engineer

UNESCO Peace Prize Giuseppina (Giusi) Nicolini He is mayor of the Italian island of

Lampedusa

Krishi Karman Awards, 2015-16 Tamil Nadu, Himachal

Pradesh and Tripura

For commendable increase in food

grain production in small category

states

Golf Industry Association Awards

2017

Aditi Ashok

SSP Chawrasia

Ali Sher

USIBC Award Chandrababu Naidu

He is selected for the

Transformative Chief Minister

Award

National Award Akshay Kumar He was conferred for the movie

‘Rustom

Order of Diplomatic Service Merit

Sungnye Medal of the Republic of

Korea

Rajive Kaul Chairman of Nicco group

2016 Wisden-MCC Cricket

‘Photograph of the Year’ Award Saqib Majeed He is hailing from Srinagar, J&K

Genderless Best Actor award Emma Watson Best Actor category at the MTV

Movie and TV Awards.

Fellowship Award in UK Sachin Tendulkar He is India’s Cricket icon

New York Indian Film Festival Konkona Sensharma For her directorial debut “A Death

in the Gunj”

Fellows of Royal Society

Krishna Chatterjee

Subhash Khot

Yadvinder Malhi

For their outstanding contributions

to science

Woodrow Wilson Award Chanda Kochhar Award for Global Corporate





Citizenship

Honorary life membership of MCC V.V.S. Laxman Former India batsman

2017 Young Scientist medal Vikram Vishal He is IIT Bombay Asst Professor

INSA Young Scientist award Aravind Kumar Rengan Award in the Young Scientist

category for 2017

Annual Whitley Awards/Green

Oscar Sanjay Gubbi

For his work to protect Karnataka’s

tiger corridors

Dan David prize Shrinivas Kulkarni For his contribution in the field of

astronomy

National Geographic Bee contest Pranay Varada Indian-American student

Whitley Awards

Or Green Oscars

Sanjay Gubbi

Purnima Barman

For their works in the field of

animal and bird conservation in

India.

Prestigious Dan David prize Shrinivas Kulkarni

Porter Prize 2017

Entrepreneurship

Development Institute of

India (EDII)

Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award Actor Priyanka Chopra Internationally Acclaimed Actress’ category

Cannes Film Festival 2017 Award “The Square” Movie Best Film

APQN Quality Award 2017

National Assessment and

Accreditation Council

(NAAC)

Award for International Co-

operation in Quality Assurance

Bharat Gaurav Award Madhur Bhandarkar Award by NRI community of US

MGNREGA national award Vizianagaram, Andra

Pradesh ─

Kalinga Literary Festival

Anand Neelakantan

Haraprasad Das Paramita

Satpathy

Kalinga Literary Festival was

conceptualized in 2013 and

launched in 2014 to celebrate the

Classical Language Status of Odia

language

ICC Hall of Fame Muttiah Muralidaran First Sri Lankan to be honored

Highest French civlian honour, the

Legion d’Honneur Soumitra Chatterjee ─

Little Miss Universe Internet 2017 Padmalaya Nanda She is 12 years Old

First honorary citizen of Manchester Ariana Grande

To recognise the “great many

selfless acts and demonstrations of

community spirit”

Man Booker International prize 2017 David Grossman Israeli author won the prize for his

Novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar

Bhupen Hazarika Award Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi An eminent writer from Arunachal

Pradesh

US based Marconi Prize Arun Netravali He is a India born Scientist





Ministry of Environment Award for

2017 Shrihari Chandraghatgi Indian agricultural microbiologist

United Nations Public Service

Award

The West Bengal

Government’s Kanyashree

Prakalpa

Scheme aimed at retaining girls in

schools and other educational and

skill development institutions and

preventing child marriage.

Carnegie Medal 2017 Azim Premji He is Wipro Chairman

Crowned Miss India 2017 Manushi Chhillar Haryana girl

USIBC Global Leadership Awards Adi Godrej, Andrew

Liveris

Awarded by US-India Business

Council

Great Immigrants award

Adobe Chief Shantanu

Narayen and former US

Surgeon General Vivek

Murthy

For their role in helping advance the

country’s society, culture and economy.

Indian of the year award Preeti Shenoy Award by the Brands Academy

Australia’s highest civilian award Guruswamy Jayraman He works as a senior accountant with

Woollahra Municipal Council

Personality of the Year’ award

Kishore Sansi, Managing

Director and CEO of

Vijaya Bank

Awarded by Skoch Consultancy

Services.

Woman of the Year at IIFA

Awards 2017 IIFA Awards 2017 Taapsee Pannu Held in New York

WPC Excellence Award Indian Oil Company World Petroleum Congress in Istanbul

Most Admired Leaders Divyanka Tripathi &

Terence Lewis

In the field of entertainment by Herald

Global

Lifetime Achievement Award for

contributions in Lok Sabha

Veteran BJP leader L.K.

Advani

For his contributions as a

parliamentarian

2016 National Award for

Excellence in Cost Management

V.O. Chidambaranar

Port

Under the category “Transportation and

Logistics”.

Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne Aishwarya Rai Bachcha For her contribution to global cinema.

Mahanayak Samman 2017 Shakuntala Barua

Yoshiaki Ishizawa Ramom Magsaysay

Award

For save Cambodia’s renowned Angkor

Wat temple complex

Bharat Gaurav – East Bengal’s

highest honour Dhanraj Pillay He is Former India hockey captain

National Geographic Photographer

of The Year Sergio Tapiro Velasco

For photographing Mexico’s Colima

volcano

Prem Nazir’ award Actor Sharada She is national award winner

World’s Highest Paid Author by

Forbes JK Rowling

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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards

Sardar Singh (Hockey

player)

Devendra Jhajharia

─





(Paralympian)

Asia Society Game Changers

Award Dev Patel He is Indian-origin actor

Best Skilling India award on

NACER ASSOCHAM

Indian of the Year Debraj Shome India Leadership Conclave

Title of National Champion Sravanth Malla 2017 South Asian Spelling Bee

Hindu Playwright Award 2017 Gerish Khemani and

Akshat Nigam In Search of Dariya Sagar

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2017 N.K. Jemisin For her work “The ObeliskGate”.

Green Marketer’ Award Hindustan Unilever Marquee Awards 2017

AAAI Lifetime Achievement

Award 2017 Roda Mehta

Environment Excellence Awards

2016-17

National Aluminium

Company (NALCO)

Appreciation Award in large mines

category

Marconi Lifetime Award Thomas Kailath He is Pune -born Stanford Professor

Kesari Media Award T J S George Veteran journalist

Sena Medal Gallantry award Major Mitali Madhumita The first woman officer to receive

Best performance Corporation Bank Conferred by NABARD

Best performer award Karnataka Vikas

Grameen bank Conferred by NABARD

7th Dr. Ambedkar award Bappi Lahiri ─

Prestigious Agriculture

Leadership Award 2017

Telangana Chief Minister

K Chandrashekhar Rao

For his innovative services rendered to

the welfare of farmers

Arjuna Award 2017 Oinam Bembem Devi Durga of Indian football

Miss India America 2017 LaRoda Los Angeles, California

2017 Biju Patnaik Award Digambar Behera. For Scientific Excellence

2017 DigitAnalysis’ award Tata Docomo For best Wi-Fi services in North India

Women Transforming India

Awards 2017

Laxmi Agarwal, Safeena

Husain, Kamal Kumbhar,

Subasini Mistry, Arunima

Sinha, Jamuna Tudu

NITI Aayog, in partnership with MyGov

and the United Nations, announces

winners

Saraswati Samman Mahabaleshwar Sail Eminent Konkani writer

Dhyan Chand Award 2017 Samurai Tete Former India Women’s Hockey captain

Exhibitor of the Year’ Award Ajay Bijli Chairman and Managing Director of

PVR Limited

Energy efficiency award

Rajiv Gandhi

International Airport Ltd,

Hyderabad.

PLuS Alliance Prize N R Narayana Murthy

For Research Innovation, Education

Innovation, Global Leadership and

Global Innovation.

Best Make In India Wi-Fi DIGISOL Systems Ltd At “My India Wi-Fi India Summit &





Company” Award Awards 2017”.

ASSOCHAM Services Excellence

Awards

Gujarat International

Finance-Tec City (GIFT

City)

For its contribution to the growth of the

International Financial Services

N R Madhava Menon Best Law

Teacher Award 2017

Eminent jurist Tahir

Mahmood

To legal education and the legal

profession

US’ Marconi Society Award 2017 Google research scientist

Ananda Theertha Suresh ─

Paul Baran Young Scholar Award

(Marconi Society Young Scholar

Award )

Wenhan Dai ─

Raghunandan Industries Pvt Krishi Pragati Awards

2017

For outstanding contribution made in the

area of Agri Commodities.

Salman Khan Global Diversity Award

2017

Honoured for his contribution to the

Indian film industry

Marine Products Export

Development Authority (MPEDA) Rajbhasha Keerti Award ─

ANR National Award S S Rajamouli For his contribution to the Telugu film

industry.

UN peace prize Zannah Mustapha Award for his “crucial mediating” role

UN prize for sustainable farming

model Swayam Shikshan Prayog A Pune city based NGO

Prestigious Von Hippel Award Professor C.N.R Rao He is the first Asian to be chosen this

Award

‘Best Tourism State’ national

award Madhya Pradesh For the third consecutive year

2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Jeffrey C Hall, Michael

Rosbash and Michael W

Young

For their work on internal biological

clocks known as the circadian rhythm.

2017 Chemistry Nobel award

Jacques Dubochet,

Joachim Frank and

Richard Henderson

For developing cryo-electron

microscopy

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Award

Rainer Weiss

Kip ThorneBarry Barish

For decisive contributions to the LIGO

detector and the observation of

gravitational waves

2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

Award Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan)

In novels of great emotional force, has

uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory

sense of connection with the world

2017 Nobel Prize in Peace Award

International Campaign

to Abolish Nuclear

Weapons (ICAN)

(founded in Australia)

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

2017 Nobel Prize in Economic

Sciences Award Richard H. Thaler (USA)

For contributions to behavioural

economics

Gauri Lankesh Anna Politkovskaya

Award

The award given in the memory of a

slain Russian reporter and political

activist

Rajesh Nath Germany’s Highest

Civilian Honour

He is Managing Director of VDMA

India

M K Sanu Mathrubhumi Literary

Award

He is Eminent critic, biographer and

orator

Padma Prabha Puraskaram Prabha Varma He is eminent poet, lyricist and

journalist

2017 Man Booker Prize George Saunders For his first full-length novel Lincoln in

the Bardo

Swachh Bharat Inter-Ministerial

Award

Ministry of Petroleum &

Natural Gas ─

NASSCOM Customer Service

Excellence Award 2017 CSS Corporation India’s premier IT industry body

Green platinum award The Govardhan Eco

Village

Set up by the International Society for

Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)

Lata Mangeshkar Award Alka Yagnik and Udit

Narayan ─

America’s Top Young Scientist Gitanjali Rao For her sensor that can detect lead levels

in water

Golden Peacock Award N Chandrababu Naidu For Global Leadership in Public Service

and Economic Transformation

Lifetime Achievement Award by

the PHD Chamber of Commerce

and Industry

Sharmila Tagore For her contribution in the field of

cinema

Pramod Mahajan Smriti Award Anupam Kher He is Chairman of Film and Television

Institute of India

Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award Javed Akhtar He is veteran writer-lyricist

European Union’s Sakharov Prize Venezuela’s democratic

opposition For a peaceful transition to democracy

2017 Newton Award Andrew Shennan,

Shivaprasad Goudar

Both teams were awarded £200,000 or

Rs 1.7 crore

53rd Jnanpith Award Krishna Sobti She is Renowned Hindi littérateur

Vishnudas Bhave award Mohan Joshi For his contribution to theatre

Miss Earth 2017 Karen Ibasco She is hails From Philippines

2018 Jewish Nobel Prize Natalie Portman For professional achievement and

commitment to Jewish values

Tata Literature Live! Lifetime

Achievement Award Girish Karnad ─





Infosys Prize 2017

Prof. Sanghamitra

Bandyopadhya, Ananya

Jahanara Kabir, Upinder

Singh Bhalla, Ritabrata

Munshi, Yamuna

Krishnan, Lawrence

Liang.

To make DNA machines to study living

cells

National Child Award for

Exceptional Achievement 2017 Zaira Wasi

Performing Arts on the occasion of

Children’s Day

Miss International 2017 Kevin Lilliana She is from Indonesia

Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar She is from India

DSC Prize for South Asian

Literature Anuk Arudpragasam He is Sri Lankan author

Lifetime achievement award at

IFFI Atom Egoyan He is a Canadian filmmaker

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize Dr. Manmohan Singh Former Prime Minister Dr

Lifetime Achievement Award Girish Karnad For his outstanding contribution in the

field of theatre.

‘Life Time Achievement Award’ by the Indian Mountaineering

Foundation (IMF).

Manik Banerjee He is also Veteran journalist

2017 Climate and Clean Air

Award Sameer Maithel

He is Founder and Director of Greentech

Knowledge Solutions

Big Little Book Award Nabaneeta Dev Sen He is an Author in Bengali language

NITI Aayog prize

Indian Institute of

Information Technology

and Management-Kerala

(IIITM-K)

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Asia Pacific Screen Awards Actor Rajkummar Rao For his performance in “Newton

‘Ozone Award’

Anil Madhav Dave

Chandra Bhushan

R S Agarwal

Atul Bagai

Policy and Implementation Leadership

Miss Universe 2017 Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters She is from from South Africa

Lifetime Achievement Award Ruskin Bond Conferred by Chandigarh Literary

Society

Miss Supranational 2017 Jenny Kim She is from South Korea

Children’s Peace Prize Mohamad Al Jounde He is Sixteen-year-old

Best Asian Film award Dangal At Australian Academy of Cinema and

Television Arts (AACTA) Awards

Trans-Saharan International Film Pihu Held in Zagora, Morocco





Fest award

Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman Rabi Singh He is an Odia poet

‘Companion of Honour’ by UK

royals JK Rowling She is Harry Potter author

Mother Teresa Memorial Award Priyanka Chopra She is an Actress

Mr India 2017 Jitesh Singh Deo He is a footballer

31st Moortidevi Award Joy Goswami He is Bengali poet

National Design Award Satheesh Reddy Scientific Adviser

‘National Gaurav Award 2017’ Dr. Gaurav Nigam Educationist, paediatrician, founder and

CEO of iCare

BBC Sports Personality of the

Year award Mo Farah He is a four-time Olympic champion

2017 Innovative Young

Biotechnologist Award Pranita P Sarangi

He is a professor of Biotechnology at

IIT, Roorkee

PETA person of the year Anushka Sharma Bollywood superstar and vegetarian

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