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List of Awards | Honours : 20131)Harshwanti Bisht selected for Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal 20132)Vijay Singh was named a recipientof the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by ASCE-EWRI on 16 August 20133)Prime Minister's Shram Awards for the Year 2012 Announced(This year,one nomination for the prestigious Shram Ratna Award, eight nominations for the Shram Bhushan Award, twenty nominations for Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana and forty one nominations for Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards have been selected. )4)UK Songwriting Contest 2013 Results Announced; Indian-Origin Winners Included5)A team of three Indian-Americanstudents defeated teams from 17 other regionsto win 11th National Geographic World Championship6)The Prem Bhatia Memorial award presentedto Shalini Singh of the Hindu7)Delhi conferred Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 on Abdul Rashid Khan and Anjolie Ela Menon8)VP Sharma won the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 20139)Sri Lankan President felicitated tribal community, the Veddas on World Indigenous Peoples Day10)US Presidential Medal of Freedomto be conferred on Bill Clinton&Oprah Winfrey11)Sports Ministry announced 50 Thousand Cash Prize for Each Junior Women Hockey Player12)Play Called the Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Won James Tait Black Prizefor Drama13)Sugathakumari, the Malayalam Poetess won Saraswati Samman 2013 for Manalezhu

thu14)Indian Students Grab Two Silver&Three Bronze at 54th International Mathematical Olympiad15)Amjad Ali Khan to get 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award16)Four Indian Americans won Simons Investigators Awards 201317)Paradip Port Conferred With the Major Portof the Year Award18)Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced the Ramon Magsaysay Awards fortheyear 201319)British Firm called Real VNC was presented the MacRobert Award20)OISD Safety Awards 2011-12; Maximum number of Awards won by HPCL and BPCL21)Bono Honoured With Highest Cultural Award of France- the Commander of the Order22)Britain honoured Krishna Menon by placing Blue plaque on his First Home in L

ondon23)Zubin Mehta named for Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 201324)Vidya Balan got the Best Actress Award at IIFA 201325)Five Indian-AmericanKid Chefs won White House Healthy Lunchtime Challenge 201326)Pranab Mukherjee conferred National Youth Award 2011-12 on 27 individuals and one organization. For the first time these awards weregiven by President.28)Mukesh Hariawala conferred Indian Healthcare Visionary of the Decade Award29)Ooman Chandy received the UN Public Service Award30)Russian Film the Major won Golden Goblet at Shanghai Film Festival31)Amrit Singh received the India Abroad Publisher's Special Award for Excellence 201232)UIDAI won 21st Century Achievement Award 2013

33)Three Ad Agencies Won Gold and Bronze Lions at Cannes Advertising Festival 201334)Prof Michael Stratton, the scientist who identified genes causing breast cancer, was awarded knighthood in the Queens Birthday Honours.35)Tan Twan Eng, the Malaysian author was declared as the winner of Walter Scott Prize for his English fiction novel The Garden of Evening Mists.36)Anish Kapoor, the Indian-origin sculptor was honoured with Knighthood, whichis the highest honour of Britain by Queen ElizabethII.37)Indian street food vendors AshokSah and Vijay Chaudhary won the critics award at the World Street Food Congress in Singapore.

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38)Central Himalayan Environment Association(CHEA), an NGO in Uttarakhand on 6June 2013 baggeda French award for its contribution toprotection of human rights.39)Kevin Barry won IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel City of Bohane. In the novel he has portrayed Ireland of 2053.40)Michael Christian, one of the Australian radio presenters responsible for Royal prank, was awarded with Jock by the employer.41)Peter Higgs, Francois Englert received Award for God Particle Discovery42)Manoj Das, the Noted Oriya writer on 28 May 2013 was presented the NTR National Literary Award.43)Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships on N Rajam,T H Vikku Vinayakram and Ratan Thiyam for the year 2012, on 28 May 2013.44)Blue is the Warmest Colour whichis directed by French-Tunisianfilmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d'Or - at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.45)Vyas Samman for 2011 and 2012 were conferred to Prof. Ramdarash Mishra and Dr Narendra Kohli for their works Aam ke Patte and Na Bhooto Na Bhavishyati.46)US singer-songwriter Carole King became the first woman to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.47)The President of India conferred the 47th Jnanpith Award for the year 2011 on PratibhaRay on 22 May 2013 at Balyogi Auditorium in New Delhi.48)American writer Lydia Davis won2013 ManBooker International Prizefor her innovative and influential writing.