Awards in 2010

Jnanpith Award (for 2006)

Ravindra Kelkar Konkani Writer

2007 ONV Kurup Malayalam Writer2008 Akhlaq Khan Shahryar Urdu Poet

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

Saina Nehwal Badminton

Arjuna Awards Joseph Abraham AthleticsKrishna Poonia AthleticsDinesh Kumar BoxingParimrajan Negi ChessDeepak Kumar Mandal FootballSandeep Singh Hockey (Men)Jasjeet Kaur Handa Hockey (Women)Dinesh Kumar KabaddiSanjeev Rajput ShootingRehan Jehangir Poncha SwimmingKapil Dev K J VolleyballRajeev Tomar WrestlingRajesh Chaudhary YachtingJagseer Singh Paralympic

(Athletics)Dhyan Chand Award

Satish Pillai Athletics

Kuldeep Singh WrestlingAnita Chanu Weightlifting

Dronacharya Awards

A K Kutty Athletics

Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards and Snooker

L Ibomcha Singh BoxingAjay Kumar Bansal HockeyCaptain Chandrup ( For lifetime contribution to coaching) Wrestling

Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Puraskar

Services Sports Control Board Community Sports Identification and nurturing of budding and young talent

Tata Steel Limited Financial Support for Sports Excellence

Khel Evam Yuva Vibhag, Govt of MP Establishment and Management of Sports Academies

of ExcellenceServices Sports Control Board Employment of

sportsperson and sports welfare measures

Dada Saheb Phalke Award, 2009

D Ramanaidu

National Film Awards for 2009Best Feature Film

Kutty Srank Malyalam. Starring Mamooty.

Best Popular Film

3 Idiots

Best film on national integration

Delhi-6

Best film on social issues

Well Done Abba

Best Actor Amitabh Bacchan For Paa. (Has won the award 3 times now)

Best Actress Ananya Chatterjee For Abohoman (Bengali)

Best Director Rituparno Ghosh For AbohomanBest Film in non-feature category

The Postman and Bilal (Joint)

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2010

Sanjeev Galande (Bio sciences) National Centre for Cell Science, Pune

Shubha Tole (Bio Sciences) TIFRSwapan K Pati Jawaharlal Nehru

Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore

Sandeep Verma IITKG K Ananthasuresh IIScSanghamitra Bandopadhyay ISI, KolkataMitali Mukherji Institute of

Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi

Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare Jawaharlal Nehru

Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore

Kalobaran Maiti TIFR

Sangit Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna) for 2009

Lalgudi G Jayaraman Carnatic ViolinistShriram Lagoo Film Actor (Hindi

and Marathi)Yamini Krishnamurti Bharatnatyam/

TheatreKamlesh Dutt Tripathi TheatreKishori Amonkar Khayal/Thumri/

Bhajan singerPandit Jasraj Hindustani Classical

VocalistIndia International Film Festival 2010Golden Peacock Award

Moner Manush (Bengali) (dir: Gautam Ghose) The film is a saga of the life of Lalan Faquir, a 19th century Bengali Philosopher poet and his liberal sect whose message was tolerance

Best Actor Guven Kiran (Turkey) For the film: The Crossing

Best Actress Magdalena Boczarska (Poland) For the film: Little Rose

Sahitya Academi AwardsPoets Arun Sakhardande Konkani

Vanita PunjabiMithila Prasad Tripathi SanskritSheen Kaaf Nizam UrduLaxman Dubey SindhiMangat Badal RajasthaniAurobindo Uzir BodoGopi Narayan Pradhan Nepali

Novelists Esther David EnglishBani Basu BengaliDhirendra Mehta GujaratiM Borkanya Manipuri

Short Stories Nanjil Nadan TamilUday Prakash HindiManoj Dongri

Padmavibhushan

Montek Singh AhluvaliaBrajesh Mishra Former National

Security AdvisorAzim PremjiA Nageshwara Rao Telugu film

celebrityKapila Vatsyayan Art HistorianLakshmi Chand Jain (posthumous) – the family declined the honor as LC Jain was against the concept of state honors.

Gandhian activist. Served as a member of Planning Comm and Indian HC to S. Africa

Padma Bhushan

Waheeda RahmanPadma Shri

VVS Laxmanhttp://www.hindu.com/2011/01/26/stories/2011012662191600.htm

Ashok ChakraMajor Laishram Jyotin Singh Posthumous. He

was an Army doctor.

Kirti Chakra Cptn Deepak Sharma (Psth), Cptn Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh, Major Rahul Gurung

For fighting insurgents and terrorists in J&K, J&K and Manipur respectively

Shaurya Chakra

Major Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish Roy: killed during attack on Indian mission in KabulGuardsman Krishnan Kumar, Sepoy Ravi Kant and Sepoy Sangat Singh

All posthumous

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad Award for National Integration

Presented by the Assam government

M J Akbar (2008) JournalistHema Bharali (2009) Freedom fighter

International Awards

Nobel Prize 2010Medicine Robert G Edwards (British) For research in in-vitro

fertilizationPhysics Andre Geim (UK)

Konstantin Novoselov (UK)For experiments with Graphene. Novoselov is the youngest physicist since 1973 to win a nobel

Chemistry Richard Heck (US)Ei-ichi Negishi (US)Akira Suzuki (Japan)

Palladium catalysed cross coupling

Literature Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Famous works: Conversation in the Cathedral, The feast of the goat, The time of the Hero

Peace Liu Xiaobo (China) For his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China

Economic Sciences Peter Diamond (MIT)Dale Mortensen (NorthWestern University)Christopher Pissarides (LSE)

For their analysis of markets with search frictions

Man Booker Prize 2010 Howard Jacobson (British) For the novel ‘The Finkler Question’

Knight of the Order of Legion d’Honneur (France’s highest honour)

Deepak Parekh

Pulitzer Prize 2010General non-fiction Siddhartha Mukharjee Book: The Emperor of all

Maladies: A biography of Cancer

NY Times For its economics commentary and reporting on Russia

Public Service + Feature Photography

The Los Angeles Times

Photography Carol Guzy <has won 4 Pultizers>Nikki KahnRicky Carioti

<The Washington Post>For pictures of earthquake in Haiti

Fiction Jennifer Egan A visit from the goon squad

Sports

Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaStarted in 1991-92.

It is the highest honour given for achievement in sports.

First Awardee: Vishwanathan Anand (1991-92)

Was not awarded in 1993-94.

Joint awards were given in the years:

1994-95: Homi D Motivala(Yatching), P K Garg (Yatching)

1996-97: Nameirakpam Kunjarani (weightlifting), Leander Paes (Tennis)

2002-03: Anjali Bhagwat (shooting), K M Beenamol (Athletics)

2008-09: Mary Kom (Boxing), Vijender Singh (Boxing), Sushil Kumar (Wrestling)

In 2009-10, it was awarded to Saina Nehwal.

Only two cricket personalities have got the award: Tendulkar (1997-98), Dhoni (2007-08)

2 in badminton: Pullela Gopichand (2000-01) and Saina (2009-10)

1 in tennis: Leander Paes

Maximum given in shooting: 4. Abhinav Bindra (2001-02), Anjali Bhagwat (2002-03), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004-05), Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006-07)

Dhyan Chand AwardInstituted in 2002. Highest award for lifetime achievement in sports.

Rastriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar is given to institutions promoting sports development.

Booker Prize Winners from IndiaName Year Book Other BooksKiran Desai (resides in US)

2006 The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

V S Naipual 1971 In a Free State A House for Mr Biswas,

(Trinidadian of Indian Origin) (also won the Nobel Prize in 2001)

A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival

Salman Rushdie (resides in UK)

1981 Midnight’s Children The Satanic Verses

Arundhati Roy 1997 The God of Small Things

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International UnderstandingAward by GoI. Started in 1965. Administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

First: U Thant – 1965

2007 – Olafur Ragnar Grimmsson

Notable recipients: Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, Raul Prebisch, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, Aung Suu Kyi

Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and DevelopemntAnnual award to individuals or organisations in recognition of creative efforts towards promoting peace, disarmament etc. Since 1986

First – Parliamentarians for global action

2007 – Gates foundation

2008 – Md Elbaradei

2009- Sheikh Hasina

2010 – Lula Da silva

Other notable: Gorbachev, Rajiv Gandhi, Jimmy Carter, Md Yunus, MS Swaminathan, Kofi Annan, Hamid Karzai

Science

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Started in 1958

Awarded annually by CSIR for applied or fundamental research in seven fields: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Atmosphere Ocean and Planetary Sciences (Environmental Sciences), Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics

A citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years is eligible for the prize. Nominations proposed by CSIR, heads and deans of universities and previous awardees. Announced on September 26.

Literature

Jnanpith Award

Instituted in 1961 First awarded in 1965: G Sankara Kurup Highest literary award in India; presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith trust.