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Awards and Honours 2015
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Awards IIFA 2015 WinnerBest Actor ShahidKapoor for HaiderBest Actress KangnaRanaut for QueenBest Director RajkumarHirani for PKBest Movie Queen
Awards 62nd Nation Film AwardsBest Actor Sanchari Vijay for NanuAvanallaAvaluBest Actress KangnaRanaut for QueenBest Director SrijitMukherjiBest Feature Film in Hindi CourtBest Feature Film QueenDada SahebPhalke Award ShashiKapoor
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Awards Nobel Prize Winners ( 2014 )PeaceKailashSatyarthi : An Indian Children’s rightsadvocate and activist against child labour. Thefounder of BachpanBachao Movement in 1980 andhas fights to protect the rights of more than 83000children from 144 countries.
MalalaYousafzai: Pakistani activist for femaleeducation and the youngest-ever Nobel Prizelaureate.She shot on a school bus in 2012 by aTaliban gunman.
KailashSatyarthi
MalalaYousafzai
PhysicsFor the invention of efficient blue light-emittingdiodes which has enabled bright and energy-savingwhite light sources”.
Shuji Nakamura
Hiroshi Amano
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Isamu Akasaki
Chemistryfor the development of super-resolved fluorescencemicroscopy”.
William E. Moerner
Eric Betzig
Stefan Hell
Medicine or PhysiologyBritish-US scientist John O’Keefe and marriedcouple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norwayfor discovering the brain’s “inner GPS”.For Brain’s inner GPS.
Edvard Moser
May-Britt Moser
John O’Keefe
Literaturewhose work focuses on the Nazi occupation and itseffect on his country
Patrick Modianao
Economicsfor his work on market power and regulation, and
Jean Tirole
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his work on taming powerful firms.
Awards Padma Awards (2014)Padma Vibhushan 1. LK Advani- Public Affairs- Gujarat
2. Amitabh Bachchan- Art-Maharashtra
3. Prakash Singh Badal- PublicAffairs- Punjab
4. Dr D VeerendraHeggade- SocialWork- Karnataka
5. Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias DilipKumar- Art- Maharashtra
6. JagadguruRamanandacharya SwamiRambhadracharya- Others- UttarPradesh
7. Prof MalurRamaswamySrinivasan-Science and Engineering- TamilNadu
8. Kottayan K. Venugopal- PublicAffairs- Delhi
9. Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan(Foreigner)- Trade and Industry-France/UK
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Padma Bhushan 1. JahnuBarua- Art- Assam2. Dr Vijay Bhatkar- Science and Engineering-
Maharashtra3. ShriSwapanDasgupta- Literature and
Education- Delhi4. Swami SatyamitranandGiri- Others- Uttar
Pradesh5. N Gopalaswami- Civil Service- Tamil Nadu6. DrSubhash C Kashyap- Public Affairs- Delhi7. Dr (Pandit) GokulotsavjiMaharaj- Art-
Madhya Pradesh8. DrAmbrishMithal- Medicine - Delhi9. SudhaRagunathan- Art- Tamil Nadu10. Shri Harish Salve- Public Affairs- Delhi11. Dr Ashok Seth- Medicine- Delhi12. Rajat Sharma- Literature and Education-
Delhi13. Satpal- Sports- Delhi14. Shivakumara Swami- Others- Karnataka15. DrKharag Singh Valdiya- Science and
Engineering- Karnataka16. Prof ManjulBhargava (NRI/PIO)- Science
and Engineering- USA17. David Frawley (Vamadeva) (Foreigner)-
Others- USA18. Bill Gates (Foreigner)- Social Work- USA19. Melinda Gates (Foreigner)- Social Work-
USA20. SaichiroMisumi (Foreigner)- Others- Japan
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Padma Shri 1. DrManjulaAnagani- Medicine- Telangana2. S Arunan- Science and Engineering-
Karnataka3. KanyakumariAvasarala- Art- Tamil Nadu4. Dr Bettina SharadaBaumer- Literature and
Education- Jammu and Kashmir5. NareshBedi- Art- Delhi6. Ashok Bhagat- Social Work- Jharkhand7. Sanjay LeelaBhansali- Art- Maharashtra8. Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora- Literature and
Education- Assam9. DrGyanChaturvedi- Literature and
Education- Madhya Pradesh10. Prof (Dr) Yogesh Kumar Chawla- Medicine-
Chandigarh11. JayakumariChikkala- Medicine- Delhi12. BibekDebroy- Literature and Education-
Delhi13. DrSarungbamBimolaKumari Devi-
Medicine- Manipur14. Dr Ashok Gulati- Public Affairs- Delhi15. DrRandeepGuleria- Medicine- Delhi16. Dr KP Haridas- Medicine- Kerala17. Rahul Jain- Art- Delhi18. Ravindra Jain- Art- Maharashtra19. Dr Sunil Jogi- Literature and Education-
Delhi20. Prasoon Joshi- Art- Maharashtra21. DrPrafullaKar- Art- Odisha22. Saba Anjum- Sports- Chhattisgarh23. Ushakiran Khan- Literature and Education-
Bihar24. Dr Rajesh Kotecha- Medicine- Rajasthan25. Prof AlkaKriplani- Medicine Delhi26. Dr Harsh Kumar- Medicine- Delhi27. NarayanaPurushothamaMallaya-
Literature & Education- Kerala28. Lambert Mascarenhas- Literature and
Education- Goa29. DrJanakPaltaMcGilligan- Social Work-
Madhya Pradesh30. Veerendra Raj Mehta- Social Work- Delhi31. Tarak Mehta- Art- Gujarat32. Neil Herbert Nongkynrih (Art), Meghalaya33. ChewangNorphel- Others- Jammu and
Kashmir34. TV Mohandas Pai- Trade and Industry-
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Karnataka35. DrTejas Patel- Medicine- Gujarat36. JadavMolaiPeyang- Others- Assam37. BimlaPoddar- Others- Uttar Pradesh38. Dr N Prabhakar- Science and Engg- Delhi39. DrPrahalada- Science and Engg-
Maharashtra40. DrNarendra Prasad- Medicine- Bihar41. Ram BahadurRai- Literature and
Education- Delhi42. Mithali Raj- Sports- Telangana43. PV Rajaraman- Civil Service- Tamil Nadu44. Prof JS Rajput- Literature and Education-
Uttar Pradesh45. Kota SrinivasaRao- Art- Andhra Pradesh46. Prof Bimal Roy- Literature and Education-
West Bengal47. ShekharSen- Art- Maharashtra48. Gunvant Shah- Literature and Education-
Gujarat49. Brahmdev Sharma- Literature and
Education- Delhi50. Manu Sharma- Literature and Education-
Uttar Pradesh51. Prof Yog Raj Sharma- Medicine- Delhi52. VasantShastri- Science and Engg-
Karnataka53. SK Shivkumar- Science and Engg-
Karnataka54. PV Sindhu- Sports- Telangana55. Sardara Singh- Sports- Haryana56. ArunimaSinha-Sports- Uttar Pradesh57. Mahesh Raj Soni- Art- Rajasthan58. Dr Nikhil Tandon- Medicine- Delhi59. H Thegtse Rinpoche- Social Work-
Arunachal Pradesh60. DrHargovindLaxmishankerTrivedi-
Medicine- Gujarat61. Huang Baosheng- Others- China62. Prof Jacques Blamont- Science and Engg-
France63. Late Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin-
Others- Maharashtra (Posthumous)64. Jean-Claude Carriere- Literature and
Education - France65. DrNandrajan 'Raj' Chetty- Literature and
Education- France
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66. George L Hart- Others- USA67. Jagat Guru AmrtaSuryanandaMaha Raja-
Others- Portugal68. Late MeethaLal Mehta- Social Work-
Rajasthan (Posthumous)69. Tripti Mukherjee- Art- USA70. DrDattatreyuduNori- Medicine- USA71. Dr Raghu Rama Pillarisetti (Medicine), USA72. DrSaumitraRawat- Medicine- UK73. Prof Annette Schmiedchen (Literature and
Education), Germany74. Late Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran- Art-
Delhi (Posthumous)75. Late R Vasudevan- Civil Service- Tamil
Nadu (Posthumous)
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# SportsIPL 2015 WinnerIPL 2015 Mumbai IndiansIPL 2015 Runner Up Chennai Super KingsOrange Cap David WarnerEmerging Player ShreyasIyerMost Number of Sixes Chris GayleHighest Individual Score AB De VilliarsPurple Cap Dwayne Bravo
Cricket World Cup 2015 WinnerWinner AustraliaRunners up NewzealandMost Runs Martin Guptill (New Zealand) 547 runs.Man of the finals James Faulkner (Australia)Most wickets Mitchell Starc (Australia) 22 wickets and Trent
Boult (Newzealand) 22 wickets.Man of the tournament Mitchell Starc (Australia)Final Match played at Melbourne, Australia
Miami Open 2015 WinnerMen’s Single Novak Djokovic(Serbia)Women’s Single Serena Williams(USA)Men’s Double American Bob Bryan (USA) and Mike BryanWomen’s Double SaniaMirza (India) and Switzerland‘s Martina
Hingis
Wimbledon 2015 WinnerMen’s Single Novak Djokovic(Serbia)Women’s Single Serena Williams(USA)Men’s Double Jean JullienRojer of Netherlands and HoriaTecau
of RomaniaWomen’s Double SaniaMirza (India) and Switzerland‘s Martina
HingisMixed Doubles Leander Paes of India and Martina Hingis of
Switzerland
French Open WinnerMen’s Single Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland),
Runner Up Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
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Women’s Single Serena Williams (USA),Runner Up Lucie Šafářová (Czech Republic)
Rome Master 2015 WinnerMen’s Single N. DjokovicWomen’s Single Maria SharapovaWomen’s Double TimeaBabos and Kristina MladenovicMen’s Double P. Cuevas and D. Marrero
Olympics Games 2014 (winter) WinnerPlace Sochi (Russia)Winner RussiaVenues 2016 Summer: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2018 winter: Pyeongchang (South Korea)2020 summer: Tokyo (Japan)
Bharat Ratna
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Ashoka Chakra Award
NaikNeeraj Kumar and Major MukundVaradarajan
# Other Important Awards
Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015 - BharatiyaMahila Bank Nishan-e-Pakistan (Pakistan’s highest civilian Award) - Chinese president Xi Jinping Pulitzer prizes for West Africa Ebola coverage - New York Times Washington Film festival(Best Feature Film Award) - Margarita, with a Straw Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation - Ananda Kumar, PramodPatil Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region 2015 - Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015 – MazenDarwish Man Booker International Prize 2015 - Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungarian writer) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar conferred with Columbia’s highest civilian award SahityaAkademiBhashaSamman 2015 - K MeenakshiSundaram, AcharyaMunishwarJha, Charu
Chandra Pande and MathuraduttMathpal 68th Cannes film festival (FIPRESCI Award) – Masaan(Indian Film) Golden Medal for Merit in Work of Spain - Tennis player Rafael Nadal RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 - Prannoy Roy World No Tobacco Day Award 2015 - SS Negi (Uttarakhand’s Health Minister)
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Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Bangladesh Liberation War Award- AtalBehari Vajpayee Space Pioneer Award – ISRO for Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission Times of India Sports Awards(Sportsperson of the Year)-JituRai 50th Jnanpith Award- BhalchandraNemade (awarded by MODI ,for several books( including
Kosala and Hindu)) DadasahebPhalke Film Foundation Award 2015 - Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (Film: Happy
New Year). Actor RajkummarRao won the prestigious award for his performance in the criticallyacclaimed film Citylights.
Master DeenanathMangeshkar Award 2015-Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor Dr. PramodPatil and Dr. Ananda Kumar won 2015 Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation. International Achievement Award 2015 – Subadhra Devi Rai(an Indian origin nurse) Egypt's Academy of Arts – Amitabh Bachchan. Golden Peacock National Quality Award for the year 2015 - Delhi International Airport Limited
(DIAL). An Indian origin school boy Pratap Singh, 15, in the UK has been chosen for a prestigious prize
for the Institute of Physics (IOP) Prize, that carries 500 pounds sterling and a trip to a nationalphysicsrelated activity.
Uttar Pradesh Government conferred SahityaShiromaniSamman on noted Hindi poetGopaldasNeeraj and veteran Hindi litterateur UdayPratap Singh.
Seoul city, the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea was awarded the title of GlobalEarth hour Capital 2015 after it won the Earth Hour City Challenge (EHCC) of World Wildlife Fund(WWF).
US President Barack Obama honoured Microsoft's Indian-origin CEO SatyaNadella with the'Champions of Change' award for bringing about change within his company to support workingfamilies. 8. NRI industrialists Hinduja brothers – S P Hinduja and G P Hinduja – have won theBusiness Leader of the Year 2015 award at the prestigious 5th AsianAwards for their outstandingachievement in the field of business.
President PranabMukharjee conferred Punyabhushan Award on PratapraoPawar, Chairman ofSakal Media Group (SMG) at Balgandharva Auditorium in Pune.
Vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyam selected for “SangitaKalanidhi‘ award 2015. Edward Snowden awarded freedom of expression prize in Norway Indian-Origin Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Presented With Pride of Community Award Indian film Masaan has won the prestigious critics prize in the Un Certain Regard category at the
68th Cannes Film Festival. Two Indian peacekeepers have been chosen posthumously for United Nation‘s Dag
Hammarskjold Medal. They are Lance NaikNand Ram and Raju Joseph. Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won Britain's Man Booker International Prize for career
achievement.
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