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BHARAT RATNA

Highest Civilian honour of Indai.

Started in the year 1954.

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recipient was C Raja Gopala Chary in the year 1954.

No prize money.

So far 41 persons have received it.

The 41st

receipient was Pandit Bheem sen Joshi (Hindustani music).

Khan Abdul Gafar khan(1987) and Nelson Mandela (1990). 1 st person to receiveposthumously was Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Vice President is the Chairman of Civilian awards committee.

DADASAHEB PHALKE AWARD

Started in the year 1969 the birth centenary of the father of Indian cinema.

This is given by the GOI for life time achievement.

Devika Rani (Achuut kanya) was the first winner in the year 1969, 2007 Mannaday singer andVK Murthy in the year 2008.

D.Ramanaidu-film producer-winner of Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2009.AlsoGuinness book of records holder for producing 130 films

JNANPITH AWARD:

The Jnanpith Award is the highest literary award in India.

It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain Shanti lal PrasadRahul jain) family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.


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Started in the year 1961 and first awarded in the year 1965.

Jnanpith Award 2007ONV Kurup (Malayalam) and 2008 for Akhlaq Khan Shahryar (Urdu)(announced in September 2010).

RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD

This is considered to be the greatest honor in the region of Asia.

This started in the year 1957.

These are given away by the Philippines government. These are given in 6 fields.

(International peace and understanding), (Community leadership), (Journalism Literature

Creative Arts), (Public service), (Government service), (Emerging leadership, since 2002).

Prize money sponsored by the Ford foundation (USA).

The awards are given on August 31 every year on the birth anniversary of RMS.

In total 42 Indians received the award up to 2009.

Acharya Vinobha Bhave was the 1st

Indian to receive in the year 1958 for Communityleadership.

Mother Teresa was the first women to receive in the year 1962 for International peace and

understanding.

42nd

Indian is Deep Joshi (Uttarakhand) in the year 2009 for Community leadership.

For the year 2010: Government service - Pan Yue and Fu QipingChina.

For Public Service - Christopher Bernido and Ma. Victoria Carpio-BernidoPhilippines.

For Community Leadership - A.H.M. Noman KhanBangladesh

For Journalism, Literature and creative communication art - Huo DaishanChina

For peace and international leadership - Yu XiaogangChina

For emergent leadership - Tadatoshi AkibaJapan
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PULITZER PRIZE:

This is first awarded in the year 1917.

This was established by Joseph Pulitzer.

This prize is presented by Colombia University, USA.

This is awarded for excellence in Journalism, literary achievement and musical composition.

2010:

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in April 12, 2010. In journalism, The WashingtonPost won four awards while The New York Times won three. For the first time, an online

source, ProPublica, won in what had previously been the sole province of print. A musical, Next

to Normal, won the Drama award for the first time in 14 years. Country singer-songwriter Hank

Williams, who died at age 29 in 1953, received a special citation.

BOOKER PRIZE

Man Booker Prize for Friction. is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-

length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth ofNations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

1st

awarded in the year 1968.

PH Newby was the 1st

winner. 2008 Aravind Adiga for White tiger.

2010 Man Booker Prize was won by British writer Howard Jacobson for his book The

Finkler Question. He won 50,000 pounds prize

So far 4 Indians received this award. Salman Rushdi (1981) for Mid Nights Children.

Arundathi Rai (1997) for The God of Small Things. Kiran Desai (2006) for :Inheritance ofLoss. Aravind Adiga (2008) for White Tiger.

2009 Man Booker International Prize Announced every 2 years. This was Alice Munro fromCanada.

OSCAR AWARDS:

Also called Academy awards.

Started in the year 1929 in US. Awarded for excellence for cinematic achievements.

Awarded by motion picture Arts and Sciences.


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These are presented in Kodak Theater Hollywood.

2011 is the 83rd

year.

Announced on February 27, 2011.

Best Picture The Kings Speech

Best Actor Colin Firth in The Kings Speech.

Best Actress Natalie Portman in Black Sawn.

Best Director Tom Hooper for The Kings Speech.

Best supporting Actor Christian Bale for Boxer.

Best supporting Actress Melissa Leo for The Fighter.

NOBEL PRIZE:

The awards were established in 1895 by the Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the

inventor of dynamite.

They were first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or

Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

An associated prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of AlfredNobel, was instituted by Sveriges Riksbank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.

The prizes are awarded by different associations. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciencesawards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize

in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in

Physiology or Medicine; and the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature. TheNobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation, but by the Norwegian Nobel

Committee.

Nobel Prize is given on December 10 every year. (Nobel Died on this day).

In the year 2008, the committee announced that the it gives Nobel Prize in Non conventional

source of energy sector.

Madam Curie got the Nobel prize in 1903 for Physics and 1911 for Chemistry.

So far 7 Indians received the Noble Prize. (Received in all the fields).


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1st

Indian was Rabindranath Tagore for Gitanjali (Literature) in the year 1913.

CV Raman (Physics, 1930), Hara Gobind Khorana (Medicine (artificial gene), 1968), MotherTheresa (social work, 1979), S. Chandra Shekar (Physics(black hole theory), 1983), Amartya sen

(economics, 1998), Venkata Raman Ramakrishanan (Chemistry, 2009).

2010NOBEL PRIZES

Robert Edwards (British Scientist) whose pioneering research led to the birth of the Worlds

first test-tube (In-vitro Fertilization (IVF)) baby on July 25, 1978 has won this year (2010)

Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. (Patrick Steptoe (gynecologist) died in 1988) was the

colleague of Robert Edwards. The first IVF baby Louise Joy Brown now 32. (though both were

the pioneers, the prize cannot be awarded to both, as the rules do not permit to give awardposthumously.

An Indian team led by Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay developed markedly different IVF

techniques. The Worlds second and Indiaa first test-tube baby (Kanupriya Agarwal alias

Durga) was born in on October 3, 1978 Kolkata just 67 days after Louis Brown. But Dr.Mukherjee was not allowed to continue and he finally committed suicide in 1981.

Russian born Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (British-Russian citizen) were the joint

winners of 2010 year Nobel Prize for Physics for their ground breaking work on experiment with

graphene, a new form of Carbon with immense possibilities. This is the novel form of Carbon

comprises a single layer of atoms arranged in a honey comb shaped lattice. Just one atom thick,it is the Worlds thinnest and strongest nano-material, almost transparent and able to conduct

electricity and heat. This can be used in touch screens, light panels and solar cells.

Chemistry: Nobel prize for chemistry for 2010 was won by 3 scientists for inventing new

ways to bind carbon atoms with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer

screens. Akira Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi and Richard F. Heck.

A New Zealand television station (TVNZ) has suspended its breakfast show host Paul Henry

for mispronouncing Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's name several times in a crudemanner.Paul henry resigned on October 10, 2010 after the diplomatic protest from India.

Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian-Spanish) author has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for histrenchant images of the individuals resistance, revolt and defeat.

Nobel Prize for Peace: The jailed Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobelpeace prize for the year 2010.


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Peter Diamond (US), Dale Mortensen (US) and Christopher Pissarides (UK) won the Nobel

Economics for the year 2010 for work on why supply and demand do not always meet in the

labour market and elsewhere.

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Commonwealth writers award was given to British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta for 2010 for his

epic tale Solo

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INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION

This award was initiated in the year 1985.

This is given away by the INC (Indian National Congress).

This is given for promoting National Integration.

The award carries 1.51 lakh prize money.

This is given on the day of Martyrdom day (October 31) of Smt. Indira Gandhi.

The first recipient was swami Ranganadhanandha.

The latest recipients for the year 2010 jointly won by A R Rahman and Ramakrishna

Mission.

RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL SADHBHAVANA AWARD

This award is given away on the birth anniversary (August 20) of the late PM Rajiv Gandhi.

This award for the year 2010 was given to Islamic writer Moulana Wahiuddin.

The award carries 5 lakh rupees

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