Awards

United Nation Environment has awarded Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India with Asia Environment Enforcement...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: (Tools made of light): The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the United Nations' highest environmental honour, the ‘UNEP Champions of the Earth’ award at a special ceremony in...

The Ministry of Earth Sciences celebrated its foundation day in Delhi. The foundation day lecture was given by Dr. Asahiko Taira, President, Japan Agency...

The President of India presented the National Geoscience Awards in New Delhi for the year 2017. Following are the categories and award winners: Mineral Discovery...

Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma...

The Ooty-based conservation activist and long-term conservation partner of Wildlife Conservation Society, India, Jayachandran S has won the prestigious ‘Wildlife Service Award’ presented by...

Finland has given its new international gender equality prize to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Finland is the first nation in the world to grant...

Morocco born French Director Robin Campillo’s drama film ‘ 120 BPM’ or ‘120 Beats Per Minute’ has won the coveted Golden Peacock Award at...

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been awarded the Bronze Medal for its creative and informative display at the 37th India International Trade...

The Vice President of India conferred 'Yeraringan' Award to Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, in Chennai. The Vice President said that in 1947, Prof. Swaminathan moved...

It was an historic moment for the Indian Armoured Regiments at Suratgarh Military Station, when General Bipin Rawat, Chief of the Army Staff, on...

The President of India Ram Nath Kovind, presented the Pt Ramnarayan Sharma National Ayurved Award for the years 2008-2014. The Pt Ramnarayan Sharma National Award...

The President of India presented the “National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) 2017” on the occasion of International Day of Persons...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been adjudged as the best department for its contribution during Swachhta Pakhwada, an inter-Ministry initiative of...

The Albert Vidal Award is a prestigious award, named after the founder of WorldSkills International (formerly known as the International Vocational Training Organisation). During the...

The President Ram Nath Kovind, presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2017...

The Amritsar Municipal Corporation has received the Rashtriya Swachh Bharat Puraskar under the Swachh Iconic Places (SIPs), an initiative of the Ministry of Drinking...

2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of...

Stanford University professor, Thomas Kailath has conferred its Lifetime Achievement Award by the US-based Marconi Society for furthering scientific achievements in communications and Internet. He is the sixth...

Celebrating the outstanding achievements of women in India, NITI Aayog, in partnership with MyGov and the United Nations, announces winners of the Women Transforming...

Kuwait living NRI student Ma. Riddhiraj Kumar presented a cheque of Rs. 18,000 to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as donation for Army Welfare...

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2017 1. Shri Devendra Para Athlete 2. Shri Sardar Singh Hockey Dronacharya Awards 2017 1. Late Dr. R. Gandhi Athletics 2. Mr. Heera Nand Kataria Kabaddi 3. Mr. G.S.S.V. Prasad Badminton (Lifetime) 4. Mr. Brij Bhushan Mohanty Boxing (Lifetime) 5. Mr....

The Ramon Magsaysay Awards' is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to...

V.O. Chidambaranar Port has bagged National Award for Excellence in Cost Management for the year 2016 from ‘The Institute of Cost Accountants of India’...

Leonor Espinosa, a (Colombian chef) has won the Basque Culinary World Prize, a €100,000 prize for chefs who make a difference. Ms. Espinosa, the head...

President of India Pranab Mukherjee honored the IIM Bangalore for making management education accessible to all through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), during the...

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced the winners of the Equator Prize 2017, recognizing 15 local and indigenous communities from Africa, Asia, and Latin...

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari has presented the Lokmat Parliamentary Awards 2017. Lokmat was founded by a group of Indian freedom...

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the ‘Pranab Mukherjee Award for Academic Excellence’ to Shri Aman Aggarwal for scoring the highest aggregate in...

Kanyashree Prakalpa, the scheme launched by Mamata Banerjee in October 2013, won the United Nations Public Service Award. The United Nations has awarded the West...

UST Global has won the Golden Globe Tigers Award, 2017, for the third consecutive year for ‘excellence and leadership in corporate social responsibility (CSR)’. The...

Vijaya Bank has bagged nine Skoch Awards. The bank received awards in the following categories -- Best Bank in Public Sector; Best Bank for...

The Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari has given the AIMA - JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award to N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata...

77-year-old author Margaret Atwood received the lifetime achievement award from world's oldest literary organizations PEN Center of USA. Atwood has written more than 40 books of...

Israeli author David Grossman won the Man Booker International Prize for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar. He will share the £50,000 ($64,000)...

Indian American Dr Arun N Netravali won this year’s $100000 Marconi Prize. Netravali is a HDTV tech pioneer and the former President of Bell...

The RedInk Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism for 2017 was presented to veteran journalist Vinod Dua in Mumbai. The award is a part of...

Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd has won six Raksha Mantri’s awards for Excellence for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16. MV Gowtama, Chairman and Managing Director...

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs S.S. Ahluwalia, presided over the Prize Distribution Function of the 29th National Youth Parliament Competition 2016-17, for Kendriya...

Indian Railways achieves a major landmark in the field of Eco friendly fuel technologies at Indian Railways Organization for Alternate Fuel (IROAF) which has...

Indian-Americans, Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen and former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was honoured with the prestigious ‘Great Immigrants’ annual award on US’s independence...

For Yuva Puraskar 2018, Sahitya Akademi is inviting books from publishers and young Indian authors of the age of 35 and below in all...

Since the United Nations has declared 27th June as the UN Day for MSMEs, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has selected...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has appointed 19-year-old Muzoon Almellehan, who has been advocating for girls' education since fleeing war-torn Syria in 2013,...

The Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, Pune has been selected as the first recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Outstanding Contribution for the...

The Rural Development Ministry has given away 144 awards under various categories to states and other organisations in a function in New Delhi. Awards on...

Ananya Vinay, 12-year-old from Fresno, California, became the 13th consecutive Indian-American to have won the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee Competition. She beat Rohan Rajeev,...

World Health Organization has conferred Director General’s Special Recognition Award to India’s Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mr J P Nadda, for his...

The General Council of the Akademi also selected forty-three (43) artists from the field of Music, Dance, Theatre, Traditional /Folk/ Tribal Music/ Dance/ Theatre,...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was presented with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2014. The prize was...

Every year since 1994, the Whitley Fund for Nature, a UK-based charity, has been presenting the Whitley Award — popularly called the Green Oscars...

Kara McCullough has been crowned Miss USA. Ms. McCullough, 20, who represented the District of Columbia in the decades-old pageant, was born in Naples, Italy,...

Noted journalist Nagesh Hegde has been chosen for the prestigious TSR Memorial Award by the government for 2016. The award carries a purse of Rs....

The 27-year-old Hollywood actor Emma Watson received the first genderless award. Emma Watson picked up the first-ever Genderless Acting Award for the Best Actor category...

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of India has received prestigious International Award of Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) titled “APQN Quality Award 2017...

The Cannes Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around...

Satyabrata Rout, a professor from the Department of Theatre Arts, S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been awarded...

Minister of Defence, Arun Jaitley gave away Raksha Mantri’s Awards for Excellence for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16 in recognition of exemplary performance amongst...

President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Hindi Sevi Samman to 26 eminent Hindi scholars for the year 2015. The scholars received awards in 12 different categories...

Porter Prize is named after Michael E. Porter, an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he...

The President of India Pranab Mukharjee presented the “Dr. Ambedkar National Award for Social Understanding and up-liftment of Weaker Sections for the year 2011,...

Vikram Vishal, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, (IIT-B) has won the prestigious Indian...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gave away the coveted Banga Bibhushan and Banga Bhushan Awards to the 11 eminent persons from different walks...

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) of the prestigious foundation received the FICCI-India Sanitation Coalition prize for the initiative that seeks to contribute towards...

The Japanese government has selected former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar for the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, in recognition...

Two veteran NASA astronauts joined the ranks of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to travel to space and...

Actor Aamir Khan and Cricket icon Kapil Dev received the 75th Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards. Khan was honoured with the Vishesh Puraskar for Best Film...

The English translation of writer Perumal Murugan’s novel 'Mathorubhagan (One Part Woman)' has won the Sahitya Akademi’s award for translation in English. The translation was...

Odisha artist Sitaram Swain has been chosen as the Glenfiddich’s Emerging Artist of the Year 2017. The sixth recipient of the honour, Mr Swain will...

Veteran actor Anupam Kher was honoured with the Kala Ratan award from Panjab University in Chandigarh at its 66th convocation. He joined Indian Theatre, Panjab...

Sachin Tendulkar received the Fellowship Award at the 7th annual Asian Awards in London. The ceremony, which celebrates excellence in the global Asian community, also...

Three Indian-origin scientists have been elected fellows of the Royal Society, Britain’s independent fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists, for their...

A Thai law student Jatupat Boonpattararaksa arrested for sharing a critical article about his country's new king that was posted on Facebook is this...

Indian scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni has won the Dan David Prize for his work in the field of astronomy. The professor of astrophysics and planetary science...

Shyamlal Yadav and Jay Mazoomdaar of 'The Indian Express' have won the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) Award for Investigative Journalism for 2016. They got...

Sanjay Pratihar from Tezpur University, has been chosen for the the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal for the Young Scientist Award for...

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (GNFC) has won the prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award for Excellence and Leadership in CSR in the...

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Florence Nightingale Awards to 35 nurses from across the country on the occasion of International Nurses...

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India is now one of the world’s fastest growing centers for S&T entrepreneurship. President, Pranab Mukherjee presented the national awards for excellence in technology to...

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the ‘Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil’ for the year 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. The Presidential Awards for Classical...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has been selected for the 'Transformative Chief Minister Award' in recognition for his role in advancing the US-India...

Two Indian-Americans are among 46 emerging college and university leaders selected by American Council on Education, ACE in Houston for its prestigious fellowship. Ritu Raju...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama received the John F. Kennedy Foundation's annual "Profile in Courage Award," honoring his accomplishments during his two terms in...

Faridabad in Haryana has emerged as the ‘Fastest Mover Big City’ at the national level in the Swachh Survekshan -2017. At the national level, Tirupati...

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee conferred the 52nd Jnanpith Award on Prof. Sankha Ghosh. A poet and critique par excellence, a teacher of reputation,...

Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards has been dubbed the 'internet’s highest honor'. Webby Award winners 2017 list: Planned...

Indian environmental activist Prafulla Samantara was announced as the Asia recipent of the Goldman Environmental Prize for championing the cause of Odidha's Dongria Kondh...

Renowned Film Director & Actor Shri Kasinadhuni Viswanath was conferred the 48thDadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2016. The Award is conferred by the Government...

A wild-born, pure Australian desert dingo called Sandy Maliki has taken out first place in the World's Most Interesting Genome competition. The UNSW-led proposal to...

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, presented awards for Excellence in Implementation of Priority Programmes and addressed Civil Servants on the occasion of the eleventh...

A bookseller detained in China for publishing books on the personal lives of President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party leaders has awarded a...

An Indian environmental engineer Trupti Jain has won this year’s prestigious ‘Cartier Women’s Initiative Award’ for providing women working on farms with water management...

An Indian-origin educationist in the UK, has been named the ‘Asian Businesswoman of the Year’. 65-year-old Dame Asha Khemka, Principal and CEO of West Nottinghamshire...

National Safety Council is a self-supporting non-profit autonomous society, set up by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India on 4th March,...

An imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist who was arrested in a crackdown on the media in September 2001 and was known for his critical and insightful...

President of India Pranab Mukherjee conferred the National Geoscience Awards - 2016 on 27 geoscientists in New Delhi. This year, twenty-seven geoscientists are receiving the National...

President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented SCOPE Awards on the occasion of 8th Public Sector Day Celebrations jointly organized by Standing Conference of Public...

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremonies in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International...