Awards

BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has been honoured with the 'Tamil Ratna' award by a body of Tamil diaspora 'America Tamil...

Ecologist Bibhuti Lahkar from Assam was given the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s prestigious Heritage Heroes Award, 2016 for his contribution towards...

The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee presented the second ICCR ‘Distinguished Indologist’ Award to Prof. Yu Long Yu of China on December 1, 2016...

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 Petroleum & Natural Gas and the Oil Marketing Companies Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL collectively received Silver Award for Excellence in Citizen...

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...

An Indian-American computer scientist Anshumali Shrivastava has won USA's National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award for his research on redesigning current machine-learning processes. Shrivastava earned...

David Warner (Australian Cricketer) was awarded the 2016 Philips Sports Dad of the Year for his role as a father of two, Ivy Mae...

Paul Beatty has become the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize. He won the award for his racial satire, ‘The Sellout’ at...

Indian-origin British professor Shankar Balasubramanian has received a Knighthood in UK for his contributions. Mr. Balasubramanian (50), Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Cambridge University,...

Chandigarh International Airports Limited (CHIAL), a Joint Venture Company of Airports Authority of India and States of Punjab and Haryana, has been conferred with...

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,...

The PPV&FR Authority, New Delhi is organizing its Plant Genome Savior Community Award (2012-13), Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Rewards 2013 and Plant Genome Saviour...

A 16-year-old Indian environmental activist based in the UAE has won this year’s prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize for her fight for climate justice...

Two Indians — Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna and campaigner for eradication of manual scavenging Bezwada Wilson — were among six persons who received the...

Kala Utsav is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to promote arts in education by nurturing and showcasing the artistic talent...

The Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra (GKCM) awards for 2016 were conferred on Guru Kishor Kumar Mohanty and Jharana Das for their contribution to the field...

Corporation Bank has bagged the SKOCH silver award for attaining the position of number one channel partner of LIC of India for the past...

The Ahmedabad-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), an acknowledged national resource institute for entrepreneurship education, research, training and institution-building, has received the prestigious...

Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, Ananthkumar presented the 7th National Awards for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastics Processing...

Sunil Amrith, Professor, Department of History, Harvard University has been awarded Infosys Prize 2016 in Humanities. The award is given for his contribution to the history...

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...

Gullapalli N. Rao, a noted Indian eye doctor, has been selected to the 2017 Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of...

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

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

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

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...

Malaika Vaz from Goa has won the 2016 Wildscreen National Geographic Roar Talent Bursary Award at the recently held Wildscreen festival. 19-year-old Vaz’s short-film “Waghoba”,...

President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honour to 21 groundbreaking actors, musicians, athletes and innovators who inspired him over the years. The Presidential...

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee has awarded the Certificate of Honour to the following scholars of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Arabic and Persian: Sanskrit Shri R.Venkatraman Shri...

The Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Sh. Ananth Kumar presented the Sixth National Awards for Technology in Innovation in Petrochemicals and downstream Plastics...

AjayDevgn, Madhur Bhandarkar and singer Udit Narayan are choosen for with the 'Swabhimani Mumbaikar' award at the Mumbaikar Festival 2016 scheduled to be held...

The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee presented Shilp Guru awards and National Awards to master craftspersons in New Delhi. 9 Shilp Gurus and 19 National...

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

Actor Ewan McGregor will receive the Britannia Humanitarian Award at the British Academy Britannia Awards in California. He is being awarded for "using the art...

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...

A young Palestinian contortionist known in Gaza as "Spider-Man" has entered the Guinness book of records. The 13-year-old, Mohammad al-Sheikh, broke the record for the...

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 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...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with Amir Amanullah Khan Award, the Afghanistan’s highest civilian honour. He was awarded the honour by Afghan President Ashraf...

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...

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...

With more than 200 films under his belt spanning a 56-year career, Jackie Chan has finally received an Oscar. The 62-year-old action star was awarded...

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...

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

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...

Sajid Nadiadwala was conferred France's prestigious Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) award. The honour...

The President of India has approved the conferment of Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards – 2016 on 36 persons which includes Sarvottam Jeevan...

Himachal Pradesh has won the '2015 Better Performing Project Award' for development of infrastructure in the state. The department of tourism has been executing 580...

The President has approved award of 398 Gallantry and other Defence decorations to Armed Forces personnel and others on the eve of the 68th Republic...

Indira Gandhi International Airport has become the world’s number 2 airport in the over 40 million passengers per annum category, as per the Montreal...

President Pranab Mukherjee presented Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Awards for 2015-2016 at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Awards were instituted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs...

Dr. Ashutosh Biswas, Professor of Medicine in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has been conferred with the honorary fellowship of Bangladesh...

The International Press Institute’s (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016 has been awarded jointly to Varun Bhatt of Rajasthan Patrika and The...

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...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and UK-based scholar in Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu John Ralston Marr have been named for this year’s SIES-Sri Chandrashekarendra...

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...

The Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, received ISO 9001:2008 Certification for its functions, activities...

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....

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...

Maharashtra's sixth Chess GM Shardul Gagare, and steeplechase specialist Lalita Babar, who finished a creditable 10th in the Rio Olympics, have been chosen for...

Lalji Singh, former Director, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), has been selected for the award of SERB Distinguished Fellow. It is given...

US President Barack Obama selected four Indian-American scientists for the highest honour given by the USA government to science and engineering professionals in the...

Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has been rated the second best airport globally in the ‘over 40 million passengers per year’ category at the...

The Uttar Pradesh government has announced the names of 54 persons for the 'Yash Bharti' awards for the year 2016-17. Yash Bharti is a coveted...

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

The second International Film Festival of Shimlahas ended on 3rd september. It screened films from around 22 countries. Bangladeshi movie "Aina-the mirror" bagged the award for...

Eminent Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail has been honoured with the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel Hawthan . The 74-year-old’s novel was shortlisted out of...

R.S.Raju, Chief Financial Officer of NCC Limited has been awarded as the Best CFO at the “Asia CFO Excellence Award” ceremony by the Chief...

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

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

List of 6th National Photography Award Winners S.No. Awardee Category of Awards 1 Raghu Rai, New Delhi Life-Time Achievement Award 2 K.K. Mustafah, Trissur, Kerala Professional Photographer of the Year 3 Ravinder Kumar, Shakarpur, Delhi Amateur...

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

A former child soldier Deng Adut has received one of Australia’s highest civic awards, the 2017 New South Wales Australian of the Year. He has...

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...

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...

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....

Two Indo-American scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been conferred with the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize 2016. Nasik-born Ramesh Raskar, an imaging scientist and...

Raam Reddy's acclaimed Kannada movie "Thithi" bagged the best film award at the first BRICS Film Festival. Produced by Pratap Reddy and Sunmin Park, "Thithi"...

A student of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal, has bagged second prize at the GE Contest for global universities called 'The Unimpossible Missions:...

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...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Swachh Shakti Awards 2017 to 10 women sarpanches, who have contributed immensely to the movement towards a clean India...

Kiran Doshi, a retired diplomat and educationist from Gujarat, won The HinduPrize 2016 for his third major work of fiction, 'Jinnah Often Came to...

A Keshav Krishna, a scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) has been selected for the National Geoscience Award for 2016. The award given...

Country's largest paramilitary force CRPF has decided to appoint Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu as it's brand ambassador and bestow the honorary rank...

Internationally acclaimed Korean film director and writer, Im Kwon Taek is being conferred with prestigious ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ award at IFFI 2016. Regarded as the...

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...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has named veteran actor Robert De Niro as the recipient of its 44th annual Chaplin Award. De Niro took...

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...

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...

Times of India Consulting Editor Sagarika Ghosh, former Deputy Editor of the Hindu Neena Vyas, former Chief Editor of Chandrika T P Cherupa and...

The 2016 SASTRA-Ramanujan award for mathematics was awarded to Maksym Radziwill of McGill University, Canada. The joint winner is Kaisa Matomaki of University of...

The Telangana government announced that popular poet, writer and singer Goreti Venkanna will be given the Kaloji Narayana Rao award for this year. The award...

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...

The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to...

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,...

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...

Indian-origin students in USA have bagged a scholarship worth $2,00,000 in a science competition for their innovative research that will help doctors diagnose health...

Tata Communications has awarded its $50,000 Formula One prize this year to a virtual reality innovation which transports racing fans from anywhere in the...

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...