13. AWARDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 – Pran Krishan Sikand (Bollywood actor, mostly known as Pran). 2. Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari, ( the Malayalam poetess for the poetry collection ‘Manalezhuthu’, which means The Writing on the Sand in English. 4. Bihari Puraskar (2012) – Hariram Meena for his hindi novel Dhooni Tape Teer 5. Vyas Samman (2012) – Narendra Kohli for his novel “Na bhooto na bhavishyati” 6. Indira Gandhi International Award - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for 2012(president of Liberia) 8. The Oscars 2013 (ceremony was held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California). Life of Pi, with 4 awards a) Best Directing: Ang Lee for Life of Pi e) best film award ;Argo (with 3 awards) f) best Actor award :Daniel Day-Lewis wins for Lincoln. g) best Actoress award: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook 9. Women of courage award - The US State Department awarded one of the 2013 International Women of Courage Awards to Nirbhaya posthumously 14. Madhya Pradesh bagged two national tourism awards: One for the best civic management of a tourist destination and other for the most innovative and unique tourism project in the 23rd National Tourism Award. 16. 44th Dada Saheb Phalke Award (2013)- Legendary actor, Pran Krishan Sikand. 17. First timr an Indian-Origin Economist Raj Chetty the professor in the Department of Economy at the Harvard University Won John Bates Clark Medal For 2013, which is also called Baby Nobel. 19. Ravuri Bharadwaja, 86, the Telgu writer was selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award 2012 for his contributions to Telgu Literature. 23. Jenita Mary a young woman scientist from Meghalaya has been selected for this years ISRO Young Scientist Award. 24. The Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (15), UNA-USAs Global Leadership Award called Champion for Global Change Award for 2013. 25. The Madhya Pradesh Government’s Cottage and Village Industry Department has bagged United Nations Public Service Award for year 2013 26. Kerala CM Oommen Chandy won UN’s Public Service Award for mass contact programmeon the occasion of UN Public Service Day ceremonies held from 24th to 27th June, 2013 in Bahrain. 27. Pratibha Ray Conferred With the 47th Jnanpith Award for the Year 2011 in may 2013 at Balyogi Auditorium in New Delhi. The award includes cash prize of 11 lakh Rupees, a citation as well as bronze replica of Goddss Saraswati. 28. In recognition of her work with Adivasi (Indigenous) communities in India, Dayamani Barla was chosen by Cultural Survival, an Indigenous Peoples rights organization, as the winner of the 2013 Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award. 29. A short film based on the project- affected people of Tarapur Atomic Power Station has won the Yellow Oscar award at the Uranium Film Festival at Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil. 30. NTR Literary Award which carries a cash prize of 1 lakh Rupees and citation presented to Noted Oriya writer Manoj Das for contribution to literature, both in Odiya and English. 31. American writer Lydia Davis has won the 5th Man Booker International Prize. 32. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s won the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award for 2013. 33. Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was conferred with the US-based National Space Society’s (NSS) Wernher von Braun Memorial Award in San Diego. 34. Sathwik Karnik Wins National Geographic Bee Contest 35. Asom Ratna Award (posthumously) to Late Smt. Indira Goswami. 36. Srimanta Shankardeva Award to Smt. Sharmila Tagore, she is said as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. 37. Anupam Kher Won 3rd Asian Award for his performances in movies like “Silver Linings Playbook“, “Bride & Prejudice“, and “Bend it Like Beckham“. 38. Triple Emmy Award winning actor James Gandolfini dies after a heart attack. 39. India bagged 3 top awards including the Best Feature Film (“Paan Singh Tomar”), the Best Director (Tigmanshu Dhulia ) and Special Jury Certificate of Recognition (Kaushal Oza for his documentary “Afterglow” )at the third SAARC Film Festival in Colombo. 40. Kevin Barry, the Irish author won 100000 Euro International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, “City of Bohane”. 41. Huga Chavez was posthumously awarded Venezuela journalism prize. 42. Healthcare Economist Dr Mukesh Hariawala was recently conferred the prestigious ‘Indian Healthcare Visionary of the Decade’ award for Unveiling a unique and novel customized universal health insurance model for all 1.2 billion Indians calling it ‘Womb to Tomb’, concept. 43. The International Data Group (IDG) Computer world Honours Program, Computer world Honors Laureate has honored Government of India initiative UIDAI with 21st Century Achievement Award 2013 under the category ‘Economic Development’. 44. Adam Johnson’s novel “The Orphan Master’s son” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013. 45. The 3 times World Formulae One champion Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel from Germany won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2013 on 21 April 2013 by defeating Lotus drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. 46. Djokovic won the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters Tournament by defeating Nadal. 47. Assam Topped the Medal Tally of 20th National Archery Championship by claiming four gold medals. 48. Rupesh Shah Won ONGC 12th Asian Billiards championship at Indore Tennis Club, Indore on 7 April 2013. 49. Singer Hariharan Conferred With the Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 2013. 50. American writer Lydia Davis won 5th Man Booker International Prize 2013. 51. US singer-songwriter Carole King Became the First Woman to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. 52. Indian-origin boy Sathwik Karnik, 12 from Massachusetts has won National Geographic Bee contest after grueling rounds testing his geographic knowledge about lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia and port cities in England. National Geographic Bee is an annual geography contest sponsored by the National Geographic Society since 1989. 53. Tan Twan Eng, the Malaysian author was declared as the winner of Walter Scott Prize 2013 for his English fiction novel The Garden of Evening Mists. 54. Former CAG Vinod Rai received Manappuram award under the category of civil servant achieving excellence in public administration. 55. Russian Film “the Major” won Golden Goblet for best feature film at the 16th at Shangahi International Film Festival. 56. Vandana Gandhi became the first ever Indian woman to receive Dubai Governments coveted Emirates Woman Award for business excellence in June 2013. 57. IIFA 2013: a) Vidya Balan got the Best Actress Award at for Kahaani. b) Ranbir Kapoor was named Best Actor for Barfi c) The best debut actors are Yami Gautam and Ayushmann Khurrana. d) English Vinglish helmer Gauri Shinde bagged the best debut director award. e) Former couple Ranbir and Deepika Padukone won best Jodi award. f) Gangs of Wasseypur won two awards, one for Best Action (Shyam Kaushal) and the other for Best Dialogue (Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh, Sachin Ladia and Anurag Kashyap) was shared with Juhi Chaturvedi for Vicky Donor. g) The award for Best Editing was won by Kahaani (Namrata Rao) and Best Choreography went to Ganesh Acharya for Agneepath. h) Ek Tha Tiger won the award for Best Special Effects (Pankaj Khanopur, Sherry Bharda and Vishal Anand). 58. Noted Maestro Zubin Mehta has been named for the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural harmony. 59. Shalini Singh, a Deputy Editor with The Hindu, has bagged the prestigious Prem Bhatia Award for Political Reporting-2013. She has been selected for her ‘excellent coverage of several key issues,’ particularly her ‘reporting of the telecom and Coalgate scandals.’ 60. Afghanistans first and only female governor and a humanitarian worker from the Kachin minority in Myanmar, Habiba Sarabi, is among this years recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.Sarabi was honoured for helping build a functioning local government and pushing for education and womens rights in Afghanistans Bamyan province despite discrimination and poverty. 61. Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland has been listed among 13 novels longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. 62. Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the widest US global surveillance operations, was awarded German Whistleblower Prize 2013 worth 3900 Dollars in absentia.Snowden has exposed the substantial and unsuspecting monitoring and storage of communication data by US and other western intelligence agencies, which cannot be accepted in democratic societies. 63. Four Indian-American Professors Kannan Soundararajan, Rajeev Alur, Salil P Vadhan and Senthil Todadri in fourth week of July 2013 won Simons Investigators Awards 2013. Apart from these, 9 other mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists were also selected for the Simons Investigators Awards for their cutting edge research. 64. Metro Man E. Sreedharan has been selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013 for his outstanding contribution to society. 65. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan will be honoured with the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award for promotion of communal harmony peace and goodwill. 66. Vinod Prakash Sharma an eminent scientist won the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013. He received award for his contribution in the field of basic and applied research of malaria and vector biology. 67. Professor of economics, conservationist and mountaineer Harshwanti Bisht was selected to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal. 68. Asian Award: Indian homeopath Mukesh Batra has been honoured with Asias most promising leader award at a recent function in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for pioneering work in healthcare, using natural medicine. 69. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan was the guest of honour at a reception hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife, Samantha Cameron at their official residence for a charity (‘Silver Star’.) initiative for diabetes. 70. Kapil Parakh, an Indian-origin cardiologist chosen for White House fellowship programme. A Zambia University graduate, Parakh is the director of heart failure at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre and assistant professor in the Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Behaviour and Society.
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