Important Awards

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》Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015-Bharatiya Mahila Bank

》Nishan-e-Pakistan (Pakistan’s highest civilian Award)-Chinese president Xi Jinping

》Pulitzer prizes for West Africa Ebola coverage-New York Times

》Washington Filmfestival(Best Feature Film Award)-Margarita, with a Straw

》Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation-Ananda Kumar, Pramod Patil

》Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region 2015-Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo

》UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015–Mazen Darwish

》Man Booker International Prize 2015-Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungarian writer)

》Sri Sri Ravi Shankar conferred with Columbia’s highest civilian aw

》Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman 2015-K Meenakshi Sundaram, Acharya Munishwar Jha,Charu Chandra Pande and Mathuradutt Mathpal

》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 DayAward 2015-SS Negi (Uttarakhand’s Health Minister)

》Gandhi Peace Prize 2014-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

》Bangladesh Liberation War Award-Atal Behari Vajpayee

》Space Pioneer Award–ISRO for Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission

》Times of IndiaSports Awards(Sportsperson of the Year)-Jitu Rai

》50th Jnanpith Award-Bhalchandra Nemade (awarded by MODI ,for several books( includingKosala and Hindu))

》Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015-Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (Film: Happy New Year). Actor Rajkummar Rao won the prestigious award for his performance in the critically acclaimed film Citylights.

》Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2015-Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor

》Dr. Pramod Patil 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 AirportLimited