Awards and Honours in India 2015 - PDF

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Miami Open 2015

Men’s Single
Novak Djokovic(Serbia)
Women’s Single
Serena Williams(USA)
Men’s Double
American Bob Bryan (USA) and Mike Bryan (USA)
Women’s Double
Sania Mirza (India) and Switzerland‘s Martina Hingis

French Open 2015

Men’s Single
Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland),
Runner Up Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women’s Single
Serena Williams (USA),
Runner Up Lucie Šafářová (Czech Republic)

Rome Master 2015

Men’s Single

N. Djokovic
Women’s Single
Maria Sharapova
Women’s Double
Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic
Men’s Double
P. Cuevas and D. Marrero

Olympics Games 2014 (winter)

Sochi (Russia)
Winner in Medal Telly
Russia
Venues
2016 Summer: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2018 winter: Pyeongchang (South Korea)
2020 summer: Tokyo (Japan)

Wimbledon Open 2015

Men’s Single
Novak Djokovic(Serbia)
Women’s Single
Serena Williams(USA)
Men’s Double
Jean Jullien Rojer of Netherlands and HoriaTecau of Romania
Women’s Double
Sania Mirza (India) and Switzerland‘s Martina Hingis
Mixed Doubles
Leander Paes of India and Martina Hingis of Switzerland

Cricket World Cup 2015

Runners up
Newzealand
Most Runs
Martin Guptill (New Zealand) 547 runs.
Man of the finals
James Faulkner (Australia)
Most wickets
Mitchell Starc (Australia) 22 wickets and Trent Boult (Newzealand) 22 wickets.
Man of the tournament
Mitchell Starc (Australia)
Final Match played at
Melbourne, Australia

IPL 2015

Winning Tea, & Runner Up

Mumbai Indians
Runner Up Chennai Super Kings
Orange Cap
David Warner
Emerging Player
Shreyas Iyer
Most Number of Sixes
Chris Gayle
Highest Individual Score
AB De Villiars
Purple Cap
Dwayne Bravo

IIFA 2015 Winner

Best Actor
Shahid Kapoor for Haider
Best Actress
Kangna Ranaut for Queen
Best Director
Rajkumar Hirani for PK
Best Movie
Queen

62^nd Nation Film Awards

Best Actor

Sanchari Vijay for Nanu Avanalla Avalu
Best Actress
Kangna Ranaut for Queen
Best Director
Srijit Mukherji
Best Feature Film in Hindi
Court
Best Feature Film
Queen
Dada Saheb Phalke Award
Shashi Kapoor

Nobel Prize Winners ( 2014 ) 

Kailash Satyarthi 

He is an Indian Children's Rights Activist.He has free over 80,000 children from various form of servitude and helped in successful in re-integration , rehabilitation and education. 

Malala Yousafzai 

She is a Women's and Children's Rights Activist from Pakistan ,She was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in 2012.She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education.

" for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting which has enabled bright and energy savings white light sorces".

Shuji Nakamura

Hiroshi Amano

Isamu Akasaki

for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

William E. Moerner

Eric Betzig

Stefan Hell

for discovering a cells that constitute a positioning system  in the brain.

John O’Keefe

Discovered cells in the rat's brain region (hippocampus) that were active in certain places in the enviorment and proposed that these cells created inner map of surroundings.

Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser

Together discovered "grid cells" that were activeted when the rat was in the particular places. Grid cells together with cells discovered by O'Keefe build up an inner GPS system that helps with spatial naviagation.

Literature 

for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.

Patrick Modianao

for his analysis of market power and regulations

Jean Tirole 

Bharat Ratna 

Ashoka Chakra Award

Naik Neeraj Kumar and Major Mukund Varadarajan

Padma Awards 2014

The list consist of 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri Awardees. 17 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 17 persons from the category of foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and 4 Posthumous awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

1. LK Advani- Public Affairs- Gujarat
2. Amitabh Bachchan- Art- Maharashtra
3. Prakash Singh Badal- Public Affairs- Punjab
4. Dr D Veerendra Heggade- Social Work- Karnataka
5. Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar- Art- Maharashtra
6. Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya- Others- Uttar Pradesh
7. Prof Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan- Science and Engineering- Tamil Nadu
8. Kottayan K. Venugopal- Public Affairs- Delhi
9. Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner)- Trade and Industry- France/UK

Padma Bhushan

1. Jahnu Barua- Art- Assam
2. Dr Vijay Bhatkar- Science and Engineering- Maharashtra
3. Shri Swapan Dasgupta- Literature and Education- Delhi
4. Swami Satyamitranand Giri- Others- Uttar Pradesh
5. N Gopalaswami- Civil Service- Tamil Nadu
6. Dr Subhash C Kashyap- Public Affairs- Delhi
7. Dr (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj- Art- Madhya Pradesh
8. Dr Ambrish Mithal- Medicine - Delhi
9. Sudha Ragunathan- Art- Tamil Nadu
10. Shri Harish Salve- Public Affairs- Delhi
11. Dr Ashok Seth- Medicine- Delhi
12. Rajat Sharma- Literature and Education- Delhi
13. Satpal- Sports- Delhi
14. Shivakumara Swami- Others- Karnataka
15. Dr Kharag Singh Valdiya- Science and Engineering- Karnataka
16. Prof Manjul Bhargava (NRI/PIO)- Science and Engineering- USA
17. David Frawley (Vamadeva) (Foreigner)- Others- USA
18. Bill Gates (Foreigner)- Social Work- USA
19. Melinda Gates (Foreigner)- Social Work- USA
20. Saichiro Misumi (Foreigner)- Others- Japan

Padma Shri

1. Dr Manjula Anagani- Medicine- Telangana
2. S Arunan- Science and Engineering- Karnataka
3. Kanyakumari Avasarala- Art- Tamil Nadu
4. Dr Bettina Sharada Baumer- Literature and Education- Jammu and Kashmir
5. Naresh Bedi- Art- Delhi
6. Ashok Bhagat- Social Work- Jharkhand
7. Sanjay Leela Bhansali- Art- Maharashtra
8. Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora- Literature and Education- Assam
9. Dr Gyan Chaturvedi- Literature and Education- Madhya Pradesh
10. Prof (Dr) Yogesh Kumar Chawla- Medicine- Chandigarh
11. Jayakumari Chikkala- Medicine- Delhi
12. Bibek Debroy- Literature and Education- Delhi
13. Dr Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi- Medicine- Manipur
14. Dr Ashok Gulati- Public Affairs- Delhi
15. Dr Randeep Guleria- Medicine- Delhi
16. Dr KP Haridas- Medicine- Kerala
17. Rahul Jain- Art- Delhi
18. Ravindra Jain- Art- Maharashtra
19. Dr Sunil Jogi- Literature and Education- Delhi
20. Prasoon Joshi- Art- Maharashtra
21. Dr Prafulla Kar- Art- Odisha
22. Saba Anjum- Sports- Chhattisgarh
23. Ushakiran Khan- Literature and Education- Bihar
24. Dr Rajesh Kotecha- Medicine- Rajasthan
25. Prof Alka Kriplani- Medicine Delhi
26. Dr Harsh Kumar- Medicine- Delhi
27. Narayana Purushothama Mallaya- Literature & Education- Kerala
28. Lambert Mascarenhas- Literature and Education- Goa
29. Dr Janak Palta McGilligan- Social Work- Madhya Pradesh
30. Veerendra Raj Mehta- Social Work- Delhi
31. Tarak Mehta- Art- Gujarat
32. Neil Herbert Nongkynrih (Art), Meghalaya
33. Chewang Norphel- Others- Jammu and Kashmir
34. TV Mohandas Pai- Trade and Industry- Karnataka
35. Dr Tejas Patel- Medicine- Gujarat
36. Jadav Molai Peyang- Others- Assam
37. Bimla Poddar- Others- Uttar Pradesh
38. Dr N Prabhakar- Science and Engg- Delhi
39. Dr Prahalada- Science and Engg- Maharashtra
40. Dr Narendra Prasad- Medicine- Bihar
41. Ram Bahadur Rai- Literature and Education- Delhi
42. Mithali Raj- Sports- Telangana
43. PV Rajaraman- Civil Service- Tamil Nadu
44. Prof JS Rajput- Literature and Education- Uttar Pradesh
45. Kota Srinivasa Rao- Art- Andhra Pradesh
46. Prof Bimal Roy- Literature and Education- West Bengal
47. Shekhar Sen- Art- Maharashtra
48. Gunvant Shah- Literature and Education- Gujarat
49. Brahmdev Sharma- Literature and Education- Delhi
50. Manu Sharma- Literature and Education- Uttar Pradesh
51. Prof Yog Raj Sharma- Medicine- Delhi
52. Vasant Shastri- Science and Engg- Karnataka
53. SK Shivkumar- Science and Engg- Karnataka
54. PV Sindhu- Sports- Telangana
55. Sardara Singh- Sports- Haryana
56. Arunima Sinha-Sports- Uttar Pradesh
57. Mahesh Raj Soni- Art- Rajasthan
58. Dr Nikhil Tandon- Medicine- Delhi
59. H Thegtse Rinpoche- Social Work- Arunachal Pradesh
60. Dr Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi- Medicine- Gujarat
61. Huang Baosheng- Others- China
62. Prof Jacques Blamont- Science and Engg- France
63. Late Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin- Others- Maharashtra (Posthumous)
64. Jean-Claude Carriere- Literature and Education - France
65. Dr Nandrajan 'Raj' Chetty- Literature and Education- France
66. George L Hart- Others- USA
67. Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja- Others- Portugal
68. Late Meetha Lal Mehta- Social Work- Rajasthan (Posthumous)
69. Tripti Mukherjee- Art- USA
70. Dr Dattatreyudu Nori- Medicine- USA
71. Dr Raghu Rama Pillarisetti (Medicine), USA
72. Dr Saumitra Rawat- Medicine- UK
73. Prof Annette Schmiedchen (Literature and Education), Germany
74. Late Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran- Art- Delhi (Posthumous)
75. Late R Vasudevan- Civil Service- Tamil Nadu (Posthumous)

Many More ...

• 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 Film festival(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 Day Award 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 India Sports Awards(Sportsperson of the Year)- Jitu Rai 
• 50th Jnanpith Award- Bhalchandra Nemade (awarded by MODI ,for several books( including Kosala 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 Airport Limited (DIAL).

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