AWARDS JANUARY 2015

AWARDS JANUARY 2015

• Padma Awards announced
  Padma awards have been announced. Former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP veteran L K Advani, film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal are among the nine personalities who have been selected for Padma Vibhushan this year.
  
  Twenty personalities including former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami, Constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap, lawyer Harish Salve, Microsoft Chief Bill Gates and his wife Melinda will be conferred with Padma Bhushan. Film maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, script writer Prasoon Joshi, badminton player P V Sindhu and woman cricketer Mithali Raj are among the 75 personalities who have been selected for Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports every year on the occasion of Republic Day.
  
  Total Padma Vibhushan Awards – 9
  Padma Bushan awards- 20
  Padma Shri Awards- 75
  
  Padma Vibhushan
   

  S. No.	Name of the Awardee	Discipline	State
  1.	Shri L. K. Advani	Public Affairs	Gujarat
  2.	Shri Amitabh Bachchan	Art	Maharashtra
  3.	Shri Prakash Singh Badal	Public Affairs	Punjab
  4.	Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade	Social Work	Karnataka
  5.	Shri Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar	Art	Maharashtra
  6.	Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya	Others	Uttar Pradesh
  7.	Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
  8.	Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal	Public Affairs	Delhi
  9.	Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan (Foreigner)	Trade and Industry	France/UK

  
  
  Padma Bhushan

  1.	Shri 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.	Shri 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.	Smt. Sudha Ragunathan	Art	Tamil Nadu
  10.	Shri Harish Salve	Public Affairs	Delhi
  11.	Dr. Ashok Seth	Medicine	Delhi
  12.	Shri Rajat Sharma	Literature and Education	Delhi
  13.	Shri Satpal	Sports	Delhi
  14.	Shri Shivakumara Swami	Others	Karnataka
  15.	Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
  16.	Prof. Manjul Bhargava(NRI/PIO)	Science and Engineering	USA
  17.	Shri David Frawley (Vamadeva)(Foreigner)	Others	USA
  18.	Shri Bill Gates(Foreigner)	Social Work	USA
  19.	Ms. Melinda Gates(Foreigner)	Social Work	USA
  20.	Shri Saichiro Misumi(Foreigner)	Others	Japan

  
  
  Padma Shri 

  1.	Dr. Manjula Anagani	Medicine	Telangana
  2.	Shri S. Arunan	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
  3.	Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala	Art	Tamil Nadu
  4.	Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
  5.	Shri Naresh Bedi	Art	Delhi
  6.	Shri Ashok Bhagat	Social Work	Jharkhand
  7.	Shri 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.	Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala	Medicine	Delhi
  12.	Shri 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. K. P. Haridas	Medicine	Kerala
  17.	Shri Rahul Jain	Art	Delhi
  18.	Shri Ravindra Jain	Art	Maharashtra
  19.	Dr. Sunil Jogi	Literature and Education	Delhi
  20.	Shri Prasoon Joshi	Art	Maharashtra
  21.	Dr. Prafulla Kar	Art	Odisha
  22.	Ms. Saba Anjum	Sports	Chhattisgarh
  23.	Smt. 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.	Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya	Literature and Education	Kerala
  28.	Shri Lambert Mascarenhas	Literature and Education	Goa
  29.	Dr. (Mrs.) Janak Palta McGilligan	Social Work	Madhya Pradesh
  30.	Shri Veerendra Raj Mehta	Social Work	Delhi
  31.	Shri Tarak Mehta	Art	Gujarat
  32.	Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih	Art	Meghalaya
  33.	Shri Chewang Norphel	Others	Jammu and Kashmir
  34.	Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
  35.	Dr.Tejas Patel	Medicine	Gujarat
  36.	Shri Jadav Molai Peyang	Others	Assam
  37.	Smt. Bimla Poddar	Other	Uttar Pradesh
  38.	Dr. N. Prabhakar	Science and Engineering	Delhi
  39.	Dr. Prahalada	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
  40.	Dr. Narendra Prasad	Medicine	Bihar
  41.	Shri Ram Bahadur Rai	Literature and Education	Delhi
  42.	Ms. Mithali Raj	Sports	Telangana
  43.	Shri P. V. Rajaraman	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu
  44.	Prof. J. S. Rajput	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
  45.	Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao	Art	Andhra Pradesh
  46.	Prof. Bimal Roy	Literature and Education	West Bengal
  47.	Shri Shekhar Sen	Art	Maharashtra
  48.	Shri Gunvant Shah	Literature and Education	Gujarat
  49.	Shri Brahmdev Sharma (Bhaiji)	Literature and Education	Delhi
  50.	Shri Manu Sharma	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
  51.	Prof. Yog Raj Sharma	Medicine	Delhi
  52.	Shri Vasant Shastri	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
  53.	Shri S. K. Shivkumar	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
  54.	Ms. P. V. Sindhu	Sports	Telangana
  55.	Shri Sardara Singh	Sports	Haryana
  56.	Ms. Arunima Sinha	Sports	Uttar Pradesh
  57.	Shri Mahesh Raj Soni	Art	Rajasthan
  58.	Dr.Nikhil Tandon	Medicine	Delhi
  59.	Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche	Social Work	Arunachal Pradesh
  60.	Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi	Medicine	Gujarat
  61.	Shri Huang Baosheng(Foreigner)	Others	China
  62.	Prof. Jacques Blamont(Foreigner)	Science and Engineering	France
  63.	Late Shri Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin(Posthumous)	Others	Maharashtra
  64.	Shri Jean-Claude Carriere(Foreigner)	Literature and Education	France
  65.	Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty(NRI/PIO)	Trade and Industry	USA
  66.	Shri George L. Hart(Foreigner)	Others	USA
  67.	Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja(NRI/PIO)	Others	Portugal
  68.	Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta (Posthumous)	Social Work	Rajasthan
  69.	Ms. Tripti Mukherjee(NRI/PIO)	Art	USA
  70.	Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori(NRI/PIO)	Medicine	USA
  71.	Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti(NRI/PIO)	Medicine	USA
  72.	Dr. Saumitra Rawat(NRI/PIO)	Medicine	UK
  73.	Prof. Annette Schmiedchen(Foreigner)	Literature and Education	Germany
  74.	Late Shri Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran(Posthumous)	Art	Delhi
  75.	Late Shri R. Vasudevan(Posthumous)	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu

  
  
• Ashok Chakra to be conferred to Late Major Mukund Varadarajan , Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
  Gallantry awards have been announced on the occasion of Republic Day.13 awards have been announced for Army personnel. These include one Ashok Chakra, three Kirti Chakras and nine Shaurya Chakras. In addition, award of Ashok Chakra posthumously to Major Mukund Varadarajan, which was announced in August last year, will be conferred by the President today. Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh will also be conferred Ashok Chakra posthumously. Late Subedar Ajay Vardhan of 14 Garhwal Rifles will be given Kriti Chakra.
  
  The country's largest paramilitary force, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has bagged the maximum number of gallantry medals at 36 this Republic Day with eight of these bravery awards being accorded posthumously to the paramilitary personnel.
  
• Australia's young cricketer of the year Award
  Sean Abbott has been named Australia's young cricketer of the year. Steve Smith was another winner at Australia's annual cricket awards, receiving the Allan Border Medal and being named both Test and one day player of the year.
  
• Periyar Tiger Reserve won award
  The Periyar Tiger Reserve, spread over 925 sq.km. in Kerala, bagged the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) biennial award on 20th January for encouraging local public participation in managing the reserve.There are 75 communities living around the reserve, including tribal people who are dependent on eco-development programmes, said field director of the reserve Amit Mallick.
  
• Frank Islam: An eminent Indian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist has been presented with the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr Award in recognition of his contribution to the legacy of the civil rights pioneer through his efforts in international service and civil engagement. Azamgarh-born Frank Islam was given the annual award by the president of the Memorial Foundation, Harry Johnson.
  
• Jhumpa Lahiri: Indian-American writer JhumpaLahiri won the USD 50,000 DSC Prize for Literature, one of South Asia's top literary awards for her book 'The Lowland', it was announced at the Jaipur Literature Festival on 22nd January. The Pulitzer Prize winning author's tale of Indian brothers bound by tragedy was also shortlisted for the Man Booker prize last year.The Lowland was Lahiri's first book, but the fourth one to be published. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was instituted in 2010 by Surina Narula.
  
• Raghuram Rajan awarded ‘Governor of the Year’
  Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan is the ‘Governor of the Year’ in the Central Banking Journal Awards for 2015.
  
  Rajan was one of three individuals to be honored this year, with former IMF MD Jacques de Larosière winning the lifetime achievement award after a lengthy struggle for monetary order. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) scooped the prize for Central Bank of the Year. The judging panel cited Rajan’s disciplined and focused approach to tackling macroeconomic instability as a reason for him winning the award.
  
• 72nd Golden Globe Awards
  • Best film (Musical or Comedy): The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Best Director- Richard Linklater
  • Best actress (Musical or comedy)
  • Amy Adams: Big eyes 
• Honour for MOM team
  The National Space Society based in Washington DC has chosen the ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) team, headed by M. Annadurai, for its 2015 Space Pioneer Award.
  
  The society announced on 12th January that a representative of the team would be presented the honor in the science and engineering category during its annual international conference in Toronto in May. The society describes itself as “an independent, educational, grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of a space-faring civilization
  
  Amitabh Bachchan: Amitabh Bachchan has been honored with the Social Media Person of the Year award by Internet and Mobile Association of India. The 72-year-old actor, who is an active social media user and online blogger, took the opportunity to thank his online fans, whom he affectionately calls ‘extended family’ for their support. IAMAI presented him with the award at his home as he will not be able to attend the ceremony in Delhi.
  
• Mangaluru high-rise wins award
  Planet SKS’, a high-rise building in Mangaluru, has been awarded the ‘Best residential project in tier-II city under the ultra luxury segment’ by CNBC Awaz. Planet SKS is set out on 4.55 acres of land with just 10 per cent ground coverage. The rest of the area is being used as green cover and fitness zone. The project has ground-plus-35 floor residential units.
  
• M.Y.S. PRASAD: M.Y.S. Prasad, director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota Range (SHAR), has been selected for the Vikram Sarabhai memorial award to be presented by the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
  
  Dr. Prasad is selected for his outstanding contribution to R&D in the field of space science in his long and chequered career at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Prior to Dr. Prasad, those who received this award were former ISRO chairmen Dr. Satish Dhawan, Dr. K. Kasturi Rangan, Dr. G. Madhavan Nair and Dr. K. Radhakrishnan.
  
  The ISCA, which is a premier scientific organization of the country established in 1914 in Kolkata, has been giving this award in alternate years.
  
• Peta awards: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actor Rekha, who both follow a vegetarian diet, have been crowned ‘hottest vegetarian celebrities’ by animal rights organisation PETA India for making plant-based foods more popular than ever in 2014.
  This year’s competition named ‘PETA India’s hottest vegetarian celebrities’ was tougher than ever — but no one was more deserving than Mr. Modi and Ms. Rekha for the title, the organisation said in a release.
  
  The two winners beat out a strong group of competitors, including actors Amitabh Bachchan, Kangana Ranaut, Hema Malini, Shahid Kapoor, Vidya Balan, R Madhavan and Vidyut Jammwal, it said.
  
• GOPALA KRISHNA: Tamil Nadu Governor Rosaiah conferred Sangita Kalanidhi award on musician T.V. Gopalakrishnan, the Sangita Kala Acharya award on musicians Mangad K. Natesan and Alamelu Mani, the TTK award on Malladi Suribabu and Udaiyalur Kalyanaraman and the Musicologist award on Padma Murthy.