Awards in 2010

Jnanpith Ravindra Kelkar Award (for 2006) 2007 ONV Kurup 2008 Akhlaq Khan Shahryar Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Arjuna Awards Saina Nehwal Joseph Abraham Krishna Poonia Dinesh Kumar Parimrajan Negi Deepak Kumar Mandal Sandeep Singh Jasjeet Kaur Handa Dinesh Kumar Sanjeev Rajput Rehan Jehangir Poncha Kapil Dev K J Rajeev Tomar Rajesh Chaudhary Jagseer Singh Satish Pillai Kuldeep Singh Anita Chanu A K Kutty Subhash B Aggarwal L Ibomcha Singh Ajay Kumar Bansal Captain Chandrup ( For lifetime contribution to coaching) Services Sports Control Board Konkani Writer

Malayalam Writer Urdu Poet Badminton Athletics Athletics Boxing Chess Football Hockey (Men) Hockey (Women) Kabaddi Shooting Swimming Volleyball Wrestling Yachting Paralympic (Athletics) Athletics Wrestling Weightlifting Athletics Billiards and Snooker Boxing Hockey Wrestling Community Sports Identification and nurturing of budding and young talent Financial Support for Sports Excellence Establishment and Management of Sports Academies

Dhyan Chand Award

Dronacharya Awards

Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Puraskar

Tata Steel Limited

Khel Evam Yuva Vibhag, Govt of MP

Services Sports Control Board

of Excellence Employment of sportsperson and sports welfare measures

Dada Saheb Phalke Award, 2009 National Film Awards for 2009 Best Feature Film Best Popular Film Best film on national integration Best film on social issues Best Actor

D Ramanaidu

Kutty Srank 3 Idiots Delhi-6

Malyalam. Starring Mamooty.

Well Done Abba Amitabh Bacchan For Paa. (Has won the award 3 times now) For Abohoman (Bengali) For Abohoman

Best Actress Best Director Best Film in non-feature category Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2010

Ananya Chatterjee Rituparno Ghosh The Postman and Bilal (Joint)

Sanjeev Galande (Bio sciences) Shubha Tole (Bio Sciences) Swapan K Pati

Sandeep Verma G K Ananthasuresh Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay Mitali Mukherji

Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare

National Centre for Cell Science, Pune TIFR Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore IITK IISc ISI, Kolkata Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for

Kalobaran Maiti Sangit Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna) for 2009 Lalgudi G Jayaraman Shriram Lagoo Yamini Krishnamurti Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi Kishori Amonkar Pandit Jasraj India International Film Festival 2010 Golden Peacock Award

Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore TIFR

Carnatic Violinist Film Actor (Hindi and Marathi) Bharatnatyam/Thea tre Theatre Khayal/Thumri/Bha jan singer Hindustani Classical Vocalist

Moner Manush (Bengali) (dir: Gautam Ghose)

Best Actor Best Actress

Guven Kiran (Turkey) Magdalena Boczarska (Poland)

The film is a saga of the life of Lalan Faquir, a 19th century Bengali Philosopher poet and his liberal sect whose message was tolerance For the film: The Crossing For the film: Little Rose

Sahitya Academi Awards Poets

Novelists

Arun Sakhardande Vanita Mithila Prasad Tripathi Sheen Kaaf Nizam Laxman Dubey Mangat Badal Aurobindo Uzir Gopi Narayan Pradhan Esther David

Konkani Punjabi Sanskrit Urdu Sindhi Rajasthani Bodo Nepali English

Short Stories

Bani Basu Dhirendra Mehta M Borkanya Nanjil Nadan Uday Prakash Manoj

Bengali Gujarati Manipuri Tamil Hindi Dongri

Padmavibhush an Montek Singh Ahluvalia Brajesh Mishra Azim Premji A Nageshwara Rao Kapila Vatsyayan Lakshmi Chand Jain (posthumous) the family declined the honor as LC Jain was against the concept of state honors. Former National Security Advisor Telugu film celebrity Art Historian Gandhian activist. Served as a member of Planning Comm and Indian HC to S. Africa

Padma Bhushan Waheeda Rahman Padma Shri VVS Laxman http://www.hindu.com/2011/01/26/stories/201101266219 1600.htm Ashok Chakra Major Laishram Jyotin Singh Posthumous. He was an Army doctor. For fighting insurgents and terrorists in J&K, J&K and Manipur respectively All posthumous

Kirti Chakra

Cptn Deepak Sharma (Psth), Cptn Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh, Major Rahul Gurung

Shaurya Chakra

Major Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish Roy: killed during attack on Indian mission in Kabul Guardsman Krishnan Kumar, Sepoy Ravi Kant and Sepoy Sangat Singh Presented by the Assam government

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad Award for National Integration

M J Akbar (2008) Hema Bharali (2009)

Journalist Freedom fighter

International Awards

Nobel Prize 2010 Medicine Physics

Robert G Edwards (British) Andre Geim (UK) Konstantin Novoselov (UK)

Chemistry

Literature

Richard Heck (US) Ei-ichi Negishi (US) Akira Suzuki (Japan) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)

For research in in-vitro fertilization For experiments with Graphene. Novoselov is the youngest physicist since 1973 to win a nobel Palladium catalysed cross coupling Famous works: Conversation in the Cathedral, The feast of the goat, The time of the Hero For his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China For their analysis of markets with search frictions

Peace

Liu Xiaobo (China)

Economic Sciences

Peter Diamond (MIT) Dale Mortensen (NorthWestern University) Christopher Pissarides (LSE) Howard Jacobson (British)

Man Booker Prize 2010

For the novel The Finkler Question

Knight of the Order of Legion dHonneur (Frances highest honour) Pulitzer Prize 2010 General non-fiction

Deepak Parekh

Siddhartha Mukharjee

NY Times Public Service + Feature Photography Photography The Los Angeles Times Carol Guzy <has won 4 Pultizers> Nikki Kahn Ricky Carioti Jennifer Egan

Book: The Emperor of all Maladies: A biography of Cancer For its economics commentary and reporting on Russia

Fiction

<The Washington Post> For pictures of earthquake in Haiti A visit from the goon squad

Sports
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Started in 1991-92. It is the highest honour given for achievement in sports. First Awardee: Vishwanathan Anand (1991-92) Was not awarded in 1993-94. Joint awards were given in the years: 1994-95: Homi D Motivala(Yatching), P K Garg (Yatching) 1996-97: Nameirakpam Kunjarani (weightlifting), Leander Paes (Tennis) 2002-03: Anjali Bhagwat (shooting), K M Beenamol (Athletics) 2008-09: Mary Kom (Boxing), Vijender Singh (Boxing), Sushil Kumar (Wrestling) In 2009-10, it was awarded to Saina Nehwal. Only two cricket personalities have got the award: Tendulkar (1997-98), Dhoni (2007-08) 2 in badminton: Pullela Gopichand (2000-01) and Saina (2009-10) 1 in tennis: Leander Paes Maximum given in shooting: 4. Abhinav Bindra (2001-02), Anjali Bhagwat (2002-03), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004-05), Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006-07)

Dhyan Chand Award

Instituted in 2002. Highest award for lifetime achievement in sports. Rastriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar is given to institutions promoting sports development.

Booker Prize Winners from India

Name Kiran Desai (resides in US) V S Naipual (Trinidadian of Indian Origin) (also won the Year 2006 1971 Book The Inheritance of Loss In a Free State Other Books Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival

Nobel Prize in 2001) Salman Rushdie (resides in UK) Arundhati Roy

1981 1997

Midnights Children The God of Small Things

The Satanic Verses

Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding

Award by GoI. Started in 1965. Administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. First: U Thant 1965 2007 Olafur Ragnar Grimmsson Notable recipients: Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa, Raul Prebisch, Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, Aung Suu Kyi

Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Developemnt

Annual award to individuals or organisations in recognition of creative efforts towards promoting peace, disarmament etc. Since 1986 First Parliamentarians for global action 2007 Gates foundation 2008 Md Elbaradei 2009- Sheikh Hasina 2010 Lula Da silva Other notable: Gorbachev, Rajiv Gandhi, Jimmy Carter, Md Yunus, MS Swaminathan, Kofi Annan, Hamid Karzai

Science
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Started in 1958 Awarded annually by CSIR for applied or fundamental research in seven fields: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Atmosphere Ocean and Planetary Sciences (Environmental Sciences), Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics A citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years is eligible for the prize. Nominations proposed by CSIR, heads and deans of universities and previous awardees. Announced on September 26.

Literature
Jnanpith Award
Instituted in 1961 First awarded in 1965: G Sankara Kurup Highest literary award in India; presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith trust.