CURRENT AFFAIRS - AWARDS 2013-14

• Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014

• Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014

• Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year

• Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013

• Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014

• Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013

• Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction")

• APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh

• Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize

• Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival

• Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award

• Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014

• Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014

• Chandi Prasad Bhatt - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013)

• Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA)

• Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature

• Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction)

• Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award

• Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge

• Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013

• Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013)

• Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013

• Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013

• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award

• ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt

• Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt

• Javed Aktar - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013

• Jeev Milkha Singh (for the book Lava) - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade

• Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted)

• Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award

• Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel

• Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award

• Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

• Koyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India

• Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US

• Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix

• Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award

• Luis Suarez - PFA Player of the year

• Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014

• Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated)

• Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award

• Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon

• Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014

• Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal

• Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014

• MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award

• N R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014

• Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013)

• Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012)

• Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction)

• Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013

• Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International

• Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna

• Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014

• Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix Award

• Rajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013)

• Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award

• Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize

• Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross)

• Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013

• Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna

• Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award

• Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013)

• Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014

• Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year

• Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award

• Sikkim - National Tourism Award

• Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014

• Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU

• Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award

• Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title

• Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014

• TCS - Top Employer in Europe

• Tomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014

• Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry)

• Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013

• Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014

• Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award