List of
Important days
International Organisations and Leaders
Awards and Winners
Prepared by,
S.Punitha M.Sc., M.Phil.,
Important days
January :January 1 - Global Family Day, Army Medical Corps Establishment
Day
January 6 - World War Orphans Day
January 9 - NRI Day or Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas
January 10 - World Laughter Day
January 11 - Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
January 12 - National Youth Day or Birthday of Swami
Vivekananda
January 15 - National Army Day
January 23 - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Birth Anniversary
January 24 - National Girl Child Day of India
January 25 - National Tourism Day, National Voters Day
January 26 - Republic Day of India, International Customs duty
day
January 27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 28 - Data Protection Day,Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat
Rai
January 30 - National Martyr’s Day or Sarvodaya Day,World
Leprosy Eradication Day
February :February 2 - World Wetlands Day
February 4 - World Cancer Day, national Day of Srilanka,
Facebook day
2nd Sunday of February - World Marriage Day
February 6 - International Day against Female Genital Mutilation
February 11 - World Day of the Sick
February 12 - Darwin Day
February 13 - World Radio Day, National womens day or Sarojini
Naydu’s Birthday
February 14 - Valantine's Day
February 20 - World Day of Social Justice
February 21 - International Mother Language Day
February 22 - World Scout Day, World Thinking day
February 23 - World Peace and Understanding Day
February 24 - Central Excise Day
February 28 - National Science Day
March :March 3 - National Defence Day
March 4 - National Safety Day,World Day of the Fight Against
Sexual Exploitation, National Security Day
March 8 - International Womens’ Day
March 13 - World Rotaract Day
March 14 - World Pie day
2nd Monday of March - Commonwealth Day
2nd Thursday of March - World Kidney Day
March 15 - World Consumer Rights Day, World Disabled Day,
World Contact Day
March 16 - National Vaccination Day
March 18 - National Ordinance Factories Day
March 20 - International Day of Happiness, World sparrow day
March 21 - World Forestry Day, International Day for the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination, World Poetry Day, World
Down Syndrome day, World Puppetry day
3rd Friday of March - World Sleep Day
March 22 - World Water Day
March 23 - World Meteorological Day, Pakistan Day(Youm-epakistan)
March 24 - World TB Day, International Day for Achievers
March 25 - International Day of Remembrance – Victims of
Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 26 - World Purple day(epilepsy awareness day)
March 27 - World Drama Day or World Theater Day
April :April 1 - Orissa Day, April fool's day
April 2 - World Autism Awareness Day
April 4 - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in
Mine Action
April 5 - National Maritime Day
April 7 - World Health Day
April 8 - World Romani Day
April 12 - World Aviation & Cosmonauts Day
April 13 - Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day
April 14 - B.R.Ambedkar Remembrance Day
April 15 - World day of Silence, Day of Dialogue
April 17 - World Haemophilia Day
April 18 - World Heritage Day
April 21 - World Creativity and Innovation Day, National
Secrataries day, National Civil Services Day
April 22 - World Earth Day
April 23 - World Book and Copyright Day, World English
Language Day
April 24 - World Lab Animals Day
April 25 - World Malaria Day, Italy Liberation Day
April 26 - World Intellectual Property Day
April 28 - International Worker’s Memorial Day, World day for
Safety and Health at work
April 29 - World Dance Day
April 30 - International Jazz Day
May :May 01 - World Labour Day or May Day or Workers Day,
Maharashtra Day
May 03 - Press Freedom Day(Intl.), International Sun Day, World
Asthma Day, International Energy Day
May 04 - Coal Miners Day(Intl.), International Firefighters’ Day
1st Sunday of May - World Laughter Day
May 05 - World Athletics Day, World Midwives Day
May 06 - World No Diet Day
May 08 - World Red Cross Day or Red Crescent Day,
Remembrance and Reconciliation for Lost Lives of Second World
War
May 09 - World Thalassaemia Day
2nd sunday of May - World Mother Day
May 10 - International Migratory Bird Day
May 11 - National technology day
May 12 - International Nurses Day
May 13 - International Criminal Court Day
May 15 - International Day of the Families
May 17 - World Tele-communication and Information Society
Day, Wold AIDS Vaccination day,World Hypertension Day,
International day against Homophobia and Transphobia
May 18 - World Museum Day
May 20 - World Meteorology Day
May 21 - National Anti Terrorism Day, National Day for Cultural
Development
May 22 - International Day for Biological Diversity
May 24 - Commonwealth Day
May 25 - World Missing Childrens day
May 29 - International Day of Peacekeepers
May 31 - World Anti Tobacco Day
June :-
June 1 - Global Day of Parents
June 4 - World Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 - World Environment Day
June 8 - World Brain Tumor Day, World Oceans Day
June 12 - World Day Against Child Labor
June 14 - World Blood Donor Day
June 15 - World elder abuse awareness day
3rd Sunday of June - World Father’s Day
June 16 - International Integration Day
June 18 - International Picnic Day
June 20 - World Refugee Day
June 21 - World Music Day
June 23 - International Olympic Day, United Nations Public
Service Day, International Widows Day
June 26 - International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit
Trafficking, International Day in support of Victims of torture
July :July 1 - International Joke Day, world Doctor’s Day
July 2 - World Sports Journalists Day, World UFO day
1st Saturday of July - International Day of Cooperatives
July 04 - America Indipendence Day
July 06 - World Zoonoses Day
JUly 07 - World Chocolate Day
July 11 - World Population Day
July 12 - International Malala Day
July 18 - International Nelson Mandela Day
July 26 - Kargil Vijay Diwas or Kargil Memorial Day or Kargil
Victory Day
July 28 - World Nature Conservation Day, World Hepatitis Day
July 29 - International Tiger Day
August :First Sunday in August - International Friendship Day
August 6 - Hiroshima Day, Anti Nuclear Day
August 8 - World Senior Citizen Day
August 9 - Nagasaki Day, International Day of the World’s
Indigenous People, Quit India Day
August 12 - International Youth Day
August 13 - International Left Handers Day
August 14 - Pakistan’s Indipendence Day
August 15 - India’s Independence Day, International Mourning
Day
August 19 - World Humanitarian Day, World Photography Day
August 20 - National Sadbhavna Divas or Birthday of Rajiv gandhi,
World Mosquito Day, Indain Akshay Urja Diwas or day
August 21 - National Senior Citizen Day
August 23 - International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave
Trade and Its Abolition
August 29 - National Sports Day or Dhyanchand's Birthday
August 30 - International day of the victims of enforced
Disappearances
September :September 2 - World Coconut Day
September 5 - National Teacher’s Day or Dr. Radhakrishanan's
Birth Day, Sanskrit Day
September 7 - World Forgiveness Day
September 8 - World Literacy Day
September 10 - World Anti-Suicide Day
September 14 - Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day, World First Aid Day
September 15 - International Day of Democracy, International
Engineer’s Day
September 16 - World Ozone Day
September 20 - RPF Foundation day
September 21 - World Peace Day or International day for Peace
and Non-violence (UN), World Alzheimer’s Day
September 22 - World Cancer Free Day or Rose Day
September 23 - International Day of the Deaf
September 26 - World Contraception Day, european day of
languages
September 27 - World Tourism Day
September 28 - World Rabies Day
September 29 - World Heart Day
October :1st Monday of October - World Habitat Day
October 1 - World Vegetarian Day, International Day of the
older/Elderly
October 2 - Gandhi Jayanti, International Day of Non-Violence
October 3 - World Nature Day
October 4 - World Animal Day
October 5 - World Teacher’s Day
October 6 - World Wildlife Day
October 8 - Indian Air Force Day
October 9 - World Postal or Post-office Day
October 10 - World Mental Health Day, National Post-office Day
October 11 - International Day of the Girl Child
2nd Thursday of October - World Sight Day
October 12 - World Arthritis Day
October 13 - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
October 14 - World Standards Day
October 15 - Global Hand Washing Day, International Day of Rural
Women, World White Cane Safety Day
October 16 - World Food Day
October 17 - International Poverty Day for it's Eradication
October 20 - World Osteoporosis Day,World Statistics Day,
National Solidarity day
October 24 - UN Day, World Development Information Day, World
Polio Day
October 27 - World day for Audio Visual Heritage
October 28 - International Animation Day
October 31 - World Savings Day or wold Thrift day, Halloween
Day
November :November 1 - World Vegan Day
November 6 - International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of
the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
November 7 - Infant Protection Day, World Cancer Awareness
Day
November 8 - World Radiology Day
November 9 - World Legal Service Day
November 10 - World Science day for Peace and Development,
Public Transport Day
November 11 - National Education Day
November 12 - World Pneumonia Day, Public Service
Broadcasting Day
November 13 - World Kindness Day
November 14 - Children’s Day(India), World Diabetes Day
November 16 - International Day for Endurance or Tolerance
November 17 - International Students Day, Gurunanak Dev's Birth
Anniversary, National eplilepsy day
November 19 - World Toilet Day, International Men’s Day,
National Integration Day
November 20 - Universal Children’s Day
3rd Sunday of November - World Day of Remembrance for Road
Traffic Victims
3rd Thursday of November - World Philosophy Day
November 21 - World Fisheries Day, World Hello Day, World
Television Day
November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence
Against Women, World Non-Veg day
November 26 - National Law Day or National constitution Day
November 30 - National Flag Day
December :December 1 - World AIDS Day
December 2 - World Computer Literacy Day, International Day for
the Abolition of Slavery
December 3 - International Day of People with Disability or World
Disability Day
December 4 - Indian Navy Day
December 5 - International Volunteer Day for Economic and
Social Development
December 7 - International Civil Aviation Day, Indian Armed
Force Flag Day
December 9 - The International Anti-Corruption Day
December 10 - World Human Rights Day,International Children's
Day of Broadcasting
December 11 - International Mountain Day, UNICEF Day
December 14 - National Energy Conservation Day(India)
December 16 - Vijay Diwas
December 18 - International Migrants Day, National Minority
Rights Day
December 19 - Goa’s Libration Day
December 20 - International Human Solidarity Day
December 23 - National Farmer’s Day or Kisan Diwas
December 25 - Christmas Day
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International Organizations and their leaders
Food and Agriculture Organization
Director-General - José Graziano da Silva, Brazil (2012–present)
International Atomic Energy Agency
Director-General - Yukiya Amano, Japan (2009–present)
International Civil Aviation Organization
President of the Council - Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, Nigeria (2013–
present)
Secretary-General - Raymond Benjamin, France (2009–present)
International Labour Organization
Director-General - Guy Ryder, UK (2012–present)
United Nations
Secretary-General - Ban Ki Moon, South Korea (2007–present)
President of the General Assembly - Mogens Lykketoft, Denmark
(2015 - present)
Security Council members - China, France, Russia, United
Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Chad, Chile,
Jordan, Lithuania, Nigeria (2014 - present)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Executive Director - Anthony Lake, United States (2010–present)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
Director-General - Irina Bokova, Bulgaria (2009–present)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
High Commissioner - Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, Jordan (2014–
present)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
High Commissioner - António Guterres, Portugal (2005–present)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Director-general - Li Yong, China (2013–present)
World Food Programme (WFP)
Executive Director - Ertharin Cousin, United States (2007–
present)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Director-General - Margaret Chan, Hong Kong (2007–present)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
President - David Grimes, Canada (2011–present)
Secretary-General - Michel Jarraud, France (2004–present)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Secretary-General - Taleb Rifai, Jordan (2010–present)
Political and economic organizations[edit]
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Secretary-General - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2010–
present)
African Union -
Chairperson - Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopia, (2013–present)
Chairperson of the Commission - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South
Africa (2012–present)
President of the Pan-African Parliament - Idriss Ndele Moussa,
Chad (2009–present)
Andean Community Secretary-General - Adalid Contreras Baspineiro (Bolivia), (2010–
present)
Arab League Secretary-General - Nabil Elaraby, Egypt (2011–present)
Arab Maghreb Union
Secretary-General - Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006–present)
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Executive Director - Muhamad Noor, Malaysia (2010–present)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary-General - Le Luong Minh, Vietnam (2013–present)
Caribbean Community Secretary-General - Lolita Applewhaite, Barbados (2011–present)
Central American Parliament President - Dorindo Cortéz, Panama (2010–present)
Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretary-General - Sindiso Ngwenya, Zimbabwe (2008–present)
Commonwealth of Nations Head - Queen Elizabeth II (1952–present)
Secretary-General - Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008–present)
Commonwealth of Independent States
Executive Secretary - Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007–present)
Council of Europe
Secretary General - Thorbjørn Jagland, Norway (2009–present)
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) - Mevlüt Çavusoglu, Turkey (2010–present)
President of the European Court of Human Rights - Jean-Paul
Costa, France (2007–present)
East African Community Secretary-General - Richard Sezibera, Rwanda (2011–present)
Economic Community of West African States
President of the Commission - Victor Gbeho, Ghana (2010–
present)
Chairman - Alassane Ouattara, Côte d'Ivoire (2012–present)
Eurasian Economic Community
Secretary-General - Tair Mansurov, Khazakstan (2007–present)
Chairman of the Interstate Council - Nursultan Nazarbayev,
Kazakhstan (2001–present)
European Free Trade Association
Secretary-General - Kristinn Árnason, Iceland (2012–present)
European Union (EU)
Presidency of the European Council - Herman Van Rompuy
(2009–present)
Presidency of the European Union Council
Ireland (2013)
President of the European Commission - José Manuel Barroso,
Portugal (2004–present)
President of the European Parliament - Jerzy Buzek, Poland
(2010–present)
Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the
Common Foreign and Security Policy - Catherine Ashton, United
Kingdom (2009–present)
President of the European Central Bank - Mario Draghi, Italy
(2011–present)
European Ombudsman - Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greece (2003–
present)
President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) - Peter Straub,
Germany (2004–present)
President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) - Werner
Hoyer, Germany (2012–present)
President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - Vassilios
Skouris, Greece (2003–present)
President of the European Court of Auditors - Hubert Weber,
Austria (2005–present)
President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) - AnneMarie Sigmund, Austria (2004–present)
Group of Eight (G8)
President (informal) - David Cameron, United Kingdom (2013)
Gulf Cooperation Council
Secretary-General - Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain
(2011–present)
Ibero-American Secretariat (Segib)
Secretary-General - Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay (2005–present)
Indian Ocean Commission
Secretary-General - Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso,
Madagascar (2004–present)
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Chairman - Hassan Rouhani, Iran (2013–present)
Nordic Council
Secretary-General - Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007–2013)
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Secretary-General - Jens Stoltenberg, Norway (October 1, 2014present)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD)
Secretary-General - José Ángel Gurría, Mexico (2006–present)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Secretary-General - Lamberto Zannier, Italy (2011–present)
Chairman-in-Office - Audronius Ažubalis, Lithuania (2011–
present)
High Commissioner on National Minorities - Knut Vollebæk,
Norway (2007–present)
Organization of American States
Secretary-General - José Miguel Insulza, Chile (2005–present)
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Director-General - Len Ishmael, Saint Lucia (2003–present)
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Secretary-General - Iyad bin Amin Madani, Saudi Arabia (2014–
present)
Pacific Community
Director-General - Jimmie Rodgers, Solomon Islands (2006–
present)
Pacific Islands Forum
Secretary-General - Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa (2008–present)
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Secretary-General - Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhstan (2007–present)
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Secretary-General - Ahmed Saleem, Maldives (2012–present)
Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
Director of the Executive Secretariat - Agustín Colombo Sierra,
Argentina (2009–present)
Southern African Development Community
Executive Secretary - Stergomena Tax, Tanzania (2013–present)
Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul)
President - Ollanta Humala, Peru (2012–present)
Secretary-General - Alí Rodríguez Araque, Venezuela (2012–
present)
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
Secretary-General - Roberto Azevêdo, Brazil (2013–present)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Director-General - Roberto Azevêdo, Brazil (2013–present)
Financial organizations[edit]
African Development Bank President - Donald Kaberuka, Rwanda (2005–present)
Asian Development Bank President - Takehiko Nakao, Japan (2013–present)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
President - Suma Chakrabarti, India (2012–present)
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
President - Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005–present)
International Monetary Fund
Managing Director - Christine Lagarde, France (2011–present)
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
President - Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Saudi Arabia (1975–present)
World Bank
President - Jim Yong Kim, United States (2012–present)
BRICS Bank
President - KV Kamath, India (2015–present)
Sports organizations[edit]
Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
President - Zhang Jilong, China (2011–present)
Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF)
President - Issa Hayatou, Cameroon (1988–present)
Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean
Association Football (CONCACAF)
President - Alfredo Hawit, Honduras (2011–present)
Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)
President - Eugenio Figueredo, Uruguay (2013–present)
Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE)
President - Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian Federation (1995–
present)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
President - Sepp Blatter, Switzerland (1998–2015)
International Cricket Council (ICC)
President - Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan (2015–present)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
President - Thomas Bach, Germany (2013–present)
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
President - Philip Craven, United Kingdom (2001–present)
International Rugby Board (IRB)
President - Bernard Lapasset, France (2008–present)
Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
President - David Chung, Malaysia/Papua New Guinea (2010–
present)
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
President - Michel Platini, France (2007–present)
Other organizations[edit]
Antarctic Treaty
Executive Secretary - Jan Huber, Netherlands (2004–present)
Colombo Plan Acting Secretary-General - Mr Tay Bian How, Malaysia (December
2013 - present)
Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
Executive Secretary - Murade Isaac Miguigy Murargy,
Mozambique (2012–present)
EDU - Intergovernmental Organization (EDU)
Secretary-General - G.Irving Levance, (2011–present)[1]
La Francophonie
Secretary-General - Abdou Diouf, Senegal (2003–present)
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Executive Secretary - Mahboub Maalim, Kenya (2008–present)
International Committee of the Red Cross
President - Peter Maurer, Switzerland (2012–present)
International Court of Justice
President - Hisashi Owada, Japan (2009–present)
International Criminal Court
President - Song Sang-Hyun, South Korea (2009–present)
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
Secretary-General - Ronald Noble, United States (2000–present)
President - Mireille Ballestrazzi, France (2012–present)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
President - Tadateru Konoé, Japan (2009–present)
International Maritime Organization
Secretary-General - Koji Sekimizu, Japan (2012–present)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Director-general - William Lacy Swing, United States (2008–
present)
International Telecommunication Union
Secretary-General - Hamadoun Touré, Mali (2007–present)
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Director-General - Ahmet Üzümcü, Turkey (2010–present)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Secretary-General - Mohammed S. Barkindo, Nigeria, acting for
Daukoru (2006–present)
Universal Postal Union
Director-General - Édouard Dayan, France (2005–present)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Director-General - Francis Gurry (2008–present)
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Award and Winners
List of Arjuna Award Winners 2015
Name of the sportsperson
Discipline
Naib Subedar Sandeep Kumar Archery
Ms. M.R. Poovamma
Athletics
Mr. Kidambi Srikanth
Badminton
Nammalwar
Mr. Mandeep Jangra
Boxing
Mr. Rohit Sharma
Cricket
Ms. Dipa Karmakar
Gymnastic
Mr. Sreejesh P.R.
Hockey
Mr. Manjeet Chhillar
Kabaddi
Ms. Abhilasha Shashikant
Mhatre
Mr. Sawarn Singh
Mr. Anup Kumar Yama
Mr. Jitu Rai
Shri S. Sathish Kumar
Mr. Bajrang
Ms. Babita Kumari
Ms. Yumnam Sanathoi Devi
Mr. Sharath M. Gayakwad
Kabaddi
Rowing
Roller Skating
Shooting
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Wrestling
Wushu
Para-Swim
National and International Awards
Name of The
Awards
Persons/Organizations
Fauja Singh
Queen’s New Year Honors 2015
M.Y.S Prasad (Director of
Vikram Sarabhai Memorial
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Award for the year 2015
Sriharikota.
ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission
Space Pioneer Award in the
Team
category of Science and
Technology 2015
Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Governor of the Year Award
Reserve Bank of India
2015
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Central Bank of the Year Award
2015
Amitabh Bachchan
Social Media Person of the Year
Award 2015 given by Internet
and Mobile Association of India
Prabhu Nath Dwivedi
Sahitya Akademi Award 2014
Subhash Chandra Agrawal
Giraffe Hero Award for the year
2015
Jammu and Kashmir
National Award for eGovernance for best District
level initiative
R.K. Tyagi, the Chairman of
JGBS-Top Rankers’ Excellence
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
Award of the year 2014
Master Devesh Kumar
Sanjay Chopra Award 2015 as
announced by the Government
of India
Gunjan Sharma
Geeta Chopra Award 2015 as
announced by the Government
of India
Frank Islam, Indian-American Martin Luther King Jr. Award
Philanthroist
2015
Arundhati Subramaniam
Khushwant Singh Memorial
Prize for Poetry 2015
Paulina Vega of Colombia
Miss Universe 2015
Sardar Singh, the Captain of
Padma Shri Award
Hockey team
Puja Thakur
inter-service Guard of Honour
2015
Late Major Mukund
Ashok Chakra award on
Varadarajan and Late Naik
26th January 2015. The Award
Neeraj Kumar
is the highest peacetime
military award of India.
Dr. A. Zakir Naik
King Faisal International Prize
for the year 2015
Srikant Jagabathula
Faculty Early Career
Development Award (CAREER)
2015
Saurav Ganguly
Life Membership of Marylebone
Cricket Club (MCC) MCC
Dr.Tessy Thomas and Geeta
Dr.Y. Nayudamma Memorial
Varadan
Award 2014
Purrendu Dasgupta
J. Calvin Giddings Award 2015
Ratan Tata
Doctorate of Automative
Engineering by Clemson
University of South Carolina,
USA
Hifikepunye Pohamba,
‘Mo Ibrahim Prize’ for African
President of Namibia won
Leadership for the year 2014.
Three South Asian women
International Women of
namely Nilofar Rahmani,
Nadia Sharmeen and
Tabassum Adnan
Rani Mukherjee
Courage Award
National Award for best
representation of Cause of
Women. The award has given
by National Institute of Gender
Justice (NIGJ).
Stree Shakti Puraskars and Nari Shakti Puraskars presented by
the President of India Pranab Mukherjee for the year 2014 on
08th March 2015 i.e. on the eve of International Women’s Day.
Kerala Tourism
Golden Gate Award of Silver
Prize
Veerappa Moily
Saraswati Samman for the year
2014
An Indian origin Ganasen
KwaZulu-Natal 2015 National
Reddy
Teachers Awards 2015
Lata Mangeshkar
Laadli Voice of Century Award
2015
Rajendra Singh
named as 2015 Stockholm
Water Prize Laureate. He is also
known as ‘Water Man of India’.
Shashi Kapoor
chosen for Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for the year 2014
Madhav Gadgil and Dr.Jane
named for Tyler Prize for
Lubchenco
Environmental Achievement
2015
Akhil Sharma, the IndianThe Folio Prize for the year
American
2015
Gopaldas Neeraj the famous
‘Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep
Hindi Poet
Samman’ for the year 2012-13
Indian Space Research
Gandhi Peace Prize for the year
Organisation (ISRO)
2014
John F. Nash Jr. of USA
Abel Prize for the year 2015
Balbir Singh Senior
Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime
Achievement Award 2015
Pandit Madan Mohan
Malviya
Aditi Arya
Delhi International Airport
Limited
Pratap Singh, an Indian origin
schoolboy
Subadhra Devi Rai
Susanta Lahiri and Kattesh V.
Katti
Sachin Tendulkar
Shah Rukh Khan and Zayn
Malik
Shah Rukh Khan
Bharatiya Mahila Bank
Gopinath Pillai
Sangeeta Bhatia
Anil Kapoor
Bhalchandra Nemade of
Posthumously awarded with
Bharat Ratna on 30th March
2015
FBB Femina Miss India 2015
Golden Peacock National
Quality Award for the year
2015
Institute of Physics Prize for
Cosmic-ray project on
07th April 2015. The event
organized at National
Exhibition Centre, Birmingham.
International Achievement
Award for the year 2015.
Hevesy Medal Award for the
year 2015
elected as member of Laureus
Sports Academy
honoured at 5th Asian Awards
on 17thApril 2015 for
outstanding contributions.
Earlier Irfan Khan, Anupam
Kher and Yash Chopra were
awarded with this Award.
Dadasaheb Phalke Film
Foundation Award for the year
2015
Asian Banker Achievement
Award 2015
with Outstanding Service
Award 2015
Heinz Award for the year 2015
with Pandit Dinanath
Mangeshkar Award for the year
2015
Jnanpith Award
Maharashtra
Siddhartha Gigoo
S.S. Negi
Suresh Kalmadi
Ali Smith, the famous Author
of UK
Indian Space Research
Organization
Parkash Singh Badal, Chief
Minister of Punjab
R. Janakiraman, S. Sathyu,
Vijay Kichly and Tulsidas
Borkar
Babusha Kohli and Upasana
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Benni Joseph Mavelil, the
famous Philanthropist of UK
Ashwini Angadi, Devika Malik
and Akshay Jadhao
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
K. Meenakshi Sundaram,
Acharya Munishwar Jha,
Charu Chandra Pande and
Mathuradut Mathpal
Prataprao Pawar
Vishwanath Tripathi
Nadia District of West Bengal
R. Paul Singh
Commonwealth Short Story
Prize for Asia Region for his
work ‘Umbrella Man’.
World No Tobacco Day Award
2015
Asian Athletics Association
President’s Award 2015
Baileys Women’s Prize for
Fiction 2015
Space Pioneer Award for the
year 2015
Sant Namdev National Award
2015
Sangeet Akademi Fellowships
Navlekhan Award of Bharatiya
Jnanpith 2015
Sangitha Kalanidhi Award 2015
V.K. Krishna Menon Award
2015
Queen’s Young Leaders Award
Highest Civilian award of
Columbia
selected for Bhasha Samman
given by Sahitya Akademi
Punyabhushan Award
Moorti Devi Award
United Nations Public Service
Award 2015
GCHERA World Agriculture
Prize for the year 2015
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of
Bangladesh
Shakthi Nataraj of India
Darshan Jain
Sanjeev Galande
Preet Bharara, Rakesh
Khurana, Madhulika Sikka,
Abraham Verghese
Jodhpur Film Society
World Food Prize for the year
2015
‘Philip Brett LGBT Studies
Fellowship’
US Presidential Award for
Excellence
G.D. Birla Award for Scientific
Research
Pride of America Award for the
year 2015
Pritiman Sarkar Award for the
year 2014-15
Tata Steel’s West Bokaro
Golden Peacock Environment
Division
Management (GPEM) Award
for the year 2015
Pamarthy Shankar
Grand Prix World Press
Cartoon Award
Benoy Behl
Best Documentary Producer
Award at Madrid International
Film Festival
Department of Industrial
Frost and Sullivan’s Economic
Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Development Innovation
Award
Comparex India Pvt. Ltd
Microsoft Country Partner of
the year Award
Sayed Haider Raza, the
Civilian honour of France
famous Modern Artist of India Legion of Honour
Sunita Viswanath
Champions of Change
Arlene Biala
American Book Awards for the
year 2015 for book ‘Her
Beckoning Hands’ while the
Lifetime Achievement Award
won by Anne Waldman.
Peter Higgs
Royal Society Copley Medal
Helena Ndume and Jorge
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Sampaio
Ramachandra Guha
The State Government of
Tamil Nadu
Kashinath Singh
Amalendu Krishna
Zhanna Nemtsova
Dilip Parulekar
Raghavendra Gadagkar
Dr. M. Veerappa Moily
Lieutenant Colonel Nectar
Sanjenbam and Sub Rajesh
Kumar
Zia Haider Rahman of
Bangladesh
Babasaheb Purandare
Zaina Erhaim of Syria
Rajendra Singh
Sania Mirza
Tejinder Pal Singh
INDIA
Black Mamba Anti-Poaching
Unit of South Africa
Anupam Kher
Tambul Leaf Plates, an Indian
based organization
Dr.G. Satheesh Reddy
National Geographic Society
Prize
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award
for Youth
Bharat Bharti Literary Award
Ramanujan Prize
Solidarity Prize of Poland
PATWA-Safari India South Asia
Travel Award
Germany’s Cross of Order of the
Merit
Saraswati Samman
Kirti Chakras
James Tait Black Award for the
year 2015
Maharashtra Bhushan Award
Peter Mackler Award
Stockholm Water Prize
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2015
award for Tennis
Australian of the Day
UNESCO’s Award of
Excellence 2015
Selected for UNEP Champions
of Earth Award
Honoured Guest of Texas
Award
SEED Special Recognition
Award
Silver Medal by Royal
Aeronautical Society
Selected for UNEP Champions
of the Earth Award
Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister
of Bangladesh
Swetha Prabakaran, an
Indian-American
Aqeela Asifi, refugee teacher
of Afghanistan
Gujarat
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
Shamim Hanfi
Dr.Kamal Kishore Goenka
Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai
Indra Nooyi and Shobhana
Bhartia
Natvar Bhavsar
Employees Provident Fund
Organization (EPFO)
Dr.Jacob Tsimerman of
Canada
Kartik Chandran
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Ratan Tata
Zenia Bhumgara
Shashi Kapoor
Shoojit Sircar
Trichy also known as
UN Award for Leadership on
Climate Change
Champions of Change Award in
USA
UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
Best State/UT for
Comprehensive Tourism
Development
Best Heritage City
Most Innovative Use of
Information Technology
Jnangarima Manad Alankaran
Award
24th Vyaas Samman 2014
Community Impact Award
Global Leadership Award 2015
of US-India Business Council
(USIBC)
Artistic Achievement Award
SKOCH Award for Smart
Government
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015
National Academies of Science
Fellowship, National Science
Foundation Career Award
Right Livelihood Award
UK City of Coventry
Merlin Award by International
Magicians Association
Lifetime Achievement Award of
Jagran Fest
Best Director for the film ‘Piku’
at Jagran Fest
Skoch Smart Governance
Tiruchirapalli Municipal
Corporation
Nulagi, an Indian Film
I.V. Sasi, the famous film
maker of Malayalam
President Pranab Mukherjee
Kailash Satyarthi
Lobsang Sangay, Prime
Minister of Tibet
Award
Popular Choice Award at
Climate CoLab of
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
J.C. Daniel Award
Honorary Doctorate by Al-Quds
University, Ramallah, Palestine
Harvard Humanitarian of the
Year Award
Presidential Medal by Salisbury
University, USA
Noble Prize 2015
Youyou Tu of China, Satoshi
Nobel Prize for Physiology and
Omura of Japan and William
Medicine
Campbell of Ireland
Takaaki Kajita of Japan and
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
Arthur B. McDonald of Canada
Tomas Lindahl of UK, Paul
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
Modrich and Aziz Sancar of
DNA studies
USA
Svetlana Alexievich of Ukraine Nobel Prize in Literature
National Dialogue Quartet,
Nobel Peace Prize
Tunisia (Nobel Committee of
Norway)
Angus Deaton of Scotland
Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences
Forbes India Leadership Awards 2015
Uday Shankar, Star India Pvt. Best CEO of Multinational
Ltd.
Company
Arundhati Bhattacharya, State Best CEO of Public Sector
Bank of India
Best CEO of Private Sector
C.P. Gurnani, Tech Mahindra
Ltd.
R.C. Bhargava, Maruti Suzuki Lifetime Achievement Award
India Ltd.
Uday Kotak, Kotak Mahindra Entrepreneur for the Year
Bank Ltd.
Queen
Shahid Kapoor
Kangana Ranaut
IIFA Awards 2015
Best Film Award
Best Actor
Best Actress
OSCAR AWARDS 2015
87th Oscars ended and movie Birdman bagged four awards
including best picture award
Best director
Alejandro González Iñárritu for
Birdman
Best actor
Eddie Redmayne for The
Theory of Everything
Best actress
Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Best picture
Birdman
Best supporting actor
JK Simmons for Whiplash
Achievement in costume
The Grand Budapest Hotel –
design
Milena Canonero
Achievement in makeup and
The Grand Budapest Hotel –
hairstyling
Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Best foreign-language film
Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski
Best live-action short film
The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby,
James Lucas
Best documentary short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
subject
– Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana
Perry
Achievement in sound mixing
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben
Wilkins, Thomas Curley
Achievement in sound editing American Sniper – Alan Robert
Murray, Bub Asman
Best supporting actress
Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Achievement in visual effects Interstellar - Paul J Franklin,
Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter,
Scott R Fisher
Best animated short film
Feast – Patrick Osborne,
Kristina Reed
Best animated feature film
Big Hero 6
Best production design
The Grand Budapest Hotel:
Adam Stockhausen, Anna
Pinnock
Achievement in
Birdman: Emmanuel Lubezki
cinematography
Achievement in film editing
Whiplash – Tom Cross
Best documentary feature
Citizenfour – Laura Poitras,
Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk
Wilutzky
Best original song
Glory from Selma – Lonnie
Lynn (Common), John Stephens
(John Legend)
Best original score
Alexandre Desplat – The Grand
Budapest Hotel
Original screenplay
Alejandro González Iñárritu,
Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander
Dinelaris,
Adapted screenplay
Graham Moore – The Imitation
Game
ICC Awards 2014 - List of Winners
PERSONS
AWARDS
Mitchell Johnson (Australia)
Cricketer of the year (Sir
Garfield sober Trophy)
Mitchell Johnson (Australia)
Sarah Taylor (England)
Test Cricketer of the Year
Women’s ODI Cricketer of the
Year
AB de Villiers (South Africa)
ODI Cricketer of the Year
Gary Ballance (England)
Emerging Cricketer of the year
Preston Mommsen (Scotland) Associate and Affiliate Cricketer
of the year
Aaron Finch (Australia)
Twenty20 International
Performance of the Year
Meg Lanning (Australia)
T20 Women’s Cricketer of the
Year
Katherine Brunt (England)
Spirit of Cricket Award
Richard Kettleborough
Umpire of the year (Winning
the David Shepherd Trophy)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India) LG People’s Choice
Padma Awards 2015
Padma Vibhushan
Name of Persons
In Which Field
Amitabh Bachchan
Art
Dr D Veerendra Heggade
Social Work
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya
Swami ambhadracharya
Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan
(Foreigner)
Kottayan K. Venugopal
LK Advani
Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias
Dilip umar
Prakash Singh Badal
Prof Malur Ramaswamy
Srinivasan
Name of Persons
Others
Trade and Industry
Public Affairs
Public Affairs
Art
Public Affairs
Science and Engineering
Padma Bhushan
In Which Field
Jahnu Barua
Dr Vijay Bhatkar
Shri Swapan Dasgupta
Swami Satyamitranand Giri
N Gopalaswami
Dr Subhash C Kashyap
Dr (Pandit) Gokulotsavji
Maharaj
Dr Ambrish Mithal
Sudha Ragunathan
Shri Harish Salve
Dr Ashok Seth
Rajat Sharma
Satpal
Shivakumara Swami
Dr Kharag Singh Valdiya
Prof Manjul Bhargava
(NRI/PIO)
David Frawley (Vamadeva)
Foreigner)
Bill Gates (Foreigner)
Melinda Gates (Foreigner)
Saichiro Misumi (Foreigner)
Art
Science and Engineering
Literature and Education
Others
Civil Service
Public Affairs
Art
Medicine
Art
Public Affairs
Medicine
Literature and Education
Sports
Others
Science and Engineering
Science and Engineering
Others
Social Work
Social Work
Others
Padma Shri
Name of Persons
Dr Manjula Anagani
S Arunan
Kanyakumari Avasarala
Dr Bettina Sharada Baumer
Naresh Bedi
Ashok Bhagat
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora
Dr Gyan Chaturvedi
In Which Field
Medicine
Science and Engineering
Art
Literature and Education
Art
Social Work
Art
Literature and Education
Literature and Education
Prof (Dr) Yogesh Kumar
Chawla
Jayakumari Chikkala
Bibek Debroy
Dr Sarungbam Bimola Kumari
Devi
Dr Ashok Gulati
Dr Randeep Guleria
Dr KP Haridas
Rahul Jain
Ravindra Jain
Dr Sunil Jogi
Prasoon Joshi
Dr Prafulla Kar
Saba Anjum
Ushakiran Khan
Dr Rajesh Kotecha
Prof Alka Kriplani
Dr Harsh Kumar
Narayana Purushothama
Mallaya
Lambert Mascarenhas
Dr Janak Palta McGilligan
Veerendra Raj Mehta
Tarak Mehta
Neil Herbert Nongkynrih
Chewang Norphel
TV Mohandas Pai
Dr Tejas Patel
Jadav Molai Peyang
Bimla Poddar
Dr N Prabhakar
Dr Prahalada
Dr Narendra Prasad
Ram Bahadur Rai
Medicine
Medicine
Literature and Education
Medicine
Public Affairs
Medicine
Medicine
Art
Art
Literature and Education
Art
Art
Sports
Literature and Education
Medicine
Medicine Delhi
Medicine
Literature & Education
Literature and Education
Social Work
Social Work
Art
Art
Others
Trade and Industry
Medicine
Others
Others
Science and Engg
Science and Engg
Medicine
Literature and Education
Mithali Raj
PV Rajaraman
Prof JS Rajput
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Prof Bimal Roy
Shekhar Sen
Gunvant Shah
Brahmdev Sharma
Manu Sharma
Prof Yog Raj Sharma
Vasant Shastri
SK Shivkumar
PV Sindhu
Sardara Singh
Arunima Sinha
Mahesh Raj Soni
Dr Nikhil Tandon
H Thegtse Rinpoche
Dr Hargovind Laxmishanker
Trivedi
Huang Baosheng
Prof Jacques Blamont
Late Syedna Mohammad
Burhanuddin
Jean-Claude Carriere
Dr Nandrajan 'Raj' Chetty
George L Hart
Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda
Maha Raja
Late Meetha Lal Mehta
Tripti Mukherjee
Dr Dattatreyudu Nori
Dr Raghu Rama Pillarisetti
Dr Saumitra Rawat
Prof Annette Schmiedchen
Sports
Civil Service
Literature and Education
Art
Literature and Education
Art
Literature and Education
Literature and Education
Literature and Education
Medicine
Science and Engg
Science and Engg
Sports
Sports
Sports
Art
Medicine
Social Work
Medicine
Others
Science and Engg
Others
Literature and Education
Literature and Education
Others
Others
Social Work
Art
Medicine
Medicine
Medicine
Literature and Education
Late Pran Kumar Sharma alias Art
Pran
Late R Vasudevan
Civil Service