Awards (Jan-Oct), 2015 Name of the Award Name of the Person Business Person of the Year 2014 State Pre-eminent Science and Technology Award 2014. Larry Page Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards Yu Min Essop Goolam Pahad from South Africa Ashraf Pellarkunnmal from UAE. Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi from New Zealand. Rajamal Parakh from Oman. Duraikannu Karunakaran from Seychelles. Dr Rajaram Sanjaya from Mexico. Bharat Kumar Jayantilal Shah from UAE. Mahendra Nanji Mehta from Uganda. Nathuram Puri from the United Kingdom. Lord Raj Lumba from the United Kingdom. Mala Mehta from Australia. Satyanarayan Nadela from USA. Kamlesh Lulla from the US. Nandani Tandon from US. President Donald Rabindernauth Ramaotar from Guyana. 72nd Golden Globe Awards Movies Best motion picture (drama) Best motion picture (musical or comedy) Best animated feature film Best director Best screenplay Best original song Best foreign language film Television Best TV series (drama) Best actor in a TV series (drama) Best actress in a TV series (drama) Best TV series (comedy) Best TV movie or miniseries 2015 Space Pioneer Award 2014 Asian Tour Players’ Player of the year. Ballon d’Or 2014 Award Raghuram Rajan National e-Governance Award Vyas Samman Award National Tiger Conservation Authority(NTCA) award Vikram Sarabhai memorial award Sahitya Akademi Award National Special Category Award for the Best Electoral Practices in 2014. Boyhood. The Grand Budapest Hotel. How to Train Your Dragon 2. Richard Linklater,”Boyhood”. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”. Glory from “Selma”. “Leviathan”(Russia). The Affair Kevin Spacey,”House of Cards”. Ruth Wilson,”The Affair”. Transparent. Fargo. ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) or Mangalyaan Team. Anirban Lahiri Cristiano Ronaldo. Governor of the Year Award. Jammu and Kashmir. Kamal Kishore Goyanka. Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala. M Y S Prasad. Prabhu Nath Dwivedi. C V Anand. 1|Pag e Media Person of the Year 2015 Giraffe Hero Award 2015 Hindu Literary Prize 2014 Martin Luther King Award DSC Prize for South Asian fiction Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize Amitabh Bachchan. Subash Chandra Agarwal. Ashok Srinivasan. Frank Islam. Jhumpa Lahiri. Arundhathi Subramaniam. National Bravery Awards 2014 Sanjay Chopra Award Devesh Kumar. Bapu Gaidhani Award Monika, Rumoh Meto and Riya Chaudhary. Geeta Chopra Award Gunjan Sharma. Bharat Award Resham Fatma General National Bravery Award 18 Young People. Senior BJP leader L K Advani, Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Padma Vibhushan Award Dilip Kumar and Punjab Chief, Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Padma Bhushan Award Melinda Best Indian Language Website in India navbharattimes.com. Bharat Gaurav award Nasrin Ejner. Yash Bharti Award Vinod Mehta. th 60 Filmfare Awards Best Actor (Male) Shahid Kapoor for Haider. Best Actor (Female) Kangana Ranaut for Queen. Best Film Queen. Best Director Vikas Bahl for Queen. Best Film (Critics) Ankhon Dekhi. Best Actor (Critics) Sanjay Mishra for Ankhon Dekhi. Best Actress (Critics) Alia Bhatt for Highway. Best Supporting Actor (Male) Kay Kay Menon for Haider. Best Supporting Actor(Female) Tabu for Haider. Best Story Rajat Kapoor for Ankhon Dekhi. Best Dialogue Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi for PK. Best Screenplay Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi for PK. Best Debutant (Female) Kriti Sanon for Heropanti. Best Debutant(Male) Fawad Khan for Khoobsurat. Best Music Director Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for 2 States. Best Lyrics Rashmi Singh for Muskurane Ki Wajah(CityLights). Best Playback Singer (Male) Ankit Tiwari for Galliyan (Ek Villain). Best Playback Singer (Female) Kanika Kapoor for Baby Doll (Ragini MMS2). Best Choreography Ahmed Khan for Jumme Ki Raat for Kick Best Action Sham Kaushal for Gunday Best Cinematography Bobby Singh and Siddharth Diwan for Queen. Best Background Score Amit Trivedi for Queen. Best Editing Abhijit Kokate and Anurag Kashyap for Queen. Best Production Design Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray for Haider. Best Sound Design Anilkumar Konakandla and Prabal Pradhan for Mardaani. King Faisal International Award 2015 Dr. Zakir Naik. Hindol Sengupta’s Book(How Entrepreneurship is Hayek Prize Revolutionizing the World’s Largest Democracy. Jnanpith Award Bhalchandra Nemade. 68th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) 2|Pag e Best Film Boyhood. Outstanding British Film The Theory of Everything. Best Director Richard Linklater (Boyhood). Best Actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything). Best Actress Julianne Moore (Still Alice). Best Supporting Actor K. Simmons (Whiplash). Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, Boyhood. Best Original Screenplay The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Adapted Screenplay The Theory of Everything. Best Editing Whiplash. Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman). Best Production Design The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Costume Design The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Original Music The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best Sound Whiplash. Best Visual Effects Interstellar. Best Film Not in the English Language Ida. Best Animated Film The Lego Movie. Best Documentary Citizenfour. Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Stephen Beresford (Writer) and David Livingstone (Producer). Producer Best British Short Film Boogaloo and Graham. Best British Short Animation The Bigger Picture. The EE Rising Star Award Jack O’Connell. Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema BBC Films. Most awards The Grand Budapest Hotel (5). Most nominations The Grand Budapest Hotel (11). Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015 Amartya Sen. 57th Annual Grammy Awards Best New Age Album Trophy Ricky Kej. Children’s Album category Neela Vaswani. National Science Foundation(NSF) CAREER Gurpreet Singh. award Espncricinfo Award Rohit Sharma. CIO Choice Honour and Recognition 2015 Wipro. AIFF Presents Player of the Year Awards 2014 Player of the year (Men) Sunil Chhetti. Player of the year (Women) Bala Devi. Emerging Player of the Year Sandesh Jhingan. Best Referee Santosh Kumar. Best Assistant Referee Sappam Kennedy. Best Grassroots Programme Western India Football Association (WIFA). Long Time Contribution to Indian Football Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). Honorary Life Membreship Sourav Ganguly. National Award for Renewable Energy Himachal Pradesh. Popularisation Y Nayudamma Memorial Award Tessy Thomas and Geeta Varadan. 87th Academy Awards Best Picture Birdman Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu(Birdman). Best Actor Eddie Redmayne(The Theory of Everything). Best Actress Julianne Moore(Still Alice). 3|Pag e Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Achievement in Costume Design J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). Patricia Arquette (Boyhood). Milena Canonero(The Grand Budapest Hotel). Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier(The Grand Budapest Hotel). Ida(Pawel Pawlikowski). The Phone Call(Matt Kirkby and James Lucas). Birdman. American Sniper(Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman). Interstellar(Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Paul Franklin). Feast(Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed). Big Hero Six(Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli). The Grand Budapest Hotel(Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock). Birdman(Emannuel Lubezki). Whipalsh(Tom Cross). Citizen Four(Laura Poitras,Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky). Glory(John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn). The Grand Budapest Hotel(Alexandre Desplat). The Imitation Game (Graham Moore). Purnendu Dasgupta. Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Best Foreign Language Film Best Live Action Short Film Original Screenplay Achievement in Sound Editing Achievement in Visual Effects Best Animated Short Best Animated Movie Achievement in Production Design Achievement in Cinematography Achievement in Film Editing Best Documentary Feature Best Original Song Best Original Score Best Adapted Screenplay J Calvin Giddings Award 2015 The Grand Prix of the Generation International Jury Kplus Nagesh Kukunoor's film Dhanak. 1.Arundhati Bhattacharyya. 2.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. 3.Chanda Kochchar. Forbes Honors 6 Powerful Businesswomen in India 4. Akhila Srinivasan. 5.Shika Sharma. 6. Usha Sangwan. Doctorate of Automotive Engineering Ratan Tata. th 10 National Award for excellence in MGNREGA Madhya Pradesh. ICC Cricket Hall of Fame Martin Crowe. National award Rani Mukerji. Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership 2014 Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba. Golden Gate Award Kerala Tourism Department. Top Employer in Europe TCS-3rd time. Saraswati Samman Award Veerappa Moily. Stockholm Water Prize Rajendra Singh. 1. Captain Niloo far Rahmani from Afghanistan Air Force. 2. Nadia Sharmeen- Journalist and Women’s rights International Women of Courage Award 2015 activist from Bangladesh. 3. Tabassum Adnan- founder of Khwendo Jirga from Pakistan. th 4 National Photography Awards Life-Time Achievement Award Surendra R Patel. Best Professional Photographer of the Year Swarup Duta. Best Amateur Photographer of the Year Sasikumar. The theme for Professional Photographer category Hamara Bharat Swachh Bharat 4|Pag e The theme for Amateur Category Mother and Child. 1.Jayesh Navinchandra Shah. 2.Atul Vasant Ghag. Special Mention Award in Professional Category 3.Pravin Rawat. 4.Arvind Kumar Jain. 5.Umesh Nikam. .1Joydeep Mukherjee. 2.Akhil Hardia. Special Mention Award in Amateur Category 3.Nimai Chandra Ghosh. 4.Mukesh J Thakkar. 5.Tabeenah Anjum Qureshi. Voice of the Century Award Lata Mangeshkar. Young Global Leader by WEF Smriti Irani. Woman of the Year 2015 in New South Wales Minoti Apte. 1. Harvard university in US. 2. Cambridge university in UK. 3. University of Oxford in UK. 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Times Education World Reputation 5. Stanford University in US. Highe 6. University of California,Berkeley in US. r Rankings 7. Princeton university in US. 8. Yale University in US. 9. California Institute of Technology in US. 10. Colombia Institute of Technology in US. France’s Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters Bharti Kher. National Kavi Pradeep Samman Award Gopaldas Neeraj. 62nd National Film Awards Best Hindi Film Queen. Best Bengali Film Nirbashito. Best Tamil Film Kuttram Kadithal. Best Marathi Film Killa. Best Kannada Film Harivu. Best Konkani Film Nachom – IA Kumpasar. Best Malayalam Film Ain. Best Assamese Film Othello. Best Odiya Film Aadim Vichar. Best Punjabi Film Punjab 1984. Best Telugu Film Chandamama Kathalu. Best Rabha Film Orong. Best Haryanvi Film Pagdi The Honour. Best Music Direction Songs Haider (Hindi). Background Score Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam). Best Choreography Bismil for Haider. Special Mention Ain (Malayalam). Nachom IA Kumpasar (Konkani) Killa Marathi. Bhootnath Returns Hindi. Best Educational Film: Komal & Behind the Glass Wall. Best Exploration/Adventure Film Life Force – India’s Western Ghats. Best Investigative Film Phum Shang. Best Animation Film Sound of Joy Best Short Fiction Film Mitraa. 5|Pag e Best Film Critic Best Writing on Cinema Best Writing on Cinema Best Costume Designer Best Female Playback Singer Best Male Playback Singer Best Actress Best Supporting Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Actor Best Direction Best Film On Environment Conservation/ Preservation Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film Of A Director Best Feature Film Folio Prize for Fiction Tanul Thakur. Silent Cinema:(1895-1930)Pasupuleti, Purnachandra Rao. G.Dhananjayan for Pride of Tamil Cinema(Special Mention). Dolly Ahluwalia for Haider. Uttara Unnikrishanan for song Azhagu in Saivam (Tamil). Sukhwinder Singh for song Bismil from Haider. Kangana Ranaut for Queen. Baljinder Kaur for Pagdi The Honour (Haryanavi). Bobby Simhaa for Jigarthanda (Tamil). Vijay for Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada). Srijit Mukherji for Chotushkone (Bengali). Ottaal (Malayalam). Mary Kom. Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali). Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English). Akhil Sharma. 1. Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang Award: Sister Mariola (Rajasthan). 2. Rani Lakshmibai Award: Seema Prakash (Madhya Pradesh). 3. Rani Rudramma Devi Award: Astha SansthanStree Shakti Puraskar 2014 NGO (Rajasthan). 4. Mata Jijabai Award: Chandraprabha Bokey (Maharashtra). 5. Kannagi Award: P. Bhanumati (Kerala). Devi Ahily Man Booker International Prize Amitav Ghosh. Women in Parliaments Award Bangladesh. Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award Balbir Singh Senior. Dada Saheb Phalke Award Shashi Kapoor. Kirti Chakra Award Captain Jaidev of Parachute Regiment. 1.Subedar Prakash Chand Shaurya Chakra (Posthumously) 2. Lieutenant Commander Manoranjan Kumar 3.Major Abhijai of Corps of Engineers. 1.Major Mukul Sharma 2.Commander Gosavi Kaustubh Vijaykumar 3.Major R Vamshi Krishnan 4.Rifleman Manga Ram Shaurya Chakra 5.Wing Commander Huvey Upadhyaya 6.Major Abhishek Kumar 7.Major Satnam Singh 8. Naik Ansaigra Basumatary. th 6 Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) Awards National Thermal power corporation Limited Maharatna of the year – Manufacturing (NTPC). Most Efficient Maharatna – Manufacturing Bharat Heavy electrical Limited (BHEL). 6|Pag e Fastest Growing Navaratna of the year -Non Manufacturing Best General Insurance Company of the year Outstanding Performance in Mega Project Implementation. Highest Wealth Creator among listed PSUs Navratna of the year – Non-Manufacturing Outstanding performer in Retail Banking Most Consistent Performer of the year- General Insurance Maharatna of the year – Non-Manufacturing Biggest e-commerce portal in India Rural electrification Corporation Limited(REC). New India Assurance Company. Steel Authority of India (SAIL) National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. (NBCC). Power Finance Corporation Limited(PFC). Canara Bank. United India Insurance Company Oil and Natural gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). Most Efficient Miniratna of the year- Non- Container Corporation Of India Limited Manufacturing (CONCOR). Most Efficient Public Sector Bank Bank of Baroda. National Mineral Development Corporation Most Efficient Navratna –Non- Manufacturing (NMDC). Fastest Growing Maharatna – Non-Manufacturing COAL India Web Ratna Awards 2014 Citizen Centric Service Category Platinum Award Passporte Seva Project. National Safai Karmchari Finance Development Gold Award Corporation. Silve Award National Institute of Open schooling. Open Data Champion category Office of Registrar General & Census Platinum Award Commissioner. Planning Commission and Union Minister of Gold Award Statistics & Program Implementation. Silver Award Union Minister of Water Resources. Outstanding Content category Platinum Award Minister of External Affairs. Gold Award Minister of Tribal Affairs and Kerala Tourism. Silver Award Minister of Development of North Eastern Region. Innovative Use of Technology category Platinum Award MKisan-Government of India Portal for Farmer Centric Services. Gold Award MP and Tamil Nadu Commertial Tax Department . E-Sahakar, an online Cooperative Society Process Silver Award Management System of Maharashtra Government. Comprehensive Web presence category Platinum Award Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Gold Award Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Silver Award Controller General of Accounts. Comprehensive Web Presence State category Platinum Award Maharashtra. Gold Award Tamil Nadu. Silver Award Uttarakhand. Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO). 7|Pag e Abel Prize 2015 Dr. John Forbes Nash and Louis Nirenberg. Bishwaratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika International Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Solidarity Award Femina Miss India 2015 Aditi Arya. Bharat Ratna Madan Mohan Malviya. International Achievement Award 2015 Dr Subadhra Devi Rai. Sir Richard Hadlee Medal Brendon McCullum. Golden Peacock National Quality Award 2015 Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) Laureus World Sports Awards 2015 Sportsman of the year Novak Djokovic. SportsWoman of the year Genzebe Dibaba. Team of the year Germany MEN’s Football Team. Come-back of the year Schalk Burger. Break-through of the year Daniel Ricciardo. Action-sports-person of the year Alan Eustace. Sportsperson of the year with a disablity Tatyana Mcfadden. Sport for good Award Skateistan. Demy Exceptioanal Achievement Li Na. Spirit of Sport Yao Ming. 6th AIMA Managing India Awards 2015 Director Of The Year Rajkumar Hirani. Transformational Business Leader Of The Year Kunal Bahl. MNC In India Of The Year Hyundai Motor India Ltd. Outstanding Contribution To Media Shekhar Gupta. Outstanding Institution Builder M V Subbiah. Entrepreneur Of The Year Nita M Ambani. Business Leader Of The Year Aditya Puri. Indian MNC Of The Year Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Lifetime Contribution Award G M Rao. Champion Of Change Award Satya Nadella. Time Magazine-100 Most Influential People In World 1.Kanye West(American Musician), 2.Lorne Michaels (T.V-Producer, Writer And A The List Of Titans Comedian), 3.Mellody Hobson(CEO Of Dream WorksAnimations). 1.Bradley Cooper(American-Actor & Producer), The Top Pioneers List 2.Richard-Linklater(Director & Screen-Writer), 3. Chris Ofili(British-Painter). 1.Jorge Ramos(Mexican-American Journalis), The Top Leaders List 2.Narendra Modi(PM Of India), 3.Angela Merkel, (German Chancellor). 1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg(Associate-Justice Supreme Court,US), The Top Icons List 2. Taylor Swift, American(Singer & Song-Writer), 3.Diane Von Furstenberg(American FashionDesigner). Editor of the Year Aroon Poorie. CEO of the year Arundhati-Bhattacharya. Game-Changer of the year Uday-Shankar. Marketer of the year B. Sriram. Insurance of the year Sanjay-Tripathi. 8|Pag e First prize Second prize Mahatma Ganthi Biennial Hindi Writing Award Bajrange Chhara(Boodhan Bolta Hai). Nishant Singh(Baal Shoshan aur Apradh). Pulitzer Prize Winners 2015 Journalism Public Service Breaking News Reporting Investigative Reporting (two prizes) Explanatory Reporting Local Reporting National Reporting International Reporting Feature Writing Commentary Criticism Editorial Writing Editorial Cartooning Breaking News Photography Feature Photography The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. The Seattle Times Staff. Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Staff. Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News. Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif. Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post. The New York Times Staff. Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times. Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle. Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times. Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe. Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff. Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer,The New York Times. Letters And Drama Fiction Drama History Biography Poetry General Nonfiction All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner). Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn(Hill and Wang). The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer (Random House). Digest by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt). Music Anthracite Fields Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2015 Outstanding Service Award Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2015 Hevesy Medal Award 2015 Web Ratna Award 2014 Asian Business Leader of year Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy/G. Schirmer,Inc.) Actor Anil Kapoor. Gopinath Pillai. Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo. Susanta Lahiri and Kattesh V Katti. Development of North East Region (DoNER). Hinduja brothers. Asian Awards 2015 Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Shah Rukh Khan. Outstanding Contribution to Sport Kumar Sangakkara. Outstanding Achievement in Science and Tejinder Singh Virdee. Technology Outstanding Achievement in Television award Sanjeev Bhaskar. Asian Squash Federation awards Outstanding Team of the Year award India’s men’s team. 9|Pag e Coach of the year award Cyrus Poncha. Hassan Musa Award Kush Kumar. Best Film award at Stockholm International Film Mary Kom film Fest (SIFFJ) Orwell Prize Rana Dasgupta. President's Medal in Israel Adiel Yosef. Heinz Award Sangita Bhatia. London Marathon Lifetime Achievement Award Paula Radcliffe. th 50 Jnanpith Award Bhalchandra Nemade. Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation Dr Ananda Kumar and Dr Pramod Patil. Japan’s highest civilian award Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao. Lifetime Achievement Award Pranoy Roy Golden Medal For Merit In Work Rafael Nadal. Spring imperial decorations award of Japan 2015 C.N.R Rao,T.K.A Nair,Parekh and Bhutia. World’s Best airport for the year 2014 Indira Gandhi International Airport. nd 62 National Film Awards Ceremony Dadasaheb Phalke Shashi Kapoor. UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Mazen Darwish. Prize 2015 UN Public Service Award Nadia district. G.K Reddy Memorial National Award Vinod Mehta. Palme d’Or Agnes Varda. Florence Nightingale Awards 35 nurses. UK literary award- Encore Award Neel Mukherjee. University of North Carolina[ UNC] 2015 awards Sivanadane Mandjiny. Tolkappiyar award SV Shanmugam. Kural Pitam award Eva Maria Wilden E.Ezhuilvasanthan, K.Jwahar and K.Iyappan for Young scholar awards 2011-12 and R.Venkatesan,A.Sathish, MR.Devak, U.Alibava and B.Jaiganesh. Akshay Tambe, Victor Lalbeiseia,Ashwini Ugadhe, Ghanshyam Binali Children’s Bravery Award for Mhonbeni Ezung, Shaurya Veer Singh and Rhea 2014 Chaudhary. Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award Anurradha Prasad. Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award Karan Jerath. Top Civilian Supervisor of the Year Harkeert Singh Saini. Man Booker International Prize Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Radcliffe fellowship by Harvard university Shivani Agarwal and Maharaja Pandit. Grand Vermeil Rafael Nadal. UN Dag Hammarsjold Medal 2015 Lance Naik Nand Ram and Raju Joseph. Platts Global award 2015 NMDC. 68th Cannes Film Festival Palm d’Or award Dheepan. Runner- up award Son of Saul. Best Director award Hou Hsiao-hsien. Best Actor award Vincent Lindon. Best Actress award Emmanuelle Bercot and Rooney Mara. Best Screenplay Michel Franco for Chronic. Annual CEAT awards for 2015 International cricketer of the year Kumar Sangakkara. Domestic cricketer of the year R.Vinay. Indian player of the year Ajinkya Rahane. 10 | P a g e T20 player of the year International batsman of the year International bowler of the year Popular choice award Special award Young player of the year Munich International Film Festival honour University of Oxford Inspirational Teacher Award West Indian player Dwayne Bravo. Hashim Amla. Sri Lankan Rangana Herath West Indian Keiran Pollard. Rohit Sharma. Deepak Hooda. Alexander Payne. Gurnimrat Nimmy Sidhu. Sathiskumar,Anusuya,Ponnusami,Shashank,Agarw 4th Edition of Airbus Fly Your Ideas global al,Dhamotharan Veerasamy, Mojit Gupta and Ajith competition Winner Mosses. Times Of India Sports awards Sportsperson of the year Jitu Rai. Lifetime Achievement Of The Year Milkha Singh. Popula Choice Awards. Pankaj Adwani, Sanjitha Channu. Upcoming or emerging player award Malaika Goel. Best cricketer award in men’s category Virat kohli. Best cricketer Women’s category the Harmanpreet Singh. award Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award Atal Bihari Vajpayee. th 16 International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) Awards 2015 Best picture Queen Best regional film Lai Bhari ( Marathi ). Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar & Parvez Shaikh Best story (Queen). Best direction Rajkumar Hirani (PK). 1.Avinash Mehra 2., Nisha Agnihotri, 3.Prashant Pathak, 4. Neeru Gupta, 5.Manjul Bhargava, ICCC Annual Awards 2015 6.Hargurdeep Singh, 7. Avish Sood, 8.Asim Ghosh, 9.Jag Parmar, 10.Venkatesh Mannar, 11. , Rajiv Manucha. Bjornson Prize for Freedom of Expression Edward Snowden. King and Queen of Social Media Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra. Asian Athletics Association President’s Award Suresh Kalmadi. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Miniratna ( Category-1) award Limited(IREDA). 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction UK author Ali Smith. Space Pioneer Award ISRO. Best Outsourcing Thought Leadership Award for Wipro. 2015 2015 Sant Namdev National Award Parkash Singh Badal. Pride of Community Award Vivek Murthy. Queen’s Young Leaders Award Devika Malik. Dr.Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Chirag Bahiri. Year Award Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowships for the year 1.Musicologist S R Janakiraman, 11 | P a g e 2014 Shortlister for White House fellowship programme Ludovic Trarieux Prize UK’s Young Writers-2015 creativity award 10th Navlekhan Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith Fukuoka Prize in academics category Swathi Puraskar Award Sangita Kalanidhi Award For 2015 VK Krishna Menon Award Best Welfare Organiztion Award-2015 Columbia’s highest civilian award Bal Sahitya Puraskar for the year 2015 United Nations Public Services Award 2015 28th Moorti Devi Award Punyabhushan Award PATA Award Champion of Change award William Harvey Award for 2015 18th Youth Parliament Competition for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas Economic Development Innovation Award Leading Oil & Gas Corporate of the Year award IEEE award for developing curriculum lab Golden Peacock environment management award French Civilian Award Commandeur de la Lgion dHonneur Asia 21 Young Leaders Class of 2015 list Microsoft Country Partner of Year Award 2015 Miss USA pageant Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2015 Madrid International Film Festival Top 20 technology-rich cities in the world Prestigious Royal Society Award International Indian of the Year for 2014-15 2. Filmmaker M S Sathyu 3. Indian classical singer Vijay Kichlu, 4.Musician Tulsidas Borkar. 1.Luxme Hariharan. 2.Payal Patel. 3.Anil Yallapragada. Waleed Abu Al-Khair. Priyam Kamble. 1. Babusha Kohli. 2. Upasana. Ramachandra Guha. Amjad Ali Khan. Shri Sanjay. Benni Joseph Mavelil. National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI). Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Five novelists, four writers of short stories, and three authors of poetries. District Magistrate of Nadia Vishwanath Tripathi. Prataprao Pawar. Kerala Tourism. Sunita Viswanath. 1.Hasan Arif 2.Kafeel Akhtar 3. Shagufta Qadri 4. Suhailur Rahman Churachandpur. Make in India. Indian Oil Corporation-8th Year. Professor Jamia Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh. Sayed Haider Raza . 1.Mishi Choudhary 2. Manish Dahiya.. 3. Sanjay Vijayakumar. 4. Aarti Wig. An India-based software products and technology services. Oklahoma and Olivia Jordan Tata Steel’s West Bokaro Division. Vivek Agnihotri’s political irony “Buddha In A Traffic Jam”-Best Original Screenplay . Bangalore-12th . 1.London 2.San Jose. 3.Beijing. Kamal Bawa . Lord Karan Bilimoria. 12 | P a g e International Indian Business Woman of the year International Indian Lifetime Services to Maritime Trade India and the World 2014-15 International Indian Promoting Healthcare for elderly. International Indian Promoting Community relations Worldwide International Indian Promoting Tourism through writing and art International Indian Young entrepreneur 2014-15 Great Immigrants award 2015 G D Birla Award for Scientific Research 2014 Peru’s Highest Award-Grand Officer World Food Prize 2015 2015 World Agriculture Prize laureate Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching LGBT scholarship from California University World’s second largest smartphone market UNESCO-Cities of Music UNESCO-Heritage list Uma Wadhwani. Captain Nalin Pandey. Ravinder Singh Gidar. Pravinkant Amin. Bajrang Bahadur Mathur. Sanjay Wadhwani. 1. Attorney. 2. Rakesh Khurana. 3. Madhulika Sikka. 4. Abraham Verghese. Prof. Sanjeev Galande Sri Sri Ravi Shanka. Fazle Hasan Abed. R Paul Singh. Darshan Jain Shakthi Nataraj. India,US-1st . Varanasi,Glasgow,Hanover and Mannheim Ghent,Hamamatsu,Brazzaville,Bogota,Seville and Bologna . 1. Aqueduct of Padre, Mexico 2. Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale, Italy 3. Baekje Historic Areas, Republic of Korea 4. Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (AlMaghtas), Jordan 5. Champagne Hillsides,Houses andCellars, France 6. Christiansfeld,a Moravian Church Settlement, Denmark 7. Climats, terroirs of Burgundy, France 8. Cultural Landscape of Maymand, Iran 9. Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape, Turkey 10. Ephesus, Turkey 11. Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape Uruguay 12. Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape, Mongolia 13. Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal, Israel 14. Rjukan–Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, Norway 15. Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia 16. San Antonio Missions, USA 17. Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore 18. Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal 13 | P a g e Nelson Mandela prize Chaudhary Charan Singh Award India’s Top PSUs Awards 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award 2015 International Dairy Foods Association Award 72nd Venice film festival Arjuna Award Bharat Bharti literary award 2014 Best Electoral Practices Award-2014 World’s top ten highest-paid actors in Forbes 2015 Ramanujan Prize Bharat Bharti literary award 2014(UP) ESRI(Environmental Systems Research Institute) Special Achievement in GIS Award 2015 Zhanna Nemtsova Sanjiv Sambandan Top 20 Tech Billionaires Mining, Japan 19. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus, Germany 20. Susa, Iran 21. The Forth Bridge, United Kingdom 22. The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, Denmark 23. Tusi Sites, China 24. Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica Dr. Helena Ndume Gargi Parsai Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) Anshu Gupta Harjinder singh Visaaranai(Nomination) Ravichandran Ashwin Kashinath Singh Rajan Vishal Amitabh Bachchan(7th), Salman Khan(9th) and Akshay Kumar(18th)and Ranbir Kapoor(30th). Dr. Amalendu Krishna Kashinath Singh National Dairy Development Board Poland’s Solidarity Prize 2015 Google Pitch Fest Bill Gates - rank 1 ,Larry Ellison -rank 2,Shiv nadir rank -5th, Azim premji -11th place Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar PATWA awards Germany’s highest civilian honor “The Cross of Raghavendra Gadagkarwas Order of the Merit”. 2015 International Emmy Awards Kashmir Valley flood coverage(Nomination) Youngest US Republican presidential. Bobby Jindal Prem Bhatia Memorial Award Suhasini Haidar Gold medal by IGNOU for topping in Diploma in Ajeet Kumar Saroj Tourism Studies (DTS). 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