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=>Kuwait honors Modi ji:
Prime Minister conferred with the highest national award of
December 22, 2024
His Highness Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Amir of Kuwait conferred upon Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi The Order of Mubarak Al- Kabeer, the highest national award of Kuwait. His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait also graced the occasion.
2.Prime Minister dedicated the award to the long-standing friendship between India and Kuwait, to the Indian community in Kuwait and to the 1.4 billion people of India.
3. The conferment of the award on this historic visit of the Prime Minister of India to Kuwait after 43 years added a special meaning to the occasion.
4. The award was instituted in 1974 and has since been conferred on select global leaders.
=>Sahitya Academy Awards 2024: Sahitya Akademi has announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 24 languages. 9 books of poetry, 6 of novel, 5 of short stories, 3 Essays and 1 Literary Study have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards 2023.
Following is the Category-wise List of Awardees:
Category | Awardees
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Poetry | Vijay Verma (Dogri), Vinod Joshi (Gujarati), Manshoor Banihali (Kashmiri), Sorokkhaibam Gambhini (Manipuri), Ashutosh Parida (Odia), Swarnjit Savi (Punjabi), Gaje Singh Rajpurohit (Rajasthani), Arun Ranjan Mishra (Sanskrit) and Vinod Asudani (Sindhi)
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Novel | Swapnamay Chakrabarti (Bengali), Neelum Saran Gour (English), Sanjeev (Hindi), Krushnat Khot (Marathi), Rajasekaran (Devibharathi) (Tamil) and Sadiqua Nawab Saher (Urdu)
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Short Stories | Pranavjyoti Deka (Assamese), Nandeswar Daimari (Bodo), Prakash S. Parienkar (Konkani), Taraceen Baskey (Turia Chand Baskey) (Santali) and T. Patanjali Sastry (Telugu)
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Essays | Lakshmisha Tolpadi (Kannada), Basukinath Jha (Maithili) and Judhabir Rana (Nepali)
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Literary Study | E.V. Ramakrishnan (Malayalam) |
=>9th GovTech Award: India Wins the 9th GovTech Prize for AI-Powered Road Safety Initiative
=>'Champions of the Earth Award' for 2024:
India’s veteran ecologist, Madhav Gadgil has been named as one of the six ‘Champions of the Earth Award’ for 2024.
Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science
=>34th Vyas Samman 2024: Noted Hindi writer Suryabala's novel "Kaun Des Ko Vasi: Venu Ki Diary" has been selected for the 34th Vyas Samman, 2024..
=>Indira Gandhi Peace prize 2024: The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2024 will be conferred on former Chilean president and prominent human rights voice Michelle Bachelet, a statement issued by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.
=>Miss Universe 2024: This was the 73rd title this year and Miss Denmark Victoria Kjaer Theilvig was Crowned Miss Universe 2024.
=>The Booker 2024: The 2024 Booker Prize has been awarded to Samantha Harvey for her novel Orbital. The prize committee writes that "Harvey's novel takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station
=>National Water Awards 2024: The Department of Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR, RD &GR), Ministry of Jal Shakti announced 38 winners, including joint winners, for the 5th National Water Awards, 2023, in 09 categories viz Best State, Best District, Best Village Panchayat, Best Urban Local Body, Best School or College, Best Industry, Best Water User Association, Best Institution (other than school or college), and Best Civil Society.
In the category of Best State, the first prize has been conferred upon Odisha, with Uttar Pradesh securing the second position, and Gujarat and Puducherry jointly securing the third position.
=>54th Dada Sahab Falke Award: Mithun Chakraborty To Receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's Highest Film Honour
The 2024 laureates are:
- Miyazaki Hayao (Japan) - Renowned filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli
- Farwiza Farhan (Indonesia) - Environmentalist and social justice advocate
- Karma Phuntsho (Bhutan) - Former monk, scholar, and cultural preservationist
- Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong (Vietnam) - Physician and advocate for Agent Orange victims
- Rural Doctors Movement (Thailand) - Collective of healthcare professionals revolutionizing rural health
=>President Murmu gets 2 International awards: 1) President Droupadi Murmu receives Fiji's highest civilian award.
2) President Droupadi Murmu was honored with Timor-Leste's highest civilian award, the Grand-Collar of the Order. Her visit marked the first presidential visit from India to Timor-Leste.
=>54th International Physics Olympiad 2024: India amessed a greater laurel at the 54th International Physics Olympiad, which was held at Isfahan in Iran. The Indian participants got 2 gold and 3 silver medals
=>ISRO awarded for Changrayan-3: Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have made history by successfully landing Chandrayaan-3 near the Moon’s south pole. This remarkable achievement has garnered global recognition for ISRO.
The International Space Federation (ISF) will honor this historic success of Chandrayaan-3 with the World Space Award. Notably, before India, only spacecraft from the United States, Russia, and China had successfully performed a soft landing on the Moon.
The award will be presented during the opening ceremony of the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, Italy, on October 14. Notably, India became the first country to achieve a successful landing near the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023.
=>65 International Math Olympiad Comptt.: held at Bath, UK. India secured 4th position which is the best since 1989. USA 1st, China 2nd and S.Korea 3rd.
=>Included in Tennis Hall of Fame: Indian tennis super stars, Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj have been included in the "Tennis hall of the Fame".
=>Olympic Order Award to Abhinav Bindra: The Olympic Order, established in 1975, is the highest award of the Olympic Movement. It is awarded for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worthy of merit in the cause of sport.. Indian Ace olympian Abhinav Bindra has been choosen this time. the IOC bestows the Olympic Order upon the chief national organiser(s) at the closing ceremony of each respective Olympic Games. viz 10th of August of 2024.
=>Russia gave its top award to P.M. Modi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was officially presented with Russia’s highest civilian honor, the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony in St Catherine’s Hall of the Moscow Kremlin
=>Pen Pinter prize 2024: goes to Anudhati Roy. Arundhati Roy is the 2024 winner of the PEN Pinter Prize which was set up in 2009 by English PEN in memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter. Roy will receive the prize on October 10, 2024 in a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library.
The Prize is awarded annually to a writer resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or former Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world, and shows a “fierce intellectual determination…to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”. This year’s jury comprised English PEN chair Ruth Borthwick, actor Khalid Abdalla, and writer Roger Robinson.
=>UN military gender advocate award 2023: Radhika Sen, an Indian military peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo has won the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. Sen, working with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission, served in the east of Congo from March 2023 to April 2024.
=>International Man Booker Prize 2024: Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ wins the International Booker Prize 2024
=>Green Nobel to an Indian: The 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize, also known as the Green Nobel will be awarded to Alok Shukla, convener of Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan (CBA) on Monday, for his work to protect Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of very dense forest in central India spanning 170,000 hectares, with 23 coal blocks.
Alok Shukla led a successful community campaign that saved 445,000 acres of biodiversity-rich forests from 21 planned coal mines in Chhattisgarh
=>Padam Awards 2024: Padam awards were conferred on 132 eminent persons awarded Padma awards. 5 Padam Vibhushan, 17 Padam Bhushan and a total of 110 Padam shri sammans have been conferred.
Bangladeshi singer Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya received the prestigious Padma Shri Award from the Indian government on Monday. Indian President Droupadi Murmu presented the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri Awards for the year 2024
| S. No. | Name | Field | State/Region/Country |
| 1 | Ms. Vyjayantimala Bali | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 2 | Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 | Shri M Venkaiah Naidu | Public Affairs | Andhra Pradesh |
| 4 | Shri Bindeshwar Pathak | Social Work | Bihar |
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| 5 | Ms. Padma Subrahmanyam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| S. No. | Name | Field | State/Region/Country |
| 1 | Ms. M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 2 | Shri Hormusji N Cama | Literature & Education - Journalism | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Shri Mithun Chakraborty | Art | West Bengal |
| 4 | Shri Sitaram Jindal | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 5 | Shri Young Liu | Trade & Industry | Taiwan |
| 6 | Shri Ashwin Balachand Mehta | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 7 | Shri Satyabrata Mookherjee (Posthumous) | Public Affairs | West Bengal |
| 8 | Shri Ram Naik | Public Affairs | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Shri Tejas Madhusudan Patel | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 10 | Shri Olanchery Rajagopal | Public Affairs | Kerala |
| 11 | Shri Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt | Art | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Shri Togdan Rinpoche (Posthumous) | Others - Spiritualism | Ladakh |
| 13 | Shri Pyarelal Sharma | Art | Maharashtra |
| 14 | Shri Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur | Medicine | Bihar |
| 15 | Ms. Usha Uthup | Art | West Bengal |
| 16 | Shri Vijaykanth (Posthumous) | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 17 | Shri Kundan Vyas | Literature & Education - Journalism | Maharashtra |
| S. No. | Name | Field | State/Region/Country |
| 1 | Shri Khalil Ahamad | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2 | Shri Badrappan M | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 3 | Shri Kaluram Bamaniya | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 4 | Ms. Rezwana Choudhury Bannya | Art | Bangladesh |
| 5 | Ms. Naseem Bano | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 6 | Shri Ramlal Bareth | Art | Chhattisgarh |
| 7 | Ms. Gita Roy Barman | Art | West Bengal |
| 8 | Ms. Parbati Baruah | Social Work | Assam |
| 9 | Shri Sarbeswar Basumatary | Others - Agriculture | Assam |
| 10 | Shri Som Datt Battu | Art | Himachal Pradesh |
| 11 | Ms. Takdira Begum | Art | West Bengal |
| 12 | Shri Sathyanarayana Beleri | Others - Agriculture | Kerala |
| 13 | Shri Drona Bhuyan | Art | Assam |
| 14 | Shri Ashok Kumar Biswas | Art | Bihar |
| 15 | Shri Rohan Machanda Bopanna | Sports | Karnataka |
| 16 | Ms. Smriti Rekha Chakma | Art | Tripura |
| 17 | Shri Narayan Chakraborty | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 18 | Shri A Velu Ananda Chari | Art | Telangana |
| 19 | Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary | Science & Engineering | Uttar Pradesh |
| 20 | Ms. K Chellammal | Others - Agriculture | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
| 21 | Ms. Joshna Chinappa | Sports | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Ms. Charlotte Chopin | Others - Yoga | France |
| 23 | Shri Raghuveer Choudhary | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 24 | Shri Joe D Cruz | Literature & Education | Tamil Nadu |
| 25 | Shri Ghulam Nabi Dar | Art | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 26 | Shri Chitta Ranjan Debbarma | Others - Spiritualism | Tripura |
| 27 | Shri Uday Vishwanath Deshpande | Sports | Maharashtra |
| 28 | Ms. Prema Dhanraj | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 29 | Shri Radha Krishan Dhiman | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 30 | Shri Manohar Krishana Dole | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 31 | Shri Pierre Sylvain Filliozat | Literature & Education | France |
| 32 | Shri Mahabir Singh Guddu | Art | Haryana |
| 33 | Ms. Anupama Hoskere | Art | Karnataka |
| 34 | Shri Yazdi Maneksha Italia | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 35 | Shri Rajaram Jain | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 36 | Shri Jankilal | Art | Rajasthan |
| 37 | Shri Ratan Kahar | Art | West Bengal |
| 38 | Shri Yashwant Singh Kathoch | Literature & Education | Uttarakhand |
| 39 | Shri Zahir I Kazi | Literature & Education | Maharashtra |
| 40 | Shri Gaurav Khanna | Sports | Uttar Pradesh |
| 41 | Shri Surendra Kishore | Literature & Education - Journalism | Bihar |
| 42 | Shri Dasari Kondappa | Art | Telangana |
| 43 | Shri Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy | Literature & Education | Karnataka |
| 44 | Ms. Yanung Jamoh Lego | Others - Agriculture | Arunachal Pradesh |
| 45 | Shri Jordan Lepcha | Art | Sikkim |
| 46 | Shri Satendra Singh Lohia | Sports | Madhya Pradesh |
| 47 | Shri Binod Maharana | Art | Odisha |
| 48 | Ms. Purnima Mahato | Sports | Jharkhand |
| 49 | Ms. Uma Maheshwari D | Art | Andhra Pradesh |
| 50 | Shri Dukhu Majhi | Social Work | West Bengal |
| 51 | Shri Ram Kumar Mallick | Art | Bihar |
| 52 | Shri Hemchand Manjhi | Medicine | Chhattisgarh |
| 53 | Shri Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram | Medicine | Maharashtra |
| 54 | Shri Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous) | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 55 | Shri Ali Mohammed & Shri Ghani Mohammed* (Duo) | Art | Rajasthan |
| 56 | Ms. Kalpana Morparia | Trade & Industry | Maharashtra |
| 57 | Ms. Chami Murmu | Social Work | Jharkhand |
| 58 | Shri Sasindran Muthuvel | Public Affairs | Papua New Guinea |
| 59 | Ms. G Nachiyar | Medicine | Tamil Nadu |
| 60 | Ms. Kiran Nadar | Art | Delhi |
| 61 | Shri Pakaravur Chithran Namboodiripad (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 62 | Shri Narayanan E P | Art | Kerala |
| 63 | Shri Shailesh Nayak | Science & Engineering | Delhi |
| 64 | Shri Harish Nayak (Posthumous) | Literature & Education | Gujarat |
| 65 | Shri Fred Negrit | Literature & Education | France |
| 66 | Shri Hari Om | Science & Engineering | Haryana |
| 67 | Shri Bhagabat Padhan | Art | Odisha |
| 68 | Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal | Art | West Bengal |
| 69 | Shri Shankar Baba Pundlikrao Papalkar | Social Work | Maharashtra |
| 70 | Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek | Medicine | Uttar Pradesh |
| 71 | Shri Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar | Medicine | Gujarat |
| 72 | Shri Binod Kumar Pasayat | Art | Odisha |
| 73 | Ms. Silbi Passah | Art | Meghalaya |
| 74 | Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan & Shri Shivan Paswan* (Duo) | Art | Bihar |
| 75 | Shri Sanjay Anant Patil | Others - Agriculture | Goa |
| 76 | Shri Muni Narayana Prasad | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 77 | Shri K S Rajanna | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 78 | Shri Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar | Medicine | Karnataka |
| 79 | Shri Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit | Literature & Education | Madhya Pradesh |
| 80 | Shri Romalo Ram | Art | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 81 | Shri Navjivan Rastogi | Literature & Education | Uttar Pradesh |
| 82 | Ms. Nirmal Rishi | Art | Punjab |
| 83 | Shri Pran Sabharwal | Art | Punjab |
| 84 | Shri Gaddam Sammaiah | Art | Telangana |
| 85 | Shri Sangthankima | Social Work | Mizoram |
| 86 | Shri Machihan Sasa | Art | Manipur |
| 87 | Shri Omprakash Sharma | Art | Madhya Pradesh |
| 88 | Shri Eklabya Sharma | Science & Engineering | West Bengal |
| 89 | Shri Ram Chander Sihag | Science & Engineering | Haryana |
| 90 | Shri Harbinder Singh | Sports | Delhi |
| 91 | Shri Gurvinder Singh | Social Work | Haryana |
| 92 | Shri Godawari Singh | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 93 | Shri Ravi Prakash Singh | Science & Engineering | Mexico |
| 94 | Shri Seshampatti T Sivalingam | Art | Tamil Nadu |
| 95 | Shri Somanna | Social Work | Karnataka |
| 96 | Shri Kethavath Somlal | Literature & Education | Telangana |
| 97 | Ms. Shashi Soni | Trade & Industry | Karnataka |
| 98 | Ms. Urmila Srivastava | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
| 99 | Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Posthumous) | Art | West Bengal |
| 100 | Shri Gopinath Swain | Art | Odisha |
| 101 | Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang | Art | Rajasthan |
| 102 | Ms. Maya Tandon | Social Work | Rajasthan |
| 103 | Ms. Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi Thampuratty | Literature & Education | Kerala |
| 104 | Shri Jagdish Labhshanker Trivedi | Art | Gujarat |
| 105 | Ms. Sano Vamuzo | Social Work | Nagaland |
| 106 | Shri Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil | Art | Kerala |
| 107 | Shri Kurella Vittalacharya | Literature & Education | Telangana |
| 108 | Shri Kiran Vyas | Others - Yoga | France |
| 109 | Shri Jageshwar Yadav | Social Work | Chhattisgarh |
| 110 | Shri Babu Ram Yadav | Art | Uttar Pradesh |
=>Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2024: Famous Hindi cinema actor Amitabh Bachchan will be honoured with the third Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award to be held this year. The award was announced at a press conference organized by the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Smriti Pratisthan Public Charitable Trust and the Mangeshkar family on 16 April 2024 in Mumbai.
=>Abel Prize 2024: Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of mathematics, for his work on probability theory and describing randomness.
Read more, here: Abel prize 2024
=>Modi conferred with Bhutanese Honour: PM Modi Receives Bhutan's Highest Civilian Award 'Order Of The Druk Gyalpo'.
The award has been conferred to Prime Minister Modi for recognition of "his outstanding contribution to the growth of India-Bhutan relations and for his distinguished service to the Bhutanese nation and people."
=>Saraswati Samman 23: It is 33rd Saraswati award.Malayalam poet and author Prabha Varma won the 2023 Saraswati Samman for his work Roudra Sathwikam. The KK Birla Foundation established the award in 1991 and it's considered one of India's most prestigious literary awards.
he =>96th Oscar Awards:
=>Bharat Ratn Samman 2024: The prestigious Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, is set to be conferred upon five eminent personalities who have made remarkable contributions to politics, governance, and agriculture. They are Karpoori Thakur, Mankombu Sambasivan (MS) Swaminathan, Pamulaparthi Venkata (P. V.) Narasimha Rao, Lal Krishna Advani, and Chaudhary Charan Singh.
=>Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Media Person: given jointly to Greeshma Kuthar(independent journalist) and Ritika Chopra (Indian Express)
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