International Dublin Literary Award 2021 for her

aleria Luiselli
novel ‘Lost Children Archive’
Union Health Minister Dr
‘WHO Director-General Special Recognition Award’
Harsh Vardhan
Nitin Rakesh and Jerry
International Business Book of the Year Award 2021
Wind
International Booker Prize 2021 for ‘At Night All
David Diop
Blood Is Black’
2021 Nature TTL Photography Awards for his photo
Thomas Vijayan
of an Orangutan clinging to a tree
GMR Hyderabad ‘Gold Recognition’ award from ACI (Airport Council
International Airport Ltd International) Asia-Pacific Green Airports
(GHIAL) Recognition 2021
'NSG Counter-IED & Counter-Terrorism Innovator
Prof. Shailesh Ganpule
Award 2021'
Land for Life Award by the United Nations
Familial Forestry
Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Global Innovation Partner of the Year by Snowflake
Central European University’s highest award of
KK Shaileja Open Society Prize 2021 for her work in public
health services
NTPC India’s Best Employers among Nation Builders 2021
Cochin International Airport Council International (ACI) Director
Airport (CIAL) General’s Roll of Excellence
'Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award'
Delhi Metro
for 2020
RK Sabharwal ‘The Order of Polar Star’
P Sainath Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021

May 2021
Awardee Award
“Order of Rising Sun” by the Japanese
Shyamala Ganesh
Government
 2021 laureate of UNESCO /Guillermo Cano
Maria Ressa (Rapple’s CEO)
World Press Freedom Prize
Pink (Singer) Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards
Justice Gita Mitta Arline Pacht Global Vision Award 2021
Babar Azam (Pakistan) ICC Men’s Player of the Month for April 2021
Alyssa Healy (Australia) ICC Women’s Player of the Month for April 2021
1st Indian to win the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book
Dr Tahera Qutbuddin
Award
Best Actor Award for his performance in a short
Anupam Kher film named ‘Happy Birthday’ at New York City
International Film Festival
IREDA (Indian Renewable ‘Green Urja Award’ by the Indian Chamber of
Energy Development Agency) Commerce (ICC)
2021 World Food Prize for her work in
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh
developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive
Thilsted
approaches to aquaculture and food systems
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
International Invincible Gold Medal 2021
(Union Education Minister)
Baljeet Kaur (Himachal
1st Women Mountaineers to summit Mount
Pradesh) and Gunbala
Pumori in Nepal
Sharma (Rajasthan)
2020 Millennium Technology Prize for
Prof. Shankar
developing revolutionary DNA sequencing
Balasubramanian and Prof.
techniques namely, Next Generation DNA
David Klenerman
Sequencing (NGS)
Suresh Mukund 10th Annual World Choreography Award 2020
Jane Goodall Templeton Prize 2021
Hockey India Prestigious Etienne Glichitch Award
Max Verstappen Monaco Grand Prix 2021
Gold Award at 2021 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards
SpiceHealth for ‘Most Valuable Medical Innovation’ under
COVID-19
Prestigious India Biodiversity Awards 2021 under
Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas
the category ‘Sustainable Use of Biological
Sansthan (KRAPAVIS)
Resources.’
 President’s award by International Hockey
VK Pandian Federation for his contribution to promoting
Hockey in Odisha
Bharat Ratna Professor International ENI Award 2020 for his research in
C.N.R. Rao renewable energy sources and energy storage
Spain’s top Princess of Asturias Award in the
Amartya Kumar Sen social sciences category, the Spanish prize
foundation
Padma Bhushan Dr D Rudolf V Schindler Award from the American
Nageshwar Reddy Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
Robert Lewandowski European Golden Boot

April 2021
Awardee Award
Dr Sharankumar Limbale Saraswati Samman 2020
Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ National Book Critics Circle Prize
Rajinikanth 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Biswabhushan Harichandan
Kalinga Ratna Samman 2021
(Governor of Andhra Pradesh)
Aniyan Midhun South Asian Wushu Championship
Prof. Suman Chakraborty 30th GD Birla Award for Scientific Research
Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey David 2020 Association for Computing Machinery
Ullman A.M. Turing Award
Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, the
Guneet Monga (Filmmaker)
second-highest civilian French honour
Yusuff Ali M. A Abu Dhabi’s Top Civilian Award
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited National Award for Innovation Training
(HAL) Practices 2019-2020
Kane Williamson (New Zealand
Sir Richard Hadlee Medal
cricket player)
Best Foreign Language Feature Award at
‘Puglya’ (Name of Marathi Film)
Moscow International Film Festival 2021
Roberto Benigni 78th Venice International Film Festival
Aditya Birla Group’s Birla UN’s National Innovative and Sustainable
Cellulose Limited Supply Chain Award
Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award
Rumana Sehgal
2021 by the Diplomatic Mission Global Peace
‘Wild Innovator Award’ by Wild Elements
Dr Krithi K Karanth
Foundation
IIT Kharagpur CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 6.0
‘Great Place to Work’ by the Great Place to
ESAF Small Finance Bank
Work Institute
Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 for her book titles
Carmen Maria Machado
as ‘ In the Dream House: A Memoir’
‘India’s Best Bank for SME’s’ at the
HDFC Bank
Asiamoney Best Bank Awards

March 2021
Awardee Award
South Asian Digital Media Awards by WAN IFRA
The Hindu Group (World Association of News Publishers), being
named as ‘Champion Publisher of the Year’
2021 Film Archive Award by The International
Amitabh Bachchan
Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Mahamadou Issoufou 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African
(President of Niger) Leadership
Ravichandran Ashwin
ICC Men’s Player of the Month for February 2021
(India)
Tammy Beaumont ICC Women’s Player of the Month for February
(England) 2021
Koneru Humpy (Indian
BBC Indian Sportswoman of the year award
Chess Player)
Anju Bobby George (Indian
BBC Lifetime Achievement award
Athlete)
Manu Bhaker (Indian BBC Emerging Player-of-the-Year award
Shooter)
Indian Council of
King Bhumibol World Soil Day 2020 Award by
Agricultural
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
Research(ICAR)
Gowsalya Shankar International Woman of Courage Award 2021
Anne Lacaton and Jean-
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021
Philippe Vassal
'Role Model' Award’ at the 11th CII National HR
NTPC Ltd
Excellence Awards 2020-21
For 2019 Late Sultan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Gandhi Peace Prize
Oman
For 2020 Bangabandhu
Gandhi Peace Prize
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Prof. Sharad Pagare Vyas Samman 2020
Asha Bhosle Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2020
IIT Kharagpur CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 6.0
‘Great Place to Work’ by the Great Place to Work
ESAF Small Finance Bank
Institute
Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 for her book titles as ‘
Carmen Maria Machado
In the Dream House: A Memoir’
‘India’s Best Bank for SME’s’ at the Asiamoney
HDFC Bank
Best Bank Awards

February 2021
Awardee Award
AR Rahman (Music Composer)
and Saidapet Hari Krishnan 4th edition of Alert Being Icon Awards
(Social Activist)
1st prize in Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Robert Irwin
People’s Choice Award Contest
50th International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Koozhangal’
2021
Bangalore International Airport
Airports Council International World’s ‘Voice
Limited’s (Kempegowda
of the Customer’ award
International Airport Bengaluru)
Dr Shobhna Kapoor, Dr Antara
Science and Engineering Research Board
Banerjee, Dr Sonu Gandhi and
(SERB) Women Excellence Award 2021
Dr Ritu Gupta
Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020 by
S. Theodore Baskaran
Sanctuary Nature Foundation
YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Skoch Chief Minister of the Year Award
Wildlife Crime Control Bureau 5th Asia Environmental Enforcement Award
(WCCB) 2020 under the Innovation category by UNEP
Manasa Varanasi VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020
‘Best Service Provider’ in HR and ‘Best
Institution’ for ‘Excellence in Learning and
Union Bank of India
Development’ at the 29th Global HRD
Congress Awards
International Anti-Corruption Champions
Anjali Bharadwaj
Award
‘CERA Week Global Energy and Environment
PM Narendra Modi
Leadership Award’

January 2021
Awardee Award
V K Yadav ‘Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2020’
Ramesh Pokhriyal
Sahitya Gaurav Samman 2021
Nishank
96th Tansen Music Festival, Gwalior, Madhya
Pandit Satish Vyas
Pradesh
96th Tansen Music Festival, Gwalior, Madhya
Anhinav Kala Parishad
Pradesh
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in Queen
Dr Raghu Ram Pillarisetti
Elizabeth II’s 2021 New Year’s Honours List
SKOCH Challenger Award for Best performance in e-
Ministry of Tribal Affairs
governance category
Ministry of Panchayati SKOCH Challenger Award for Best performance in e-
Raj governance category
AIIMS Bhubaneswar Kayakalp Award
Biswajit Chatterjee ‘Indian Personality of the Year’ award at IFFI
Nikhil Srivastava 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize
Dr Rajendra Kumar Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar
Bhandari 2021
Ram Temple Tableau of
First prize in Republic Day 2021
Uttar Pradesh
Meghalaya National Award for Best Electoral Practices 2020

December 2020
Awardee Award
Ranjitsinh Disale 2020 Global Teacher Prize
Adar Poonawalla ‘The Straits Times Asian of the Year 2020’
Mondo Duplantis (Sweden, Pole
Male World Athletes of the Year 2020
Valuter)
Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela, triple
Female World Athletes of the Year 2020
jumper)
Indian Council of Agricultural International King Bhumibol World Soil Day
Research (ICAR) Award for 2020
2020 UN Investment Promotion Award by
Invest India
UNCTAD
2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young
Dr Carolina Araujo
Mathematics
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award –
Ashraf Patel
India 2020
Goldman Environmental Prize 2020 by
Paul Sein Twa
IUCN
Robert Lewandowski (Poland) Best FIFA Men’s Player 2020
Lucy Bronze (England) Best FIFA Women’s Player 2020
 ASSOCHAM Enterprise of the Century
Ratan Tata
Award
Global Visionary of Sustainable Business
Ratan Tata
and Peace award
K. Veeramani Dr Narendra Dabholkar Memorial Award
Hemant Kumar Pandey DRDO’s ‘Scientist of the Year Award’

November 2020
Awardee Award
Dr Dinesh Katre Emmett Leahy Award 2020
Paul Zacharia Ezhuthachan Puraskaram 2020
JC Daniel Award for lifetime contribution to Malayalam
Hariharan
Cinema
S Hareesh JCB Prize in Literature for 2020
Azim Premji Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020
Ruskin Bond Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award 2020
Dr K S Subramanian Fertiliser Association of India (FAI) Golden Jubilee
Sadat Rahman International Children’s Peace Prize 2020
Douglas Stuart 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction
Ramesh Pokhriyal
Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award
Nishank
Naseeruddin Shah 2020 Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Puraskar
Neel Choudhary and
2020 Aditya Vikram Birla Kalakiran Puraskar
Irawati Karnik
2020 AESC (Association of Executive Search and
Dr Bish Agrawal Leadership Consultants) lifetime Achievement Award
2020

October 2020
Awardee Award
Sanjay Singh ‘2020 Gandhi Award’
IACC (Indo-American Chamber of
Ratan Tata Commerce) lifetime and Global
Excellence Award
Ales Bialiatsli (Belarus), Nasrin Sotoudeh
(Iran), Bryan Stevenson (US) and Lottie Right Livelihood Award 2020
Cunningham Wren (Nicaragua)
Nityanand Nayak (Odia Poet) Sarala Puraskar
Central Bank of the Year Award
Bank of Ghana
2020
Governor of the year at Central
Mark Carney
Bank of the Year Award 2020
2020 Wildlife Photographer of the
Aishwarya Sridhar
Year Award
17th annual Stevie Award for
Seema Gupta
Women in Business
‘Outstanding Young Person of the
Dr Jajini Varghese
World 2020’
2020 UN Global Climate Action
Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) of India
Award
‘Dr. Tulsi Das Chugh Award 2020’
Dr Satish Mishra by National Academy of Medical
Sciences
Lifetime Achievement Award 2020
Late Actor Om Puri at 3rd India International Film
Festival of Boston
‘Pride of India’, a special award at
Chef Vikas Khanna 3rd India International Film Festival
of Boston

September 2020
Awardee Award
Hyderabad International Airport ‘National Energy Leader’ and ‘Excellent Energy
or GMR led Rajiv Gandhi Efficient Unit’ Awards at National Award for
International Airport ‘Excellence in Energy Management’
 ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ award by
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd
Confederation of Indian industry and Godrej
(Vizag Steel Plant)
Green Business Centre
Lifetime Achievement Awards by Euromoney
Aditya Puri
Awards for Excellence 2020
Chef Vikas Khanna Asia Game Changer Award 2020
2020 Dayton Literacy Peace Prize’s Lifetime
Margaret Atwood
Achievement
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ig Noble Prize 2020 for Medical Education
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu All India Football Federations Men’s Footballer
(Goalkeeper) of the Year 2019-20
All India Football Federations Women’s
Sanju Yadav (Midfielder)
Footballer of the Year 2019-20
Gan Samragni Lata Mangeshkar Award 2020-
Usha Mangeshkar
21
Sonu Sood SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award

August 2020
Awardee Award
Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay
Asian College of Journalism’s (ACJ) Award 2019
Singh
Wing Commander Gajanand
‘Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2019
Yadava
Army Sports Institute, Pune Rashtritya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2020
International Booker Prize 2020 for her debut
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
novel ‘The Discomfort of Evening'
Sudha Painuli National Award to Teachers 2020
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash First Gold Medal for India in Mental Calculations
Jonnalagadda World Cup (MCWC)

July 2020
Awardee Award
 P C Mahalanobis Lifetime
C Rangarajan
Achievement Award
Carnegie Corporation of New York’s
Siddhartha Mukherjee and Raj Chetty
2020 list of ‘Great Immigrants’
Freya Thakral 2020 Diana Award
Overall Winner of the 2020
Kritika Pandey
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Virtual Race Across America
Lt Col Bharat Pannu
(VRAAM) 2020
Natvarya Prabhakar Panshikar
Ratnakar Matkari
Award
International Olympic Committee EU Green Building Award 2020
NTPC Ltd CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019
Kezang D Thongdok 2020 Dada Saheb Phalke Award
‘Development Marketplace Award
Institute for Human Development (IHD) 2020:Innovations to Address
Gender-Based Violence’
Von Karman Award 2020 by
K Sivan International Academy of
Astronautics (IAA)
Hockey Player Gurubux Singh and
Mohun Bagan Ratna Award
Cricketer Palash Nandi
Chhattisgarh CM Darpan website and
Elites Excellence Award 2020
mobile app
US-India Business Council (USIBC)
N Chandrasekaran and Jim Taiclet
Global Leadership Award 2020
‘Infra Business Leader of the year
Ved Prakash Dudeja 2020 award by Rail Infra and Mobility
Digital Award (RIMBDA)’
Sachin Awasthi Global Humanitarian Award 2020
Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh), Mohammad CPJ (Committee to Protect
Mosaed (Iran), Dapo Olorunyomi (Nigeria) Journalists) International Press
and Svetlana Prokopyeva (Russia) Freedom Award 2020
2020 Toronto International Film
Kate Winslet
Festival (TIFF) Tribute Actor Award
Guinean doctor Morissana Kouyate and
Nelson Mandella Prize 2020
Marianna Vardinoyannis from Greece
Arnab Chaudhuri ‘Legend of Animation’
Greta Thunberg Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity
President’s Award for Nurse in
Kala Naryanasamy
Singapore
Gustave Trouve Award for
Aditya Excellence in Electric Boats and
Boating
Premier League Golden Boot
Jamie Vardy
Football Award
Sunil YDV SS ‘Karamveer Chakra Award’

June 2020
Awardee Award
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020
Javed Akhtar Richard Dawkins Award 2020
Renjith Kumar ‘NASA Distinguished Service Medal’
Shobha Sekhar Medal of the order of Australia (OAM)
Rattan Lal World Food Prize 2020
QualityNZ Culinary Cup 2020 in the category of
Chef Angad Singh Rana
Seafood challenge
QualityNZ Culinary Cup 2020 in the category of
Chef Vaibhav Bhargava
Mutton/lamb challenge
Amrtya Sen German Book Trade for 2020 Peace Prize
Lifetime Achievement Award of Vithabai
Gulabbai Sangamnerkar
Naryangaokar
Popstar Beyonce 20th Annual BET Awards 2020
Kritika Pandey Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020
Deccan Development
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award
Society
Himachal Pradesh e-Panchayat Puraskar-2020

May 2020
Awardee Award
Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
Vaneeza Rupani  Naming NASA’s 1st Mars Helicopter
Russia’s 1st Satellite to Monitor Arctic
Arktika-M
Climate
Young Career Award in Nano Science and
Saurabh Lodha
Technology for the year 2020
Indian journalist Dar Yasin, Mukhtar
2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography
Khan, and Channi Anand
Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H
Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020
Waring, and Nicholas C Coops
White Gold Technologies LLP, Startup India Animal Husbandry Grand
Mumbai Challenge Awards
SKYTRAX Award 2020 in the category of
Kempegowda International Airport,
Best Regional Airport in India and Central
Bangalore
Asia
SKYTRAX Award 2020 in the category of
Changi Airport of Singapore
World’s Best Airport
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Best airport staff in India and Central Asia
International Airport, Mumbai category
Fed Cup Heart Award for Aisa/Oceania
Sania Mirza
Zone
VMware 2020 Regional Partner of the
Anunta Year Award for the Services Excellence
category
Lieutenant Commander Akshay Vice Admiral G.M. Hiranandani Memorial
Kumar Rolling Trophy for the year 2020
UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year
Suman Gawani
2019
Rajiv Joshi NYIPLA “Inventor of the Year award” for
 the year 2020
Quarraisha Abdool Karim Christophe Merieux Prize

April 2020
Award Awardee
Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen
‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA India
Patnaik
Chinese Virtual Grand Prix
Charles Leclerc
Championship
Inclusion in The Medicine Maker Power
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
List 20 For 2020
William E. Colby Award 2020 Adam Higginbotham
13th edition of the International Prize
Novelist Abdelouahab Aissaoui
for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2020
Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Men England All-rounder Ben Stokes
Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020
Ellyse Perry of Australia
Women
Tata Power for campaign ‘Club Enerji
Edison Award
#Switchoff2SwitchOn’
Forbes billionaires list “The Richest in
Jeff Bezos
2020”

March 2020
Award Awardee
128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award
Jadav Payeng
winner
MS Swaminathan Award V Praveen Rao
Chameli Devi Jain Award Arfa Sherwani & Rohini Mohan
Hemingway Award 2020 Novelist Ruchika Tomar
IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 Zoya Akhtar
2019 Road Safety Media Fellowship Award Prachi Salve, Pradeep Dwivedi
Moghai Ojah Award Paramananda Majumder
Ugandas Highest Civilian Award Rajesh Chaplot
National Award DRDO

February 2020
Award Awardee
1st Position for the Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matru
Madhya Pradesh
Vandana Yojana
Ladakh Scouts Regimental Centre
1st Men's section Khelo India Ice Hockey tournament 2020
(LSRC) Red
2019 FIH Women's Rising Star of the Year Lalremsiami
SERB Women Excellence Award-2020 Dr Niti Kumar
34th Cannes Open D Gukesh
‘Central Banker of the Year 2020’ for the Asia-Pacific region Shaktikanta Das
1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award Vinod Kumar Shukla
Lifetime Achievement Award by International Olympic
Pullela Gopichand
Committee’s (IOC)
Dan David Prize 2020 Gita Sen
Miss Diva Universe 2020 Adline Castelino
National e-Governance Award RailMadad
Lewis Hamilton and Footballer
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award
Lionel Messi
Mystic Kalinga Literary Award Manoj das
French honour for Theatre Artiste Sanjana Kapoor
National Award for Implementation of the Pradhan Mantri
South Salmara Mankachar of Assam
Matru Vandana Yojana
Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 Jadav Payeng

January 2020
Award Awardee
‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award for
Dr M S Swaminathan
Excellence’
‘Muppavarapu National Award for Social Service’ Dr Gutta Muniratnam
Polly Umrigar Award Jasprit Bumrah
'World Games Athlete of the Year' Award Rani Rampal
Global Bihar Excellence Award 2019 Piyush Jaiswal
Miss Teen International 2019 Aayushi Dholakia
Indian girl Sucheta Satish & Indian Yoga
Global Child Prodigy Award 2020
Boy Ishwar Sharma
Costa Children’s Award 2019 Jasbinder Bilan
29th Saraswati Samman Vasdev Mohi 
“Merck Young Scientist Award 2019” Sakya Singha Sen
Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2019 Priya Prakash
Kerala National Media Award N. Ram
‘Harit Ratna Award 2019’ Dr N Kumar
1st Prize at the Republic Day Parade, 2020 Tableaux of Assam
Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) by Calcutta University Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
2020 Tyler Prize Pavan Sukhdev
Padma Shri award from Telangana Farmer Chinthala Venkat Reddy 
2020 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Disaster Mitigation & Management Centre
Puraskar Award (DMMC)
Plastic Waste Management Award 2020 Assam's Dibrugarh district 

December 2019