Awards & Honours - Current Affairs for March, 2015

Satpal has coached two-time Olympic medal winner Sushil Kumar. He was honoured with prestigious Padma Bhushan Award. Total 12 persons have been conferred with Padma Bhushan Award.

Physician Dr Randeep Guleria, Writer Prasoon Joshi, Prof Alka Kripalni were among others who received Padma Shri. Total 34 persons has received the Padma Shree Award.

His family members received the award from President Pranab Mukherjee. Madan Mohan Malviya is fondly remembered for his initiative for establishing institutions that reinforced the cultural identity of the country. He was a moving force behind the establishment of Banaras Hindu University. The credit for popularising the slogan of Satyameva Jayate also goes to him.

Aditi Arya was declared FBB Femina Miss India World 2015 while Aafreen Rachel Vaz walked away with the fbb Femina Miss India 2015 first runner-up crown and Vartika Singh was fbb Femina Miss India 2015 second runner-up.

The award was initiated by the Assam Sahitya Sabha in association with Numaligarh Refinery Limited.

The ISRO is engaged in making space technology a catalyst of development to bring about societal transformation. In the process it has become one of the six largest space agencies of the world. The Gandhi Peace Prize for social, economic and political transformation through non-violence was instituted in 1995. The Award comprises an amount of Rs.1 Crore and a citation.

Two-year-old girl Cherukuli Dalli Shivani from Vijaywada has achieved a stunning feat and became the youngest Indian to score 200 points over five and seven-metre distances. At a show in Vijaywada in the presence of seniors ports personalities and India Book of Records officials, she shot 36 arrows each from five metres and seven metres to score 388 points.

On behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Shahriar Alam received the award at the Women in Parliaments Summit held in Adis Ababa on 24th Mar’15. Women in Parliament Awards are given based on World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Reports. Bangladesh has been placed among the top 10 countries in the world in reducing gender gap by the World Economic Forum.

Tamil film, Kaakkaa Muttai and Marathi movie Elizabeth Ekadashi shared the Best Children's Film award.

Vijay has bagged the National Award for Best Actor for his role in the film ‘Naanu Avanalla Avalu’.

Two Malayalam films, Sidhartha Siva's "Ain"and Jayaraj's "Ottaal"have also found a place in the prestigious awards list.

First-time director Chaitanya Tamhane's Court takes a look at India's judicial system. The drama generated strong buzz on the festival circuit last year, playing at 19 festivals and winning 10 jury prizes.

Tamil singer Uttara Unnikrishanan bagged the Best Female Playback Singer prize for the song 'Azhagu'in the movie 'Saivam'.

Haider movie bagged the 5 Awards.

Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the seventh prime minister to receive the Bharat Ratna award after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gulzarilal Nanda. He is 44th awardee of Bharat Ratna Award. His birthday 25th December was declared as Good Governance Day by the Narendra Modi government.

He is a well-known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India and known as Waterman of India. The judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and rivers, and brought back wildlife. Stockholm Water Prize is commonly known as Nobel Prize for Water.

He is the 46th Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner. In 2011, Mr Shashi Kapoor was honoured with Padma Bhushan. He is also a recipient of 3 National Film Awards. His cinematic journey as a lead actor started in 1961 with the movie Dharmputra and acted in more than 100 Hindi films.

The Queen film has also been adjudged as the best feature film in Hindi category.

The Prime Minister congratulated the awardees for this honour. The award is given by Surat Shaher Patrakar Kalyan Nidhi.

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015 employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands.

Saraswati Samman was established by the KK Birla Foundation in 1991.

Kerala won the award for its global multimedia campaign to promote the backwaters of Kerala.

The President congratulated the winners of Stree Shakti and Nari Shakti Puruskar and thanked the Ministry of Women and Child Development for organizing this event and encouraging the distinguished awardees to work towards a noble cause.

She was awarded this for creating awareness about child trafficking in capital city of India. She was also acclaimed for her performance in movies like Mardaani. Others who won this award include Anna Hazare, Pratibha Patil, Mahashweta Devi and Pandit Jasraj.

Captain Niloofar Rahmani from Afghan Air Force, Journalist and women's rights activist Nadia Sharmeen from Bangladesh and Tabassum Adnan, founder, Khwendo Jirga from Pakistan, would receive the prestigious award in the presence of First Lady Michelle Obama in Washington DC on 10th of March.