AWARDS & HONORS

 *AWARDS & HONORS**

1. **NAGALAND**  

   - Awarded the title of "Best State in Horticulture" at the Agriculture Leadership Awards 2024.

2. **P. GEETHA**  

   - Awarded the first K. Saraswathi Amma Award, instituted by WINGS (Women’s Integration and Growth Through Sports), Kerala.

3. **SHAHRUKH KHAN**  

   - To be awarded the Locarno Film Festival’s career achievement award, the prestigious "Pardo alla Carriera".

4. **APCNF (Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Program)**  

   - Awarded the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2024.

5. **RISHI NINADAR MALHOTRA**  

   - Chairperson of HCL Tech, conferred with the "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" (Knight of the Legion of Honour), the highest civilian award of France.

6. **RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ TUM**  

   - Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Guatemalan human rights activist, honored with the Gandhi Mandela Award 2020.

7. **PM NARENDRA MODI**  

   - Honored with the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called in 2019 at St Catherine's Hall of the Moscow Kremlin.

8. **FRANCES H. ARNOLD**  

   - Awarded the 2025 ACS Priestley Medal, recognizing distinguished service to chemistry.

9. **MADHYA PRADESH**  

   - Awarded as the 'Best Performing State' under the PM SVANidhi scheme for supporting urban street vendors with collateral-free loans.

10. **ABHINAV BINDRA**  

    - India’s first individual Olympic gold medalist, awarded the prestigious Olympic Order by the IOC at the 142nd IOC Session in Paris.

11. **PRAHLAD CHANDRA AGRAWAL**  

    - Awarded the COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024 at the 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Busan, South Korea.

12. **ARUNDHATI ROY**  

    - Awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024 for her literary contributions.

13. **CAPTAIN IAN FINLEY**  

    - Cook Island’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), awarded the International Maritime Prize for 2023.

14. **RESERVE BANK OF INDIA**  

    - Awarded the "Risk Manager of the Year Award 2024" by Central Banking, a publication headquartered in London.

15. **GRSE LTD.**  

    - Honored with the "Sustainable Governance Champion Award" at the Outlook Planet Sustainability Summit & Awards 2024.

16. **VINOD GANATRA**  

    - First Indian conferred with South Africa's prestigious 'Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award'.

17. **SRINAGAR**  

    - Recognized as a ‘World Craft City’ by the World Craft Council (WCC), joining Jaipur, Malappuram, and Mysore.

18. **DR. USHA THAKUR**  

    - Honored with the 12th Vishwa Hindi Samman at the 12th World Hindi Conference held in Fiji in 2023.

19. **SIDDESH SAKORE**  

    - A Maharashtra farmer and founder of AGRO RANGERS, named a Land Hero by the UNCCD for innovations in natural farming and waste management.

20. **SANJANA THAKUR**  

    - Mumbai writer, winner of the GBP 5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 in London.

21. **AUTHOR RUSKIN BOND**  

    - Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honor given by the literary organization.

22. **ALOK SHUKLA**  

    - Convenor of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan and founding member of the Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, awarded the 2024 Goldman Prize from Asia.

23. **DR. PURNIMA DEVI BARMAN**  

    - Awarded the Whitley Gold Award 2024 for conservation efforts benefiting the endangered Greater Adjutant Stork and its habitat.

24. **MAJOR RADHIKA SEN**  

    - Awarded the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.

25. **NAIK DHANANJAI KUMAR SINGH**  

    - To be honored posthumously with the Dag Hammarskjold medal during the UN’s International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.

26. **JENNY ERPENBACK & MICHAEL HOFMAN**  

    - Won the prestigious International Booker Prize for their novel "Kairos".

27. **DEEPIKA SORENG**  

    - Indian Women’s Hockey Team forward, honored with the Hockey India Asunta Lakra Award.

28. **AMITABH BACHCHAN**  

    - To be honored with the prestigious Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award.

29. **RATAN TATA**  

    - Chairman Emeritus of Tata Group, received the KISS Humanitarian Award 2021 for global humanitarian efforts.

30. **PRESIDENT DROUPADI MURMU**  

    - Conferred with an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by the University of Mauritius.

31. **HEMA MALINI & SAIRA BANU**  

    - To be honored with the prestigious Pandit Lacchu Maharaj Award along with other prominent personalities.

32. **ADHWAIT NAYAR**  

    - Co-founder of Nykaa and CEO of Nykaa Fashion, named a ‘2024 Young Global Leader’.

33. **MAMTA G. SAGAR**  

    - Kannada poet, writer, academic, and activist, awarded the prestigious World Literary Prize.

34. **PAYAL KAPADIA**  

    - Filmmaker of "All We Imagine As Light," which became the first Indian film in over 40 years to feature in the prestigious Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival.

35. **ISRO’S CHANDRAYAN-3 TEAM**  

    - Awarded the 2024 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration by the US-based Space Foundation.

36. **INDIA**  

    - Awarded the prestigious 'Measles and Rubella Champion' Award by The Measles and Rubella Partnership.

37. **ZOYA AKHTAR & ASMA KHAN**  

    - Honored at the annual ‘India-UK Achievers’ awards in London.

38. **SUNIL BHARTI MITTAL**  

    - Chairman and founder of Bharti Enterprises, conferred with an honorary Knighthood by Britain’s King Charles III.

39. **GOLFER TIGER WOODS**  

    - Selected to receive the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Golf Association (USGA).

40. **KRYSTYNA PYSZKOVA**  

    - Crowned Miss World 2024 at a grand event in Mumbai, India.

41. **SINI SHETTY**  

    - Winner of a prestigious title, details accompanied by a mention of Manushi Chhillar.

42. **PM NARENDRA MODI**  

    - First non-Bhutanese to receive the 'Order of the Druk Gyalpo', Bhutan's highest civilian award.

43. **RIKEN YAMAMOTO**  

    - Japanese architect, awarded the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

44. **YATIN BHASKAR DUGGAL**  

    - Winner of the National Youth Parliament Festival, 2024.

45. **BINA AGRAWAL & JAMES BOYCE**  

    - Awarded the first “Global Inequality Research Award”.

46. **RATAN TATA**  

    - Bestowed with the prestigious PV Narasimha Rao Memorial Award for outstanding philanthropic contributions.

47. **NEELUM SARAN GAUR & SANJEEV**  

    - Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2023.

48. **THE NORWEGIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS**  

    - Awarded the 2024 Abel Prize to Michel Talagrand for contributions to probability theory and functional analysis.

49. **SRINIVASA VARADHAN**  

    - Indian mathematician awarded the 2007 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.

50. **AMITAV GHOSH**  

    - Awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 for his contributions to the theme “imagining the unthinkable”.

51. **GULZAR & JAGADGURU RAMBHADRACHARYA**  

    - Recipients of the 58th Jnanpith Award 2024.