*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.