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Awards and Honours :
GK questions on awards and honors are undoubtedly one of the most common and important questions asked in MBA GK exams. You can expect questions on this in all your main MBA exams like IIFT, XAT, MICAT, CMAT, etc. You will be asked questions for the year 2023-24, so it is necessary that you cover all the major awards for this year. Here we have a compiled list of all awards and honors, and we shall keep updating this every month. But until then, check out the major events in the list below!
Detailed list of Awards and Honours:
May:
Sr. No. | Award | Awardee |
1. | United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award | Major Suman Gawani |
2. | VMware 2020 Regional Partner of the Year Award | Anunta |
3. | 2020 Young Career Award in Nano Science and Technology | Saurabh Lodha |
4. | 2020 Pulitzer Prizes (field of photography | Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand. |
April:
Sr. No. | Award | Awardee |
5. | Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Men | England All-rounder Ben Stokes |
6. | Forbes billionaires list “The Richest in 2020” | Jeff Bezos |
7. | 13th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2020 | Novelist Abdelouahab Aissaoui |
8. | Inclusion in The Medicine Maker Power List 20 For 2020 | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw |
9. | William E. Colby Award 2020 | Adam Higginbotham |
10. | ‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA India | Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik |
11. | Chinese Virtual Grand Prix Championship | Charles Leclerc |
12. | Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Women | Ellyse Perry of Australia |
13. | Edison Award | Tata Power for campaign ‘Club Enerji #Switchoff2SwitchOn’ |
March:
Sr.No. | Award | Awardee |
14. | Abel Prize Lauretes 2020 | Hillel Furstenberg & Gregory Margulis |
15. | Women Transforming India Awards (WTI) | Defence Minister Rajnath Singh |
16. | Influential Women in Sports list 2020 | Nita Ambani, Serena Williams & Simone Biles |
17. | Nari Shakti Puraskar | President Ram Nath Kovind |
18. | Chameli Devi Jain Award | Arfa Sherwani & Rohini Mohan |
19. | Hemingway Award 2020 | Novelist Ruchika Tomar |
20. | MS Swaminathan Award | V Praveen Rao |
21. | Ugandas Highest Civilian Award | Rajesh Chaplot |
22. | 2019 Road Safety Media Fellowship Award | Prachi Salve, Pradeep Dwivedi |
23. | Moghai Ojah Award | Paramananda Majumder |
24. | 128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award winner | Jadav Payeng |
25. | IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 | Zoya Akhtar |
26. | National Award | DRDO |
February:
Sr.No. | Award | Awardee |
27. | London’s World Book of Records | Manoj Kumar |
28. | AFP’s Kate Webb Prize | Ahmer Khan |
29. | Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee award 2020 for Politics | Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal |
30. | Dan David Prize 2020 | Gita Sen |
31. | Mystic Kalinga Literary Award | Manoj das |
32. | French honour for Theatre Artiste | Sanjana Kapoor |
33. | 1st Men's section Khelo India Ice Hockey tournament 2020 | Ladakh Scouts Regimental Centre (LSRC) Red |
34. | 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2020 | Hrithik Roshan |
35. | Miss Diva Universe 2020 | Adline Castelino |
36. | 2019 FIH Women's Rising Star of the Year | Lalremsiami |
37. | SERB Women Excellence Award-2020 | Dr Niti Kumar |
38. | Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award | Lewis Hamilton and Footballer Lionel Messi |
39. | National Award for Implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana | South Salmara Mankachar of Assam |
40. | 1st Position for the Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana | Madhya Pradesh |
41. | 34th Cannes Open | D Gukesh |
42. | ‘Central Banker of the Year 2020’ for the Asia-Pacific region | Shaktikanta Das |
43. | 1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award | Vinod Kumar Shukla |
44. | Lifetime Achievement Award by International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) | Pullela Gopichand |
45. | National e-Governance Award | RailMadad |
46. | Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 | Jadav Payeng |
January:
Sr. No. | Award | Awardee |
47. | Kerala’s national media award | Journalist & Hindu group chairman N Ram |
48. | Australian civilian honour | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw |
49. | ‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award for Excellence’ | Dr M S Swaminathan |
50. | 1st Prize at the Republic Day Parade, 2020 | Tableaux of Assam |
51. | Miss Teen International 2019 | Aayushi Dholakia |
52. | Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2019 | Priya Prakash |
53. | 'World Games Athlete of the Year' Award | Rani Rampal |
54. | ‘Muppavarapu National Award for Social Service’ | Dr Gutta Muniratnam |
55. | Padma Shri award from Telangana | Farmer Chinthala Venkat Reddy |
56. | Polly Umrigar Award | Jasprit Bumrah |
57. | Global Bihar Excellence Award 2019 | Piyush Jaiswal |
58. | Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 | Indian girl Sucheta Satish & Indian Yoga Boy Ishwar Sharma |
59. | Kerala National Media Award | N. Ram |
60. | ‘Harit Ratna Award 2019’ | Dr N Kumar |
61. | Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) by Calcutta University | Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee |
62. | Plastic Waste Management Award 2020 | Assam's Dibrugarh district |
63. | Costa Children’s Award 2019 | Jasbinder Bilan |
64. | 29th Saraswati Samman | Vasdev Mohi |
65. | “Merck Young Scientist Award 2019” | Sakya Singha Sen |
66. | 2020 Tyler Prize | Pavan Sukhdev |
67. | 2020 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar Award | Disaster Mitigation & Management Centre (DMMC) |
We hope you found this article on Awards and Honours 2020 useful. We shall keep updating this list for the entire year, so do keep checking back and reading about the awards and honors for 2020.
Happy preparations!
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