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1. Two economists Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom have won the 2016 Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Sciences.
2. Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling was honoured with prestigious Sustainable
Development Leadership Award of the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
3. Trio of Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa have won the
prestigious 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
5. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wins 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
6. Former ISRO Chairman and space scientist Prof Udupi Ramachandra Rao became the
first Indian to be inducted in the Hall of Fame of International Astronautical Federation (IAF).
9. British trio of physicists David Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz have
won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. They will share the 8 million Swedish kronor prize.
12. Yoshinori Ohsumi (71) of Japan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or Medicine
for his pioneering work on autophagy.
13. Indian-origin South African Kiara Nirghin (16) has won a $50,000 scholarship at the
annual Google Science Fair held in United States.
14. Telugu writer Prof Kalakaluri Enoch conferred 29th Moortidevi Award
15. Uttam Singh to be honoured with Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime Achievement
16. Sanjay Dutta, Ritesh Sarothiya selected for Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards
17. Murga has won the first prize at the Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival (SBSFF). The
short film was directed by young filmmaker Katyayan Shivpuri from Maharashtra.
20. The Tamil film Visaranai has been selected as the Indias official entry to Oscars 2017
(89th Academy Awards) in the Foreign Language Film category.
21. Syrian aid group White Helmets has won the prestigious Right Livelihood Award which is
also known as alternative Nobel prize.
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22. Cricketers Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma were conferred with the Arjuna Award for
their contributions to sport of cricket. The award was bestowed upon them by Union Sports
Minister Vijay Goel in New Delhi. Sharma was bestowed with the award for the year 2015
and Rahane for the year 2016.
23. Writer Meghna Pant has won the Fellows of Nature (FON) South Asia Short Story Award
in Nature writing.
24. Indian-born researcher Dinesh Bharadia (28) has won the prestigious 2016 Marconi
Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for his contribution to radio waves.
25. Indian-American physician-author, Abraham Verghese (61) has been selected for the
prestigious 2015 National Humanities Medal.
26. India-born innovator and scientist Ramesh Raskar has won the prestigious 2016
Lemelson-MIT Prize. He is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MITs) Media Lab.
27. Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has been honoured with
Tamil Ratna award by America Tamil Sangam (ATS) in New York.
28. Haryana has won Best Horticulture State award of the Indian Council of Food and
Agriculture (ICFA).
29. Novel based on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh titled Into the Hidden Valley has won
2016 MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction in the United Kingdom.
30.Assam-based ecologist and conservation activist Bibhuti Lahkar has won prestigious
Heritage Heroes Award of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
31. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon Limited was
appointed Knight of the National Order of the French Legion of Honour (Chevalier de lOrdre
National de la Lgion dHonneur).
33. Aung San Suu Kyi honoured as 2016 Humanitarian of the Year by Harvard Foundation
35. Anjum Chopra becomes first Indian woman to be honoured with MCC life membership
36. Thithi wins Best Film Award at first BRICS Film Festival
38. Padma Sachdev gets Saraswati Samman for year 2015.Sachdev, who is the first women
poet in Dogri language.
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39. Two Indians TM Krishna and Bezwada Wilson have received the prestigious Ramon
Magsaysay prize for the year 2016.
40. Hindi author Sunita Jain conferred with Vyas Samman award 2015
41. The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by
the Minister of Culture.
42. IOA Chief N Ramachandran bestowed with the Olympic Order award.
43. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma to be conferred with Sangeet Martand Ustad Chand Khan
Lifetime Achievement Award
46. East Bengal to honour Milkha Singh with Bharat Gaurav Award
47. A Kanyakumari becomes first woman violinist to receive Sangita Kalanidhi Award
50. Rohit Khandelwal becomes first Indian to win Mister World title
51. President confers 51st Jnanpith Award on Dr. Raghuveer Chaudhari.He also became the
fourth Gujarati literary artist to receive the prestigious award.
52. South African writer Lidudumalingani Mqombothi wins 2016 Caine Prize
53. Social entrepreneur Zubaida Bai wins UN honour for corporate sustainability initiative
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