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NATIONAL AWARDS
BHARAT RATNA
*Highest Civilian Award of the Republic of India
Ans : Bharat Ratna
*Bharat Ratna was instituted in
Ans : 1954
*Bharat Ratna was first awarded in
Ans : 1954
*The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by
Ans : The Prime Minister to the President
*The shape of Bharat Ratna
Ans : Peepal leaf
*First Awardees of Bharat Ratna (1954)
Ans : C.Rajagopalachari,Dr.S.Radhakrishnan,C.V.Raman
*First Prime Minister who received Bharat Ratna
Ans : Jawaharlal Nehru (1955)
*First individual to be honoured posthumously
Ans : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966)
*First woman to get Bharat Ratna
Ans : Indira Gandhi (1971)
*First naturalised citizen to get Bharat Ratna
Ans : Mother Teresa (1980)
*First person who received both Bharat Ratna and Nobel Price
Ans : Mother Teresa
*First foreigner to get Bharat Ratna
Ans : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1987)
T- LIST OF BHARAT RATNA WINNERS
No
NAME
YEAR
ABOUT HIM/HER
*1 - Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1954 .- last Governor-General, Independence activist
* 2.-Dr. Sarvapali Radhakrishnan -1954 - India's 1st Vice President (1952 - 1962), - Philosopher and India's 2nd President (1962 -1967)
* 3 - Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman-1954 - Physicist
*4 - Dr. Bhagwan Das - 1955 - Author, - Independence activist, Kashi Vidya Peeth Founder
*5 - Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya- 1955 - Diwan of Mysore, Civil engineer
*6 - Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru - 1955 - Author, Independence activist, 1st Prime Minister
*7 - Pt. Govind Balfabh Pant - 1957 - Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Independence activist, Home Minister
*8 - Dr. Dhondo Keshave Karve - 1958 - Educator, social reformer .
*9 - Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy - 1961- Chief Minister of West Bengal and a Physician
*10 - Shri Purushottam Das Tandon - 1961 - Educator, Independence activist
*11 - Dr. Rajendra Prasad - 1962 - Jurist, Independence activist, 1st President of India .
*12 - Dr. Zakir Hussain - 1965 - Scholar, Independence activist, 3rd President of India
*13 - Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane- 1963 - Sanskrit scholar and Indologist
*14 - Shri Lai Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) -1966 - 2nd Prime Minister of India, Independence activist
*15- Smt. Indira Gandhi - 1971 - 3rd Prime Minister of India
*16 - Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri - 1975 - 4th President, Trade unionist
*17 - Shri Kumaraswami Kamraj (Posthumous) - 1976 - Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Independence activist
KIRTI CHAKRA
*The second highest peace time gallantry award
Ans : Kirti Chakra
*The peacetime award equivalent of the Maha Vir Chakra
Ans : Kirti Chakra
*Kirti Chakra was instituted in
Ans : 1952
SHAURYA CHAKRA
*The third highest peace time gallantry award
Ans : Shaurya Chakra
*The peacetime award equivalent of the Vir Chakra
Ans : Shaurya Chakra
*The award given for Counter- Insurgency operations and actions against the enemy during peace-time
Ans : Shaurya Chakra
*Shaurya Chakra was instituted in
Ans : 1952
*The Bharatiya Jnanpith was founded by
Ans : Shanti Prasad Jain
*Jnanpith Award was instituted in
Ans : 1961
*Jnanpith was first awarded in
Ans : 1965
*The Indian award having highest price money
Ans : Jnanpith Award
*The language which got most number of Jnanpith award
Ans : Hindi
*First recipient of Jnanpith award
Ans : G.Sankara Kurup
*G.Sankara Kurup got Jnanpith award for his work
Ans : Odakkuzhal
*First Malayalee to win the Jnanpith award
Ans : G.Sankara Kurup (1965)
*First novelist to get Jnanpith award
Ans : Tarasankar Bandyopadyay (Bengali; 1966)
*First Malayalee novelist to get Jnanpith
Ans : S.K.Pottekkatt (1980)
*S.K.Pottekkatt got Jnanpith award for his novel
Ans : Oru Desathinte Kadha
*52nd Jnanpith award (2016) was won by
Ans : Shankha Ghosh (Bengali poet)
*Major works of Shankha Ghosh:
Ans : Adim lata-gulmomay (Ancient vines and trees)
Murkha baro, samajik nay (Big fool, not social)
Kabir abhipray (The poet's intention)
Babarer prarthana (Babur's prayer)
*List of Jnanpith recipients in Malayalam:
Ans : G.Sankara Kurup (1965),
S.K.Pottekkatt (1980),
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1984),
M.T.Vasudevan Nair (1995),
O.N.V. Kurup (2007)
*First woman to win the Jnanpith award
Ans : Ashapoorna Devi (Bengali novelist; 1976)
*Second woman to get Jnanpith
Ans : Amrita Pritam (1981)
*Ashapoorna Devi got Jnanpith for her work
Ans : Pratham Pratisruti (The First Promise)
*2007 winner (43rd)
Ans : O.N.V. Kurup
JNANPITH AWARD WINNERS
YEAR
RECIPIENT
LANGUAGE
2013(49th) - Kedamath Singh - Hindi
2014(50th) - Bhalchandra - Nemade Marathi
2015(51st) - Raghuveer - Chaudhari Gujarati
2016(52nd) - Shankha Ghosh - Bengali
SARASWATI SAMMAN
*An award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works
Ans : Saraswathi Samman Award
*Award considered to be among the highest literary awards in India
Ans : Saraswathi Samman Award
*The Saraswati Samman was instituted in
Ans : 1991
*The Saraswati Samman was instituted by
Ans : K. K. Birla Foundation
*First award winner
Ans : Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1991)
SARASWATHI SAMMAN AWARD WINNERS
Year
Recipient Language
2014 Veerappa Moily Kannada
2015 Padma Sachdev Dogri
2016 Mahabaleshwar Sail Konkani
TAGORE AWARD
*An award given in commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore for cultural harmony
Ans : Tagore Award
*Tagore award is instituted in
Ans : 2011
*Tagore award was first awarded in
Ans : 2012
*First recipient of Tagore award
Ans : Pandit Ravi Shankar (2012)
*Second recipient of Tagore award
Ans : Zubin Mehta (2013)
VYAS SAMMAN
*The Vyas Samman was instituted in
Ans : 1991
*The Vyas Samman was instituted by
Ans : K. K. Birla Foundation
*The prize money of Vyas Samman
Ans : 250,000
*First Award Winner of Vyas Samman
Ans : Ram Vilas Sharma
*Youngest recipient of Vyas Samman
Ans : Rishabh Jain
VYAS SAMMAN AWARD WINNERS
YEAR RECIPIENT
*2014 - Kamai Kishbre Goyenka
*2015 - Sunita Jain
*2016 - Surinder Verma
*2017 - Rishabh Jain
MOORTIDEVI AWARD
*Moortidevi award is presented by
Ans : Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust
*Moortidevi award was first awarded in
Ans :1983
*The first person to win Moortidevi award
Ans : C.K. Nagaraja Rao
*The first Malaya lee to win Moortidevi award
Ans : Akkitham (2009)
DADABHAI NAOROJI AWARD
*Awards to honour individuals who have worked to strengthen the UK-India relationship over the years
Ans : Dadabhai Naoroji Award
*The country which instituted Dadabhai Naoroji Award
Ans : Britan
*First recipients of Dadabhai Naoroji Award
Ans : Patricia Hewitt (commerce category)
Dame Asha Khemka (services in the field of education)
Madhav Sharma (culture)
KENDRA SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD
*Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award was instituted in
Ans : 1954
*First award was given in
Ans : 1955
MOORTIDEVI AWARD WINNERS
YEAR
RECIPIENT LANGUAGE WORK
*2013- C. Radhakrishnan - Malayalam -Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram
*2014 - Vishwanath Tripathi - Hindi - Vyomkesh Darvesh
*2015 - Kolakaluri Enoch - Telugu - Ananta Jeevanam
*2016 - M.P. Veerendrakumar - Malayalam - Hyma vathabhoovil
*The first person to win Kendra Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
Ans : Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
*The first Malayalee to win Kendra Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
Ans : Vaikom Muhammed Basheer
*First person to win Sahitya Akademi Award . for malayalam
Ans : R. Narayana Panikkar(1955)
*G.Sankarakurup got Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam in
Ans : 1963
SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD FOR MALAYALAM WINNERS
YEAR
RECIPIENT
BOOKS
*2014 - Subhash Manushyanu -Chandran Oru Aamukham
*2015 - K. R. Meera - Aarachaar
*2016 - Prabha Varma - Shyama maadhavam
RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA
*Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna officially known as
Ans : Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games
*Highest sports honour in India
Ans : Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
*The prize money of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Ans : 7.5 Lakh
*First Winner of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Ans : Viswanathan Anand
*First woman to recieve of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Ans : Karnam Malleswary
*First cricketer to win Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Ans : Sachin Tendulkar
*First Malayalee to win Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Ans : K.M. Beenamol
RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA WINNERS
YEAR
RECIPIENT FIELD
*2016 - P. V. Sindhu - Badminton
*2016 - Dipa Karmakar - Gymnastics
*2016 - Jitu Rai - Shooting
*2016 - Sakshi Malik - Wrestling
ARJUNA AWARD
*Award given for outstanding achievement in National sports
Ans : Arjuna Award
*Arjuna Award Institute in
Ans : 1961
*First Arjuna award was awarded in
Ans : 1961
*The prize money of Arjuna award
Ans : 5 Lakh
*First Malayalee to win Arjuna award
Ans : C.Balakrishnan (1965)
*First Malayalee woman to win Arjuna award
Ans : K.C. Elamma (1975)
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64TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS
*Best Feature Film-Kasaav (Marathi)
*Best Actor-Akhay Kumar (Rustom)
*Best Actress-Surabhi Lakshmi (Minnaminungu)
*Best Child Artist-Adhish Praveen (Kunju Daivam)
*Best stunt choreography-Peter Hein (Pulimurugan)
*Best Children's Film -Dhanak (Hindi)
*Best Film on social issue-Pink
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