Some IMPORTANT awards---take a Glance! !!

》Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015-Bharatiya Mahila Bank
》Nishan-e-Pakistan (Pakistan’s highest civilian Award)-Chinese president Xi Jinping
》Pulitzer prizes for West Africa Ebola coverage-New York Times
》Washington Filmfestival(Best Feature Film Award)-Margarita, with a Straw
》Whitley Awards for wildlife conservation-Ananda Kumar, Pramod Patil
》Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region 2015-Novelist Siddhartha Gigoo
》UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2015–Mazen Darwish
》Man Booker International Prize 2015-Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungarian writer)
》Sri Sri Ravi Shankar conferred with Columbia’s highest civilian aw
》Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman 2015-K Meenakshi Sundaram, Acharya Munishwar Jha,Charu Chandra Pande and Mathuradutt Mathpal
》68th Cannes film festival (FIPRESCI Award)–Masaan(Indian Film)
》Golden Medal for Merit in Work of Spain-Tennis player Rafael Nadal
》RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award 2015-Prannoy Roy
》World No Tobacco DayAward 2015-SS Negi (Uttarakhand’s Health Minister)
》Gandhi Peace Prize 2014-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
》Bangladesh Liberation War Award-Atal Behari Vajpayee
》Space Pioneer Award–ISRO for Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission
》Times of IndiaSports Awards(Sportsperson of the Year)-Jitu Rai
》50th Jnanpith Award-Bhalchandra Nemade (awarded by MODI ,for several books( includingKosala and Hindu))
》Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015-Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (Film:Happy New Year). Actor Rajkummar Rao won the prestigious award for his performance inthe critically acclaimed film Citylights.
》Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2015-Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor
》Dr. Pramod Patil and Dr. Ananda Kumar won 2015 Whitley Awards for wildlifeconservation.
》International Achievement Award 2015–Subadhra Devi Rai (an Indian origin nurse)
》Egypt's Academy of Arts–Amitabh Bachchan .
》Golden Peacock National Quality Award for the year 2015-Delhi International AirportLimited (DIAL