Indian Honours and Awards

In 2009, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna was awarded to three athletes: boxer Vijender Singh, wrestler Sushil Kumar, and boxer Mary Kom. Vijender Singh is the correct option among the choices provided.

Mammootty, the renowned Malayalam actor, has won the National Film Award for Best Actor three times: for 'Mathilukal' (1989), 'Ponthan Mada' (1993), and 'Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar' (2000). This makes option C (3) the correct answer.

Salman Khan received the Rajiv Gandhi Award in 2007. This award is named after the former Prime Minister and is given to individuals who have made notable contributions in their respective fields. The year 2007 is the correct answer among the options provided.

Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first Indian Nobel laureate. C.V. Raman won later in 1930 for Physics, while Amartya Sen (1998, Economics) and V.S. Naipaul (2001, Literature) won much more recently.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as Frontier Gandhi, was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1987, making him the first non-Indian citizen to receive India's highest civilian honor. He was a Pashtun leader from the North-West Frontier Province who advocated for nonviolence and was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is traditionally announced first each year, usually on a Monday in early October. This is followed by Physics, then Chemistry, with Literature and Peace announced later in the week. The order was established by Alfred Nobel's will.

Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for welfare economics contributions. As of current records, he remains the most recent (last) Indian economics laureate. The others listed - Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (biotech entrepreneur), J.R.D. Tata (industrialist), Jagdish Bhagwati (economist but not Nobel laureate) - are not Nobel Economics winners.