Indian Honours and Awards

Saraswati Samman is a literary award given for outstanding prose or poetry works in Indian languages, not a gallantry award. Mahavir Chakra, Vir Chakra, and Vishisht Sewa Medal (VSM) are all military gallantry awards.

The Arjun Award is given for outstanding achievement in sports, not literature. The Booker Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize (not 'Price'), and Bharatiya Gnanpith Award are all prestigious literary honors. The Arjun Award specifically recognizes sporting excellence, making it the correct answer as the non-literary award.

The Global 500 Award was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1987 to recognize outstanding environmental achievement. It honors individuals and organizations for their contributions to environmental protection and conservation, not the other social causes listed.

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Bhimsen Joshi, the legendary classical vocalist, received the Bharat Ratna in 2009. Lata Mangeshkar received it earlier (2001). The award is India's highest civilian honor.

Dr. Tessy Thomas (known as the Missile Woman of India) and Dr. Geeta Varadan were jointly awarded the Dr. Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award in 2014 for their contributions to science and technology, particularly in the field of missile development and guidance systems at DRDO.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems 'Gitanjali,' making him the first Indian Nobel laureate. Mahatma Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Prize. The other options are incorrect.

Hamid Mir, a prominent Pakistani journalist and writer, received the lifetime achievement award at the SAARC Writers and Literature literary meet in 2010. The event was organized by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature at the India International Centre in New Delhi, recognizing contributions to South Asian literature.

Surjit Patar, the renowned Punjabi poet, received the 2010 Saraswati Samman for his poetry collection 'Lafzan Di Dargah'. The K.K. Birla Foundation award recognizes outstanding literary works in Indian languages. The other writers listed are distinguished but did not win this specific award for that year.

Lata Mangeshkar was conferred with the Akkineni Nageswara Rao award instituted by the ANR International Foundation in Hyderabad on February 1, 2010. The award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs. 4 lakh.

Actress Katrina Kaif received the 'Excellence in Performing Art Award 2009' from ASSOCHAM on February 3, 2010.

Prof C.R. Rao, Director, Centre for Multivariate Analysis, Pennsylvania State University, US, and Prof. Janet Thornton, Director, EMBL European Bio-informatics Institute, Cambridge, UK, were given the Genome Valley Excellence Award 2010. The awards, instituted by the government of Andhra Pradesh, were presented to the awardees during BioAsia 2010 organised at Hyderabad in February 2010.

The UGC National Veda Vyas Sanskrit Award was presented to Prof. Kamala Bhardwaj in New Delhi on February 22, 2010.

National Awards for Science & Technology (S&T) Communication were presented on the National Science Day at Technology Bhawan, New Delhi on February 26, 2010. Along with each award, a memento, a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and a citation was presented. The annual awards are given by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.