General Awareness
Indian Honours and Awards
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Indian honours and awards recognize outstanding achievements by civilians, military personnel, and artists in various fields. The scope includes prestigious civilian honors like Padma awards, literary prizes, and specific accolades like the Borlaug Award. These current affairs and general awareness topics are vital for government exams.
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Indian Honours and Awards Questions
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Ratan Tata
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Dr V. K. Saraswat
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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M. S. Swaminathan
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M. Naik
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam received an honorary doctorate in engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2010 during his visit to Canada.
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Raghuram Rajan
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Ravi Batra
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Amartya Sen
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Y V Reddy
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Ranga Rajan
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Raghuram Rajan was awarded the Fisher Black Prize in 2003 by the American Finance Association for his significant contributions to financial economics.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Bharatendu Harishchandra
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Ustad Bismillah Khan
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Satyajit Ray
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In 2010, the Ministry of Culture renamed the Visiting Fellows in Art, Culture and Heritage scheme to the Tagore National Fellowship for Cultural Research to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
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Saumitra Ghosh
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Tapan Sinha
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Abhinav Chaturvedi
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Tapan Chatteriee
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Veteran filmmaker Tapan Sinha was awarded the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2006 for his monumental contribution to Indian cinema.
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Tadatoshi Akiba of Japan
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Krisana Kraisintu of Thailand
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Christopher Bernido & Maria Victoria Carpio-Bernido of the Philippines
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A.H.M. Noman Khan of Bangladesh
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Pan Yue & Fu Qiping of China
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Krisana Kraisintu was not among the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay awardees. The 2010 winners included Tadatoshi Akiba, Christopher and Maria Victoria Bernido, A.H.M. Noman Khan, Pan Yue, and Fu Qiping.
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Physics
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Journalism
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Labour relations
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Economics
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Diplomacy
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The P.C. Mahalanobis Award is named after the father of Indian statistics and is awarded for significant contributions to the field of economics and statistics.
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Sam K. Kutesa and Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi
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Mohameed Bessedik and Olof Skoog
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Helena Ndume and Jorge Sampaio
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Sam K. Kutesa and Mohameed Bessedik
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Olof Skoog and Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi
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The first-ever Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize was awarded to Helena Ndume and Jorge Sampaio in 2015.
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Sandeep Pandey
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Deep Joshi
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Harish Hande
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Anshu Gupta
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Prakash Amte
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Anshu Gupta, the founder of Goonj, was a recipient of the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award alongside Sanjiv Chaturvedi. The other options listed are previous winners from different years.
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Thant Myint-U
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Azyumardi Azra
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Nalini Malani
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Ramachandra Guha
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Vandana Shiva
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Geet Sethi
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Vishwanathan Anand
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Leander Paes
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Karnam Malleswari
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Dhanraj Pillai
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Correct Answer: Vishwanathan Anand
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Asha Bhosle
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Sachin Tendulkar
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Pranab Mukherjee
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Shahrukh Khan
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Shahrukh Khan was not a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan in 2008. The others listed were recipients or were in the list of prominent figures associated with that year's awards.
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cinema.
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Sports
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Photography
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Umpiring
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The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema, presented annually at the National Film Awards.
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Films
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Music
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Literature
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Peace
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The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony.
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Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace Disarmament and Development
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Right Livelihood Award
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Nobel Prize for Peace
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Mother Teresa International Award
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Hamid Karzai received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 2007. This award honors individuals working for peace and development.
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music
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journalism
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science
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adult education
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social work