Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri of Indian Institute of Technology-Mumbai was selected for the prestigious G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research. Prof. Chaudhuri who works in the Department of Electrical Engineering was chosen for the award for his important contributions in the area of electronic communications. The award, constituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation, carries a cash prize of Rs.1.50 lakh and is given to scientists below the age of 50.

       
   
British-born Sierra Leonean novelist Aminatta Forna won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers` Prize for her novel, The Memory of Love.
       
   
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry announced the list of awardees for the 58th National Film Awards on 19 May 2011. Feature Films jury was headed by J.P. Dutta, Non-Feature Films jury was headed by A.K. Bir and Best Writing on Cinema jury was headed by Ashok Vajpeyi. The jury decided on the awardees to honour the best work of Indian Cinema for the year 2010.
        The list of the awardees in the different categories of the 57th National Film Awards is as follows:

        Best Feature Film: Adaminte Makan Abu directed by Salim Ahamed
        Best Direction: Vetrimaran for Aadukalam (Tamil)
        Best Actor: Dhanush for Aadukalam (Tamil) & Salim Kumar for Adaminte makan Abu (Malayalam)
        Best Actress: Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi) & Saranya Ponvannan for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)

        Best Supporting Actor: J Thambi Ramaiah for Mynaa (Tamil)
        Best Supporting Actress: Sukumari for Namma Gramam (Tamil)
        Best Cinematography: Madhu Ambat for Adaminte Makan Abu
        Best Screenplay Original: etrimaran for Aadukalam
        Best Screenplay Adapted: Anant Mahadevan & Sanjay for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)

        Best Editing: T E Kishore for Aadukalam
        Best Music direction: Vishal Bhardwaj for Ishqiya & issak Thomas Kottakapally for Adaminte Makan Abu
        Best Lyrics: Vairamuthu for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru
        Best Male Playback Singer: Suresh Wadkar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal

        Best Playback Singer Female: Rekha Bhardwaj: Ishqiya
        Best Special Effects: V. Srinivas & M Mohan for Enthiran (Tamil)
        Special Jury Award: Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) directed by Anant Narayan Mahadevan
 

Philip Roth was announced as the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize at a press conference at the Sydney Opera House on 18 May 2011. Roth was chosen from a list of 13 eminent contenders. American novelist Philip Roth is a literary giant and one of the worlds most prolific, celebrated - and controversial - writers. Born in March 1933 in New Jersey, Roth is best known for his 1969 novel Portnoy`s Complaint, and for his late-1990s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000).
       
   
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation`s top honour for exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights. Though the Peace Prize is awarded annually by the foundation, only three other people in its 14-year history have been awarded the gold award for courage in pursuit of human rights — the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda.
 

Super 30 founder Anand Kumar, whose initiative helped several students from underprivileged families make it to the IIT-JEE was chosen for the Education in Excellence Award-2011 to be awarded on Doha on 13 May 2011.
       
   
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was chosen for the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 2009 for her enormous efforts toward sustainable and equitable development. The German leader, Merkel is known for her efforts for good governance and understanding and for the creation of a world better positioned to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century.
 

Aboubakr Jamai of Morocco, the co-founder and former managing director of the weekly newspaper Le Journal Hebdomadaire was presented the 2010 Gebran Tueni Award in Beirut, Lebanon. The award was conferred upon him in recognition of constant struggle in publishing some of the region`s finest independent journalism while dealing with a monarchy that prefers to maintain control of the Moroccan media. The Gebran Tueni Award is the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that honours an editor or publisher from the Arab region.

       
   
The New Delhi Railway Station received the National Tourism Award for the Best Tourist-Friendly Railway Station in India. The award was given for the station’s development in the areas of passenger amenities and efficiency of operations. New Delhi station launched battery-operated vehicles to ferry senior citizens and the disabled.
       
   
Creative Abby awards recognising the best of advertisements were given out during the Goafest 2011, Varca village in Goa. Ogilvy and Mather won the only Grand Prix and five gold metals. The Piyush Pandey-led agency`s work on Cadbury Dairy Milk won the only Grand Prix awarded this year, in the integrated category. Mudra Communications bagged the maximum 37 medals. The Times of India`s Aman ki Asha campaign won three awards at the Creative Abby awards-the finale of Goafest 2011.
       
   

Indian novelist Vikas Kumar Jha has been chosen for the 2011 International Indu Sharma Katha Samman, for his novel ‘McCluskieganj ‘.
        Noted Hindi poet Vishwannnth Prasad Tiwari was selected for the 20th Vyas Samman for his poetry collection, Phir Bhi Kuch Rah Jayega.
       
   
President Pratibha Patil on18 April decorated personnel of the armed services with awards that included the Kirti Chakra and the Shaurya Chakra, during the Defence Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Indu Sharma, mother of Captain Deepak Sharma of the Corps of Signals, who lost his life fighting militants in Jammu and Kashmir in March last year, received the Kirti chakra. Major Rahul Gurung (Corps of Engineers/Assam Rifles) and Captain Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh (Madras) were also awarded the Kirti Chakra for fighting insurgents and terrorists in Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir respectively.

        The five personnel who were posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra included Major Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish Roy, who were killed during the terrorist attack on the Indian mission in Kabul in February last. Guardsman Krishan Kumar (Brigade of Guards), Sepoy Ravi Kant (Dogra), and Sepoy Sangat Singh (Mahar/Rashtriya Rifles) were also awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously.
 

Pulitzer awards were announced for the year 2011. Pulitzers were awarded in 13 journalism categories and seven arts categories. The prize for fiction went to Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad. Bruce Norris won the award for drama for his play Clybourne Park. The history prize went to Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Ron Chernow won in the biography category for Washington: A Life. Madame White Snake, by Zhou Long, won for music. Kay Ryan took the prize for poetry for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.
       
   
The award for general non-fiction was awarded to Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Carol Guzy, a photographer from The Washington Post, became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes.

       
   
Rights activist Binayak Sen, who was freed on bail by the Supreme Court in a case of sedition, has been chosen for the South Korean Gwangju Award for human rights for 2011.
       
   
The managing director of Cheminnova group of companies, M. Vasudev Rao, has been presented the prestigious “Pride of India Leadership Award” for his outstanding contribution to the Pharma Industry in India. The award was presented by President of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth to Mr. Rao at a function organised in Mauritius by the NRI Institute and hosted by Government of Mauritius recently.

       
   
VA Tech Wabag Limited, a leading global player in water and wastewater management has received the prestigious GWI Global Water Award in Berlin.
       
   
Indian mathematician and theoretical computer scientist Ravi Kannan was awarded the 2011 Knuth Prize. For research in computer science it is a prestigious international recognition. Professor Kannan is a leader in algorithms research group at Microsoft Research Labs in India. He is the first Indian to receive the Knuth Prize. The Association for Computing Machinery`s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) awarded the prize to Professor Kannan.
       
   

Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) bagged the prestigious Srishti Good Green Governance Award for 2010. Srishti Good Green Governance Award was given to RSP in recognition of its eco-friendly efforts to reduce pollutants and green house gas emissions. It was also rewarded for its measures of waste utilisation and water conversation as well for its initiatives to expand corporate social responsibility.
       
   
State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd on 21 April 2011 was honoured with the Outstanding PSU of the Year award by All India Management Association (AIMA). The award was received by GAIL Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi from Home Minister P Chidambaram. The award was conferred upon GAIL in recognition of its outstanding performance and its contribution towards the growth of the nation, development of innovation & technology and building an equitable society. The company had been earlier ranked the number one gas utility in Asia and number two gas utility in the world by Platts which is an eminent petroleum research and publishing house.
 

Social activist Anna Hazare was on 7 April 2011 announced the winner of the 2011 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM). IIPM entrepreneurship and National Economic Planning declared the award for Hazare to show solidarity to the modern Gandhi’s determined and non-violent protest against corruption and the institution of a Jan Lokpal Bill. The award carries a cash reward of one crore rupees, a gold medal and a citation. The award is meant to honour people who selflessly work throughout his lifetime for the betterment of the society, working for the poor, the needy and the general public. The 2010 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize was won by social activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, the Iron Lady of Manipur.

       
   
Kannada writer S. L. Bhyrappa was selected for the 20th Saraswati Samman for his novel Mandra on 5 April 201. Mandra depicts the world of North Indian classical music and its locale is Bombay, Delhi, Gwalior, Banaras, Malva and California.
       
   
British astrophysicist Martin Rees, whose research delves deep into the mysteries of the cosmos, has won the 2011 Templeton Prize for career achievements affirming life`s spiritual dimension. Announcing the award, the United States-based Templeton Foundation said Rees`s insights into the mysteries of the Big Bang and so-called black holes in space have "provoked vital questions that address mankind`s deepest hopes and fears.
       

   
Pillitla prakash, a folk artist from Andhra Pradesh has elected for central government’s “Bharath Vikas Ratna”award. Both information and broadcasting ministry and visveswarayya foundation have jointly constituted this award.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has awarded the prestigious Pushkin Gold Medal to Professor Arun Mohanty of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Moscow for his contribution to studies on Russia and promotion of bilateral cultural ties and friendship. The Pushkin Gold Medal is the highest honorary award given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the promotion of the Russian language and culture. More than 10 Indian scholars and public figures have been awarded the medal since its institution in 1977.

       
   
Industrialist Sitaram Jindal announced the institution of Five Annual Prizes of Rs.1 crore each on behalf of the Sitaram Jindal Foundation, the aluminium magnate said these would be given away to people working in the categories of rural development and poverty alleviation, health including drugless therapy, education with an emphasis on moral fortification, science, technology and environment, and peace, social harmony and development.
       
   
Union minister of urban poverty alleviation and culture Kumari Sileja was selected for the Eashwari Bai Memorial Award at Hyderabad.

       
   
Dravidian University, Vice-Chancellor Cuddapah Ramanaiah received the prestigious ‘Amity Academic Excellence Award` at the International Business Horizon (INBUSH) conference held at the Amity Global Business School campus at Noida recently.
       
   
Dr. K. Anji Reddy, Chairman, Dr Reddys Labs, was awarded with the Genome Valley Excellence award at the eighth edition of Bio-Asia, a Global Bio-Business forum, in Hyderabad on 22 February.
       

   
A project on the use of geoinformatics in the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Maharashtra by the Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has been given the national e-governance award, 2010-11(silver) in Aurangabad.
       
   
Ajay Parida, Executive Director,M.S,Swaminathan Research Foundation, has been selected for the prestigious TATAinnovation fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology,Government of India.
       

   
The King`s Speech continued its regal progress through the awards season, winning the Best Film award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony in London.Colin Firth(The kings Speech)and Natalie Portman(Black Swan) have bagged the Best actor and Best Actress Awards.
 

Dr. Singh presented the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed awards to eminent journalist M.J. Akbar (the recipient for 2008) and noted Gandhian and freedom fighter Hema Bharali (for 2009) in Guwahati.

       
   
V. Shanta, chairperson of the Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai, has been selected for the Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2010.Dr. Shanta has been chosen in recognition of her tireless efforts for over five decades towards bringing solace to lakhs of men, women and children, afflicted with the dreaded disease in the country,Justice N.V. Ramana of the Andhra Pradesh High Court will present her the award at a function at Tenali, Andhra pradesh on March 5.
       
   
A project on the use of geoinformatics in the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Maharashtra by Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has been given the national e-governance award, 2010-11(silver) urangabad.

       
   
Parida cutive Director,M.S,Swaminathan Research Foundation, has been selected for prestigious TATAinnovation fellowship he Department of Biotechnology,Government of India.
       
   
King`s Speech nued its regal progress through the awards season, winning Best Film award e British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony in London.Colin Firth(The kings Speech)and Natalie Portman(Black Swan) have bagged the Best actor and Best Actress Awards.

       
   
Dr. Singh presented ,b> Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed awards to eminent journalist M.J. Akbar (the recipient for 2008) and noted Gandhian and freedom fighter Hema Bharali (for 2009) in Guwahati.
       
   
V. Shanta, chairperson of the Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai, has been selected for the Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2010.Dr. Shanta has been chosen in recognition of her tireless efforts for over five decades towards bringing solace to lakhs of men, women and children, afflicted with the dreaded disease in the country,Justice N.V. Ramana of the Andhra Pradesh High Court will present her the award at a function at Tenali, Andhra pradesh on March 5.
       
   
Singer Yesudas gets Swathi Puraskaram, Kerala`s highest music award.
       

   
Actors Anushka, Thamanna and Arya have been elected for Tamil nadu Government`s prestigious - Kalaimani award for the year 2010.
       
   
Pakistani-American writer H.M.Naqui has been selected for the D.S.C. South Asian Literature Award. His novel `Home Boy` has been selected for the award.
       
   
Salim`s novel `Kuluthunna Poola Thota` (Telugu) on background of AIDS, was selected for the Union Governments - Sahitya Academi Award for the year-2010.
 

The 56th Film fare Awards ceremony has held in Mumbai .

       
   
Some of the Awards are -
        Best Film - Dabang
        Best Director - Karan Johar (My name is Khan)
        Best Actor in leading role - Shah Rukh Khan (My Name is Khan)
        Best Actress in leading role - Kajol (My name is Khan)

        Best Music composer - Sajid Wajid (Dabang)
        R.D. Burman Music Award - Sneha Khanwalkar (Love, sex and Dhoka)
        Life time Achievement Award - Mannaday
        40 years of greatness award - Amitabh Batchan
       
   
Udaan (Produced by Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap and directed by Vikramaditya Motawane serewale) bagged total 7 film fare awards where as dabang got 5.

   
Sydney peace foundation awarded the rare gold medal for significant contribution to peace and justice to the wiki leaks publisher Jualian Assange. This honour previously given only to the Dalailama, Nelson Mandela and japanese Buddhist leader Dai Sekn - Ikeda in the foundations 14 years history.
       
   
The gold medal is different from the annual Sydney peace prize awarded by the Sydney foundation.
       
   
The doyen of Indian statistics Prof. C.R.Rao conferred with Guy medal in gold of the Royal Statistical Society, U.K. He is the first Asian, first non-European and first non-American to get the coveted award.
   
Pondicherry central University will confer honorary doctorates on cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and Noble Laureate Venkataraman Ramakrishnan.
   

Karnataka State Women University at Bijapur has conferred an award of Honoraray Doctorate to the Union Minister of State for HRD, D. Purandhareshwari.
       
   
Doordarshan Hyderabad News Correspondent, Emani krishna Rao has bagged the prestigious Swiss TV award for his entry `Lets Play Safe` dealing with stigma and discrimination attached to children living with HIV. The award was presented to him at Basel, Switzerland. This is the six major international award for him.
       
   
nited India Insurance Company has won the skoch Financial Inclusion Award-2010. It is for successful implementation of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Kerala.
   
The ONGC`s Rajahmundry (AP) Asset manager, Mr. A.A.Khan was given Subir Raha Award for Business Excellence for 2010.
   
The Engineering Staff college of India (ESCI), Hyderabad has won the Golden Peacock National Training Award for the forth time.

       
   
The CEAT international cricketer of the year-shane watson (Australia) International Team of the year-Australia.
       
   
Natalie Portman` received the award for best female actor in a leading role for "Black Swan" at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
       
   
Emani Krishna Rao`, Doordarshan News Correspondent at Hyderabad has bagged the prestigious Swiss TV award for his entry `Let`s play safe`dealing with stigma and discrimination attached to children living with HIV. The award was presented to him at Basel,Switzerland. This is the sixth major international award for Mr.Rao

Noted agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan received the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2010 Life Time Achievement Award for his "outstanding leadership in the field of agriculture that has contributed to ensuring food security for millions of Indians." Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the award to Swaminathan in New Delhi. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, wrestler Sushil Kumar, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, film director Shankar were others to receive the awards
           

       
The Andhra Pradesh State centre of the Institution of Engineers (India) received the best State centre award for 2009-10. This is the sixth time that the Institute received the award.
           
       
The three-day second International Kuchipudi Dance Convention was jointly organised by Silicon Andhra and Department of Culture, Government of Andhra Pradesh held in Hyderabad. The spectacular Kuchipudi dance performed by 2,800 dancers from 15 countries found its way into the Guinness Book of World Records.
           
       

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has been selected for the prestigious `Talented Conservator Award` for preserving the green belt and protecting the ecology of the seven hills. The award will be presented at seminar on `Medicinal plants and herbal products` to be conducted by AP Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Board.
           
       
Eminent film maker K Balachander selected for the Akkineni Nageswara Rao Award for Lifetime Achievement for the year 2010.
           
       
Rainbow Hospital of Hyderabad received 2010 National Health Care Award. Rainbow was selected as the best children’s hospital in India by the ICICI Lombard survey conducted among 200 hospitals in the country.

           
       
Dr. Giffy Immanuel, Tuticorin-based Indian physician won the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award (TOYP) for medical invention.
 

Indian actress Katrina Kaif voted as the sexiest woman in the world. This is the third consecutive time Katrina won the award from British magazine Eastern Eye.
           

       
MCX Stock Exchange and CNBC TV18 jointly organised the `India Business Leaders Awards (IBLA) 2010` in Mumbai. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards to Mukesh Ambani and Chanda Kocchar.
           
       
Chemplast Sanmar won two national awards for its efficiency on water management. Chemplast Sanmar won the awards for the successful case study of zero liquid discharge at Mettur Plant. The National Award for Excellence in Water Management was organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Hyderabad.
           
       
Telenos in association with The KNOW Network selected Infosys Technologies as the winner of the prestigious global, Asian and Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Award.

           
       
Suggu Sai Akhil a first year Intermediate student of Guntur won the silver medal at International Junior Science Olympiad held at Abuja, Abiya in Nigeria.
           
       
Mark Zuckerberg the founder of The Facebook social networking site was named as the `Person of the Year` by Time Magazine for the year of 2010. The honour will be presented to those who for better or for worse do the most influencing events of the year.
           

       
Dr. Pinnamaneni and Smt. Seethadevi Foundation Award for 2010 presented to world renowned percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain in Vijayawada. The award, which carries a citation and Rs.5 lakh in cash were presented by the elder son of Dr. Pinnamaneni, PRK Prasad to Zakir Hussain.
           
       
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the SCOPE (Standing Conference of Public Enterprises) award and MOU Awards for the year 2008-09. SCOPE Awards are presented for excellence and outstanding contribution to public sector management.
           
       
David Perlman Award of American Geophysical Union was awarded to Pallava Bagla for excellence in science journalism on impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. Bagla is working for NDTV as science editor.

 

Bio Spectrum Journal from Cyber media presented their awards for 2010. Karnataka state won the Bio Spectrum Biotech State of the Year Award and Biocon Limited Chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw bagged the Bio Spectrum Leadership Award. Nuziveedu Seeds from Andhra Pradesh has won the Bio Agri Company Award.
           
       
India-China Friendship Award was presented to G. Viswanathan, Chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology University by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The award is presented in recognition of significant contributions to promote China-India friendship. VIT is the first institute in the country to start an official Chinese Language Centre in the country.
           
       
Dr. I.V. Subba Rao Agri Journalism Awards - 2010 presented by Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development D. Purandeswarai to the winners at Hyderabad.

           
       
The power plant and Ferro alloy plant of Nava Bharat Ventures Limited at Paloncha bagged the national award for excellence in water management, 2010 from Confederation of Indian Industry.
           
       
Professor Wei Zhang, a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard University received the SASTRA-Ramanujam Award. The award was instituted by the Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA) University to encourage path-breaking research in Ramanujan Mathematics for 2010.
           
       

Indian Boxer Vijender Singh received the `Most Valuable Performance Award` from Samsung at a felicitation function for Gangzhou Asian Games.
           
       
Tata Nano received the worlds oldest and most coveted Good Design Award for 2010. The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies conferrers the award annually.
           

       
The five day event of Asian Film festival was inaugurated in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh by Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI). This is the first time that the film festival is being held in Tenali.
           
       
Agri Journalism - 2010 awards established in the name of I.V. Subbarao declared the winners of this year. Sakshi journalist, D. Shyamsundara Reddy selected for his contributions in agricultural journalism Nicole Faria of India won the Miss Earth Talent 2010 after leaving 17 other contestants behind in the talent show held at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Nicole Faria, a 20-year-old girl lives in Bangalore.
           
       
The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) won the national award for the year 2008-09 for operation of city buses with highest Kilometers Per Liter (KMPL). The Visakhapatnam Urban Division achieved this with 5.57 KMPL by leaving 14 other participants behind for the award.

           
       
The Andhra Pradesh State Government announced 3 national film awards for the 2009. Ch. Ramoji Rao was selected for Nagireddy-Chakrapani National Award, actress B Saroja Devi honoured with prestigious N T Rama Rao National Film Award and director K Raghavendra Rao selected for B N Reddy National Award for 2009. The veteran producer K Raghava was selected for Raghupathi Venkaiah Award 2008 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh Renu Challu, Managing Director of State Bank of Hyderabad received the "India`s Most Efficient Big Bank" award. The award was instituted by Business Today Magazine.
           
       
Eminent Percussionist Zakir Hussain will receive this year`s prestigious Dr.Pinnnamaneni and Smt.Seethadevi Foundation award.

           
       
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia at an Oslo ceremony derided by Beijing as a political farce, and he dedicated it from his prison cell to the "Lost Souls" of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
           
       
The Motor Cycle Display team of the Army Service Corps (ASC) also known as Tornadoes broke two world records to achieve a distance of 1,100 metres with 54 persons on a single moving 500 CC Enfield motorcycle by covering a distance of 925 metres.
           

       
Irish writer Rowan Somerville won the Literary Review magazine`s Bad Sex in Fiction award for his novel, The Shape of Her. The Bad Sex in Fiction award was set up by British writer and journalist Auberon Waugh in 1993.
           
       
Kadapa Municipal Corporation received 2 national awards for its performance in housing and governance. The first award was given under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Revewal Mission`s Integrated Housing Slum Development Project and the second was given for its reforms in better governance.
           
       
The 10 day 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa ended. The Best Film award goes to `Moner Manush` directed by Gautam Ghose to receive the Golden Peacock.

           
       
The best self-employed speech and hearing impairment national award was presented by President Pratibha Patil to the winner Rekha Patri of Andhra Pradesh
 

Golden Horse Film Awards has been known as “Oscars” of Chinese-language, held in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwanese family drama When Love Comes won the Best Film Award.
           
       

India`s former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and Nobel Peace Laureate Mother Teresa are selected among the "25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century" by Time Magazine.
           
       
Himachal Pradesh bagged the Best State Award in the overall performance category in "State of States Survey - 2010 conducted by India Today Magazine.
           
       

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lench Walesa offered to accept this year`s award on behalf of the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo 41st Inter National Film Festival of India started in Panaji on 22/11/2010.
           
       
Six scientists from the disciplines of earth, ocean and atmospheric science of the National geophysical Research Union (NGRI) have been elected fellows and three others made associate fellows of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of science for 2008-10 Union Textile Minister, Dayanidhi Maran presented Shilp Guru Awards and National Awards for the year 2007 and 2008 to handicrafts artisans, master crafts person and master weavers in New Delhi.

           
       
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture established in 1977 selected the winners of its 11th awards. India`s Plamyra House near Mumbai is one among the top 5 winners of this award.

The 25-year old Lakshman Reddy became the first one from Andhra Pradesh to be crowned "Mr World 2010" in the World Bodybuilding Championship in Las Vegas.

           
       
4G Identity Solutions honoured with "ID Outstanding Achievement Award 2010" at the ID World International Congress held in Milan, Italy.
           
       
Mohammad Haffijulla of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions won first rank in Science Olympiad 2010 jointely organised by IGNO-UNESCO M. Jayanth Reddy, a fifth Dan taekwondo expert executed 171 kicks in one minute to find his name in Guinness Book of World Records.

           
       
Dr. Ashish Patil, Director of Urology Institute from Dhule in Maharashtra entered into Guinnes Book of World Records by removing 1,72,155 kidney stones from the patient of Dhanraj Wadile.
           
       
Public Sector Undertaking, BHEL bagged CII-Thomson Reuters Innovation Award for 2010 for its efforts in Hi-Tech Corporate category.
           

       
The outgoing Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva selected for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2010 for promoting strong ties with developing countries.
           
       
Mohammad Haffijulla of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions won first rank in Science Olympiad 2010 jointely organised by IGNO-UNESCO
 

M. Jayanth Reddy, a fifth Dan taekwondo expert executed 171 kicks in one minute to find his name in Guinness Book of World Records.
           
       
Dr. Ashish Patil, Director of Urology Institute from Dhule in Maharashtra entered into Guinnes Book of World Records by removing 1,72,155 kidney stones from the patient of Dhanraj Wadile.
           
       
Public Sector Undertaking, BHEL bagged CII-Thomson Reuters Innovation Award for 2010 for its efforts in Hi-Tech Corporate category.

           
       
The outgoing Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva selected for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2010 for promoting strong ties with developing countries.
           
       
Guinness Rishi (formerly Har Parkash) is renowned for having over 200 world flags on his body, appeared in New Delhi on the eve of Obama`s visit to India.

           
       
Paul H. Appleby Award was presented to Ex-Indian Revenue Service Officer B.V. Krishnakumar by Vice-President Hamid Ansari. This award is named after Prof. Paul H. Appleby, Dean of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, who was invited by Jawaharlal Nehru to report on India`s administrative system
           
       
Sarod mastero Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and renowned violinist N Rajam have been selected for Sopori Academy of Music and Performance Arts (SaMaPa) awards

           
       
Andhra Pradesh Transco bagged the India Power Awards 2010 for its all round best performance in the country.
           
       
Banglore based Rajesh Shah selected for Intel Environmental Award 2010 for his contribution in the field of safe drinking water.

           
       
Students of Palamuru University created Guinnes World Record with Largest Barefoot Walk.
           
       
Indo-American researcher Amit Goyal has been selected as `innovator of the year 2010` by R&D Magazine

       
Ghazal Srinivas receives the third certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records for performing 55 concerts in short span of 24 hours in September2010. This is the third record to him in consecutive years from 2008.
       
Dr. V Shanta and Malatichandur were selected for Gupta Foundation Awards 2010 for their contribution in the fields of service and literature.
 

Sachin Tendulkar received ‘The Libara People’s Choice Award’ at the Asian Awards-2010 held in London. As part of the Ceremony, UB Group Chairman, Vijay Mallya received the ‘Entrepreneur of The Year’ award, Ratan Tata bagged the ‘ Social Entrepreneur of the Year ‘ and Bharati Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal won the ‘Philanthropist of the Year’ award.
               
       

           
Lanco Infratech got the 8th Construction World (CW) Annual Award in the category of fastest growing construction company.

               
       
The Infosys Science Foundation Established by Infosys Technologies Ltd, announced the winners in five categories of the Infosys Prize 2010.
            Mathematical Science
            Prof. Chandrashekhar Khare (University of California)
            Physical Science
            Prof. Sandip Trivedi (Tata institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

            Engineering and Computer Science
            Ashutosh Sharma (IIT-Kanpur)
            Life Sciences
            Chetan E. Chitnis (International Centre For Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi)
            Social Science
            Amit Baviskar (Indian Institute of Economics, Delhi )

            Nandini Sundar (Delhi School of Economics).
            Prize carries a cash award of Rs.50 lakh.
 

           
Sri Venkateshwara University has announced honorary doctorate on ISRO Chairman K.Radhakrishnan.
               

       

           
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Presented the TWAS 2010 medal to Toorres-Peimbert of Mixico at the 21st TWAS-2010 Conference at HIcc in Hyderabad. Around 350 Scientists and Researchers from 50 developing countries TWAS meeting.
               
       

           
The AP Transco has bagged the “best performing utility award of the 4th ENERTIA AWARDS -2010 for achieving lowest transmission and distribution losses in the country and for maintaining impressively high transmission system availability.

               
       
Nobel Prizes 2010:
            Medicine
            The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization".
            Physics
            The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
 

Chemistry
            The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 was awarded jointly to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".
            Literature
            The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual`s resistance, revolt, and defeat".
            Peace
            The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

            Economics
            The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 was awarded jointly to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".
           
       
President Pratibha Patil presented the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and Management to Aruna Roy, social and political activist, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

       
Santhi Swaroop Awards 2010 were given by CSIR
            Biological Sciences: Dr Sanjeev Galande National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Dr Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

            Chemical Sciences: Dr Swapan K Pati Jawarhalal Nehru Center for Scientific Research, Bangalore, Dr Sandeep Verma Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
            Engineering Sciences: Dr G K Anathasuresh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr Shangamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
            Medical Sciences: Dr Mitali Mukerji Institute of Genomics and Interactive Biology (CSIR), Delhi Physical Sciences: Dr Umesh Vasudeo Wagmare Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
            Dr Kalobaran Maiti Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

           
       
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been honoured with the 2010 World Statesman Award by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith coalition which promotes mutual understanding, tolerance and peace. Indian Ambassador Meera Shankar received the award on behalf of PM.
           

Britain`s first Asian Sikh judge Mota Singh was awarded with `Bharat Gaurav`- `Pride of India` award for year 2009. He was also awarded with prestigious `Night hut` designation by Queen Elizabeth at the beginning of 2010.

           
       
Aamir Khan’s production Peepli live, which is a satire on the issue of farmer’s suicide, has been selected as India’s official entry to the 83rd Academic Awards.
           
       
Noted Urdu poet and lyricist Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ` Sharyar` has been conferred with Jnanpith award for Urdu literature by Bhartiya Jnanpith. Malayalam poet O N V Kurup too was conferred with the Jnanpith Award. They have been conferred with the award for 2007 and 2008 respectively.

           
       
The 57th National film awards 2010 were announced on 15th September afternoon. Amitabh Bachchan gets National Award for best actor for “Paa”. Amitabh Bachchan has earlier won National Awards for “Agneepath” and “Black”.
            ‘Delhi 6` claimed the award for national integrity while Aamir Khan’s blockbuster ’3 Idiots’ won the national award in the most popular film category.
            Best Film: Kutty Srank
            Best Special Effects: Kamal Kannan (Magadheera)

            Best Choreography: K Shiva Shankar (Magadheera)
           
       
Union Bank bagged Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha puraskar for the year 2008-09 for its contribution to develop Hindi.

The famed Chowmahalla Palace bagged the prestigious Asia Pacific Heritage Merit Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

           
       
Social activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on fast-unto-death for the past nine years demanding withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 from Manipur, has been awarded ‘Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize’
           
       
The savoured Haleem dish, a mouth-watering delicacy of Hyderabad, has been awarded the coveted Geographical Indication (GI) status.

           
       
Veteran film maker D. Ramanaidu has been selected for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2009. The award, which includes a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh, will be presented at the National Film Awards event in October. The other recepients from Telugu film industry were BN Reddy, LV Prasad, B Nagi Reddy, A Nageswara Rao.
           
       
The famous writer Kaluvakolanu Sadananda was conferred with Sahitya Academy Award for his novel Adavithalli.
           

       
62nd Prime Time Emmy awards were presented in Los Angeles. Best Actor was won by Bryan Cranton and best actress to Kyra Sedgwick. Best supporting actress was won by Archie Punjabi whose origin is from India.

 

Nagaraja, Senior Technical Assistant of the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore, has been chosen for the Shram Ratna for 2008, the country`s highest award given by the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The award carries a cash prize of Rs.2 lakh and a “Sanad” (citation).

           
       
Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, who sacrificed his life in the February terror attack in Kabul this year, has been awarded the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award, the eve of 64th Independence Day.
       

Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, 78, an Indian-American professor at the University of Texas, Austin, has won the prestigious Dirac Medal for his contribution to the understanding of theoretical physics. The Dirac Medal of ICTP is awarded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on renowned physicist P.A.M Dirac`s birthday — August 8.
       

Renowned Indian sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik has won the first prize at the 8th International Sand Sculpture Championship for the 5Th time which was held in Berlin,Germany.
   

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar presented the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2006 to octogenarian Konkani litterateur<strong> Ravindra Kelekar. The 42nd Jnanpith Award for 2006 carried a citation, shawl, srifal, a bronze idol of Vagdevi Saraswati and a cash prize of Rs. 7 lakh.
           

       
In recognition for his outstanding contribution to International Legal Co-operation, Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily has received the Next Step Foundation 2010 award.

The Vice President Hamid Ansari conferred the `National Award in Statistics ` constituted in honour of Prof. P.V.Sukhatme to renowned statistician Prof. Alok De.

AP’s IPS officer S Umapathy was presented the American Award by Stephen Light, U S consulate In Charge in Hyderabad, for his work in controlling human trafficking.
       

Vice President M. Hamid Ansari presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. A.R. Kidwai, former Governor of Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana and former Chairman of UPSC, organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi.
   

Kartar Singh Lalvani, founder of pharmaceutical major Vitabiotics in Britain, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in London.        
 

Vice President M. Hamid Ansari presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. A.R. Kidwai, former Governor of Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana and former Chairman of UPSC, organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi.
           

       
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d`Or top prize at the Cannes film festival for Uncle Boonmee. Spanish actor Javier Bardem shared the best actor award with Italy`s Elio Germano. and France`s Juliette Binoche was named best actress .
           
       
Internationally acclaimed Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik from Orissa won Gold medal for People`s Choice prize at 2nd Moscow World sand sculpture championship 2010, Russia. The artists from Island won the `Jury Choice`, and `Sculptor Choice` prize in this championship.
 

India`s top industrialist and chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata has received the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding global leadership, vision and professional excellence.
           
       
<strong>Social activist Ela Bhatt (76) received the Niwano Peace Prize for 2010 for her contribution to the uplift of poor women in India.
           
 

Physicist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva has been awarded the <strong>Sydney Peace Prize 2010 in recognition of her works in social justice.
 

       
President Pratibha Patil presented the Paulos Mar Gregorios Award 2010 to Dr. Karan Singh for Outstanding Contribution in the Fields of Public Life, Inter-Faith Dialogue and Culture.
           

       
Bengali novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee`s book, Chowringhee, has been shortlisted for one of the Independent Foreign Fiction prize for 2010 — the first time that an Indian work has accomplished the feat.
           
       
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, has been selected for this year`s Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah Award, instituted by the Malcom and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust.
           
       
Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata was conferred the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian award by Canada India Foundation for his outstanding global leadership, vision and professional excellence.

           
       
Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch was conferred with Telugu Bharti Puraskaram given by CP Brown Academy and Alfa foundation.
           

Neel Chowdary received The Hindu’s Metro plus Playwright award for his book Taaramandal.

           
       
Vizag Steel Plant was conferred with Global Human Resource Development award-2010 for following international standards in utilizing the human resources.
   

The Assam government has decided to confer the coveted Srimanta Sankaradeva Award to noted journalist and writer Homen Borgohain for the year 2007 in recognition of his significant contribution to journalism and literature and noted actor Sharmila Tagore in the fields of art and culture for the year 2008.

           
       
Asko Parpola, leading authority on the Indus script and Professor Emeritus of Indology in the University of Helsinki, Finland, has been chosen for the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award for 2009.
 

The Pritzker Prize, considered the highest honour in architecture and regarded by many as equivalent to the Nobel Prize, has been awarded to the Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architecture firm SANAA.

           
           
       
Rukhsana (21) and her brother Aijaz (19) were awarded the Sarvotam Jeevan Raksha Padak and the Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak respectively by the Centre for snatching an AK rifle from LeT commander Abu Usma and killed him with the weapon when he and another militant barged into their house on September 27, 2009.
           
           

       
American mathematician John Torrence Tate, 85, has been awarded the prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2010.
           
           
       
Well - Known Hindi writer Amar Kant has been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman award for his outstanding novel Inhi Hathiyaron Se.

           
           
       
Nandi Awards – 2008 were presented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Best Actor - Ravi Teja (Neninthe), Best Actress - Swati (Ashta Chamma), Best Film - Gamyam, Best Director - J. Radha Krishna (Gamyam)
           

Eminent heroine of yesteryears Jamuna has been chosen for the NTR National Film Award to be given by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for the year 2008.

           
           
       
Actress-director Vijayanirmala will receive the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for the year 2008.
           
           
       
The B.N. Reddy National Film Award will be given to renowned director K.B. Tilak.

           
           
       
Tehelka Executive Editor Shoma Chaudhury and Nagaland page Editor Monalisa Changkija will share the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding Women Media persons for 2009.
           
           
       
Indian-American computer scientist Subhash Khot, known for his `Unique Games Conjecture` has been selected for $ 500,000 National Science Award of the United States of America.

 

The 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles:
            Best Actor - Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
            Best Actress -&nbsp;Sandra Bullock (&nbsp;The Blind Side)
            Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) (First women to be awarded Best Director)

            Best Film - The Hurt Locker
           
           
       
Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan has been honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at the film festival of British Academy of Film &amp; Television Arts.

           
           
       
Vidyasagar, an inmate of the Government Home for Juvenile Delinquents and correctional centre in kadapa received the Golden Nandi Award for 2009 from Chief Minister K.Rosaiah for his portrayal of the role of a tribal boy named `sega` in a Telugu play, Bapu Kalaluganna Desam.
           
           
       
Veteran British Asian film maker Yavar Abbas will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the South Asian Cinema Foundation in London for making films like India! My India!
 

Prabhakar Mandara has won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2009for translating Yagati Chinna Rao`s research book, `` Dalit struggle for Identity" into Telugu by the name Andhra Pradesh Dalita Udyama Charitra.
           

       
John Flannery, President CEO, GE India was presented the Indo-US Business Cooperation Award.
           
       
Veteran Congress leader G. Venkataswamywas presented the `Eashwari Bai Memorial Award`by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh E.S.L. Narasimhan.
           

       
Eminent Journalist Sanjoy Hazarika has been awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Awardfor Global Citizenship by the U.S. - based Tufts University for his contribution to the north - east of India, initiatives in health and governance.
           
       
Social worker Ela Bhatt,who set up the self - Employed Women`s Association (SEWA) has been chosen for the 27th Niwano Peace Prizefor her contribution to the uplift of poor women.

           
       
British Academy of Film and Television Art`s (BAFTA) awards
            Best Film - The Hurt Locker
            Best Actor - Colin Firth (A single Man)
            Best Actress - Carey Mulligan (An Education)
           
       

Dr. V.K.Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to defence Minister and Director - General of DRDO will be presented the Dr.Y.Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2009for his outstanding contribution to India`s defence research and development.
 

W. Selvamurthy,chief controller (Life Sciences and Human Resource), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has been chosen for the DRDO`s Technology Leadership Awardfor 2008 instituted by the DRDO.
           

       
Actor Amitabh Bachchan, Carnatic musician Balamurali Krishna, ISRO chairman K.Radhakrishnan and Minister of state for external Affairs Shashi Tharoor were presented the Pazhassi Raja charitable Trust Awards 2009by the President Pratibha Patil.
           
       
Bhilai Steel plant was presented the Prime Minister`s trophy for the best integrated steel plant.
               
       

11th Mumbai International Film Festival of Documentary, Animation and short films
           
           

               
Russain director Alexander Gutman`s 17 August won the Golden Conch for the best Documentary.
 

The Spell, Directed by Umesh Kulkarni was adjudged the best fiction film.
           
       
Prominent Stage actor and director Chatla Sriramulu (75) has been selected for the prestigious "NTR Rangastala Puraskar" given by the State Government of AP.

           
       
Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan presented `The Lifetime Achievement in Science Award`, instituted by B.M. Birla Science Centre, to Nobel Laureate Anthony James Leggett.
           
           
       
Oscar winner A.R. Rahman won two Grammy awards.
           

               

Jai Ho - Best song written for motion pictures, TV and other visual media.
               
Best soundtrack for the film Slum dog Millionaire.
           
           
       
Social activist and actor Nafisa Ali and Kiran Bedi, the first woman IPS officer in the country received the Kalpana Chawla Excellence Awards 2010.
 

President Pratibha Patil conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and development for 2009 on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

GV Krishna Reddy, chairman of GVK group won the `Entrepreneur of the year` award during the economic times awards for Corporate Excellence.

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science conferred the Dean`s Medal to Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.
 

Noted agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan received the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2010 Life Time Achievement Award for his "outstanding leadership in the field of agriculture that has contributed to ensuring food security for millions of Indians." Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the award to Swaminathan in New Delhi. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, wrestler Sushil Kumar, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, film director Shankar were others to receive the awards
           
       
The Andhra Pradesh State centre of the Institution of Engineers (India) received the best State centre award for 2009-10. This is the sixth time that the Institute received the award.

           
       
The three-day second International Kuchipudi Dance Convention was jointly organised by Silicon Andhra and Department of Culture, Government of Andhra Pradesh held in Hyderabad. The spectacular Kuchipudi dance performed by 2,800 dancers from 15 countries found its way into the Guinness Book of World Records.
           
       
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has been selected for the prestigious `Talented Conservator Award` for preserving the green belt and protecting the ecology of the seven hills. The award will be presented at seminar on `Medicinal plants and herbal products` to be conducted by AP Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Board.
           

       
Eminent film maker K Balachander selected for the Akkineni Nageswara Rao Award for Lifetime Achievement for the year 2010.
           
       
Rainbow Hospital of Hyderabad received 2010 National Health Care Award. Rainbow was selected as the best children’s hospital in India by the ICICI Lombard survey conducted among 200 hospitals in the country.
           
       
Dr. Giffy Immanuel, Tuticorin-based Indian physician won the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award (TOYP) for medical invention.

           
       
Indian actress Katrina Kaif voted as the sexiest woman in the world. This is the third consecutive time Katrina won the award from British magazine Eastern Eye.
           
       
MCX Stock Exchange and CNBC TV18 jointly organised the `India Business Leaders Awards (IBLA) 2010` in Mumbai. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards to Mukesh Ambani and Chanda Kocchar.
           
       

Chemplast Sanmar won two national awards for its efficiency on water management. Chemplast Sanmar won the awards for the successful case study of zero liquid discharge at Mettur Plant. The National Award for Excellence in Water Management was organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Hyderabad.
           
       
Telenos in association with The KNOW Network selected Infosys Technologies as the winner of the prestigious global, Asian and Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Award.
           
       
Suggu Sai Akhil a first year Intermediate student of Guntur won the silver medal at International Junior Science Olympiad held at Abuja, Abiya in Nigeria.

           
       
Mark Zuckerberg the founder of The Facebook social networking site was named as the `Person of the Year` by Time Magazine for the year of 2010. The honour will be presented to those who for better or for worse do the most influencing events of the year.
           
       
 

Dr. Pinnamaneni and Smt. Seethadevi Foundation Award for 2010 presented to world renowned percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain in Vijayawada. The award, which carries a citation and Rs.5 lakh in cash were presented by the elder son of Dr. Pinnamaneni, PRK Prasad to Zakir Hussain.
           

       
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the SCOPE (Standing Conference of Public Enterprises) award and MOU Awards for the year 2008-09. SCOPE Awards are presented for excellence and outstanding contribution to public sector management.
           
       
David Perlman Award of American Geophysical Union was awarded to Pallava Bagla for excellence in science journalism on impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. Bagla is working for NDTV as science editor.
           
       
Bio Spectrum Journal from Cyber media presented their awards for 2010. Karnataka state won the Bio Spectrum Biotech State of the Year Award and Biocon Limited Chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw bagged the Bio Spectrum Leadership Award. Nuziveedu Seeds from Andhra Pradesh has won the Bio Agri Company Award.

           
       
India-China Friendship Award was presented to G. Viswanathan, Chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology University by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The award is presented in recognition of significant contributions to promote China-India friendship. VIT is the first institute in the country to start an official Chinese Language Centre in the country.
           
       
Dr. I.V. Subba Rao Agri Journalism Awards - 2010 presented by Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development D. Purandeswarai to the winners at Hyderabad.
           
       
The power plant and Ferro alloy plant of Nava Bharat Ventures Limited at Paloncha bagged the national award for excellence in water management, 2010 from Confederation of Indian Industry.

           
       
Professor Wei Zhang, a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard University received the SASTRA-Ramanujam Award. The award was instituted by the Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA) University to encourage path-breaking research in Ramanujan Mathematics for 2010.
           
       
Indian Boxer Vijender Singh received the `Most Valuable Performance Award` from Samsung at a felicitation function for Gangzhou Asian Games.
           

       
Tata Nano received the worlds oldest and most coveted Good Design Award for 2010. The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies conferrers the award annually.
           
       

The five day event of Asian Film festival was inaugurated in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh by Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI). This is the first time that the film festival is being held in Tenali.
           
       

Agri Journalism - 2010 awards established in the name of I.V. Subbarao declared the winners of this year. Sakshi journalist, D. Shyamsundara Reddy selected for his contributions in agricultural journalism Nicole Faria of India won the Miss Earth Talent 2010 after leaving 17 other contestants behind in the talent show held at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Nicole Faria, a 20-year-old girl lives in Bangalore.
           
       
The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) won the national award for the year 2008-09 for operation of city buses with highest Kilometers Per Liter (KMPL). The Visakhapatnam Urban Division achieved this with 5.57 KMPL by leaving 14 other participants behind for the award.
           
       

The Andhra Pradesh State Government announced 3 national film awards for the 2009. Ch. Ramoji Rao was selected for Nagireddy-Chakrapani National Award, actress B Saroja Devi honoured with prestigious N T Rama Rao National Film Award and director K Raghavendra Rao selected for B N Reddy National Award for 2009. The veteran producer K Raghava was selected for Raghupathi Venkaiah Award 2008 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh Renu Challu, Managing Director of State Bank of Hyderabad received the "India`s Most Efficient Big Bank" award. The award was instituted by Business Today Magazine.
           
       
Eminent Percussionist Zakir Hussain will receive this year`s prestigious Dr.Pinnnamaneni and Smt.Seethadevi Foundation award.

           
       
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia at an Oslo ceremony derided by Beijing as a political farce, and he dedicated it from his prison cell to the "Lost Souls" of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
           
       
The Motor Cycle Display team of the Army Service Corps (ASC) also known as Tornadoes broke two world records to achieve a distance of 1,100 metres with 54 persons on a single moving 500 CC Enfield motorcycle by covering a distance of 925 metres.
           

       
Irish writer Rowan Somerville won the Literary Review magazine`s Bad Sex in Fiction award for his novel, The Shape of Her. The Bad Sex in Fiction award was set up by British writer and journalist Auberon Waugh in 1993.
           
       
Kadapa Municipal Corporation received 2 national awards for its performance in housing and governance. The first award was given under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Revewal Mission`s Integrated Housing Slum Development Project and the second was given for its reforms in better governance.
           
       
The 10 day 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa ended. The Best Film award goes to `Moner Manush` directed by Gautam Ghose to receive the Golden Peacock.

           
       
The best self-employed speech and hearing impairment national award was presented by President Pratibha Patil to the winner Rekha Patri of Andhra Pradesh

Golden Horse Film Awards has been known as “Oscars” of Chinese-language, held in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwanese family drama When Love Comes won the Best Film Award.
           
       
India`s former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and Nobel Peace Laureate Mother Teresa are selected among the "25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century" by Time Magazine.
           

       
Himachal Pradesh bagged the Best State Award in the overall performance category in "State of States Survey - 2010 conducted by India Today Magazine.
           
       
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lench Walesa offered to accept this year`s award on behalf of the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo 41st Inter National Film Festival of India started in Panaji on 22/11/2010.
           

       
Six scientists from the disciplines of earth, ocean and atmospheric science of the National geophysical Research Union (NGRI) have been elected fellows and three others made associate fellows of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of science for 2008-10 Union Textile Minister, Dayanidhi Maran presented Shilp Guru Awards and National Awards for the year 2007 and 2008 to handicrafts artisans, master crafts person and master weavers in New Delhi.
           
       
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture established in 1977 selected the winners of its 11th awards. India`s Plamyra House near Mumbai is one among the top 5 winners of this award.

           
       
The 25-year old Lakshman Reddy became the first one from Andhra Pradesh to be crowned "Mr World 2010" in the World Bodybuilding Championship in Las Vegas.
           
       
4G Identity Solutions honoured with "ID Outstanding Achievement Award 2010" at the ID World International Congress held in Milan, Italy.
           

       
 

Mohammad Haffijulla of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions won first rank in Science Olympiad 2010 jointely organised by IGNO-UNESCO M. Jayanth Reddy, a fifth Dan taekwondo expert executed 171 kicks in one minute to find his name in Guinness Book of World Records.
           
       
Dr. Ashish Patil, Director of Urology Institute from Dhule in Maharashtra entered into Guinnes Book of World Records by removing 1,72,155 kidney stones from the patient of Dhanraj Wadile.

           
       
Public Sector Undertaking, BHEL bagged CII-Thomson Reuters Innovation Award for 2010 for its efforts in Hi-Tech Corporate category.
           
       
The outgoing Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva selected for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2010 for promoting strong ties with developing countries.
           

       
Mohammad Haffijulla of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions won first rank in Science Olympiad 2010 jointely organised by IGNO-UNESCO
           
       
M. Jayanth Reddy, a fifth Dan taekwondo expert executed 171 kicks in one minute to find his name in Guinness Book of World Records.
           
       
Dr. Ashish Patil, Director of Urology Institute from Dhule in Maharashtra entered into Guinnes Book of World Records by removing 1,72,155 kidney stones from the patient of Dhanraj Wadile.

           
       
Public Sector Undertaking, BHEL bagged CII-Thomson Reuters Innovation Award for 2010 for its efforts in Hi-Tech Corporate category.
           
       

The outgoing Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva selected for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2010 for promoting strong ties with developing countries.

           
       
Guinness Rishi (formerly Har Parkash) is renowned for having over 200 world flags on his body, appeared in New Delhi on the eve of Obama`s visit to India.
           
       
Paul H. Appleby Award was presented to Ex-Indian Revenue Service Officer B.V. Krishnakumar by Vice-President Hamid Ansari. This award is named after Prof. Paul H. Appleby, Dean of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, who was invited by Jawaharlal Nehru to report on India`s administrative system
           

       
Sarod mastero Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and renowned violinist N Rajam have been selected for Sopori Academy of Music and Performance Arts (SaMaPa) awards
           
       
Andhra Pradesh Transco bagged the India Power Awards 2010 for its all round best performance in the country.
           

       
Banglore based Rajesh Shah selected for Intel Environmental Award 2010 for his contribution in the field of safe drinking water.
           
       
Students of Palamuru University created Guinnes World Record with Largest Barefoot Walk.
           
       

Indo-American researcher Amit Goyal has been selected as `innovator of the year 2010` by R&amp;D Magazine
       
Ghazal Srinivas receives the third certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records for performing 55 concerts in short span of 24 hours in September2010. This is the third record to him in consecutive years from 2008.
       
Dr. V Shanta and Malatichandur were selected for Gupta Foundation Awards 2010 for their contribution in the fields of service and literature.

C.P. Brown Academy, Hyderabad, is presenting ‘Telugu Bharati Puraskaramu-2010‘to Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch. He was the former Vice Chancellor of S.V. University.
               
       

           
Sachin Tendulkar received ‘The Libara People’s Choice Award’ at the Asian Awards-2010 held in London. As part of the Ceremony, UB Group Chairman, Vijay Mallya received the ‘Entrepreneur of The Year’ award, Ratan Tata bagged the ‘ Social Entrepreneur of the Year ‘ and Bharati Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal won the ‘Philanthropist of the Year’ award.

               
       

           
Lanco Infratech got the 8th Construction World (CW) Annual Award in the category of fastest growing construction company.
               
       
The Infosys Science Foundation Established by Infosys Technologies Ltd, announced the winners in five categories of the Infosys Prize 2010.
            Mathematical Science

            Prof. Chandrashekhar Khare (University of California)
            Physical Science
            Prof. Sandip Trivedi (Tata institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
            Engineering and Computer Science
            Ashutosh Sharma (IIT-Kanpur)
            Life Sciences

            Chetan E. Chitnis (International Centre For Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi)
            Social Science
            Amit Baviskar (Indian Institute of Economics, Delhi)
            Nandini Sundar (Delhi School of Economics).
            Prize carries a cash award of Rs.50 lakh.
           

       

           
 

Sri Venkateshwara University has announced honorary doctorate on ISRO Chairman K.Radhakrishnan.
               
       

           
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Presented the TWAS 2010 medal to Toorres-Peimbert of Mixico at the 21st TWAS-2010 Conference at HIcc in Hyderabad. Around 350 Scientists and Researchers from 50 developing countries TWAS meeting.
               

       

           
The AP Transco has bagged the “best performing utility award of the 4th ENERTIA AWARDS -2010 for achieving lowest transmission and distribution losses in the country and for maintaining impressively high transmission system availability.
               
       
Nobel Prizes 2010:
            Medicine
            The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization".

            Physics
            The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
            Chemistry
           

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 was awarded jointly to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".
            Literature
            The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual`s resistance, revolt, and defeat".

            Peace
            The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".
            Economics
            The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 was awarded jointly to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".
           
       
President Pratibha Patil presented the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and Management to Aruna Roy, social and political activist, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Santhi Swaroop Awards 2010 were given by CSIR
            Biological Sciences:Dr Sanjeev Galande National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Dr Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
            Chemical Sciences: Dr Swapan K Pati Jawarhalal Nehru Center for Scientific Research, Bangalore, Dr Sandeep Verma Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
            Engineering Sciences:Dr G K Anathasuresh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr Shangamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

            Medical Sciences: Dr Mitali Mukerji Institute of Genomics and Interactive Biology (CSIR), DelhiPhysical Sciences: Dr Umesh Vasudeo Wagmare Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
            Dr Kalobaran Maiti Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
           
       
Santhi Swaroop Awards 2010 were given by CSIR
            Biological Sciences:Dr Sanjeev Galande National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Dr Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
            Chemical Sciences: Dr Swapan K Pati Jawarhalal Nehru Center for Scientific Research, Bangalore, Dr Sandeep Verma Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
            Engineering Sciences:Dr G K Anathasuresh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr Shangamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

            Medical Sciences: Dr Mitali Mukerji Institute of Genomics and Interactive Biology (CSIR), DelhiPhysical Sciences: Dr Umesh Vasudeo Wagmare Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
            Dr Kalobaran Maiti Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
           
       
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been honoured with the 2010<b> World Statesman Awardby the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith coalition which promotes mutual understanding, tolerance and peace. Indian Ambassador Meera Shankar received the award on behalf of PM.

           
       
 

Britain`s first Asian Sikh judgeMota Singhwas awarded with `Bharat Gaurav`-`Pride of India`award for year 2009. He was also awarded with prestigious `Night hut` designation by Queen Elizabeth at the beginning of 2010.
           
       
Aamir Khan’s productionPeepli live,which is a satire on the issue of farmer’s suicide, has been selected as India’s official entry to the83rd Academic Awards.

           
       
Noted Urdu poet and lyricistAkhlaq Mohammed Khan` Sharyar` has been conferred with Jnanpith award for Urdu literature by Bhartiya Jnanpith. Malayalam poet ON V Kuruptoo was conferred with the Jnanpith Award. They have been conferred with the award for 2007 and 2008 respectively.
           
       
The 57th National film awards 2010were announced on 15th September afternoon.Amitabh Bachchangets National Award for best actor for “Paa”. Amitabh Bachchan has earlier won National Awards for “Agneepath” and “Black”.

            ‘Delhi 6` claimed the award for national integrity while Aamir Khan’s blockbuster ’3 Idiots’ won the national award in the most popular film category.
            Best Film:Kutty Srank
            Best Special Effects:Kamal Kannan (Magadheera)
            Best Choreography:K Shiva Shankar (Magadheera)
           

       
Union Bank bagged Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha puraskarfor the year 2008-09 for its contribution to develop Hindi.
           
       

The famed Chowmahalla Palace bagged the prestigious Asia Pacific Heritage Merit Award for Cultural Heritage Conservationawarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
           
       
Social activistIrom Sharmila, who has been on fast-unto-death for the past nine years demanding withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 from Manipur, has been awarded ‘Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize’

           
       
The savouredHaleemdish, a mouth-watering delicacy of Hyderabad, has been awarded the coveted Geographical Indication (GI) status.
           
       
Veteran film makerD. Ramanaiduhas been selected for the prestigiousDadasaheb Phalke Award 2009.The award, which includes a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh, will be presented at the National Film Awards event in October. The other recepients from Telugu film industry were BN Reddy, LV Prasad, B Nagi Reddy, A Nageswara Rao.
           

       
The famous writer Kaluvakolanu Sadananda was conferred withSahitya Academy Awardfor his novel Adavithalli.
           
       
62nd Prime Time Emmy awardswere presented in Los Angeles. Best Actor was won by Bryan Cranton and best actress to Kyra Sedgwick. Best supporting actress was won by Archie Punjabi whose origin is from India.

Nagaraja, Senior Technical Assistant of the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore, has been chosen for the Shram Ratna for 2008, the country`s highest award given by the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The award carries a cash prize of Rs.2 lakh and a “Sanad” (citation).
           
       
Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, who sacrificed his life in the February terror attack in Kabul this year, has been awarded the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award, the eve of 64th Independence Day.
           

       
 

Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, 78, an Indian-American professor at the University of Texas, Austin, has won the prestigious Dirac Medal for his contribution to the understanding of theoretical physics. The Dirac Medal of ICTP is awarded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on renowned physicist P.A.M Dirac`s birthday — August 8.
           
       
Renowned Indian sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik has won the first prize at the 8th International Sand Sculpture Championship for the 5Th time which was held in Berlin,Germany.

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar presented the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2006 to octogenarian Konkani litterateur Ravindra Kelekar. The 42nd Jnanpith Award for 2006 carried a citation, shawl, srifal, a bronze idol of Vagdevi Saraswati and a cash prize of Rs. 7 lakh.
           
       
In recognition for his outstanding contribution to International Legal Co-operation, Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moilyhas received the Next Step Foundation 2010 award.</b>

 

      
The Vice President Hamid Ansari conferred the `National Award in Statistics ` constituted in honour of Prof. P.V.Sukhatme to renowned statistician Prof. Alok De.
           
       
AP’s IPS officer S Umapathywas presented the American Award by Stephen Light, U S consulate In Charge in Hyderabad, for his work in controlling human trafficking.

Vice President M. Hamid Ansari presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. A.R. Kidwai, former Governor of Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana and former Chairman of UPSC, organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi.
           
 

       
Kartar Singh Lalvani, founder of pharmaceutical major Vitabiotics in Britain, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in London.

Vice President M. Hamid Ansari presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. A.R. Kidwai, former Governor of Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana and former Chairman of UPSC, organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi.

           
       
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d`Or top prize at the Cannes film festival for Uncle Boonmee. Spanish actor Javier Bardem shared the best actor award with Italy`s Elio Germano. and France`s Juliette Binoche was named best actress .
           
       

 

Internationally acclaimed Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik from Orissa won Gold medal for People`s Choice prize at 2nd Moscow World sand sculpture championship 2010, Russia. The artists from Island won the `Jury Choice`, and `Sculptor Choice` prize in this championship.
           
       
India`s top industrialist and chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata has received the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding global leadership, vision and professional excellence.
           

       

Social activist Ela Bhatt (76) received the Niwano Peace Prize for 2010 for her contribution to the uplift of poor women in India.
           
       
Physicist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize 2010 in recognition of her works in social justice.

President Pratibha Patil presented the Paulos Mar Gregorios Award 2010 to Dr. Karan Singh for Outstanding Contribution in the Fields of Public Life, Inter-Faith Dialogue and Culture.

           
       
Bengali novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee`s book, Chowringhee, has been shortlisted for one of the Independent Foreign Fiction prize for 2010 — the first time that an Indian work has accomplished the feat.
           
       
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, has been selected for this year`s Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah Award, instituted by the Malcom and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust.
           

       
Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata was conferred the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian award by Canada India Foundation for his outstanding global leadership, vision and professional excellence.
           
       
 

Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch was conferred with Telugu Bharti Puraskaram given by CP Brown Academy and Alfa foundation.

           
       
Neel Chowdary received The Hindu’s Metro plus Playwright award for his book Taaramandal.
           
       
Vizag Steel Plant was conferred with Global Human Resource Development award-2010 for following international standards in utilizing the human resources.

           
       

The Assam government has decided to confer the coveted Srimanta Sankaradeva Award to noted journalist and writer Homen Borgohain for the year 2007 in recognition of his significant contribution to journalism and literature and noted actor Sharmila Tagore in the fields of art and culture for the year 2008.
           
       
Asko Parpola, leading authority on the Indus script and Professor Emeritus of Indology in the University of Helsinki, Finland, has been chosen for the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award for 2009.

The Pritzker Prize, considered the highest honour in architecture and regarded by many as equivalent to the Nobel Prize, has been awarded to the Japanese duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architecture firm SANAA.

           
           
       
Rukhsana (21) and her brother Aijaz (19) were awarded the Sarvotam Jeevan Raksha Padak and the Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak respectively by the Centre for snatching an AK rifle from LeT commander Abu Usma and killed him with the weapon when he and another militant barged into their house on September 27, 2009.
           
           

       
American mathematician John Torrence Tate, 85, has been awarded the prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2010.
           
           
       
Well - Known Hindi writer Amar Kant has been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman award for his outstanding novel Inhi Hathiyaron Se.

           
           
       
Nandi Awards – 2008 were presented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Best Actor - Ravi Teja (Neninthe), Best Actress - Swati (Ashta Chamma), Best Film - Gamyam, Best Director - J. Radha Krishna (Gamyam)
           
           
       
 

Eminent heroine of yesteryears Jamuna has been chosen for the NTR National Film Award to be given by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for the year 2008.

           
           
       
Actress-director Vijayanirmala will receive the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for the year 2008.
           
           
       
The B.N. Reddy National Film Award will be given to renowned director K.B. Tilak.

           
           
       
Tehelka Executive Editor Shoma Chaudhury and Nagaland page Editor Monalisa Changkija will share the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding Women Media persons for 2009.
           
           
       
Indian-American computer scientist Subhash Khot, known for his `Unique Games Conjecture` has been selected for $ 500,000 National Science Award of the United States of America.

           
           
       
The 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles:
            Best Actor - Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
            Best Actress -&nbsp;Sandra Bullock (&nbsp;The Blind Side)
            Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) (First women to be awarded Best Director)

            Best Film - The Hurt Locker
           
           
       

Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan has been honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at the film festival of British Academy of Film &amp; Television Arts.

           
           
       
Vidyasagar, an inmate of the Government Home for Juvenile Delinquents and correctional centre in kadapa received the Golden Nandi Award for 2009 from Chief Minister K.Rosaiah for his portrayal of the role of a tribal boy named `sega` in a Telugu play, Bapu Kalaluganna Desam.
           
           
       
Veteran British Asian film maker Yavar Abbas will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the South Asian Cinema Foundation in London for making films like India! My India!

Prabhakar Mandara has won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2009 for translating Yagati Chinna Rao`s research book, `` Dalit struggle for Identity" into Telugu by the name Andhra Pradesh Dalita Udyama Charitra.

           
       
John Flannery, President CEO, GE India was presented the Indo-US Business Cooperation Award.
           
       
Veteran Congress leader G. Venkataswamy was presented the `Eashwari Bai Memorial Award` by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh E.S.L. Narasimhan.

           
       
Eminent Journalist Sanjoy Hazarika has been awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Award for Global Citizenship by the U.S. - based Tufts University for his contribution to the north - east of India, initiatives in health and governance.
           
       
Social worker Ela Bhatt, who set up the self - Employed Women`s Association (SEWA) has been chosen for the 27th Niwano Peace Prize for her contribution to the uplift of poor women.

           
       
British Academy of Film and Television Art`s (BAFTA) awards
            Best Film - The Hurt Locker
            Best Actor - Colin Firth (A single Man)
            Best Actress - Carey Mulligan (An Education)
           
       

Dr. V.K.Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to defence Minister and Director - General of DRDO will be presented the Dr.Y.Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2009 for his outstanding contribution to India`s defence research and development.
           
       
W. Selvamurthy, chief controller (Life Sciences and Human Resource), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has been chosen for the DRDO`s Technology Leadership Award for 2008 instituted by the DRDO.
           

       
 

Actor Amitabh Bachchan, Carnatic musician Balamurali Krishna, ISRO chairman K.Radhakrishnan and Minister of state for external Affairs Shashi Tharoor were presented the Pazhassi Raja charitable Trust Awards 2009 by the President Pratibha Patil.
           
       
Bhilai Steel plant was presented the Prime Minister`s trophy for the best integrated steel plant.
               
       

11th Mumbai International Film Festival of Documentary, Animation and short films
           
           

               
Russain director Alexander Gutman`s 17 August won the Golden Conch for the best Documentary.
               
The Spell, Directed by Umesh Kulkarni was adjudged the best fiction film.
           
       

Prominent Stage actor and director Chatla Sriramulu (75) has been selected for the prestigious "NTR Rangastala Puraskar" given by the State Government of AP.

           
       
Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan presented `The Lifetime Achievement in Science Award`, instituted by B.M. Birla Science Centre, to Nobel Laureate Anthony James Leggett.
           
           
       
Oscar winner A.R. Rahman won two Grammy awards.
           

               

Jai Ho - Best song written for motion pictures, TV and other visual media.
               
Best soundtrack for the film Slum dog Millionaire.
           
           
       
Social activist and actor Nafisa Ali and Kiran Bedi, the first woman IPS officer in the country received the Kalpana Chawla Excellence Awards 2010.
   

President Pratibha Patil conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and development for 2009 on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

               
 

       
GV Krishna Reddy, chairman of GVK group won the `Entrepreneur of the year` award during the economic times awards for Corporate Excellence.
           
       

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science conferred the Dean`s Medal to Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.
   

Leading international business school INSEAD on 22 June 2011 honoured Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder, Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises, with its Business Leader for the World Award. Sunil Bharti Mittal was given the award for his success in having grown Bharti Enterprises from a manufacturer of push button phones to India`s leading business conglomerate. The award is given to business leaders who have set new standards in building successful, sustainable, global enterprises that span multiple cultures, embrace diversity, and contribute to economic and social prosperity.        
   
India`s famous magician Gopinath Muthukad received the International Merlin Award also known as the magicians` Oscar for the year 2011 on 23 June 2011 from Tony Hassini, President of the US based International Magicians Society. Gopinath Muthukad is the second Indian to be chosen to receive the Merlin Award after PC Sorkar Jr. 

On 14 June 2011, Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot presented the Anuvrat Ahimsa international peace award to noted Gandhian philosophy exponent Thomas Clough Daffern. The award consisted of a memento, a cheque for Rs.1 lakh and a certificate of merit.Dr. Daffern is a Director of London-based International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. The institute works across several academic fields for study and application of peace and philosophy to various spheres of life.        
   
Two Indian companies Abellon Clean Energy Ltd. and Husk Power Systems have been awarded this year’s Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, claimed to be Britain’s most prestigious green energy awards. The awards were launched in 2001 to encourage greater use of local clean energy to address climate change and alleviate poverty.       
   
Irish writer Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin, a novel set in the shadow of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, has won the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world’s most lucrative book prizes. The prize is worth 100,000

Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri of Indian Institute of Technology-Mumbai was selected for the prestigious G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research. Prof. Chaudhuri who works in the Department of Electrical Engineering was chosen for the award for his important contributions in the area of electronic communications. The award, constituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation, carries a cash prize of Rs.1.50 lakh and is given to scientists below the age of 50.        
   
British-born Sierra Leonean novelist Aminatta Forna won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers` Prize for her novel, The Memory of Love. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry announced the list of awardees for the 58th National Film Awards on 19 May 2011. Feature Films jury was headed by J.P. Dutta, Non-Feature Films jury was headed by A.K. Bir and Best Writing on Cinema jury was headed by Ashok Vajpeyi. The jury decided on the awardees to honour the best work of Indian Cinema for the year 2010.
        The list of the awardees in the different categories of the 57th National Film Awards is as follows:
        Best Feature Film: Adaminte Makan Abu directed by Salim Ahamed
        Best Direction: Vetrimaran for Aadukalam (Tamil)
        Best Actor: Dhanush for Aadukalam (Tamil)  Salim Kumar for Adaminte makan Abu (Malayalam)

        Best Actress: Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)  Saranya Ponvannan for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)
        Best Supporting Actor: J Thambi Ramaiah for Mynaa (Tamil)    

Best Supporting Actress: Sukumari for Namma Gramam (Tamil)
        Best Cinematography: Madhu Ambat for Adaminte Makan Abu

        Best Screenplay Original: etrimaran for Aadukalam
        Best Screenplay Adapted: Anant Mahadevan  Sanjay for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
        Best Editing: T E Kishore for Aadukalam
        Best Music direction: Vishal Bhardwaj for Ishqiya  issak Thomas Kottakapally for Adaminte Makan Abu

        Best Lyrics: Vairamuthu for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru
        Best Male Playback Singer: Suresh Wadkar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal
        Best Playback Singer Female: Rekha Bhardwaj: Ishqiya
        Best Special Effects: V. Srinivas  M Mohan for Enthiran (Tamil)

        Special Jury Award: Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi) directed by Anant Narayan Mahadevan      
   
Philip Roth was announced as the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize at a press conference at the Sydney Opera House on 18 May 2011. Roth was chosen from a list of 13 eminent contenders. American novelist Philip Roth is a literary giant and one of the worlds most prolific, celebrated - and controversial - writers. Born in March 1933 in New Jersey, Roth is best known for his 1969 novel Portnoy`s Complaint, and for his late-1990s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation`s top honour for exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights. Though the Peace Prize is awarded annually by the foundation, only three other people in its 14-year history have been awarded the gold award for courage in pursuit of human rights — the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda.       
   
Super 30 founder Anand Kumar, whose initiative helped several students from underprivileged families make it to the IIT-JEE was chosen for the Education in Excellence Award-2011 to be awarded on Doha on 13 May 2011.       
   
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was chosen for the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 2009 for her enormous efforts toward sustainable and equitable development. The German leader, Merkel is known for her efforts for good governance and understanding and for the creation of a world better positioned to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century.

Aboubakr Jamai of Morocco, the co-founder and former managing director of the weekly newspaper Le Journal Hebdomadaire was presented the 2010 Gebran Tueni Award in Beirut, Lebanon. The award was conferred upon him in recognition of constant struggle in publishing some of the region`s finest independent journalism while dealing with a monarchy that prefers to maintain control of the Moroccan media. The Gebran Tueni Award is the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that honours an editor or publisher from the Arab region.        
   
The New Delhi Railway Station received the National Tourism Award for the Best Tourist-Friendly Railway Station in India. The award was given for the station’s development in the areas of passenger amenities and efficiency of operations. New Delhi station launched battery-operated vehicles to ferry senior citizens and the disabled.
       

   
Creative Abby awards recognising the best of advertisements were given out during the Goafest 2011, Varca village in Goa. Ogilvy and Mather won the only Grand Prix and five gold metals. The Piyush Pandey-led agency`s work on Cadbury Dairy Milk won the only Grand Prix awarded this year, in the integrated category. Mudra Communications bagged the maximum 37 medals. The Times of India`s Aman ki Asha campaign won three awards at the Creative Abby awards-the finale of Goafest 2011.
       
   
Indian novelist Vikas Kumar Jha has been chosen for the 2011 International Indu Sharma Katha Samman, for his novel ‘McCluskieganj ‘.
        Noted Hindi poet Vishwannnth Prasad Tiwari was selected for the 20th Vyas Samman for his poetry collection, Phir Bhi Kuch Rah Jayega.    
   
President Pratibha Patil on18 April decorated personnel of the armed services with awards that included the Kirti Chakra and the Shaurya Chakra, during the Defence Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Indu Sharma, mother of Captain Deepak Sharma of the Corps of Signals, who lost his life fighting militants in Jammu and Kashmir in March last year, received the Kirti chakra. Major Rahul Gurung (Corps of Engineers/Assam Rifles) and Captain Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh (Madras) were also awarded the Kirti Chakra for fighting insurgents and terrorists in Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir respectively.
        The five personnel who were posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra included Major Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish Roy, who were killed during the terrorist attack on the Indian mission in Kabul in February last. Guardsman Krishan Kumar (Brigade of Guards), Sepoy Ravi Kant (Dogra), and Sepoy Sangat Singh (Mahar/Rashtriya Rifles) were also awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously.        
   
Pulitzer awards were announced for the year 2011. Pulitzers were awarded in 13 journalism categories and seven arts categories. The prize for fiction went to Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad. Bruce Norris won the award for drama for his play Clybourne Park. The history prize went to Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Ron Chernow won in the biography category for Washington: A Life. Madame White Snake, by Zhou Long, won for music. Kay Ryan took the prize for poetry for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. 

The award for general non-fiction was awarded to Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Carol Guzy, a photographer from The Washington Post, became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes.        
   
Rights activist Binayak Sen, who was freed on bail by the Supreme Court in a case of sedition, has been chosen for the South Korean Gwangju Award for human rights for 2011.      
   
The managing director of Cheminnova group of companies, M. Vasudev Rao, has been presented the prestigious “Pride of India Leadership Award” for his outstanding contribution to the Pharma Industry in India. The award was presented by President of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth to Mr. Rao at a function organised in Mauritius by the NRI Institute and hosted by Government of Mauritius recently.        
   
VA Tech Wabag Limited, a leading global player in water and wastewater management has received the prestigious GWI Global Water Award in Berlin.        
   
Indian mathematician and theoretical computer scientist Ravi Kannan was awarded the 2011 Knuth Prize. For research in computer science it is a prestigious international recognition. Professor Kannan is a leader in algorithms research group at Microsoft Research Labs in India. He is the first Indian to receive the Knuth Prize. The Association for Computing Machinery`s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) awarded the prize to Professor Kannan.  

Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) bagged the prestigious Srishti Good Green Governance Award for 2010. Srishti Good Green Governance Award was given to RSP in recognition of its eco-friendly efforts to reduce pollutants and green house gas emissions. It was also rewarded for its measures of waste utilisation and water conversation as well for its initiatives to expand corporate social responsibility.

State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd on 21 April 2011 was honoured with the Outstanding PSU of the Year award by All India Management Association (AIMA). The award was received by GAIL Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi from Home Minister P Chidambaram. The award was conferred upon GAIL in recognition of its outstanding performance and its contribution towards the growth of the nation, development of innovation &amp; technology and building an equitable society. The company had been earlier ranked the number one gas utility in Asia and number two gas utility in the world by Platts which is an eminent petroleum research and publishing house.        
   
Social activist Anna Hazare was on 7 April 2011 announced the winner of the 2011 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM). IIPM entrepreneurship and National Economic Planning declared the award for Hazare to show solidarity to the modern Gandhi’s determined and non-violent protest against corruption and the institution of a Jan Lokpal Bill. The award carries a cash reward of one crore rupees, a gold medal and a citation. The award is meant to honour people who selflessly work throughout his lifetime for the betterment of the society, working for the poor, the needy and the general public. The 2010 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize was won by social activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, the Iron Lady of Manipur.        
   
Kannada writer S. L. Bhyrappa was selected for the 20th Saraswati Samman for his novel Mandra on 5 April 201. Mandra depicts the world of North Indian classical music and its locale is Bombay, Delhi, Gwalior, Banaras, Malva and California.        
   
British astrophysicist Martin Rees, whose research delves deep into the mysteries of the cosmos, has won the 2011 Templeton Prize for career achievements affirming life`s spiritual dimension. Announcing the award, the United States-based Templeton Foundation said Rees`s insights into the mysteries of the Big Bang and so-called black holes in space have "provoked vital questions that address mankind`s deepest hopes and fears.
   
Pillitla prakash, a folk artist from Andhra Pradesh has elected for central government’s “Bharath Vikas Ratna”award. Both information and broadcasting ministry and visveswarayya foundation have jointly constituted this award.

 A commemorative stamp on former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is being issued by the Postal Department on September 2 to coincide with his first death anniversary. 

 The Government of Andhra Pradesh is set to bring Information Technology and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sectors under the Essential Services Maintenance Act. A bill to amend ESMA would be introduced in the Current Assembly session. The amendment, the Government felt necessary to spare the IT industry from disruption to their mission critical applications during agitations.

 A commemorative stamp on former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is being issued by the Postal Department on September 2 to coincide with his first death anniversary. 

 The Government of Andhra Pradesh is set to bring Information Technology and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sectors under the Essential Services Maintenance Act. A bill to amend ESMA would be introduced in the Current Assembly session. The amendment, the Government felt necessary to spare the IT industry from disruption to their mission critical applications during agitations.

Carnatic vocalist Nisha P. Rajagopal has been chosen as the first recipient of ‘ The Hindu Saregama M.S. Subbulakshmi Award.’ Presented by RmKV, the award, which was instituted on September 16, 2010, seeks to honour and recognise the merit of a young Carnatic vocalist aged between 25 and 35 pursuing music full-time.        
   
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has chosen one of the living legends of mathematics, John Willard Milnor of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences in the University of Stony Brook, U.S.A, for the award of its prestigious Abel Prize for the year 2011. Professor Milnor will receive the Prize from His Majesty King Harald at an award ceremony in Oslo on May 24, 2011.        
   
The 2010 Chameli Devi Jain award for “Outstanding Woman Media Person” was presented to a former Tehelka correspondent from Thiruvananthapuram, Shahina K.K, at a function held in New Delhi for her “demonstrated ability to focus on issues that have deep social consequences impacting lives and concerns of ordinary people. Ms. Shahina, who has 13 years of experience in print and television media and is presently writing for Open magazine.        
   
Indian army chief general V.K.Singh becomes the first Indian officer to be inducted in to the ‘Hall of Fame’ of U.S.Army War College. This distinction is extended by the US army to all officers from friendly foreign countries, which rise to the post of ‘chief’ of their respective armies, after attending the coveted cource at US army War College.        
   
Medical Cadet Shikha Awasthi will become the first woman doctor to receive the Sword of Honour for overall excellence at the passing out parade of the 45th course of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune on March 18        
   
The prestigious UNESCO Asia Pacific Merit award for cultural heritage conservation was presented to Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad on March 15. He bagged the coveted award after edging out heritage sites in 43 countries. UNESCO appreciated the restoration of the palace and efforts to rescue ‘an extraordinary complex from years of abandonment. 

Director of Hindi film Peepli Live, Anusha Rizvi has been selected for the 14th Gollapudi Srinivas memorial national award for debut director category.        
   
Mauritius has conferred one of its highest honours, Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and the Key of the Indian Ocean (GCSK), on Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed. President of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth presented the award to Mr. Nasheed.  
       
Kuldip Nayar, noted journalist was conferred with Honorary Doctorate by Acharya Nagarjuna University at the 31st convocation held in Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur, A.P.            
   
Mahasweta Devi, celebrated Bengali writer and activist was conferred the Yashwantrao Chavan National Award 2010 in Mumbai for her contribution to national integration, democratic values and the socio-economic development of India.       
   
On the occasion of International Women’s Day The Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Women and Child Development Smt. Krishna Tirath presented the ‘Stree Shakti Puraskar’ 2010, given every year to eminent women for their dedication to the cause of women and the struggles in their own lives to bring about a more gender equitable society.     
       
The awards are-   
Rani Lakshmibai Award has been presented to Mrs. Pottabathini Padmavathi from Andhra Pradesh, who did not allow her disability to become and adversity and faced the challenge positively to learn music and become an established artist.       
   
Kannagi Award was bestowed upon Mrs Thagu Maya Bardewa from Sikkim, who has done great work helping people in distress, orphans, widows and destitute.      
   
Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang Award to Mrs. Rathnamma from Karnataka, for her extensive work for awareness generation on child labour and eradication of dowry, early marriage, untouchability and sexual harassment.

Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Award was awarded to Mrs. Monika S. Garg an officer of the 1989 batch of Indian Administrative service from Uttar Pradesh for her outstanding work for empowerment of women through promoting their participation in Government Programmes.       
   
The Mata Jijabai and Rani Rudrama Devi awards were not given to anyone this year.       
   
Indian Oil Corporation has bagged the best performance award at the 21 st national meet of forum of women in public sector. This award is meant to further add value to their contribution and empowerment and in turn reach out to the masses of less privileged women in bringing about awareness. Indian Oil has taken many initiatives to empower women at all levels in the hierarchy.       
   
83rd Oscar awards have been presented in Hollywood, California on 28 February. Some of the awards are-
        Best picture - "The King`s Speech"
        Best director - "The King`s Speech" (Tom Hooper)
        Best actor - Colin Firth ("The King`s Speech")

        Best actress - Natalie Portman ("Black Swan")
        Supporting actor - Christian Bale ("The Fighter")
        Supporting actress - Melissa Leo ("The Fighter")
        Original screenplay - "The King`s Speech" (David Seidler)
        Adapted screenplay - "The Social Network" (Aaron Sorkin)

        Foreign language film - "In a Better World" (Denmark)
         
   
Celebrated play back singer Asha Bhonsle was conferred on the Honorary D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) degree from the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) in Nasik.
   
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been given Russia`s highest award, the Order of St Andrew, to mark his 80th birthday for his "enormous work as head of state".

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has awarded the prestigious Pushkin Gold Medal to Professor Arun Mohanty of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Moscow for his contribution to studies on Russia and promotion of bilateral cultural ties and friendship. The Pushkin Gold Medal is the highest honorary award given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the promotion of the Russian language and culture. More than 10 Indian scholars and public figures have been awarded the medal since its institution in 1977.        
   
Industrialist Sitaram Jindal announced the institution of Five Annual Prizes of Rs.1 crore each on behalf of the Sitaram Jindal Foundation, the aluminium magnate said these would be given away to people working in the categories of rural development and poverty alleviation, health including drugless therapy, education with an emphasis on moral fortification, science, technology and environment, and peace, social harmony and development.       
   
Union minister of urban poverty alleviation and culture Kumari Sileja was selected for the Eashwari Bai Memorial Award at Hyderabad.        
   
Dravidian University, Vice-Chancellor Cuddapah Ramanaiah received the prestigious ‘Amity Academic Excellence Award` at the International Business Horizon (INBUSH) conference held at the Amity Global Business School campus at Noida recently.        
   
Dr. K. Anji Reddy, Chairman, Dr Reddys Labs, was awarded with the Genome Valley Excellence award at the eighth edition of Bio-Asia, a Global Bio-Business forum, in Hyderabad on 22 February.       
   
A project on the use of geoinformatics in the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Maharashtra by the Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has been given the national e-governance award, 2010-11(silver) in Aurangabad.        
   
Ajay Parida, Executive Director,M.S,Swaminathan Research Foundation, has been selected for the prestigious TATAinnovation fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology,Government of India.        
   
The King`s Speech continued its regal progress through the awards season, winning the Best Film award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony in London.Colin Firth(The kings Speech)and Natalie Portman(Black Swan) have bagged the Best actor and Best Actress Awards. 

Dr. Singh presented the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed awards to eminent journalist M.J. Akbar (the recipient for 2008) and noted Gandhian and freedom fighter Hema Bharali (for 2009) in Guwahati.        
   
V. Shanta, chairperson of the Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai, has been selected for the Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2010.Dr. Shanta has been chosen in recognition of her tireless efforts for over five decades towards bringing solace to lakhs of men, women and children, afflicted with the dreaded disease in the country,Justice N.V. Ramana of the Andhra Pradesh High Court will present her the award at a function at Tenali, Andhra pradesh on March 5.        
   
A project on the use of geoinformatics in the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Maharashtra by Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has been given the national e-governance award, 2010-11(silver) urangabad.       
   
Parida cutive Director,M.S,Swaminathan Research Foundation, has been selected for prestigious TATAinnovation fellowship he Department of Biotechnology,Government of India.        
   
King`s Speech nued its regal progress through the awards season, winning Best Film award e British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony in London.Colin Firth(The kings Speech)and Natalie Portman(Black Swan) have bagged the Best actor and Best Actress Awards.       
   
Dr. Singh presented ,b> Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed awards to eminent journalist M.J. Akbar (the recipient for 2008) and noted Gandhian and freedom fighter Hema Bharali (for 2009) in Guwahati.
   
V. Shanta, chairperson of the Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai, has been selected for the Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for 2010.Dr. Shanta has been chosen in recognition of her tireless efforts for over five decades towards bringing solace to lakhs of men, women and children, afflicted with the dreaded disease in the country,Justice N.V. Ramana of the Andhra Pradesh High Court will present her the award at a function at Tenali, Andhra pradesh on March 5.       
   
Singer Yesudas gets Swathi Puraskaram, Kerala`s highest music award.   
   
Actors Anushka, Thamanna and Arya have been elected for Tamil nadu Government`s prestigious - Kalaimani award for the year 2010.        
   
Pakistani-American writer H.M.Naqui has been selected for the D.S.C. South Asian Literature Award. His novel `Home Boy` has been selected for the award.        
   
Salim`s novel `Kuluthunna Poola Thota` (Telugu) on background of AIDS, was selected for the Union Governments - Sahitya Academi Award for the year-2010.        
   
The 56th Film fare Awards ceremony has held in Mumbai .        
   
Some of the Awards are -
        Best Film - Dabang

        Best Director - Karan Johar (My name is Khan)
        Best Actor in leading role - Shah Rukh Khan (My Name is Khan)
        Best Actress in leading role - Kajol (My name is Khan)
        Best Music composer - Sajid Wajid (Dabang)
        R.D. Burman Music Award - Sneha Khanwalkar (Love, sex and Dhoka)
        Life time Achievement Award - Mannaday

        40 years of greatness award - Amitabh Batchan
       
   
Udaan (Produced by Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap and directed by Vikramaditya Motawane serewale) bagged total 7 film fare awards where as dabang got 5.  

Sydney peace foundation awarded the rare gold medal for significant contribution to peace and justice to the wiki leaks publisher Jualian Assange. This honour previously given only to the Dalailama, Nelson Mandela and japanese Buddhist leader Dai Sekn - Ikeda in the foundations 14 years history.        
   
The gold medal is different from the annual Sydney peace prize awarded by the Sydney foundation.

The doyen of Indian statistics Prof. C.R.Rao conferred with Guy medal in gold of the Royal Statistical Society, U.K. He is the first Asian, first non-European and first non-American to get the coveted award.
   
Pondicherry central University will confer honorary doctorates on cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and Noble Laureate Venkataraman Ramakrishnan.
   
Karnataka State Women University at Bijapur has conferred an award of Honoraray Doctorate to the Union Minister of State for HRD, D. Purandhareshwari.        
   
Doordarshan Hyderabad News Correspondent, Emani krishna Rao has bagged the prestigious Swiss TV award for his entry `Lets Play Safe` dealing with stigma and discrimination attached to children living with HIV. The award was presented to him at Basel, Switzerland. This is the six major international award for him.   

nited India Insurance Company has won the skoch Financial Inclusion Award-2010. It is for successful implementation of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Kerala.
   
The ONGC`s Rajahmundry (AP) Asset manager, Mr. A.A.Khan was given Subir Raha Award for Business Excellence for 2010.
   
The Engineering Staff college of India (ESCI), Hyderabad has won the Golden Peacock National Training Award for the forth time.        
   
The CEAT international cricketer of the year-shane watson (Australia) International Team of the year-Australia.        
   
Natalie Portman` received the award for best female actor in a leading role for "Black Swan" at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.        
   
Emani Krishna Rao`, Doordarshan News Correspondent at Hyderabad has bagged the prestigious Swiss TV award for his entry `Let`s play safe`dealing with stigma and discrimination attached to children living with HIV. The award was presented to him at Basel,Switzerland. This is the sixth major international award for Mr.Rao.

Castrol Awards were announced for Indian cricket players at Bombay.
   
Sachin Tendulkar was declared `The Indian Cricketer of the Year`, `Test Cricketer of the year.
   
M.S. Dhoni was declared the "ODI cricketer of the year".    
Virendra Sehwag was declared `Batsman of the year`   
Harbhajan singh as `Bowler of the year`
   
Jaidev Unadkat as `Junior Cricketer of the year`

A.R.Rehman was awarded with World Economic Forum`s, `crystal award` at Dawos (switzerland). W.E.F presented him this award for giving wonderful music for the movies - Slumdog millionaire and Bombay Dreams.  

   
Godavari Palimars Private Limited Director Dr. C. Rajendra Kumar Received the "Swamy Vivekananda National Award-2010" from Central Minister Ambika Soni at Delhi Siriport Auditorium.        
   
Central Excise Superintendent Rajasekhar Reddy received the "President Award" from Finance Minister Pranb Mukarji at Maneksha Center in Delhi. Now he is working at Visakhapatnam.        
   
Saeed Saleem Selected for "Central Literature Academy Award-2010" for his novel of "Kaluthunna Pulatota”.
        Union Home Ministry announced the list of Padma Awards. They announced 128 awards of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

        Padma Vibhushan:
        1. Kapila vatsyayana: Art;
        2. Homai Vyarawalla:Art;
        3. A.Nageshwar Rao:Art (A.P);
        4. Parasaran Kesava Iyenger: Public Affaires;
        5. Akhlaq-ur- Rehman Kidwai: Public Affairs;

        6. Vijay Kelkar: Public Affaires;
        7. Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Public Affaires;
        8. Palle Rama Rao: Science and Engineering (A.P);
        9. Azim Premji: Trade and Industry;
        10. Brajesh Mishra: Civil Services;
        11. Ottaplakkal N.V. Kurup: Literature and Education;

        12. Siltakant Mahapatra: Literature and Education;and
        13. L.C. Jain: Public Affaires.
       
        Padma Bhushan : From A.P : K.Anji Reddy (Reddy Labs) ; G.V.Krishna Reddy (GVK); S.P.Balasubramanyam (Play Back Singer);
       
        Padma Shri : From A.P : V.V.S.Laxman (Cricketer); Anitha Reddy (Social Work); Gajam Govardhan (weavers); Koneru Ramakrishna Reddy (Para Psychology); SriRamchandrudu (Literature); Siddiki (Agriculture);
       
   
Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, an Army doctor who died fighting a suicide bomber in Kabul, was conferred the country`s highest peacetime gallantry medal, "Ashok Chakra", posthumously at the 62nd Republic Day parade in New Delhi.       
   
Raveendranath received the "President Award" from Finance Minister Pranb Mukarji in Delhi .He is working as an Inspector in Enforcement Directorate.

Deepak Lalwani, a London-based NRI investment consultant specialising on India, has been presented with an "Order of British Empire" (OBE) honour. Prince Charles conferred the honour on Lalwani at Buckingham Palace, in recognition of his contributions to the financial services`` industry.       
   
Music composer A.R. Rahman bagged the best original song trophy at the 16th Critics` Choice Awards for his number “If I Rise” in Danny Boyle`s film 127 Hours. Written by Rollo Armstrong and American artiste Dido, the song was performed by Rahman and Dido.       
   
Suprasannacharya Selected for the "Hussain sha kavi Puraskar" Award. This award has been given from 2001 year. 

Nine girls and 14 boys have been selected for the National Bravery Awards-2010. The children received the awards from Prime Minister of India. The youngest award winner this year is six-year-old Shrawan Kumar from Rajasthan. He rescued a one-year-old girl and her two-and-half-year-old sister from a burning hut in Sarneshwar village.        
   
Natalie Portman, who won the best actress Golden Glob for "Black Swan", `Colin Firth` chosen best actor for his role in "The King”, at an awards party in Beverly Hills, California.       
   
Dr.C.V.Subbanna Satavadhani selected for the LokNayak Foundation Award. Former CM Rosaiah was presented the award at Kalabharathi Auditorium, Visaka.       
   
Former Indian leg spinner M V Narasimha Rao was awarded the prestigious Member of the Order of British Empire (MBE) for his contribution to cricket and humanity in Ireland. He led the Hyderabad Ranji team to title triumph in 1987 Ranji Trophy.       
   
Geospatial World Forum 2011 inaugurated in Hyderabad. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi conferres Rachapudi Kamakshi Memorial Gold Medal for young Geospatial Scientist 2010 on Thiyam Tamphasana Devi, IIT Guwahati.      
   
Union Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal presented the Lifetime Achievement Award of Geospatial World Forum to the former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K Kasturirangan.       
   
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance has been awarded the SKOCH Financial Inclusion Award 2011 in recognition of its micro-insurance product catering the rural market by its plan called `Sarve/Swayam Shakti Suraksha (SSS).       
   
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The awardees organisations` missions range from protecting biodiversity to fighting poverty.        
   
Annette Bening` received the "American Riviera Award" from `Kevin Costner` at the 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California.       
   
The largest prostate gland weighing 650 grams was removed from a human body by Urologist Dr Rajendra Punjabi, has been recognised by the "Guinness World Records" at Roberts Nursing Home, Indore, India.    
   
56 Idea Film Fare Awards Function held at Mumbai. `Sharukh Khan` won the best actor award for "My Name is Khan", `Kajol` won the best actress for "My Name is Khan", best film for "Dabangg", `Karan Johar` won the best Director for "My Name is Khan".       
   
The living legend and doyen of Indian Statistics, 91years old Padmavibhushan "Prof C.S. Rao" is designated fro Guy Medal in Gold of the Royal Statistical Society, UK. IN the 115 years history of Royal Statistical Society he is 34th receipient of the award. He is the first Asian, first non European and first non American to receive the award.

Eminent Malaya, Kaula Lumpur University Vice- Chancelor Acharya Gowth Jasmok has been selected for the prestigious Dr.Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for the year 2011, for his contribution to science and technology, according to A.Jagadeesh, Director of Dr Y Nayudamma center for Devolopment Alternatives.        
   
Indian President Pratibha Patil presented the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2011 to Sri Lankan industrialist Mano Selvanathan at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi. Mano Selvanathan is one of Sri Lanka`s leading industrialists.    

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Hyderabad, bagged the First prize in the `Best Suggestor Award` category at the 21st Inssan National Convention held in Pune .        
   
Agricultural scientist K.V.Raman has been awarded as a prestigious Bharat Jyoti.  

Actor Salman Khan`s blockbuster entertainer `Dabangg` made its presence felt at the Chevrolet Apsara Awards by bagging eight awards in different categories.        
   
The National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) has bagged the special recognition award for innovative products, like cost-effective housing, at the recent 98th Indian Science Congress in Chennai.   

Tarun Tejpal, Editor of Tehelka, received the "Award for Excellence in Journalism for 2010" from Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily in New Delhi.        
   
Bollywood actor Vivek Oberai received the "Youth Icon Award" from Art of living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar as part of the Vivekananda birth anniversary celebrations on Wednesday (12/1/2011).        
   
The Institute of Economic Studies, New Delhi, one of the country`s premier research institutes, has announced the "Udyog Rattan Award" to Vishal Manchala, Founder Director &amp; CEO of Vast Technologies Private Limited. Also the company has been awarded the "Excellence Award" for the year 2010. His Excellency Mr. Korn Dabbransi, former Prime Minister of Thailand presented the award at the seminar on "Indo-Thai Economic cooperation" in Bangkok, Thailand.        
   
Film Director Bapu, Poet Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, both were selected "NTR Lalitha Kala Award" for 2010-11 Year. NTR Vignan Trust will give this award.        
   
TV actress Swetha Tiwari won the reality show `Bigboss-4` at Lonavana. Swetha received winner`s trophy and 1 crore rupees. She became the first women to win the title of the Big Boss. The others are: Kali 2nd place, Ashmit Patel 3rd place in Big Boss-4.       
   
G.V.Vishwanath won the `Spellbrain India spelling championship award` in Hyderabad. He is a tenth standard student of Gitanjali Public School. He has spelled 21 words correctly in two-and-half minutes.        
   
Darla Nageswara Rao working in A.P.Govt. Central Press, Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, invented a new concept of Replica art of newspapers. He entered Global World Records. He has entered the Limca Book of World Records in 2006,2008,2009,2010. He replicated newspapers of five Indian languages with the same dimensions and two years later, he repeated the feat in 13 languages, including Arabic and Assamese.        
   
The London-bassed Indian writer, Ms Kishwar Desai has won UK`s prestigious Costa First Novel Award 2010 for her book "Witness by Night" which addresses issues like unwanted girl child, gender prejudices and bias and men-woman equality.        
   
SAIL Chairman C.S.Verma received "ICWAI`s Icon of the year award" as part of 52nd National Convention of ICWAI in Chennai.