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2016 Awards (Jan-Apr)

January
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
“eASIA” award 2015 DAVA project
2015 Sangita Kalanidhi Award Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Limca Book of Records Delhi Police (cash heist case)
National Payments Excellence Awards 2015 Corporation Bank
Flipkart Website of the Year India 2015
2015 Costa Novel Prize
Costa First Novel Award Andrew Michael Hurley
Costa Novel Award Kate Atkinson
Costa Poetry Award Don Paterson
Costa Children Book Award Frances Hardinge
Costa Biography Award Andrea Wulf
2015 US Bestseller List Harper Lee’s (Go Set a Watchman)
Pentagon award US drone operators
People’s Choice Award Priyanka Chopra
Central Banker of the Year Award 2016 Raghuram Rajan
India Philanthropy List 2015 Azim Premji
H K Devsare Baalsahitya award Balkrishna Garg
Entrepreneur of the Year Kunal Bahl(Snapdeal)
PM’s trophy Tata Steel
Best in the country Mangaluru Airport
Golden Globe Awards 2016
Picture
Best Motion Picture (Drama) The Revenant
Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) The Martian
Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) Brie Larson
Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Matt Damon
Comedy)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Jennifer Lawrence
Comedy)
Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Best Animated Feature Film Inside Out
Best Foreign Language Film Son of Saul (Hungary)
Television
Best Series (Drama) Mr. Robot
Best Actor in a Television Series (Drama) Jon Hamm
Best Actress in a Television Series (Drama) Taraji P. Henson
Best Series (Musical or Comedy) Mozart in the Jungle
Best Actor in a Television Series (Musical or Gael Garcia Bernal
Comedy)
Best Actress in a Television Series (Musical or Rachel Bloom
Comedy)
Best Miniseries Wolf Hall
Best Actor in a Miniseries Oscar Isaac
Best Actress in a Miniseries Lady Gaga
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Cecil B DeMille Award Washington

2016 FIFA Ballon d’Or award Lionel Messi
Guiness Book Kullu folk dance “Nati
National Award on e-Governance Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
Most generous graduate” of Yale B-School Indra Nooyi
Danny Kaye Humanitarian Leadership Award David Beckham

Neerja Bhanot Award Subhashini Vasanth

International Woolmark Prize Suket Dhir
Amazing Indians Awards 2016
Incredible Innovators Chintakindi Mallesham
Young Indians, Big Achievements Damini Sen
Young Indians, Big Achievements Malavath Poorna
Ordinary Indians, Extraordinary Achievements Murugan S

Energising India Mathews K Mathew

Indian at Heart Timothy
Global Indians Yashraj Khaitan
Grassroots Soldier Late Kallen Pokkudan
Grassroots soldier Popatrao Pawar
Educators of India Ruma Roka
Stree Shakthi Sunita Aralikar
Unstoppable Indians S Ramakrishnan
Lorenzo Natali Media Prize Ankita Anand
Guinness Book of World Records Amritsar
Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Anuradha Roy
61st Britannia Filmfare Awards 2015
Best Film Bajirao Mastani
Best Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) Ranveer Singh
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) Deepika Padukone
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) Anil Kapoor
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) Priyanka Chopra
Best Playback Singer (Male) Arijit Singh
Best Playback Singer (Female) Shreya Ghoshal
Best Costume Anju Modi and MaximaBasu
Best Choreography Pt Birju Maharaj
Prof MV Pylee Award Dr Jancy James
The Hindu Prize, 2015 Easterine Kire
9th Annual Cinema Eye Honours The Look of Silence
National Bravery Awards 2015 25 Childrens
Gov Award new Category Most Film Friendly State/UT
2nd most followed Indian on Twitter PM Modi
National Award for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals 2015-16
Innovation in Polymeric Material
Industry Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Ester Industries Ltd
Academic and R&D Institution IIT Guwahati
Innovation in Polymeric Products
Industry Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
Innovation of Polymer processing Machinery & Equipments
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Industry Kabra Extrusiontechnik Ltd

Academic and R&D Institution IIT Madras
Innovation in Polymer waste Management & recycling technology and green polymeric material &
products
Industry Supreme Industries Ltd
Academic and R&D Institution Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
Polymers in Agriculture & Water Conservation
Mr. S Dinesh Kumar & Mr. MJ Giridharan
Polymers in Public Health Care
Industry Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt Ltd
Research in the field of Polymer Science & Technology
Industry Reliance R&D Centre
Academic and R&D Institution Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Guinness Book of World Records Adele’s Hello - one billion views
Padma Awards – 2016
Rajinikanth Actor
Ramoji Rao Media baron
Girija Devi Classical vocalist
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual guru
V K Aatre Former DRDO chief
Avinash Dixit Indian—American economist
Jagmohan Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor
Yamini Krishnamurthi Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer
Dr V Shanta Cancer specialist and chairperson of Adyar Cancer
Institute
Padma Bhushan awardees
Anupam Kher Actor
Udit Narayan Singer
Hafeez Contractor Architect
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Industrialist
Vinod Rai Former CAG
Sania Mirza Tennis Star
Ram Sutar Indian sculptor
Saina Nehwal Badminton star
Late Swami Dayanand Saraswati Spiritual leader
Swami Tejomayananda Spiritual leaders
Heisnam Kanhailal Theatre personality
R C Bhargava Maruti Suzuki chairman
Indu Jain Chairperson of Bennett, Coleman & Co
Robert Blackwill Former US Ambassador to India
Barjinder Singh Hamdard Ex-parliamentarian, editor of Punjabi Newspaper
Prof N S Ramanuja Tatacharya Sanskrit Scholar
Prof D Nageshwar Reddy Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
Venkata Rama Rao Alla Drug technology
Jeevan Raksha Padak Awards – 2015
Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak
Ullas Unnikrishnan (Posthumous) Kerela
Munna alias Ramdars Sisodiya(Posthumous) Madhya Pradesh
Ankit Kumar Mishra (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh
Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak
Shivakumar R. Karnataka
Laldinpuia Mizoram
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Shaitan Singh (Posthumous) Rajasthan

Jitendra Kumar Soni Rajasthan
Shourya Veer Singh (Posthumous) Madhya Pradesh
Riya Chaudhary (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh
Monika alias Manisha (Posthumous) Uttarakhand
Gaurav Kumar Bharti (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh
Ravindra Pal Singh (Posthumous) Uttar Pradesh
Gallantry Awards 2016
Ashok Chakra Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami
Shaurya Chakra 1. Colonel Santosh Yashwant Mahadik
(Posthumous)
2. Sepoy Dharma Ram (Posthumous)
3. Major Praphul Kumar Bhardwaj
4. Lieutenant Harjinder Singh
5. Naik Kheem Singh Mehra
6. Major Anurag Kumar
7. Major Sandip Yadav
8. Naik Satish Kumar
Order of Australia Sajeev Koshy
Russian “Order of Friendship” Ramayah Shanmuga Sundar
Jananpith’s Navlekhan Award Amlendu Tiwari & Om Nagar
2015 Prince Mahidol Award Morton Mower, Michael Marmot
K Veeramani Award for Social Justice 2015 Nitish Kumar

Honored by ISSF Abhinav Singh Bindra

Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016 Henri Tiphagne
V Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award Naresh Bedi
William E Colby award Midnight’s Furies” – Nisid Hajari
Allan Border Medal 2016
One Day International Player of the Year Glenn Maxwell
Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year Alex Ross
State Player of the Year Adam Voges
Women’s International Cricketer of the Year Ellyse Perry
(Belinda Clark Award)
2016 Yash Chopra Memorial Award Actress Rekha

February
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Forbes “30 under 30 Asia Sania Mirza, Virat Kohli, Saina Nehwal, Arunima
Sinha,Chaitanya Tamhane
Shraddha Kapoor, Raghav Verma, Mehul
Agrawal Kanika Tekriwal, Ritesh Agarwal
Aryabhata Award Avinash Chander
EEPC Star Performer Award NALCO
Green Bond Award Yes Bank
world’s most valuable company Alphabet Inc
Best First Foreign Film Award - Kanu Behl
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 2016 (FSCC)
First chancellor’s award Kerala University
Golden Conch Award
Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Best Debut Film of a Far From Home

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director
Animation category Chhaya
Best short fiction film Agli Baar
Best student film Going Home
Bhimsen Joshi Award Maestro Pandit Ram Narayan
CM’s innovation award Kerala’s ‘She-Taxi’
Award for innovation in XBRL reporting RBI
UNESCO Medals
Professor Isamu Akasaki Japan
Professor Lei Jiang China
Professor Philippe Pernod France
Professor Nicholas Kotov USA
Academician Gennady Krasnikov Russia
Professor Igor Ashurbeyli Russia
Doctor Mikhail Dubina Russia
Doctor Natalya Mikhaylova Russia
IFPI Best-Selling Artist” of 2015 Adele
Most Push-Ups in Minute – Worls record KJ Joseph
EY Entrepreneur Award Lupin‘s CEO and MD - Vinita Gupta,
Nilesh Gupta
Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of the Year award Anirban Lahiri
La Liga player of the month award Lionel Messi
Pride of Kerala award Vidya Balan
2016 BAFTA Awards
Academy Fellowship Sidney Poitier
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Angels The Costumiers
EE Rising Star Award John Boyega
Best Film The Revenant
Best Documentary Amy
Best Animated Film Inside Out
Best Short Film Operator
Best Film Not in the English Language Wild Tales – Argentina
Best Director Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress in a Leading Role Brie Larson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Mark Rylance
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kate Winslet
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant)
Outstanding British Film Brooklyn
Best Original Music The Hateful Eight
Best Sound The Revenant – Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek,
Martin Hernández, Frank A. Montano, Jon Taylor,
and Randy Thom
Best Costume Design Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
Best Makeup and Hair Mad Max: Fury Road – Damian Martin and Lesley
Vanderwalt
Best Editing Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Naji Abu Nowar (Writer/Director) and Rupert Lloyd
Producer (Producer) – Theeb
Golden Beaver Award “Nagaland is changing. But…”
58th Grammy awards – 2016
General
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Record of the Year Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars)
Album of the Year 1989 (Taylor Swift)
Song of the Year Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge)
Best New Artist Meghan Trainor
POP
Best Solo Performance Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)
Best Duo/Group Performance Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars)
Best Traditional Vocal Album The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern
Best Vocal Album 1989
Dance/Electronic
Best Dance Recording Where Are U Now (Skrillex and Diplo with Justin
Bieber)
Best Dance/Electronic Album krillex and Diplo Present Jack U (Skrillex and Diplo)
Rock
Best Rock Performance Don’t Wanna Fight (Alabama Shakes)
Best Metal Performance Cirice
Best Rock Song Don’t Wanna Fight
Best Rock Album Drones
R&B
Best R&B Performance Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) – The Weeknd
Best Traditional R&B Performance Little Ghetto Boy (Lalah Hathaway)
Best R&B Song Really Love
Best R&B Album Black Messiah
Best Urban Contemporary Album Beauty Behind the Madness
Rap
Best Rap Performance Alright (Kendrick Lamar)
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration These Walls (Kendrick Lamar featuring Bilal, Anna
Wise & Thundercat)
Best Rap Song Alright
Best Rap Album To Pimp a Butterfly
Others
Best World Music Album Sings
Best Children’s Album Home
Best Comedy Album Live at Madison Square Garden
Best Musical Theater Album Hamilton
Best Music Video Bad Blood
Best Music Film Amy
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Sylva
Swachh Sarvekshan-2016
Best performer in North Zone and Best in Citizen Chandigarh, Chandigarh
feedback category
Best performer in behavior change communication Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
Best performer among Smart Cities and Best in New Delhi Municipal Corporation, New Delhi
Service Level Status
Best Performer in South Zone and Best in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Independent Observation
Best Performer in West Zone Surat, Gujarat
Best performer in door-to-door collection and Rajkot, Gujarat
transportation of Solid waste and sweeping
Best performer in North-East and Best performer Gangtok, Sikkim
among capitals
Best performer among satellite cities Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra
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Best Performer among mega cities Greater Mumbai

Top mover in North Zone (improved the rank by Allahabad,
maximum number) Uttar Pradesh
Top mover in West Zone Nagpur, Maharashtra
Top mover in South Zone Visakhapatnam, Pradesh Andhra
Top mover in East Zone Odisha
Top mover in North-East Imphal , Manipur
Israel Prize Professor David Shulman
Honoured In US for His Charity Work Ishaan Patel
2016 Yash Chopra Memorial Award Actress Rekha
Guinness Book of World Records Sameer Anjaan - 3,524 songs
Raksha Mantri’s Trophy for Best Service Hospital Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Kolkata
IBA Banking Technology Award’ Karnataka Bank Ltd
Knight of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest Manish Arora
honour
PECASE Honour Vikram Shyam ,Milind Kulkarni ,Kiran
Musunuru ,Shwetak Patel, Rahul Mangharam,Sachin
Patel
World Press Photo of 2015 Warren Richardson
Limca Book of Records Tendulkar’s autobiography -“Playing It My Way

Global Teacher Award Robin Chaurasia (Top 10)

Berlin International Film Malayalam film “Ottaal”
Festival - Crystal Bear award
India Sports Awards 2015
Best company promoting sports (public sector) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.
Best company promoting sports (private sector) YES Bank Pvt Ltd.
Best professional services company Technology Frontiers (India) Pvt Ltd.
Best NGO promoting sports STAIRS
Best sports start-up HotFut Sports Infrastructure Pvt Ltd
Best national sports federation Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India
Sportsperson of the year Lalita Babar (Athletics)
Breakthrough sportsperson of the year Dipa Karmakar (Gymnastics)
Coach or support staff of the year Kuldeep Handoo (Wushu)
Lifetime achievement award Balbir Singh
Best state Gujarat
Remi Award at WorldFest “Kanavu Variyam”
Guinness World Records India Gate’s 550kg rice bag
Global CSR Award GVK Biosciences
Germany’s prestigious “Cross of the Order of Goverdhan Mehta
Merit”
Nobel Prize nomination Afghanistan’s National Cyclist team
Dinanath Mangeshkar Prize 2016 Sanjay Leela Bhansali and actor Ranveer Singh
India’s greenest School Father Agnel School – Greater Noida
Queen’s Valley School– Delhi.
Government senior Secondary School– Shimla
100 most powerful Indians 2016 (IE 100). 1.PM Narendra Modi
2.Amit Shah (50)
3.Mohan Bhagwat (64)
4.Arun Jaitley (62)
TripAdvisor:Asia’s Travellers Choice Award 1.Ngapali beach(Myanmar)
Winning Beaches”. 2.Nacpan Beach(Philippines)
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3.Kata Noi(Thailand)
Oscar Awards 2016
Best Picture Spotlight
Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress Brie Larson
Best Direction Alejandro G Inarritu for “The Revenant”
Best Original Song “Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectrex
Best Original Score Ennio Morricine for “The Hateful Eight”
Best Foreign Language Film Son of Saul (Hungary)
Best Live Action Short Film Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
for “Stutterer”
Best Documentary – Feature Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees for “Amy”
Best Documentary – Short Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for “A Girl In the River:
The Price of Forgiveness”
Best Supporting Actor Mark Rylance
Best Animated Feature Pete Doctor and Jonas Rivera for “Inside Out”
Best Animated Short Gabriel Osorio Pato Escala for “Bear Story”
Best Visual Effects Andrew Whiteburst, Paul Norris, Mark
Ardington andAra Bennett for “Ex Machina”
Best Sound Mixing Chris Jenkins, Greg Rudloff and Ben Osmo for
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
Best Sound Editing Mark Mangini and David White for “Mad Max: Fury
Road”
Best Film Editing Margaret Sixel for “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki for “The Revenant”
Makeup and Hairstyling Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian
Martinfor “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Best Production Design Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson for “Mad Max:
Fury Road”
Best Costume Design Jenny Beavan for “Mad Max Fury Road”
Best Actress In A Supporting Role Alicia Vikander
Best Adapted Screenplay “The Big Short” for Charles Randolph and Adam
McKay
First Asian to get Global Reel Award Resul pookutty

March
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Airport Service Quality Awards (ASQ) 2015 Mumbai,New Delhi,Jaipur,Lucknow and Hyderabad
airports
Global Top Employer Award TCS
Melbourne based South Asian community Randeep Hooda
Honour
NASA Scholarship Sataparna Mukherjee(West Bengal)
Best Restaurant of India Indian Accent
Armaan Ebrahim FMSCI Motorsports Man of the Year Trophy
Chameli Devi Jain Award, 2016 Priyanka Kakodkar and Raksha Kumar
Skoch Lifetime achievement Award M Venkaiah Naidu
Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Tikka Shatrujit Singh
Legion of Honour)
Noor Inayat Khan prize Geetakshi Arora
Krishi Karman Award Himachal Pradesh

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CV Kunhiraman Literary prize M.Sukumaran

National award for “Outstanding Efforts in the Pallava Bagla
Field of Science and Technology Communication
on Electronic Medium”,
Lifetime achievement award - META Awards 2016 Ratan Thiyam

Bihari puraskar prize of 2015 Bhagwathi Lal Vyas

Dadasaheb Phalke Award Manoj Kumar
A M Turing Award 2015 Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman
Global Green Hero Award Stevie Wonder
The Innovation Award 2016 Prof. Sirshendu De
Mahindra Lifetime Achievement Award Dr.Amrita Patel
Krutitava Smagra Samman 2016 Padma Sachdev

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin The Legion of Honour award - France
Abdulaziz
Investor Communication Award NTPC Ltd
Guiness book of records – Nail Painting Sonakshi Sinha
Anand Mahindra Knight of the Legion of Honour - France
Visitor’s Award for Innovation 2016 Professor Rakesh Bhatnagar of Jawaharlal Nehru
University
The Visitor’s Award for Research 2016 Molecular Parasitology Group of Jawaharlal Nehru
University
Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship India and US(New award)
Golden City Gate Award Kerala Tourism
2016 Global Teacher Prize Palestinian Hanan Al Hroub
IAA Editor of the Year Sanjay Gupta
Brand Endorser of the Year Varun Dhawan, a Bollywood actor
TV Anchor of the Year award Rajat Sharma of India TV
Media Person of the Year Raj Nayak of Colors
CEO of the year Kumar Mangalam Birla
Abdulqadir Rashik First Prize in UN #LinksSDGs Data Visualization
Challenge
2016 Abel Prize - Nobel prize of Mathematics Sir Andrew wiles
Forbes 2016 World’s Billionaires List
Top 3 1.Bill Gates (60)
2.Amancio Ortega (79)
3.Warren Buffett (85)
Indians
36 Mukesh Ambani (58)
44 Dilip Shanghvi (60)
55 Azim Premji (70)
88 Shiv Nadar (70)
133 Cyrus Poonawalla (74)
135 Laxmi Mittal (65)
184 Uday Kotak (56)
196 Kumar Birla (48)
219 Sunil Mittal (58)
Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize Tim Bliss, Graham Collingridge and Richard Morris
Windham-Campbell Prizes
Drama Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (United States)
Hannah Moscovitch (Canada)
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Abbie Spallen (Ireland)

Fiction Tessa Hadley (United Kingdom)
E. Morgan (United States)
Jerry Pinto (India)
Non- fiction Hilton Als (United States)
Stanley Crouch (United States)
Helen Garner (Australia)
Stree Shakti Puraskar Award Winners
Devi AhilyabaiHolkar Award AnyayRahitZindagian NGO of Goa
Rani Lakshmibai Award Seema Prakash of Madhya Pradesh
Rani Rudramma Devi Award AsthaSansthan , NGO of Rajasthan
Mata Jijabai Award ChandraprabhaBokey –Maharashtra
Kannagi Award P Bhanumati –Kerala
Rani GaidinliuZeliang Award Mariola– Rajasthan
The Nari Shakti Puraskar Awardees RashmiAnand (Delhi)
Dr Nandita Krishna (Tamilnadu)
Dr LaxmiGautam(Uttar Pradesh)
NehaKirpal(Delhi)
LatikaThukral(Haryana)
Dr SailakshmiBalijepally(Tamilnadu)
Kausalya(Tamilnadu)
Dr SwarajVidwan(Uttarakhand)
Maharishi Badrayan Vyas Samman
SANSKRIT Dr. KS Maheswaran
Dr. Pramod Kumar Sharma
Dr. Madhav Janardan Ratate
Dr. Vinay Kumar Pandey
ARABIC Dr. Aurang Zeb Azmi
PERSIAN Dr. Atiqur Rahman
PALI/PRAKRIT Dr. Samani Sangeet Prajan
SANSKRIT Dr. KS Maheswaran
Dr. Pramod Kumar Sharma
Dr. Madhav Janardan Ratate
Dr. Vinay Kumar Pandey
ARABIC Dr. Aurang Zeb Azmi
10th Asian film awards
Best Film The Assassin
Best Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien for The Assassin
Best Actress Shu Qi for The Assassin
Best Supporting Actress Zhou Yun for The Assassin
Best Cinematography Mark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin
Best Production Design Hwarng Wern-ying for The Assassin
Best Original Music Lim Giong for The Assassin
Best Sound Chu Shih-yi, Tu Duu-chih and Wu Shu-yao for The
Assassin
Best Actor Lee Byung-hun for The Inside Men
Best Newcomer Jessie Li for Port of Call
Best Supporting Actor Tadanobu Asano for Journey to the Shore
Best Screenplay Jia Zhangke for Mountains May Depart
Best Editing William Chang Suk-ping, Chu Ka-yat, Liao Ching-
sung, Wong Hoi, Philip Yung for Port of Call
Best Visual Effects Prasad Sutar for Bajirao Mastani

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Best Costume Design Lee Ji-yeon and Shim Hyun-seob for The Throne
5th National Photography Awards
Life Time Achievement Award Bhawan Singh
Professional Photographer Award Javed Ahmed Dar
Amateur Photographer Himanshu Thakur
Hockey India Awards 2016
DhruvBatra Player of the Year award India goalkeeper PR Sreejesh and Deepika
Lifetime Achievement Award Captain Shankar Laxman
Upcoming Players of the Year Harjeet Singh and Preeti Dubey
Baljit Singh Award for Goalkeeper of the Year Savita
Pargat Singh Award for Defender of the Year Kothajit Singh
Ajit Pal Singh Award Midfielder of the Year Ritu Rani
DhanrajPillay Award for Forward of the Year Rani
JamanLal Sharma Award for Invaluable Baldev Singh
Contribution
Hockey India President’s Award for Outstanding Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy
Achievement
The milestone awards Dharamvir Singh, Kothajit Singh, BirendraLakra and
SushilaChanu
Turning out in India colours for the 200th time Gurbaj Singh and V R Raghunath
Guiness book of Records P.Susheela - singing highest number of songs
Limca book of records for crossing Mana pass Pallavi Fauzdar
63rd National Film Awards
Best actress Kangana Ranaut for ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’
Best actor Amitabh Bachchan for ‘Piku’
Best Film ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’
Best Director Sanjay LeelaBhansali for ‘BajiraoMastani’
Best popular film providing wholesome ‘BajrangiBhaijaan’
entertainment
Best Film Friendly State Award Gujarat (special mention to UP and Kerala)
Best Bodo film DauHuduniMethai
Best Punjabi film ChauthiKoot
Best Odiya film Pahada Ra Luha
Best Marathi film Ringan
Best Malyalam film Pathemari
Best Konkani film Enemy
Best Kannada film Thithi
Best Hindi film DumlagaKHaisha
Best Bengali film Shankhachil
Best Assamese film Kothanodi
Best Khasi film Onaatah
Best Haryanvi film Satrangi
Best Wancho film The Head Hunter
Best Manipuri film EibusuYaohanbiyu
Best Mizo film Kima’s lode Beyond the Class
Best Maithili film MithilaMakhaan
Best Sanskrit film Priyamanasam
Best Telugu film Kanche
Best Tamil film Visaaranai
Best Choreography Remo S’Souza (DeewaniMastani in BajiraoMastani)
Best Background score Ilaiyaaraja (ThaaraiThappattai)
Best Music direction M Jayachandran (KaathirunnuKaathirunnu in
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Best Costume Designer and Make-up Artist Nanak Shah Fakir
Best Editing Late Kishore TE (Visaaranai)
Best Dialogues JuhiChaturvedi (Piku) and Himanshu Sharma (Tanu
Weds Manu Returns)
Best Screenplay Writer (Original) JuhiChaturvedi (Piku) and Himanshu Sharma (Tanu
Weds Manu Returns)
Best Cinematography SudeepChaterjee (BajiraoMastani)
Best Female Playback Singer Monali Thakur (MohMohKeDhage)
Best Supporting Actress TanviAzmi (BajiraoMastani)
Best Supporting Actor Samuthirakani (Visaaranai)
Special Mention RinkuRajguru (Sairat)
Special Mention Jayasurya (Su SuSudiVathmeekam&LukkaChuppi)
Special Mention Ritika Singh (IrudhiSuttru)
Best Children’s Film Duronto
Best Film on Environment Conservation/ ValiyaChiraKullaPakshikal
Preservation
Best Film on Social Issues Nirnayakam
NargisDutt Award for Best Feature Film on Nanak Shah Fakir
National Integration
Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a NeerajGhaywan (Masaan)
Director

April
Name of the Awards Name of the Persons
Maharashtrian Of The Year Ranveer Singh
PEN Freedom to Write Award Ahmed Naji(Egypt)
Guinness World Record for at the same time Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL)
planting 208,751 saplings
National Geoscience Awards 2014
National Geoscience Award for Excellence Ashok KuApr Singhvi
Young Scientist Award Dr Indra Sekhar Sen
Hridaynath Award Viswanathan Anand
Asia’s 50 most powerful business woman list
Nita Ambani – 1 Reliance Foundation Chairperson
Arundhati Bhattacharya – 2 Chairperson of State Bank of India
Mu Sigma – 14 CEO Ambiga Dhiraj
Dipali Goenka – 16 CEO Welspun India
Vinita Gupta – 18 CEO Lupin
Chanda Kochhar – 22 ICICI Bank Managing Director
Vandana Luthra – 26 VLCC Health Care Founder
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw – 28 Biocon Founder
Founders Award 2016 Mother Teresa
French civilian the Legion of Honour Navanetham Pillay(South Africa’s first non-white
woman judge)
Miss India World 2016 Priyadarshini Chatterjee
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Khadija Ismayilova (Azerbaijan)
Prize 2016
Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2016 Priyanka Chopra
World record of longest dance Soni Chaurasiya - Kathak dancer from Varanasi
123 hours and 30 minutes
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National Intellectual Property (IP) Award IIT-Kharagpur

Global Indian of the Year 2016 award Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
NRI of the Year Award 2016 Sania Mirza
French civilian honour JJ Singh
Saraswati Samman for the year 2015 Padma Sachdev
Time reader poll of 100 most influential people
1 Bernie Sanders
2 Big Bang’s
3 Aung San SuuKyi’
4 Barak Hussian Obama
5 MalalaYousafzai
Indians in the list Narendra Modi
Priyanka Chopra
Sania Mirza
Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
Mumbai Press Club’s lifetime achievement award T N Ninan
Laureus World Sports awards
Novak Djokovic Sportsman of the year
Serena Williams Sports woman of the year
Team of the Year 2016 Rugbey Team, New Zealand
Comeback of the Year 2016 – Dan Dan Carter, New Zealand Union Player
Breakthrough of the Year 2016 Jordan Spieth, American Golf Star
Hindi Sevi Samman Awards Ge Fuping - china
Alka Dunputh - Japan
Shichiro Soma - Japan
2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners Public Service – Associated Press
Cyprus – Commander of the Order of Merit Amitav Banerji
The Order of Arts and Letters - French honour Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee
Randstad Award 2016 Google India
Best Actress award at Tribeca Film Fest Radhika Apte
New York Festivals 2016 – Bronze Undercover Asia: Girls for Sale
World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2016 Jennifer Aniston
Dadasaheb Phalke award Manoj Bajpayee (Aligarh)
Kendra Sangeet Natak Akademi Samman PrefullaKar
AlokKanungo
SadasivPradhan
International Award on Plant Nutrition Ashok Kumar
First Humanitarian Prize Aprguerite Barankitse
Press club award for bravery in Journalism Jagendra Singh
WHCA scholarship Misha Euceph – Pakistan
EQUIS Accreditation IIM-Calcutta
‘The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ NK Singh
- Japan
Sand art contest in Russia - Gold Sudarsan Pattnaik
2016 Nelson Mandela Award Swat Activist Tabassum
Highest paid Chief Executive Officers in world
Top 3 Indian
Mark V Hurd PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi – 8th
Robert A Iger LyondellBasell’s Bhavesh Patel – 6th
David Cote Microsoft’s Satya Nadella – 26th
Guinness World Records Duck-billed dinosaur - China
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Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin)
Swachh Vidyalaya
Soil Health Card Scheme category
LDM of Allahabad bank of India Raj Kishore Prasad
LDM of Union bank of India Surendra Chandra Das
LDM of Punjab National Bank Pramod Narayan
Dr Savita Anand, Principal Resident Commissioner of Rajasthan
Aishwariya Singh, District Collector
Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh
Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir
Dadar & Nagar Haveli
District Collector of the district
Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh

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