2018 Filmfare Awards 63rd: 2018 OSCAR Awards 90 Academy Awards
2018 Filmfare Awards 63rd: 2018 OSCAR Awards 90 Academy Awards
2018 Filmfare Awards 63rd: 2018 OSCAR Awards 90 Academy Awards
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (Government announces National Sports Awards 2017)
Man booker International Award 2018 - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) for novel “Flights”
INSV Tarini team awarded Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017- India’s Navy all six women crew of INSV Tarini,
occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8 every year, went to circumnavigate glove under
Indian navy’s Navika Sagar Parikrama expedition, led by Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi
Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashaschandra chosen for 2017 Saraswati Samman- collection of verses (poetry)
titled “Vakhar” published in 2009
65th National Film Awards 2017- given by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Know India Programmes (KIP) KIP is initiative (scheme) of Ministry of External Affairs for Persons of
Indian Origin (PIO) between the age group of 18 to 30 years. The scheme was launched in 2004
India’s Aadhaar and Umang App win awards at world Government Summit 2018
Aadhar: managed by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology
Umang: Umang stands for Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance
IAF Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala posthumously conferred with Ashok Chakra
Bachendri Pal: first Indian woman to reach the Mount Everest summit;
Deepa Malik: first woman to win a medal at the Paralympics;
Priya Jhingan: First Lady Cadet to join the Indian Army;
P V Sindhu: Olympic silver medallist
Nicole Faria: winner of the Miss earth title;
Karnam Malleswari: Olympic medal winning weightlifter
Anshu Jamsenpa: First Indian woman to scale Mt Everest for fifth time,
Chhavi Rajawat: India’s first woman Sarpanch
Diana Edulji: First ODI captain of the first ever Indian Women’s Cricket Team
Physiology or Medicine: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young - "for their discoveries
of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"
ICAN receives 2017 Nobel Peace Prize : Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons (ICAN) received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize at ceremony held in Oslo, Norway