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2018 Filmfare Awards 63rd

Best Film (Popular): 'Hindi Medium'


Critics’ Award for Best Film: 'Newton'
Best Actor In A Leading Role - Female (Popular): Vidya Balan for 'Tumhari Sulu'
Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Female): Zaira Wasim for 'Secret Superstar'
Best Actor In A Leading Role - Male (Popular): Irrfan Khan for 'Hindi Medium'
Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Male): Rajkummar Rao for 'Trapped'
Best Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari for 'Bareilly Ki Barfi'
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male): Rajkummar Rao for 'Bareilly Ki Barfi'
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female): Meher Vij for 'Secret Superstar'
Best Original Story: Amit Masurkar for 'Newton'
Best Music Album: Pritam for 'Jagga Jasoos'
Best Playback Singer (Male): Arijit Singh for 'Roke na ruke naina' - 'Badrinath Ki Dulhania'
Best Playback Singer (Female): Meghna Mishra for 'Nachdi phira' - 'Secret Superstar'
Lifetime Achievement A ward: Mala Sinha and Bappi Lahiri

2018 OSCAR Awards 90th Academy Awards


Best Picture: 'The Shape of Water'
Actress in a Leading Role: Frances McDormand for 'Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri'
Actor in a Leading Role: Gary Oldman for ‘Darkest Hour’
Directing: Guillermo del Toro for ‘The Shape of Water’
Foreign Language Film: ‘A Fantastic Woman’

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (Government announces National Sports Awards 2017)

 Devendra (Para Athletics), Sardar Singh (Hockey)

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

2018 Pulitzer Prizes winners (Literature and Journalism)

65th National Film Awards 2017- given by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

 Dada Saheb Award- Vinod Khanna


 Best Feature Film: Village Rockstars (Assamese)
 Best Actress: Sridevi for ‘Mom’
 Best Actor: Riddhi Sen for ‘Nagar Kirtan’

Canadian mathematician Robert P. Langlands wins Abel Prize 2018

Balkrishna Doshi wins Pritzker Prize – premier architecture award

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

Odisha wins Geospatial World Excellence Award 2018

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

Nobel Prizes 2017


Physics: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne -"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and
the observation of gravitational waves"
Chemistry: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson - "for developing cryo-electron
microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

Physiology or Medicine: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young - "for their discoveries
of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Economics Science: Richard Thaler

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