2016 Awards List in India, World- Current Affairs Awards and Honours (January to June)

Important Awards in Literature, Science, Sports, Peace,Politics, Business,Economics,Movies,Institutions etc relevant to India or popularly known . List of Trophies, Medals ,Winners during the year by government , Organisations and Persons

2016 India & International Awards List 

Name of the Award	Winner	Remarks
Calder Memorial Trophy 2016	Artemi Panarin	Russian Ice Hockey player
2015 GD Birla Award	Sanjay Mittal	IIT  Kanpur Professor
Order of Friendship Award- Russia	Ban Ki Moon	UN Secretary General
Regius Professorship in Manufacturing by Queen Elizabeth II	Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya	Indian origin professor and founder of Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG)
Amir Amanullah Khan Award	Narendra Modi	Afghanistan’s highest civilian honour
Pen Pinter Prize 2016	Margaret Atwood	Canadian poet
National Order of the Republic of Ivory Coast	Pranab Mukherjee	Highest civilian honour of Ivory Coast
2016 International Dublin Literary Award	Akhil Sharma	Indian-American author got for his semi-autobiographical novel “Family Life.”
2016 Green Economy Visionary Award	Dr. R Seetharaman	Group CEO of Doha Bank
Fukuoka prize 2016	A.R Rahman	Got in Grand prize category
Springer Theses Award	Arnab De	Indian-American scientist
2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award	Aditi Krishnakumar	Won the award for her 32,000-word manuscript titled Codex: The Lost Treasure Of The Indus
India Biodiversity Award 2016	Pakke Tiger Reserve	Located in Arunachal Pradesh
2016 Harvard Alumni award	Sunil Mittal	Founder, chairman and Group CEO
2016 National Geographic Bee Contest	Rishi Nair	Indian-American student
2016 Millennium Technology Prize	Frances Arnold	U.S Bioengineer becomes first woman to win the prize
Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Award 2016	Pawan chamling	Nepal’s prestigious literary award won by Sikkim CM
Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award 2016	Syamanatak Payra	15 year old Indian-American
Young Scientist Award of the European Materials Research Society’s (E-MRS)	Nandini Bhandaru	PhD student at IIT-Kharagpur
2016 Man Booker International Prize	Han Kang	South Korean author for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’.
‘Hall of Fame’ Award by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)	Prof Udupi Ramachandra Rao	Former ISRO Chairman and space scientist
Lonely Planet Group’s Best Indian Destination for Wildlife Award	Madhya Pradesh Tourism	Lonely Planet is world’s largest travel guide book publisher
Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2016	Parashar Kulkarni	For his funny fiction story ‘Cow and Company’
2016 WSIS Prize (World Summit on the Information Society)	Andhra Pradesh Harita-Priya Agriculture Project	Project is meant to collect very specific climate data from farms and give farmers personalised information through SMS
“North Star”-Mongolia’s highest award.	Lokesh Chandra, Mansura Haider	For contribution to the development of friendly relations between India and Mongolia
2016 Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Award	Tabassum Adnan	Pakistani woman’s right activist
2016 Hridaynath Mangeskar Award	Viswanathan Anand	Indian Chess legend
2016 International Plant Nutrition Scholar Award (IPNSA)	K.Ashok Kumar	IIT Scholar
2015 Saraswati Samman	Padma Sachdev	Dogri Poetess and Novelist
2016 Global Indian of the Year award	Aishwarya Rai Bachchan	Bollywood Actress
Legion of Honour, the highest French civilian distinction.	J.J Singh	Former Indian Army Chief
2016 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize	Khadija Ismayilova	Innovative journalist of Azerbaijan
Founder Awards 2016	Mother Teresa	Award given to persons within the global Asian community to recognise and reward their exemplary achievements
Saudi Arabia’s highest civilian honour- the King Abdulaziz Sash	Narendra Modi	Award was bestowed upon Indian PM by  Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the Royal Court.
Skoch Lifetime Achievement Award	Venkaiah Naidu	For his initiative in establishing the path breaking tech incubator T-Hub
2016 Global Teacher Prize	Hanan Al Hroub	Palestenian teacher
2016 Abel Prize	Andrew Wiles	British Mathematician
2016 Tyler Prize	Partha S Dasgupta	Given for Environmental Achievement
2016 Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri Lifetime Achievement Award	Dr. Amrita Patel	Played important role in the implementation of NDDB’s Operation Flood
2015 Krutitava Smagra Samman	Padma Sachdev	Dogri Poetess and Novelist
47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2015	Manoj Kumar	Veteran Bollywood actor
2015 Bihari Puraskar	Dr. Bhagwati Lal Vyas	Eminent Poet. Instituted by K.K Birla Foundation.
2016 Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar Award.	Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ranveer Singh	Film maker Actor
Aryabhatta Award	Avinash Chander	Former DRDO Director General
Germany’s prestigious Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) Award	Goverdhan Mehta	Chemical scientist
2016 Remi Award	Kanavu Variyam(Tamil Film)
Pride of Kerala Award	Vidya Balan	Bollywood actress
Bhimsen Joshi Award 2016	Ram Narayan	Sarangi Maestro

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