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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
2015 India Awards List
- 2015 Paul H Appleby Award - K Chockalingam
- 2015 Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award - AR Rahman
- 2015 Jnanpith Award - Raghuveer Chaudhari
- 24th Vyaas Samman : 2014-Dr. Kamal Kishore (Premchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayan)
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2015- Sania Mirza
- G D Birla Award for Scientific Research - Sanjeev Galande
- Best Practice under BBBP scheme - Digital Guddi-Gudda Board
- 28th Moorthidevi Award - Vishwanath Tripati ( Book :Vyomkesh Darvesh)
- UN Public Service Award -Nadia District in West Bengal
- Sangitha Kalanidhi Award 2015 - Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- Pritiman Sarkar Award 2014-15 - Jodhpur Film Society
- 46th Dada Saheb Phalke award - Shashi Kapoor
- RedInk Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 -Prannoy Roy
- Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2015 -Anil Kapoor
- Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015-Shah Rukh Khan
- fbb Femina Miss India 2015 - Aditi Arya
- Bharat Ratna 2015 -Atal bihari vajpayee, Madan Mohan Malavya
- Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 -ISRO
- Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman for the year 2012-13 - Gopaldas Neeraj
- Saraswati Samman 2014 -Veerappa Moily
- Jnanpith Award 2014 -Bhalchandra Nemade
- Laadli Voice of the Century award -Lata Mangeshkar
2015 International Awards
- Sakharov Prize 2015 - Raif Badawi (Saudi Arabia)
- 2016 Genesis Prize - Itzhak Perlman (Israel)
- 2015 Miss Universe - Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (Phillippines)
- 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize - Dr. Jacob Tsimerman (Canada)
- PATWA 2015 Award(Pacific Area Travel Writers Association)- D Parulekar(Goa Minister)
- 2014 National Humanities Medal of White House -Jhumpa Lahiri
- 2015 Ramanujan Prize- Dr. Amalendu Krishna (India)
- Sunhak Peace Prize 2015 - Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta (India)
- Cross of Order of the Merit Award of Germany-Raghavendra Gadagkar (India)
- 2015 Wimbeldon men's singles- Novak Djokovic
- FIFA 2015 Women's World Cup - USA (Venue:Canada)
- 2015 Copa America Cup Football - Chile
- 2015 South Asian Basket Ball Championship -India
- World Agriculture Prize 2015 - R Paul Singh (Indian American Professor)
- World Food Prize 2015 - Fazel Hazen Abed (Bangladesh)
- 19th Commonwealth Chess Championship - Abhijeet Gupta (India)
- 2015 British Grand Prix of F1 - Lewis Hamilton (Britain)
- Norway Chess Tournament 2015 - Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)
- Best Welfare Organisation of the Year-2015-NUSI (India's trade union)
- 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup - Serbia
- Austrian Grand Prix of F1 -2015 - Nico Rosberg (Germany)
- 2015 UEFA Champions League - FC Barcelona
- India winner of Japan' Fukuoka Prize 2015 -Ramachandra Guha (India)
- Japan’s highest civilian award 'Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ -C.N.R. Rao
- Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award -Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction- Ali Smith (UK)
- 2015 Man Booker Prize -Marlon James(Jamaica)
- 2015 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize -Mazen Darwish
- 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region - Siddhartha Gigoo (Novelist)
- Yashwant Sinha honoured with Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by French Government
- 2015 Heinz Award -Sangeeta Bhatia
- White House Champions of Change-Satya Nadella
- Golden Peacock National Quality Award 2015 -Delhi International Airport
- 2014 Encore Award - Neel Mukherjee
- Abel Prize 2015 - John Nash
- Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France 2015 - Bharti Kher (Artist)
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2015 -Madhav Gadgil ,Dr. Jane Lubchenco
- 2015 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate -Rajendra Singh (India)
- Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015 -Amartya Sen
- Miss Universe 2014 -Miss Colombia Paulina Vega
- Governor of the Year Award 2015 -Raghuram Rajan
- 2015 Avicenna Prize (for ethics in Science by UNESCO)- Dr. Zaabta Khan Shinwari (Pakistan)
