IBPS RRB VI Special : Complete List of Awards & Honors in September 2017

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Awards & Honors List - September 2017

• Ahmedabad - India's first World Heritage City [UNESCO]
• Aishwarya Rai - Vogue Influencer of The Decade
• Birendra Sasmal - International Business Person of Year 2017
• C N R Rao - Von Hippel Award
• CISF Security Cover, Mumbai airport - Best Airport Security in the World Award
• Corporation Bank - SKOCH Award for MUDRA Performance - 2017
• Gujarat International Finance-Tec City (GIFT City) - Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) Services Excellence Award
• Hyderabad International Airport - National Award for ‘Excellence’ in Energy Management
• ISKCON’s Govardhan Eco village (Maharashtra) - Spirit of Humanity Award
• Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal (JNPCT) - Container Terminal of the Year Award 2017
• Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) - Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar for 2016-17
• Mahtab Bamji - Living Legend Award of International Union of Nutritional Sciences ((IUNS)
• Mother Teresa - Patron saint of the Archdiocese of Calcutta [by Vatican]
• Newton (Bollywood Movie) - India's official entry to Oscars 2018
• Paramjit Singh Pammi - Bhagat Puran Singh Award
• Pawan Chamling - Grand Prix Award
• Prakash Padukone - 1st life time award by Badminton Association of India
• Raghunandan Industries Private Ltd - Krishi Pragati Award 2017
• Reliance Foundation & Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) - Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Purushkar
• Roopa Moudgil- President's Medal
• S S Rajamouli (Director of Baahubali Series) - ANR National Award
• Salman Khan - Global Diversity Award 2017
• Shah Rukh Khan - Vogue Entertainer of the Decade
• Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) - 2017 UN Equator Prize
• Tahir Mahmood - N R Madhava Menon Best Law Teacher Award 2017
• Vijaya Bank - 1st Prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar (Region C) 2016-17
• Zannah Mustapha - Nansen Refugee Award

Winners of 2017 International Literacy Prizes by UNESCO

• Confucius Prize 2017 
• AdulTICoProgram - Initiative of Secretariat of Information and Communications Technologies of Armenia (Colombia) for teaching digital competencies to seniors.
• Citizens Foundation (Pakistan) - For its Aagahi Literacy Programme for Women and Out-of-School Girls.
• FunDza (South Africa) - It launched a project to develop a culture of reading and writing for pleasure through an online platform.
• King Sejong Literacy Prize 2017
• Centre for the Study of Learning & Performance (Concordia University (Canada)) - For its ‘Using Educational Technology to Develop Essential Educational Competencies in Sub-Saharan Africas project’.
• We Love Reading (Jordan) - It offers online read-aloud trainings for parents, mobilizes volunteers to read aloud in community spaces to children.

Winners of 2017 UNESCO Prize for Girl’s and Women’s Education

• Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in Greater Mekong Sub-Region (DEPDC/GMS) in Thailand - For its project Education and Life Skills Training Programme to Help Stateless Children and Women Migrating from Shan State to Thailand.
• Mini Academy of Science and Technology (MaCTec Peru) - For its project Mobile MaCTec Bus Labs/Mini Academy of Science and Technology.

PLuS Alliance Prize 2017 Winners from India

• PLuS Alliance Prize for Global Leadership : Mr Narayana Murthy
• PLuS Alliance Prize for Research Innovation : Veena Sahajwalla

74th Venice International Film Festival Winners

• Golden Lion – The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Toro
• Grand Jury Prize – Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz
• Silver Lion (Best Director) – Custody by Xavier Legrand
• Volpi Cup (Best Actor) – Kamel El Basha for The Insult
• Best Actress – Charlotte Rampling for Hannah
• Special Jury Prize – Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton

2017 Balzan Prize Winners

• James P Allison (USA) - For Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy that enhanced the survival of patients with metastatic melanoma.
• Bina Agarwal (Indian British) - For her heroic work studying women’s contributions to agriculture in India.
• Michael Gillon (Belgium) - For his work that helped finding new soalr systems of planet Earth using robotic telescopes, instead of much more costly satellites.
• Germans Aleida and Jan Assmann (Germany) - For presenting collective memory as a requirement for forming identity of religious and political communities.

69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced at Microsoft Theater in California (USA) -

• Outstanding Comedy Series - Veep
• Outstanding Drama Series - The Handmaid’s Tale (First web series to win this award )
• Outstanding Variety Talk Series - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Outstanding Variety Sketch Series - Saturday Night Live
• Outstanding Limited Series - Big Little Lies
• Outstanding Television Movie - Black Mirror: “”San Junipero”"
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series - Donald Glover (Marks on Atlanta)
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Sterling K. Brown in This Is Us
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale

GQ Men of The Year Awards 2017 Winners

• Irrfan Khan - Outstanding Achievement
• Anushka Sharma - Woman of the Year
• Karan Johar - Producer of the Year
• Rajkummar Rao - Actor of Year
• Ranveer Singh - Entertainer of the Year
• Sridevi – Excellence in Acting
• Aamir Khan - Creative Maverick

Complete Winners of 13th IDRBT Banking Technology Excellence Awards 2016-17

• Best Bank Award for Use of Technology for Financial Inclusion Among Large Banks
• State Bank of India
• Best Bank Award for Use of Technology for Financial Inclusion Among Mid-Size Banks
• Vijaya Bank
• Best Bank Award for Use of Technology for Financial Inclusion Among Small Banks
• Karnataka Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Digital Banking among Large Banks
• Axis Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Digital Banking among Mid-Sized Banks
• Vijaya Bank
• Best Bank Award for Digital Banking among Small Banks
• South Indian Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Electronic Payment Systems among Large Banks
• State Bank of India
• Best Bank Award for Electronic Payment Systems among Mid-Sized Banks
• Andhra Bank
• Best Bank Award for Electronic Payment Systems among Small Banks
• The Federal Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Analytics and Big Data among Large Banks
• ICICI Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Use of Technology for Fraud Prevention among Large Banks
• HDFC Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for High Performance IT Ecosystem among Large Banks
• Bank of India
• Best Bank Award for High Performance IT Ecosystem among Mid-Sized Banks
• IndusInd Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for High Performance IT Ecosystem among Small Banks
• South Indian Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Cyber Security and Defense among Large Banks
• HDFC Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Cyber Security and Defense among Mid-Sized Banks
• IndusInd Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Cyber Security and Defense among Small Banks
• City Union Bank
• Best Bank Award for Innovative Use of Technology among Large Banks
• HDFC Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Innovative Use of Technology among Mid-Sized Banks
• YES Bank Ltd.
• Best Bank Award for Innovative Use of Technology among Small Banks
• The Karur Vysya Bank Ltd.
• Best Emerging Bank Award
• Union Bank of India
• Best IT-Enabled Co-operative Bank
• The Cosmos Cooperative Bank Ltd.
• Best IT-Enabled Regional Rural Bank
• Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank

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