IBPS PO VII Special : Complete List of Awards & Honors in November 2017

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Awards & Honors List - November 2017

• Anand Kumar (Founder, Super 30) - Rashtriya Bal Kalyan Award 2017
• Air New Zealand - Airline Of The Year 2017 Award
• Anuk Arudpragasam (The Story of a Brief Marriage) - DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017
• Anuk Arudpragasam (The Story of a Brief Marriage) - Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2017
• Atom Egoyan - IFFI Lifetime Achievement Award
• Dipa Karmakar - Honorary D.Litt. Degree by NIT, Agartala
• Eric Vuillard (L’ordre du jour / Agenda) - Goncourt Prize 2017
• Girish Karnad - Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award 2017
• Girija Devi (Eminent classical singer) - Sumitra Charat Ram Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Gopinath R - Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar 2017
• K Satchidanandan (Noted Malayalam Poet) -  Ezhuthachan Puraskaram Award 2017
• Kevin Lilliana (Indonesia) - Miss International 2017
• Krishna Sobti - 53rd Jnanpith Award 2017
• Manik Banerjee - Life Time Achievement Award by Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF)
• Manmohan Singh (Former PM) - Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development 2017
• Manushi Chhillar - 67th Miss World 2107
• Mithali Raj - Indian Sportswoman of the Year (Team Sports) Award
• Mohan Joshi - Vishnudas Bhave Award
• Mukesh Ambani - Asia’s Richest Person
• Natalie Portman - Genesis Prize 2018 (Jewish Nobel Prize)
• Royal Opera House (Mumbai) - 2017 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award of Merit
• Sergio Ramirez Mercado - 2017 Cervantes Prize (Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor)
• Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple (Srirangam, Tamil Nadu) - UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation
• The School Bag (Indian Short Film) - Best Short Film Award at South Asian Film Festival of Montreal (SAFFM)
• Trisha Krishnan - UNICEF Celebrity Advocate Status for Child Rights (1st South Indian actor)
• Zaira Wasim - National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement 2017 

Best Urban Transport Practices’ Awards by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs -

• Best City Bus Services Award - Surat Municipal Corporation
• Best Non-Motorised Transport - Mysuru’s Public Bicycle Sharing
• Best Urban Transport Initiative - Kochi (Kerala)

1st Indian Sports Honours Awards 2017

• Best Male Player in Teamsports - Ravichandran Ashwin (Cricket)
• Best Female Player in Teamsports - Mithali Raj (Cricket)
• Team of the year - Indian Women's Cricket Team.
• Comeback of the Year - Saina Nehwal (Badminton)

Tata Literature Live Literary Awards 

• Non-fiction - Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Age of Anger: A History of the Present’.
• First Book – Prayaag Akbar’s ‘Leila’ & Pranay Lal’s ‘Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent’
• Fiction – Easterine Kire’s ‘Son of the Thundercloud’
• Business Book of Year – YV Reddy’s ‘Advice and Dissent: My Life in Public Service’
• Publisher of the Year – Penguin Random House India
• Big Little Book Award – Nabaneeta Dev Sen

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