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| Important Awards and Recognitions April – May 2018 | |
| Recipient of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk Poland |
| Recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from John F Kennedy center of Performing Arts | Julia Louis Dreyfus |
| Person who has been awarded the 2018 UNESCO press freedom prize | Mahmoud Abu Zeid |
| Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music | Lamar – album “DAMN” |
| Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Less – Andrew Sean Greer |
| Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism | New York Times |
| Recipient of the most coveted “Red Ink Award” for lifetime achievement in Journalism | Sir William Mark Tully |
| Recipient of the Palm d’Or award at the 71st Cannes Film Festival | Hirokazu Kore-eda “Shop Lifters” |
| Person who has received the “Shorenstein Journalism Award” presented at Stanford university | Siddharth Varadarajan (Founding editor of The Wire) |
| Person awarded the 26th edition of the PC Chandra Puraskaar Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 | Asha Bhosle |
| Person who was awarded the J C Daniel Award 2017 instituted by government of Kerala | Sreekumaran Thampi |
| Recipient of the ONV Literary Prize 2018 for his/her contribution to Malayalam literature | M T Vasudevan Nair |
| Recipient of the V K Krishna Menon Award 2018 for his contribution to the Indian diaspora | Mahendra Chaudhry Former PM of Fiji |
| Recipient of the 2018 Excellent Woman of Excellence Award at the Women Economic Forum Awards 2018 | Nisha Bhalla |
| Recipient of the KISS(Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences) award 2018 | Prof Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) |
| Recipient of the Nikkei Asian Prize 2018 at an event in Tokyo, Japan | Bideshwar Pathak Founder – Sulabh International |
| Recipient of the “Banga Bibushan” highest civilian award of the government of west Bengal | Asha Bhosle |
| Recipient of the Santokbaa Humanitarian Award 2018 | Kailash Satyarthi |
| Recipient of the Swara Mauli Award 2018 | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Recipient of the 2017 Saraswati Samman instituted by government of India in 1991 | Sitanshu Yashaschandra |
| Recipient of the Jayadev Rashtriya Yuva Pratibha Puraskar 2018 |
Anandita Anaam Kathak Instructor, USA |
| The island which has been adjudged as the first cashless Island in the country | Karang Island, Manipur |
| District which shortlisted the PM Modi excellence award for promoting digital payments and cashless economy | Budgam District, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Woman who has been given FLO ICON award in “Banking and Finance” category | Chanda Kochhar |
| Banker who has been awarded the Outstanding Brand Builder Award by Advertising Agencies Association of India at the Goafest 2018 | M D and CEO of Yes Bank Rana Kapoor |
| Bank which has been awarded the Banco Award for the best performing cooperative bank | Bhuj Mercantile Bank |
| Person conferred the Life Time Achievement Award for contribution to media, awarded by All India Management Association | Indu Jain |
| Organization which was awarded the “Best Cooperative Society of Digital Platform” award in BSFI Leadership Awards 2018 held in New Delhi | Adarsh Credit |
| Recipient of the VISA risk security award 2018 at the 14th Visa Asia Pacific Security Summit | HDFC Bank |
| Management Institution in India which won two awards for a case study at the European Foundation of Management Development | IIM Kolkata |
| Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for his/her contributions in promoting brand India in the UK, at the UK and Asia business awards ceremony in London | Swraj Paul |
| Recipient of the “Digital Leader of the Year” award at the business world digital India summit 2018 held in New Delhi | Nara Lokesh Minister of IT Andhra Pradesh |
| Woman who has been given FLO ICON award in “Digital Entrepreneurship” category | Falguni Nayar |
| Woman who has been given FLO ICON award in “Science and Technology” category | Tessy Thomas |
| Woman who has been given FLO ICON award in “Environment Protection” category | Bharati Chaturvedi |
| Airport which has been received the award for being the cleanest airport in the country at a ceremony organized by Airports Authority of India | Mangaluru International Airport |
| State which has been adjudged as the “State of the Year” in the “business leader” category at the India business leaders awards 2018 | Chhattisgarh |
| e-portal awarded for “Best emerging online portal in north India” at the world education summit and award in New Delhi | Study Khazana |
| Recipient of the Martha Farrell Award for excellence in women’s empowerment | Nadiya Shafi |
| Recipient of the 2018 National Intellectual Property Award | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| Gram Panchayat which has been award the Best Gram Panchayat in the Country by government of India | Digambarpur, West Bengal |
| Recipient of the DRDO Lifetime Achievement Award -2017 |
Dr. V K Saraswat |
| Recipient of the DRDO Lifetime Achievement Award -2016 |
Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre |
| Recipient of the DRDO Technology Leadership Award – 2016 |
Dr. G Satheesh Reddy |
| Swachh Sarvekshan Abhiyaan 2018 | India’s Cleanest City Indore India’s Cleanest (Big City) Vijayawada India’s Cleanest State Capital/UT Mumbai |
| Recipient of the Clarivate Analytics India Innovation Award 2018 in government research organizations category | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| Recipient of the NARI Shakti Puraskaar 2018 | INSV Tarini Team |
| Recipient of the National Biodiversity Award 2018 for conserving three rare wildlife species, at a ceremony by National Biodiversity Authority, held in Hyderabad | Singchung Bagun Village Community Reserve |
| Organization which is the recipient of the S & P Global Platts Global Metals Award 2018 |
National Mineral Development Corporation |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards are given every year by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting |
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| Recipient of the T K Ramanathan Award 2018 at the Tamilnadu Tennis Association ceremony | Prajnesh Gunneswaran |
| CEAT Cricket Ratings – Cricketer of the Year | Virat Kohli |
| CEAT Cricket Ratings – Lifetime Achievement Award |
Farokh Engineer |
| Sportsperson who has been adjudged as the “Sportsperson of the Year” by TELANGANA SPORTS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION annual awards for 2017 | Mithali Raj |
| Sportsperson who has been adjudged as the “Sportsperson of the Year – Male” at the ESPN multi sports awards | Kidambi Srikanth |
| Sportsperson who has been adjudged as the “Sportsperson of the Year – Female” at the ESPN multi sports awards | P V Sindhu |
| Football Player adjudged “Footballer of the Year – 2017-18” by Football Writers’ Association | Mohamed Salah |
| Indian Boxer adjudged the WBC Asia Boxer of the Year 2018 at an event held in Bangkok |
Neeraj Goyat |
| Adjudged “France Player of the Year” at the UNFP awards 2018 | Neymar |
| Recipient of the European Golden Shoe Award for the 5th time | Lionel Messi |
| Sportsperson who has been adjudged as the PFA (Professional Footballers’ Association) player of the year 2018 – Football | Mohamed Salah |
| Nobel Prize in Literature will not be awarded in 2018 | |
| State which has been awarded the most film friendly state for the year 2017 by government of India | Madhya Pradesh |
| Actress who received the Best Actress Award at the 2018 National Awards | Sridevi “Mom” |
| Actor who received the Best Actor Award at the 2018 National Awards | Riddhi Sen “Nagar Kirtan” |
| Director who received the Best Director Award at the 2018 National Awards | Jayaraj “Bhayanakam” |
| Movie which received the Best Film Award at the 2018 National Awards | Village Rockstars “Assamese” |
| Actor who received the Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement award instituted by government of Maharashtra | Dharmendra |
| Recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award 2018 in “Best Actor – Male” category | Shahid Kapoor |
| Recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award 2018 in “Best Actress – Critics” category | Aditi Rao Hydari |
| Recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award 2018 in “Best Actor – People’s Choice Award” category | Ranveer Singh |
| Recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award 2018 – Life Time Achievement | Simi Garewal |
| Recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award 2018 in “Best Director” category | Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation Awards | Best Actor – Akshay Kumar |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation Awards | Best Actress (Leading Role) Sonam Kapoor |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation Awards | Best Actress Bhoomi Pednekar |
| Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award Rakesh Roshan |
| Recipient of the TITAN Reginald Lewis Film Icon Award at the Cannes Film Festival | Sridevi |
| Recipient of the BRICS business forum leadership award – Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 | Sridevi |
| Person who was awarded the “Legend of Animation” award for his contributions to animation industry at the TOONZ animations masters summit 2018 |
V G Samant |
