Awards and Honours – August 2018
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In this we have given, August Month Awards and Honours and their details. This is very important for all Competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, RRB, and all PSC Examinations.
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Awards and Honours – August 2018:
International Awards:
| S. No | Awardees | Award |
| 1 | Akshay Venkatesh [Indian-Australian mathematician], Caucher Birkar, Peter Scholze, Alessio Figalli | Fields medal, known as the Nobel prize for maths |
| 2 | David Beckham (Former England Football captain) | Uefa President’s Award |
| 3 | Sunishka Kartik | Community Award in the Junior NBA World Basketball Championship |
| 4 | Krishnanunni | Fourth Insight award for lifetime achievement in Eighth International HALF (Haiku Amateur Little Film) Festival |
| 5 | Sashi Cheliah | MasterChef Australia 2018 |
| 6 | Two Indian nationals, Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk | Ramon Magsaysay award [Asia’s Nobel Prize] |
| 7 | Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director of the KITE | International Contributions Award by AECT, USA. |
National Awards:
| S. No | Awardees | Award |
| 1 | Smt Najma Heptulla, Shri Hukmdev Narayan Yadav, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Shri Dinesh Trivedi and Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab | Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the years 2013-2017 |
| 2 | Shreshth Sahu, Satish Mewada and Gopal Prajapati | Jal Bachao, Video Banao, Puraskar Pao Contest (For spreading awareness about water conservation) |
| 3 | Annie Zaidi for her play Untitled-1 | The Hindu Playwright Award 2018 |
| 4 | Sergeant Shashidhar P Prasad Indian Air Force (Garud) | Vayu Sena Medal |
| 5 | Squadron Leader Vernon Desmond Keane Flying (Pilot) | Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) |
| 6 | Group Captain Abhishek Sharma Flying (Pilot) | Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) |
| 7 | Dr. S. N. Pandey, Inspector General, Railway Board | Presidents’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services |
| 8 | Dr. Sushmee Badhulika (For her work in ‘electronics, computer science and engineering’) | NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Awards |
| 9 | Dr. Aravind Kumar Rengan (In the bio-medical, molecular biology and bio-technology category) | NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Awards |
| 10 | 1) ADGP (Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation) M.N. Manjunatha | Prestigious President’s medal for distinguished service TamilNadu |
| 11 | 2) IG (South Zone) K.P Shanmuga Rajeswaran | |
| 12 | 3) ASP (Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption) S. Thirunavukarasu | |
| 13 | Muthumari | 2018 Kalpana Chawla Award for Courage and Daring Enterprise – Tamil Nadu |
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