Important Awards Current Affairs in October 2018
In this we have given, October Month Indian Defence Current Affairs and their other details. This is very important for all Competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, RRB, and all PSC Examinations.
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International Awards:
S. No | Awards | Awardees |
1 | UNEP Champions of the Earth award | Narendra Modi [In New Delhi presented by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres] |
2 | UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Future Policy for Gold Award | Sikkim [for its achievement in becoming the world’s first totally organic agriculture state]Brazil, Denmark and Equador won Silver for their policies. |
3 | Man Booker Prize 2018 [For Novel ‘Milkman’] | Irish Author Anna Burns |
4 | Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania awards | 4th annual Carnot Prize – Union Minister Shri Piyush Goyal [annual recognition of distinguished contributions to energy policy through scholarship or practice] |
5 | Seoul Peace Prize | Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been conferred with the Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for his contribution to international cooperation and fostering global economic growth. |
6 | Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management Award, 2018 | India |
7 | UN Human Rights Prize | 1) Pakistan’s human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir [posthumously] |
2) Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania | ||
3) Brazil’s first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana | ||
4) Ireland’s human rights organisation Front Line Defenders |
Nobel Prize Winners:
S. No | Awards | Awardees |
1 | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | James P. Allison [USA] and Tasuku Honjo [Japan] [For their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation] |
2 | Nobel Prize in Physics | Arthur Ashkin [USA] [For the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems] ; Gérard Mourou [France] and Donna Strickland [Canada] [For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses] |
3 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Frances H. Arnold [USA] [For the directed evolution of enzymes] ; George P. Smith [USA] and Sir Gregory P.Winter [UK] [For the phage display of peptides and antibodies] |
4 | Nobel Peace Prize | Congolese Dr. Denis Mukwege, Yazidi rights activist Nadia Murad [For their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict] |
5 | Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences | William D. Nordhaus [USA] [For integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis] & Paul M. Romer [USA] [For integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis] |
National Awards:
S. No | Awards | Awardees |
1 | First position in Kayakalp awards with prize money of Rs. 5 crore | AIIMS Delhi (To recognise the efforts of the central and states hospitals for maintaining cleanliness in their premises). |
2 | NIPM Ratna Award | Tapan Kumar Chand, CMD, NALCO |
3 | Rajkumar award for lifetime achievement for 2017 | Multi-lingual senior actor Lakshmi |
4 | Award for the largest contribution to the Swacch Bharat Kosh. | Mata Amritanandamayi Devi |
5 | 2018 ‘Visishta Puraskaram’ by the Ramineni Foundation | Badminton coach Pullela Gopichand |
6 | Young Innovator Award | 24-year-old Jawwad Khizar Patel,young social innovator and research scientist from Hyderabad was awarded the National Youth Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation by the Government of India.Santosh Kaveri of Belgaum, another recipient bagged the award for his contribution in the field of agriculture. |
7 | Prasar Bharti CEO distributes Rajbhasha awards | Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati distributed Rajbhasha awards to Prasar Bharti employees in New Delhi. |
8 | Valmiki award for Deve Gowda | The Karnataka government has chosen former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda for the Maharishi Valmiki award for 2018-2019 for his work towards uplifting SC/ ST communities |
9 | Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony | 2014 – Manipuri dance Sh. Rajkumar Singhajit Singh |
2015 – Chhayanaut (a cultural organization of Bangladesh) | ||
2016 – India’s greatest sculptors, Sh. Ram Vanji Sutar | ||
10 | Top Challengers’ and Best Mining Equipment Seller Award | Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a Mini Ratna Public Sector Undertaking, under the Ministry of Defence. |
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