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Thiruvalluvar Day celebrations on January 15.1. Taiwanese poet Yusi was conferred the Thiruvalluvar Award2. Perarignar Anna Award --- Panrutty S Ramachandran3. Thanthai Periyar (EVK Sulochana Sampath),4 Annal Ambedkar (M Prakash),5 Perunthalaivar Kamarajar (Ki Ayyaru Vandayar),6 Mahakavi Bharathiar (Ku Gnanasambanthan),

7 Pavendar Bharathidasan (Radha Chellappan),8 .Thiru Vi Ka (J Asokamithran),9. Muttamizh Kavalar Ki Aa Pe Viswanatham (V Jeyadevan).

prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry --Vijay Seshadri

The footballer, who has won the Golden Shoe award three times in his career - LionelMessi

prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2013 - Vishwanath Tripathi

Malala Yousafzai won 2013 International Childrens Peace Prize

Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri featured for Man Booker Prize 2013

Amjad Ali Khan was chosen for the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award

Sugathakumari, the Malayalam Poetess won Saraswati Samman 2013 for Manalezhuthu

Slaman Rushdie has been named as the winner of 2014 Pen Pinter Prize

somasundaram - BHARATA RATNA JRD TATA award 2013

restigious Aryabhatta Award instituted by the Astronautical Society of India (ASI)- Dr. A.E.Muthunayagam and Dr. V.K. Saraswat

sanjaya rajaram - world food prize

Gulzar Selected For Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013

VV Dongre and Guocheng Zhang Won International Gandhi Award 2013 field of leprosyto eradicate

Peace activist Ela Gandhi, who is a grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, was among the13 non-resident Indians (NRIs), persons of Indian origin (PIOs) and organizationshonoured with the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards.

Mohinder Singh , Radhakrishnan Selected For Communal Harmony Awards

Eminent historian Bipan Chandra on 17 December 2013 was awarded Itihas Ratna from -Asiatic Society Bihar.

The Ariyalur plant of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited in Tamil Nadu has been honouredwith the - National Energy Conservation Award for the year 2012-13 by the Ministry ofPower, Government of India

Ship of Theseus was selected as best feature film and

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag was named as the best popular film in the -61st National FilmAwards 2013

International Mother Earth Day observed on 22 April 2014 with theme - Green Cities

An Indian environmental activist, Ramesh Agrawal won the prestigious - Goldman

Environmental Prize (the Green Nobel) Noted Gandhian environmentalist and social activist- Gandhi Peace Prize for the year

2013 is - Chandi Prasad Bhatt

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 March 2014 extended the date for exchange of the pre-2005 banknotes to - 1 January 2015.

The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh -3rd Summit of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, BIMSTEC held in - Myanmar

US prestigious International Women of Courage Award to - Laxmi (ACID ATTACK)

Sarawasti Samman for year 2013 for a book Dhool Paudho Par - Govind Mishra, second

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Hindi author to receive this award

SC re-constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to monitor the probe into the blackmoney case under MB Shah.

SC upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act and said that theAct will not apply to - unaided minority institutions

Constitutional Bench of Supreme Court quashed law is Kerala Irrigation and Water

Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2006 and said - water level of the dam can beraised to 142 feet

SC banned use of bulls for Jallikattu events or bullock-cart races across thecountry terming that - rights guaranteed to the bulls under the Prevention ofCruelty to Animals (PCA) Act 1960 could not be taken away

Justice BS Chauhan appointed as the Chairman of the Cauvery Water DisputesTribunal as a successor of - Justice NP Singh

Ashwin B. Pandya on 15 May 2014 was appointed as the Chairman of the - CentralWater Commission

A 13-years and 11-month old girl of Andhra Pradesh on 25 May 2014 became theyoungest woman to climb the highest peak of the world, Mount Everest - MalavathPoorna

ONGC has started drilling its first-ever well in - Palar basin at Chinnapuliyur village

near Chennai 14th Attorney-General of India appointed to succeed Gulam Vahanvati is - Mukul

Rohatgi

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi - Nripendra Misra

National Security Adviser of India is - Ajit Doval

Secretary General of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is - ParvinderSohi Behuria

Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission - Former Supreme Court Justice AshokKumar Mathur

olympic -- RUSSIA SOCCI

WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) on 6 February 2014 appointed a person asdirector-general (DG) of the WWF International - Marco Lambertini

Largest tribal religious congregation of the world began at Medaram in Warangal

district of the Telangana region - Sammakkaa Saarakka Fair Volcano of a mountain in the main island of Java of Indonesia erupted on 13

February 2014 after rumbling for several weeks - Mount Kelup of Kediri district

India on 28 February 2014 observed National Science Day to mark the discovery of- the Raman Effect by Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

World Toilet Day is observed on 19 November

Sikkim won the National Tourism Award 2012-13

the person who on 4 December 2013 was re-appointed as the OPCW Director-Generalat the 18th Session of the Conference of State Parties - Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu

Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 cameinto force on - 6 December 2013

the country that was elected as a non-permanent member of United Nation SecurityCouncil (UNSC) - Jordan

Committee to formulate a Policy document on Corporate Governance the Chairmanshipof Adi Godrej.

His Imperial Majesty Akihito, Emperor of Japan and Imperial Majesty Michiko, Empress ofJapan were on a visit to India after 1989

Human Rights Day was observed across the world on 10 December 2013 to bring to lightthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights

with a theme - 20 Years Working for Your Rights

the World Innovation Summit for Health-2013 (WISH-2013) began in Doha, Qatar on 11December 2013 with an aim of - practical, innovative and sustainable health solutions

The Uttar Pradesh Government on 13 December 2013 set-up a high-level committee to

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look into the issue of deaths of children in relief camps set after the - Muzaffarnagar riots

The Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra on 13 December 2013 passed the much -awaited Anti Superstition Bill.

The first lunar rover of China which was carried by an unmanned remotely pilotedspacecraft Chang'e-3 was deployed successfully on moon on 14 December 2013. Thelunar rover that landed on mood was named - Jade Rabbit (called Yutu in Chinese)

The place at which the foundation stone of the state-of-the-art National Data Centre ofUnique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was laid-Manesar, Gurgaon in Haryana

The Female sports personalities and the Olympic Bronze Medalists who on 22 Jan. 2013nominated by Election Commission of India as National Icons- Mary Kom and SainaNehwal

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2013 Mr. Ronjan Sodhi ------Shooting

American writer Lydia Davis has won the 5th Man Booker International Prize. 2013

Srimanta Shankardeva Award to Smt. Sharmila Tagore ASSAM 2013

Pran Krishan Sikand --Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2012.