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Important Awards and Honors in 2013:

• Allard Prize 2013 for International Integrity – Anna Hazzare • Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013 –

Raghuram Rajan (Governor of RBI) • Miss World 2013 – Megan Young (Miss Philippines) • Inaugural award by America Abroad Media (AAM) – Amir

Khan for Satyamev Jayate • International Children’s Peace Prize 2013 – Malala Yousafzai • Gujar Mal Modi Award 2013 – Vinod Prakash Sharma • Saraswati Samman 2012 - Sugathakumari for Manalezhuthu

(the Writings on the Sand), a collection of poems in Malayalam

• Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013 - Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission

• German “Whistleblower Prize” for year 2013 – Edward Snowden

• Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013 – Zubin Mehta • Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 2013 – Amzad Ali

Khan • First National Award For Senior Citizens 2013 -

Vayoshreshtha Samman • Humanitarian Achievement Award 2013 – Nelson Mandela • Lifetime Achievement Award at UK's House of Commons -

Jawaharlal Darda (freedom fighter) • Indira Gandhi Official Language Award – NTPC • Pride of the Nation Award – John Abraham • Sher-e-Kashmir – Navjot Singh


• Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (the Liberian President)

• IIFA Awards 2013: o Best Actor: Ranvir Kapoor for Barfi o Best Actress: Vidya Balan for Kahaani o Best Film: Barfi

• Knighthood honour by England Queen – Anish Kapoor • Man Booker Prize 2013 – Lydia Davis (American) • Vyas Samman 2012 (given in 2013) – Narendra Kohli • Britain’s Lifetime achievement award – Hinduja Group • INDEX Design award – Kavita Shukla • Gershwin Prize for music 2013– Carole King • Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran (By MP Govt) –

Hariharan • National Florence Nightingale Award 2013 - 35 Nursing

professionals • Asom Ratna Award – Indira Goswami • Whitley Award (Green Oscar) – Aparajita Datta (wildlife

biologist) • ISRO Young scientist award - Jenita Mary Nongkynrih • Padam Awards by President of India:

o Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra, Art, Orissa S Haider Raza, Art, Delhi Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering, Karnataka

o Padma Bhushan Dr Ramanaidu Daggubati, Art, Andhra Pradesh


Sreeramamurthy Janaki, Art, Tamil Nadu Dr (Smt) Kanak Rele, Art, Maharashtra Sharmila Tagore, Art, Delhi Dr (Smt) Saroja Vaidyanathan, Art, Delhi Abdul Rashid Khan, Art, West Bengal Late Rajesh Khanna, Art, Maharashtra Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Art, Punjab Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, Public Affairs, Maharashtra Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai, Science, Engineering Delhi Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Science and Engineering, Delhi Dr Ashoke Sen Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh B N Suresh, Science and Engineering, Karnataka Prof Satya N Atluri, Science and Engineering, USA Prof Jogesh Chandra Pati, Science and Engineering, USA Ramamurthy Thyagarajan, Trade and Industry, Tamil Nadu Adi Burjor Godrej, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra Dr Nandkishore Shamrao Laud, Medicine, Maharashtra Mangesh Padgaonkar, Literature and Education, Maharashtra Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Literature & Education USA Hemendra Singh Panwar, Civil Service, Madhya Pradesh Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Civil Service, Delhi Rahul Dravid, Sports, Karnataka H Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, Sports, Manipur


• John Bates Clark medal (Baby Nobel) – Raj Chetty • Dadasaheb Falke Award – Pran (Actor) • Nobel Medicine Prize 2013:

o James Rothman o Randy Schekman o Thomas C. Suedhof

• Indian Entry for Oscar Awards – The Good Road (film) • Bengal govt Lifetime Achievement Award- Saurav Ganguly • PATWA award for Best Destination for Cultural Festivals –

Gujarat • Most Efficient Maharatna Award – NTPC • British Physics Journalism Award – Anil Ananthaswamy • Miss India 2013 – Navneet Kaur Dhillon • National Bioscience Award – Venkata Mohan • National Tourism Award – Fatehpur Sikari • Moortidevi Award – Haraprasad Das (Vamsha)

Various Sports Awards 2013:

• Sports Awards 2013: o Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna – Ronjan Sodhi

• Arjun Awards: o Chekrovolu Swuro (Archery) o P V Sindhu (Badminton) o Kavita Chahal (Boxing) o Rupesh Shah (Billiards & Snooker) o Virat Kohli (Cricket) o Abhijeet Gupta (Chess) o Gagan Jeet Bhullar (Golf) o Saba Anjum (Hockey) o Rajkumari Rathore (Shooting)


o Joshna Chinnappa (Squash) o Mouma Das (Table Tennis) o Neha Rathi (Wrestling) o Dharmender Dalal (Wrestling) o Amit Kumar Saroha (Para Athletics)

• Dronacharya Awards: o Poornima Mahato (Archery) o Mahavir Singh (Boxing) o Narinder Singh Saini (Hockey) o K P Thomas (Athletics) o Raj Singh (Wrestling)

• Dhyan Chand Awards: o Mary D'souza Sequeira (Athletics) o Syed Ali (Hockey) o Anil Mann (Wrestling) o Girraj Singh (Para Sports)

• National Film Awards 2013: o Best Film: Paan Singh Tomar o Best Actor: Irfan Khan & Vikram Gokhle o Best Actress: Usha Jadhav o Best Director: Shivaji Lotan Patil

• Man Asian Literary Prize – Tan Twan Eng (Malasiya)(for The Garden of Evening Mists)

• Outstanding Parliamentarian Award - BJP leader Arun Jaitley, Congress MP Karan Singh and JD(U) MP Sharad Yadav

• Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant – Tata Steel • Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal – Harshwanti

Bisht


• Ashok Chakra (highest peace time gallantry award in India) – Prasad Babu (Inspector in AP Police)

• Major Port of the year award – Paradip Port • Bihari Puruskar – Hariram Meena • Internation Women Courage award – Delhi Braveheart • Ernst & Young life time achievement award – Ratan Tata • Lifetime achievement Grammy award – Pandit Ravishankar

Important Organisations & Their Heads:

• UN Secratory General – Ban Ki Moon (S. Korea) • IMF Chief– Christine Lagarde • World Bank President – Jim Yong Kim • Asian Development Bank Chairmen - Takehiko Nakao • WHO Chairman– Margret Chan • WTO Chairmen – Roberto Azevedo • International Olympic Committee Chairman – Thomas Bach • RBI:

o Governer – Raghuram Rajan o Deputy Governers - K C Chakrabarty,Anand Sinha , H

R Khan and Urjit Patel • State Bank of India Chairperson – Arundhati Bhattacharya • EXIM Bank Chairmen - T.C.A Ranganathan • NABARD Chairmen – Snehlata Shrivastava • National Housing Bank Chairmen – R V Verma • SIDBI Chairmen – Sushil Muhnot • IRDA Chairmen – T S Vijayan (former LIC Chief) • IDBI Chairmen – M S Raghavan • SEBI Chairmen – U K Sinha • CBI Chairmen – Ranjit Sinha


• UPSC Chairmen – D P Agarwal • NASSCOM Chairmen - Krishnakumar Natarajan • IBA & IIBF Chairmen – K R Kamath • IPL Chairmen – Ranjib Biswal • Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) – Sundeep

Sikka • National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) CEO – Saji Cherian • CRPF director general – Dilip Trivedi • TRAI Chairmen – Rahul Khullar • BCCI President – N Shrinvasan • Union Bank of India CEO – Rakesh Sethi • Central Bank of India CEO – Rajeev Rishi • DRDO Chairmen – Avinash Chander • CAG India – Shashikant Sharma • Chief Justice of India – P Sathashivam • Chief Election Commissioner of India – V S Sampath • Indian Cricket Team coach – Duncan Fletcher • Indian Hockey Team Coach – M K Kaushik • Indian Football Team Coach – Wim Kovermans

Deaths, Key People & Persons in News 2013:

• Ranjan Mathai - Indian High Commissioner in UK • Ruchira Kamboj - India’s permanent representative in

UNESCO • Sri Srinivasan - Judge in US Court • Justice Vangala Eswaraiah - National Commission for

Backward Classes (NCBC) chairmen • Baba Jumdev – Postal Stamp released by Hamid Ansari • Ravinder Kumar – Indian Newspaper Society chairmen


• Rahul Dravid – Ambassador of National Tobacco Control Campaign

• Angela Merkel – won 3rd time as Germany Chancellor • Deepak Sandhu - First woman Chief Information

Commissioner in India • Ratan Thiyam – Chairmen of National School of Drama • Vinay Mittal – appointed member in UPSC • Bhim Sain Bassi – appointed Delhi Police commissioner • Mamnoon Hussain – appointed as Pakistan President • K K Paul – New governor of Meghalaya • Srinivas Patil – New governor of Sikkim • Anil Goswami – New Union Home Secretary • John W. Ashe – New president of United Nations General

Assembly • Virat Kohli – Brand Ambassador of Border Security Force

(BSF) • Ranjit Singh – Freedom fighter, passed away • Bo Xilai – China’s communist party leader, got life

imprisonment • Prem Watsa – Indian origin Canadian businessman, offered

deal to purchase Blackberry company • Ayaz Sadiq – Speaker of National Assembly Pakistan • Rami Hamdallah – President of Palestine • Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola – Miss Muslimmah World 2013 • Nina Davuluri – First Indian- American who become Miss

America • Puneet Talwar – Assistant Secretary in Obama Govt • Nirbhay Sharma – New governor of Arunachal Pradesh • Siddharamaiya – New Chief Minister of Karnataka


• Gareth Bale – footballer signed 100 Million Euros contract with Real Madrid (Biggest sports agreement so far)

• Abdul Hamid – Bangladesh President (replaced Zilur Rehman)

• Sunil Bharati Mittal – appointed Vice-president of International Chamber of Commerce

• Nicolas Maduro – New President of Venezuela • Aruna Bahuguna – First women director general of CRPF • Seamus Heaney - Irish poet and winner of Nobel Prize,

passed away • Parathsarthi Shome – appointed chairmen of Tax

Administration Reform Commission (TARC) • Brigalia Bam - former head of South Africa’s election body,

received Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation

• Robert Mugabe – President of Zimbabwe • Bradley Manning – U. S. Soldier, convicted of the biggest

disclosure of classified data by leaking files to WikiLeaks and was sentenced to 130 years in prison.

• Narendra Achyut Dabholkar - Indian rationalist and author from Maharashtra, shot dead in Pune.

• Uhuru Kenyatta – President of Kenya • Rajan Bharati Mittal - President of International Chamber of

Commerce (ICC) India • Rajeev Sahare – Indian Ambassador in Maldives • Ibrahim Kieta – Elected President of Mali • Sakar Khan – Rajasthani Folk Musician, passed away • Lalit Kumar Chaturvedi – appointed chairmen of Lalit Kala

Akademi


• Ganeshan Chauhan – won Nehru Boat race trophy 2013 • Zafar Futehally – Notable Naturist, passed away • Hassan Rohunni – New President of Iran • Anil Kumble – Chairmen of ICC • K D Singh – Indian Hockey Federation Chairmen • Kumar Mangalam Birla – Stepped down from RBI Board • Christopher Froome – won 100th Tour-de-france cup • George Alexander Louis – New Baby Prince born in England • Price Phillipe – Belgium’s 7th King (after father King Albert) • Raul Castro – Re-elected President of Cuba • Park Geun Hye – First women President of S. Korea • Manik Sarkar – Tripura CM for 5th time • Martina Hingis – Included in Tennis Hall of Fame • Parveez Rasool – First cricketer from J&K in Team India • David Backhem – Retired from Football • Harmanpreet Kaur – New India Womens Cricket Team

Captain • Shane Warne – Included in ICC Hall Of Fame

Important Books and their authors:

• Haunted by fire- Mathily Shivaraman • Gandhi Before India – Ramchandra Guha • India and Malaysia – Veena Sikri • Ahmev Radha Ahmev Krishan - Gulab Kothari • The Guide – R K Narayanan • Life of PI – Yann Markel • A bend in river – V S Naipal • How not to make money – Raj Kundra


• My Journey: transforming dreams into actions – APJ Abdul Kalam

• Moonballer – Nirupama Vidyanathan • A Garland Memories – Ruskin Bond • Superstar India – Shobha De • The Kalaam Effect – P M Nayar • Sonia, A biography – Rashid Kidvi • A Passage to England – Nrad C Choudhary • Waiting for Mahatma – R K Narayanan • Cricket My Style – Kapil Dev • Sunny Days – Sunil Gavaskar • Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography- I K Gujral • The Test of My life – Yuvraj singh (cricketer) • Narcopolis – Jeet Thayil • Non-stop India – Mark Tully • Joseph Anton – Salman Rushdie • When Loss is Gain – Pawan Verma

Sports Cup & Titles Winner:

Tennis:

US Open 2013: • Men’s Singles: Rafael Nadal (Spain) • Women’s Singles: Serena Williams (America) • Men’s doubles: Leander Paes (India),

Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) • Women’s doubles: Andrea Hlavackova (Czech Republic),

LucieHradecka (Czech Republic) • Mixed doubles: Max Mirnyi (Belarus),

Andrea Hlavackova (Czech Republic)


French Open 2013:

• Men’s Singles: Rafael Nadal (Spain) • Women’s Singles: Serena Williams (America) • Men’s doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (America) • Women’s doubles: Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina

(Russia)

Australian Open 2013:

• Men’s Singles: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) • Women’s Singles: Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) • Men’s doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (America) • Women’s doubles: Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci (Italy)

Wimbledon 2013:

• Men’s Singles: Andy Murray (UK) (1st Briton after 77 yrs) • Women’s Singles: Marion Bartoli (France) • Men’s doubles: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (America) • Women’s doubles: Hseih Su-wei (Taipei) & Peng Shuai

(China)

Others:

• Davis Cup (Tennis): Finalists (Serbia & Czech Republic) • Hopman Cup (Tennis): Spain • ATP Dubai Open: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) • Brazil Open: Rafael Nadal (Spain) • Men’s Rogers Cup: Rafael Nadal (Spain) • Women’s Rogers Cup: Serena Williams (America)

Cricket:


• ICC Champions Trophy 2013: India (winner) • West indies Triangular series: India (winner) • India – Zimbabwe series: India (winner) • IPL 2013: Mumbai Indians (winner) • Champions League T20: Mumbai Indians (winner) • Women’s Cricket World Cup 2013: Australia (winner) • Border – Gavaskar Trophy: India (winner) • Ranji Trophy – Mumbai (winner) • Irani Trophy – Rest of India (winner) • Duleep Trophy – East Zone (winner) • Vijay Hazare Trophy – Delhi (winner) • Santosh Trophy - Service (winner) • Chris Gayle scored fastest century in IPL in 30 balls

Others Sports events and their winner:

• Archery World Cup 2013: US (top), India (4th) • 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup of Football: Brazil (winner) • 2013 International Champions Cup (football): Real Madrid

(win) • Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament: Australia (winner) • Australian Grand Prix: Kimi Raikkonen • Hockey India League 2013: Ranchi Rhinos (winner) • Indian Badminton League 2013: Hyderabad Hotshots

(winner) • SAFF U Football Cup: India (winner) Nepal (Runner-up) • Politiken Cup of Chess: Parimarjan Negi • IAAF World Athletics Championships:

o 100m & 200m race men: Usain Bolt o 100m & 200m race women: Shelly Ann Fraser


o Top nation in medals: Russia (7 Golds) • Junior Women Hockey Cup: Netherlands (Gold) India

(Bronze) • Italian Grand Prix 2013: Sebastian Vettel (Germany) • 2013 FILA World Wrestling Championship: India (6th place) • Sultan of Johor Cup Hockey Tournament: India (winner)

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