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Awards & Honours 2020
Awards and Honours: General Knowledge is a very important section for any competitive exams. A well aware candidate always has high chances of getting a passing score in competitive exams and interviews, group discussions. One of the part of genera awareness is knowledge of Honours and Awards.
In this article, we will discuss month wise honours awarded to people across globe.
FEBRUARY 2020
| AWARD | WINNER | |
| Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 | Jadav Payeng | |
| SERB Women Excellence Award 2020 | Dr Niti Kumar | |
| Sahitya Akademi Award For Translation | K.V. Jeyasari | |
| Padma Awardees | PV Sindhu, C. Venkat Reddy, V. Sribhashyam | |
| National E-Governance Award | Rail Madad | |
| National Award for Implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana | South Salmara Mankachar of Assam | |
| Mystic Kalinga Literary Award 2020 | Manoj Das | |
| Miss Diva Universe 2020 | Adline Castelino | |
| Lifetime Achievement Award by International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) | Pullela Gopichaanda | |
| Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award | Lewis Hamilton and Footballer Lionel Messi | |
| Laureus Best Sporting Moment in The Past 20 Years | Sachin Tendulkar’s 2011 World Cup Winning Moment | |
| Indian Banks Association Award | Union Bank | |
| French honour for Theatre Artiste | Sanjana Kapoor | |
| Dan David Prize 2020 | Gita Sen | |
| Bhartiya Mahantam Award | N Sridhar | |
| Best Actor & Actress Trophies In 65th Filmfare Awards | Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt | |
| Best Actor & Actress Trophies In 2020 Oscars | Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger | |
| 7 Awards in the 73rd Edition of Baftas | 1917 | |
| 34th Cannes Open | D Gukesh | |
| 2019 FIH Women’s Rising Star of the Year | Lalremsiami | |
| 1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award | Vinod Kumar Shukla | |
| ‘Central Banker of the Year 2020’ for the Asia-Pacific region | Shaktikanta Das | |
| Naari Shakti Puraskar 2020
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For creating new dishes and brought about innovative changes in the existing ones to include the exclusive spices and fruits from Ladakh in her preparations. | Nilza Wangmo |
| To replenish the forests in Jharkhand that had been destroyed by the timber mafia | Chami Murmu | |
| Revival of the lost art of Numdha handicrafts | Arifa Jaan | |
| For Popularising Mushroom Cultivation | Padala Bhudevi and Bina Devi | |
| IAF’s First Women Fighter Pilot | Mohana Singh, Bhawana Kanth, Avani Chaturvedi | |
| Centenarian Sprinter | Man Kaur | |
| Literacy Exam Toppers | Karthyayini Amma ,Bhageerathi Amma | |
| For Keeping Indian Classical Music Alive | Kaushiki Chakroborty | |
| The First Female Twins to Scale Mt Everest In 2013. | Tashi and Nungshi Malik | |
| For reducing open defecation in the district of Kanpur | Kalavati Devi | |
| For creating a new Automotive Electronics Department at ARAI. | Rashmi Urdhwareshe | |
JANUARY 2020
| AWARDS | WINNER | STATE/COUNTRY | |
| Padma Vibhushan Award | Public Affairs | Shri George Fernandes | Bihar |
| Public Affairs | Shri Arun Jaitley | Delhi | |
| Public Affairs | Sir Anerood Jugnauth GCSK | Mauritius | |
| Public Affairs | Smt. Sushma Swaraj | Delhi | |
| Sports | Smt. M. C. Mary Kom | Manipur | |
| Arts | Shri Chhannulal Mishra | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Other-Spiritualism | Sri Vishvesha Theertha Swamiji, Sri Pejavara Adhokhaja Matha Udupi (Posthumous) | Karnataka | |
| Padma Bhushan Award | Public Affairs | Shri Syed Muazzem Ali (Posthumous) | Bangladesh |
| Public Affairs | Shri Muzaffar Hussain Baig | Jammu & Kashmir | |
| Public Affairs | Shri S. C. Jamir | Nagaland | |
| Public Affairs | Shri Neelakanta Ramakrishna | Kerala | |
| Public Affairs | Shri Manohar Gopal Krishna | Goa | |
| Art | Shri Ajoy Chakrabarty | West Bengal | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Manoj Das | Puducherry | |
| Literature & Education | Prof. Jagdish Sheth | USA | |
| Social Work | Ms. Krishnammal Jagannathan | Tamil Nadu | |
| Social Work | Shri Anil Prakash Joshi | Uttarakhand | |
| Medicine | Dr. Tsering Landol | Ladakh | |
| Trade & Industry | Shri Anand Mahindra | Maharashtra | |
| Trade & Industry | Shri Venu Srinivasan | Tamil Nadu | |
| Sports | Ms. P. V. Sindhu | Telangana | |
| Others- Architecture | Shri Balkrishna Doshi | Gujarat | |
| Others-Spiritualism | Shri M. Mumtaz Ali (Sri M) | Kerala | |
| Padma Shri Award | Public Affairs | Shri Bob Blackman | United Kingdom |
| Public Affairs | Shri Barry Gardiner | United Kingdom | |
| Sports | Zaheer khan Bakhtiyar khan | Maharashtra | |
| Sports | Ms. Oinam Bembem Devi | Manipur | |
| Sports | Shri M. P. Ganesh | Karnataka | |
| Sports | Shri Jitu Rai | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Sports | Shri Tarundeep Rai | Sikkim | |
| Art | Guru Shashadhar Acharya | Jharkhand | |
| Art | Ms. Indira P. P. Bora | Assam | |
| Art | Shri Madan Singh Chauhan | Chhattisgarh | |
| Art | Ms.Lalitha & Ms. Saroja Chidambaram | Tamil Nadu | |
| Art | Dr. Vajira Chitrasena | Sri Lanka | |
| Art | Dr. Purushottam Dadheech | Madhya Pradesh | |
| Art | Shri Utsav Charan Das | Odisha | |
| Art | Shri Manohar Devadoss | Tamil Nadu | |
| Art | Shri Yadla Gopalarao | Andhra Pradesh | |
| Art | Shri Mitrabhanu Gountia | Odisha | |
| Art | Shri Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh | Jharkhand | |
| Art | Ms. Shanti Jain | Bihar | |
| Art | Shri Karan Johar | Maharashtra | |
| Art | Ms. Sarita Joshi | Maharashtra | |
| Art | Ms. Ekta Kapoor | Maharashtra | |
| Art | Shri Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia | Gujarat | |
| Art | Shri V.K.Munusamy Krishnapakthar | Puducherry | |
| Art | Shri Manmohan Mahapatra (Posthumous) | Odisha | |
| Art | Shri Munna Master | Rajasthan | |
| Art | Shri Manilal Nag | West Bengal | |
| Art | Ms. Moozhikkal Pankajakshi | Kerala | |
| Art | Shri Dalavai Chalapathi Rao | Andhra Pradesh | |
| Art | Shri Adnan Sami | Adnam Sami | |
| Art | Shri Shyam Sunder Sharma | Bihar | |
| Art | Shri Daya Prakash Sinha | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Art | Smt. Kalee Shabi Mahaboob & Shri Sheik Mahaboob Subani | Tamil Nadu | |
| Art | Shri Suresh Wadkar | Maharashta | |
| Medicine | Dr. Yogi Aeron | Uttarakhand | |
| Medicine | Dr. Padmavathy Bandopadhyay | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Medicine | Dr. Sushovan Banerjee | West Bengal | |
| Medicine | Dr. Digambar Behera | Chandigarh | |
| Medicine | Dr. Bangalore Gangadhar | Karnataka | |
| Medicine | Dr. Leela Joshi | Madhya Pradesh | |
| Medicine | Dr. Ravi Kannan R. | Assam | |
| Medicine | Dr. Narindar Nath Khanna | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Medicine | Dr. Arunoday Mondal | West Bengal | |
| Medicine | Smt. (Dr.) Shanti Roy | Bihar | |
| Medicine | Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma | Assam | |
| Medicine | Dr. Gurdip Singh | Gujarat | |
| Medicine | Dr. Sandra Desa Souza | Maharashtra | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal | Delhi | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Sanjeev Bikhchandani | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Gafurbhai M. Bilakhia | Gujarat | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Chewang Motup Goba | Ladakh | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Bharat Goenka | Karnataka | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Nemnath Jain | Madhya Pradesh | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Vijay Sankeshwar | Karnataka | |
| Trade and Industry | Dr. Romesh Wadhwani Tekchand | USA | |
| Trade and Industry | Shri Prem Watsa | Canada | |
| Social Work | Shri Jagdish Lal Ahuja | Punjab | |
| Social Work | Shri Pawar Popatrao Bhaguji | Maharashtra | |
| Social Work | Shri Himmata Ram Bhambhu | Rajasthan | |
| Social Work | Ms. Usha Chaumar | Rajasthan | |
| Social Work | Ms. Lia Diskin | Brazil | |
| Social Work | Ms. Tulasi Gowda | Karnataka | |
| Social Work | Shri. Harekala Hajabba | Karnataka | |
| Social Work | Shri Abdul Jabbar (Posthumous) | Madhya Pradesh | |
| Social Work | Shri Bimal Kumar Jain | Bihar | |
| Social Work | Shri M. K. Kunjol | Kerala | |
| Social Work | Shri Sathyanarayan Mundayoor | Arunachal Pradesh | |
| Social Work | Dr. Tetsu Nakamura (Posthumous) | Afghanistan | |
| Social Work | Shri S. Ramakrishnan | Tamil Nadu | |
| Social Work | Shri Kalyan Singh Rawat | Uttarakhand | |
| Social Work | Shri Sayed Mehboob Shah Qadri alias Sayedbhai | Maharashtra | |
| Social Work | Shri Mohammed Sharif | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Social Work | Shri Ramjee Singh | Bihar | |
| Social Work | Shri Javed Ahmad Tak | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| Social Work | Shri Agus Indra Udayana | Indonesia | |
| Social Work | Shri Sundaram Verma | Rajasthan | |
| Literature & Education | Kazi Masum Akhtar | West Bengal | |
| Literature & Education | Ms. Gloria Arieira | Brazil | |
| Literature & Education | Dr. Damayanti Beshra | Odisha | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Lil Bahadur Chettri | Assam | |
| Literature & Education | Prof. Indra Dassanayake (Posthumous) | Sri Lanka | |
| Literature & Education | Shri H. M. Desai | Gujarat | |
| Literature & Education | Ms. Meenakshi Jain | Delhi | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Benichandra Jamatia | Tripura | |
| Literature & Education | Shri C. Kamlova | Mizoram | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Narayan J. Joshi Karayal | Gujarat | |
| Literature & Education | Shri S. P. Kothari | USA | |
| Literature & Education | Prof. Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra | Himachal Pradesh | |
| Literature & Education | Ms. Binapani Mohanty | Odisha | |
| Literature & Education | Dr. Prithwindra Mukherjee | France | |
| Literature & Education | Shri N. Chandrasekharan Nair | Kerala | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Shiv Datt Nirmohi | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| Literature & Education | Dr. Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik | USA | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Jogendra Nath Phukan | Assam | |
| Literature & Education | Shri Yogesh Praveen | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Science & Engineering | Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar | Maharashtra | |
| Science & Engineering | Shri Sujoy K. Guha | Bihar | |
| Science & Engineering | Shri Sudhir Jain | Gujarat | |
| Science & Engineering | Shri Vashishtha Narayan Singh | Bihar | |
| Science & Engineering | Shri Pradeep Thalappil | Tamil Nadu | |
| Science & Engineering | Shri Harish Chandra Verma | Uttar Pradesh | |
| Other-Archaeology | Shri Enamul Haque | Bangladesh | |
| Other-Agriculture | Shri Radhammohan & Ms.Sabarmatee | Odisha | |
| Others-Animal Husbandry | Shri Batakrushna Sahoo | Odisha | |
