Awards & Honours Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sat, 25 Jan 2025

• The Ministry of Home Affairs announced Gallantry and Service Medals for 942 personnel of Police, Fire, Home Guard & Civil Defence and Correctional Services on 25 January 2025.
• The President approved the Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards-2024 for 49 persons, including 17 Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padaks, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on 25 January 2025.
• On the 15th National Voters' Day on 25 January 2025, Indian Railways received the Best Electoral Practices Award 2024-25 as best government department and Doordarshan won the ECI media award in the TV category.

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

• The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, was selected on 23 January 2025 for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2025 in the institutional category.

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

• The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances launched the scheme and web portal for the Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Administration 2024 on 20 January 2025, with 16 awards in three categories.

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

• President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sports and Adventure Awards 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17 January 2025, with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna going to Gukesh D., Harmanpreet Singh, Praveen Kumar and Manu Bhaker.

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

• Trinidad and Tobago President Christine Kangaloo was among those conferred the award.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

• The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.
• Chandigarh University won the MAKA Trophy; the selection committee was headed by Justice (Retd.) V. Ramasubramanian.

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

• On 25 November 2024 in The Hague, the Indian Chemical Council received the 2024 OPCW-The Hague Award during the 29th Conference of the States Parties of the OPCW — the first time the award recognised a chemical industry body.

Sat, 23 Nov 2024

• On 23 November 2024, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying announced the National Gopal Ratna Awards 2024 winners, to be given on National Milk Day, 26 November, in New Delhi, and added a special award for North Eastern Region States.
• On 23 November 2024 in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu attended Sahitya Aaj Tak and presented the Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Samman, specially congratulating Gulzar on the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

• On 22 November 2024 at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi, 82 young artists were conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi's Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for 2022 and 2023.

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

• On 20 November 2024 in Georgetown, Guyana, PM Modi received Guyana's 'Order of Excellence' and the 'Dominica Award of Honour', and Barbados announced its 'Honorary Order of Freedom of Barbados' for him.

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

• On 18 November 2024 in London, Coal India Ltd received the Green World Environment Award in the CSR category, with the title of Green World Ambassador, for its Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna.

Sun, 17 Nov 2024

• On 17 November 2024 at the State House in Abuja, Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu conferred the national award 'Grand Commander of the Order of Niger' on PM Modi.

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

• On 24 October 2024, in India, the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation launched the 6th National Water Awards, 2024 on the Rashtriya Puraskar portal, with applications open till 31 December 2024.

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

• On 22 October 2024, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu conferred the 5th National Water Awards, 2023, with Odisha winning first prize in the best State category.

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

• On 11 October 2024, in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

• On 10 October 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang 'for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life'.

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

• On 9 October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction.

Tue, 08 Oct 2024

• On 8 October 2024, in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu presented the 70th National Film Awards and conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022 on Mithun Chakraborty.
• On 8 October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

• On 7 October 2024, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA.