CURRENT AFFAIRS JANUARY 2022 TO OCTOBER 2022 part 2

 

CURRENT AFFAIRS JANUARY 2022 TO OCTOBER 2022 PART 2

~:National Awards:~

1. Indian Building Congress (IBC) ‘Best Infrastructure Project’ Award ⇒⇒ Atal Tunnel constructed in Rohtang of Himachal Pradesh 

2. Mother Teresa Memorial Award ⇒⇒ Dia Mirza & Environmental Activist Afroz Shah

3. VASVIK Industrial Research Award 2020 ⇒⇒ A Gopalakrishnan

4. Immunisation Champion Award - Radio Jockey Umar Nisar (RJ Umar)

5. Shiromani Award ⇒⇒ Michelle Poonawalla

 6. International Gandhi Award for Leprosy 2021⇒⇒ Bhushan Kumar & Sahyog Kushtha Yagna Trust 

7. The "dPal rNgam Dusdon'' Award ⇒⇒Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama "Tenzin Gyatso" 

8. 31st GD Birla Award for Scientific Research ⇒⇒ Narayan Pradhan  

9. President's Colours ⇒⇒ Tamil Nadu Police & INS Valsura . 

10. World Women's Entrepreneur Award ⇒⇒ Sangeeta Abhayan Kerala Entrepreneur 

11. TX2 Award 2022 ⇒⇒ Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve & Nepal’s Bardiya National Park 

12. International Travel Award 2023 for "Best Destination for Culture" ⇒⇒ West Bengal 

13. Indian Army chief General Manoj Pande Conferred the Title of Honorary General of the Nepali Army. 

14. 1st prize for the Amazon Smbhav Entrepreneurship Challenge 2022 ⇒⇒  Subhash Ola 

15. International Tourism Award 2023 "Best destination for culture" ⇒⇒ West Bengal 

16. Start-up of the Year Award at Amazon Smbhav ⇒⇒ Genius Energy Critical Innovation Pvt Ltd 

17. Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute Award 2021 ⇒⇒ The National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) 

18. Airwards‘s Best Drone Organization Award ⇒⇒ IG Drones

19. Most Preferred Workplaces of 2022 ⇒⇒ NTPC Ltd.

20. India’s First Company to get BIS certification for made cells ⇒⇒ GODI India Pvt Ltd. 

21. National Energy Leader Award 2021⇒⇒ Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) 

22. 9th FICCI Water Award "Special Jury Award for Ganga rejuvenation" ⇒⇒ National Mission for Clean Ganga 

23. Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians for 2021 ⇒⇒ Neena Gupta

24. ICMR national Award “Dr Subhas Mukherjee Award”  ⇒⇒ Dr Satish Adiga

25. Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar ⇒⇒ Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management 

26. Assam Baibhav - Industrialist Ratan Tata 

27. Devendra Lal Memorial Medal 2022 ⇒⇒ IITM scientist Roxy Koll

28. National Intellectual Property award for 2021 & 2022 ⇒⇒ IIT Madras

29. Karnataka Ratna Award ⇒⇒ Puneeth Rajkumar (posthumously)

~:Awards for Literature:~

 1. International Booker Prize ⇒⇒ Geetanjali Shree for "Tomb of Sand"

 2. Saraswati Samman 2021 ⇒⇒ Ramdarash Mishra For "Main to Yahan Hun"

 3. 31st Vyas Samman ⇒⇒ Dr Asghar Wajahat For Play "Mahabali" 

 4. Honorary Doctor of Literature ⇒⇒ Ratan Tata

 5. Women’s Prize for Fiction . ⇒⇒ Ruth Ozeki for “The Book of Form and Emptiness”.

 6. Special Bangla Academy Award ⇒⇒ Mamata Banerjee for her Book “Kabita Bitan” 

 7. Lok Nayak Foundation Sahitya Puraskar ⇒⇒ Tanikella Bharani

 8. Sahitya Akademi announced the Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2022 of the Akademi to writers of 22 languages and Yuva Sahitya Puraskar 2022 to writers of 23 languages. 

 9. 32nd Bihari Puraskar ⇒⇒ Dr Madhav Hada for his 2015 literary criticism Book "Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri" 

10. Booker Prize 2022  ⇒⇒ Sri Lankan Author Shehan Karunatilaka for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”. 

11. German PEN Award ⇒⇒ Indian Author & Poet Meena Kandasamy

~:Awards For Journalism:~ 

1. ENBA Award 2021 ⇒⇒ DD National Pet Show "Best Friend Forever" 

2. Pulitzer Prize 2022 

 Feature Photography ⇒⇒ Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters for images of Covid’s toll in India.

 Illustrated Reporting and Commentary - Fahmida Azim (Bangladesh)

3. Ramnath Goenka Award ⇒⇒ Zishaan A Latif

~:International Awards:~ 

1. Whitley Gold Award ⇒⇒ Charudutt Mishra for work on the conservation of  species (Snow                Leopard).

2. World Food Prize 2022 ⇒⇒ NASA’s Climate Research Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig. 

3. Templeton Prize 2022 ⇒⇒ Frank Wilczek (Physicist)

4. France’s Highest Civilian Award Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur ⇒⇒ Shashi Tharoor 

5. France's Top Civilian Honour "Knight of the Legion of Honour"⇒⇒ Prominent Indian scientist &  Vice Chairperson of Piramal Group Swati Piramal 

6. Liberty Medal 2022 ⇒⇒ Ukraini President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

7. Boltzmann Medal 2022 ⇒⇒ Deepak Dhar & John J Hopfield

8. Abel Prize 2022 ⇒⇒ Dennis P. Sullivan (American Mathematician) 

9. Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star' Award ⇒⇒ Narayanan Kumar  Vice Chairman of  Sanmar Group    

10. Global Energy Prize 2022 ⇒⇒ Indian-Origin Professor Kaushik Rajashekara  

11. Singapore Meritorious Service Medal ⇒⇒ Admiral Sunil Lamba (Former Navy Chief of India) 

12. Honorary Commander of the Order of The British Empire ⇒⇒ Ajay Piramal

13. The Fields Medal 2022 ⇒⇒ Ukrainian Maths Professor Maryna Viazovska

14. Pritzker Prize 2022 - Francis Kere (African)

15. IUCN WCPA International Ranger Award 2022 ⇒⇒ Orang National Park & Tiger Reserve 

16. Times Business Award ⇒⇒ Entrepreneur Rashmi Sahoo

17. Sitara-e-Pakistan Award ⇒⇒ Former West Indies skipper Darren Sammy

18. Hilal-e-Pakistan Honour ⇒⇒ Bill Gates

19. Ayurveda Ratna Award 2022  ⇒⇒ Tanuja Nesari

20. Scripps National Spelling Bee ⇒⇒ Harini Logan (Indo-American)

21. Royal Architecture Gold Medal 2022 ⇒⇒ Indian Architect Balakrishna Doshi

22. SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2022 ⇒⇒ Assistant Professor of the University of California Yunqing Tang 

23. Breakthrough Prize 2023 in Mathematics ⇒⇒ Daniel Spielman

24. Vivek Lall honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award by US 

25. Sir Syed Excellence Award 2022 ⇒⇒ Barbara Metcalf

~:Film Awards:~ 

1. 68th National Film Awards 2022 

 Best Actor ⇒⇒ Suriya (Soorarai Pottru) & Ajay Devgan (Tanhaji) 

 Best Actress ⇒⇒ Aparna Balamurali (Soorarai Pottru )

 Best Feature Film ⇒⇒ Soorarai Pottru

 Best Hindi Film ⇒⇒ Toolsidas Junior

 Best Children's Film ⇒⇒ Sumi

 Best Film on Social Issues ⇒⇒ Funeral  

 👉Flim Friendly State ⇒ MP

2. Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2022 

 Film of the Year ⇒⇒ Pushpa

 Best Actor ⇒⇒ Ranveer Singh for ''83''

 Best Actress ⇒⇒ Kriti Sanon for "Mimi"

3. 94th Oscar Awards 2022 

 Best Picture ⇒⇒ CODA 

 Best Actor ⇒⇒ Will Smith (King Richard) 

 Best Actress ⇒⇒ Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) 

 Best Director ⇒⇒Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog )

4. IIFA Awards 2022

  Best Film ⇒⇒ Shershaah 

  Best Actor ⇒⇒ Vicky Kaushal (Sardar Udham Singh)

  Best Actress ⇒⇒ Kriti Sanon (Mimi) 

  Best Director ⇒⇒ Vishnuvaradhan (Shershaah)

5. 67th FILMFARE Awards

  Best Film ⇒⇒ Shershaah 

  Best Actor ⇒⇒ Ranveer Singh (83)

  Best Actress ⇒⇒ Kriti Sanon (Mimi) 

  Best Director ⇒⇒ Vishnuvardhan ( Shershaah )

  Lifetime Achievement Award ⇒⇒ Subhash Ghai

6. Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) Awards 2022 

 Best Film ⇒⇒ 83

 Best Actor ⇒⇒ Ranveer Singh (83)

 Best Actress ⇒⇒ Shefali Shah (Jalsa) 

7. 64th GRAMMY AWARDS 2022

  Album Of The Year ⇒⇒ "We Are" by Jon Batiste

  Record Of The Year ⇒⇒ "Leave the door open" by Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak

  Song Of The Year ⇒⇒ “Leave the Door Open”

  Best Children's Album Category ⇒⇒ Falguni Shah 

8. 75th BAFTA Awards 2022 (London) 

 Best Film ⇒⇒ The Power Of The Dog 

 Best Actor ⇒⇒ Will Smith (King Richard) 

 Best Actress ⇒⇒ Joanna Scanlan (After Love)

9. Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award ⇒⇒ Sanjit Narwekar

10. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2020 ⇒⇒ Asha Parekh

11. Taapsee Pannu wraps Mithali Raj ⇒⇒"Shabaash Mithu"

12. National Lata Mangeshkar Award ⇒⇒ Shailendra Singh (2019) AnandMilind (2020) & Kumar Sanu (2021) 

13. Emmy Award for narration in the Netflix documentary “Our Great National Parks" ⇒⇒ The former President of the US Barack Obam 

14. 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022 ⇒⇒ Harshaali Malhotra

15. Gujarati Film "Chhello Show" becomes India’s official entry for Oscars 2023.

16. Alia Bhatt receives the Prestigious “Priyadarshni Academy’s Smita Patil Memorial Award”.

17. Best International Film at Saturn Awards 2022 ⇒⇒ RRR