Awards and Honours

Arjuna Award and Ashoka Chakra Winners 2015-2016 1 min read

Awards and Honours

Arjuna Award and Ashoka Chakra Winners 2015-2016

gktoday 7 years ago

Rajat Chauhan (archery), Lalita Babar (athletics), Sourav Kothari (billiards and snooker), Shiva Thapa (boxing), Ajinkya Rahane (cricket), Subrata Paul (football), Rani (hockey), VR Raghunath (hockey),... Read More

GK Today Persons in news 2 min read

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GK Today Persons in news

gktoday 7 years ago

Magnus Carlsen wins 2016 Chess Championship title Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen of Norway has won the 2016 World Chess Championship for the third consecutive time. He... Read More

All about Ashoka Chakra award 1 min read

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All about Ashoka Chakra award

gktoday 7 years ago

The Ashoka Chakra (alternative spelling: Ashok Chakra) is India’s highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.... Read More

Anuradha Roy has won the on the prestigious $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 1 min read

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Anuradha Roy has won the on the prestigious $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

gktoday 8 years ago

Colombo : Indian writer Anuradha Roy has won the on the prestigious $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’.... Read More

Central Banker of the Year Award goes to RBI Governor Dr.Raghuram Rajan 1 min read

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Central Banker of the Year Award goes to RBI Governor Dr.Raghuram Rajan

gktoday 8 years ago

Award for Dr.Raghuram Rajan: RBI Governor Dr.Raghuram Rajan was conferred with the “Central Banker of the Year Award (Global and Asia Pacific) region. The award... Read More

Priyanka Chopra the first Indian to win a People’s Choice Awards 1 min read

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Priyanka Chopra the first Indian to win a People’s Choice Awards

gktoday 8 years ago

Priyanka Chopra has won the Favourite Actress in a New TV series award at the People’s Choice Awards 2016 for her leading role in... Read More

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been awarded 2015 Confucius Peace Prize 1 min read

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been awarded 2015 Confucius Peace Prize

gktoday 8 years ago

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been awarded 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China. The Prize is dubbed as Chinese equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize.... Read More

Svetlana Alexievich wins 2015 Nobel prize in literature 2 min read

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Svetlana Alexievich wins 2015 Nobel prize in literature

gktoday 8 years ago

Swedish Academy praises Belarusian writer’s work as a ‘monument to suffering in our time’ Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands... Read More

Whitley Award (Green Oscar) 1 min read

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Whitley Award (Green Oscar)

gktoday 8 years ago

Pune-based ornithologist Pramod Patil has won with the prestigious Whitley Award, popularly known as the ‘Green Oscar’ for his work on the conservation of the... Read More

Winners of the toisa awards 2015 1 min read