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1st woman officer in IAF to be presented with a gallantry award

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Deepika Mishra - Vayu Sena Medal

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1st Disabled astronaut from UK

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John Mc’fal

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1st woman and 1st African American ever assigned as astronaut to a lunar mission by NASA

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Christina Koch
- other astronauts are Reid Wiseman, Jeremey Hanson, Victor Glover(Ex-Navy)
- Mission Name - Artemis II

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Best Film at Oscars 2023

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’’ Everything Everywhere all at one ‘’
directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

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Indian nominee of Best Documentary feature film at oscars 2023

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’’ All that breathes ‘’ directed by Shaunak Sen
(Loses to Navalny)

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Best Actor at Oscars 2023

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Brendon Freser

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Best Actress at Oscars 2023

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Michelle Yeoh

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Director of Elephant Whispers

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Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

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Ramon Magsaysay Award in1959

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Dalai Lama

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1st woman wildlife rescued from J&K , honoured with Wildlife Conservation Award

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Alia Mir

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Who won Abel Prise 2023 one of the most coveted awards in Mathematics

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Argentina-born mathematician Luis Caffarelli

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Who was awarded with French Civilian Award Chevalier’’ de la Légion d’Honneur’’

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Philanthropist and Art Collector Kiran Andar

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2023 International Prize in Statistics

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Indian American statisticians Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao.
This prize ia equivalent to Nobel Prize

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Femina Miss India World 2023

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Rajasthan’s Nandini Gupta

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Germany’s highest honour Grand Gross Award awarded to

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Angela Merkel

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Who received BAFTA FELLOWSHIP Award by British Academy of Films and Television Arts

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Meera Syal

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3 imprisoned Iranian female journalist to awarded with World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO on World Press Freedom Day

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Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi, Narges Mohammadi

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The title of Shatabdi Purush(Man of Century) was given to

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Former Lok Sabha MP Pandit Ramkishan

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Who has been awarded with Palme d Or for his outstanding career and contribution

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Michael Douglas

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Who among the following is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2023?

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Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction - Trust

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Gucci ‘s 1st global ambassador from India

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Alia Bhatt

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Who received France’s Highest Civilian Award de la Legion d’honneur

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Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran for his contribution to strengthen the trade relationship b/w India and France

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Who received Order of Australia Award

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Ratan Tata

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Who is conferred with Companion of the Order of Fiji, Companion of Order of Logohu(Papua New Guinea), Order of Nile(Egypt) and Order of Drug Gylapo (Bhutan)

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PM Modi

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International Booker Prize
Georgi Gospodinov for Time Shelter Translated into English by Angela Rodel
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Who received Jnanpith Award, country's highest literary honour
Damodar Mauzo He is the epitome of Konkani literary culture
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1st rank in the National Water Award 2022
Chandigarh
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Who is appointed as brand ambassador of tripura tourism
Sourav Ganguly
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Who scaled Mt. Everest with Prosthetic legs
Hari Budha Magar, a double amputee ex british Gorkha soldier from Nepal
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Who received Order Of Nile By HE Mr. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
PM modi Also Order of Drug Gyalpo by Bhutan
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Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 given to
Gita Press, Gorakhpur Started in 1995
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BC Roy Award
Award for Medicine
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______ to receive International Mother Language Award 2023
DR Mishra for Odiya
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GERMAN PEACE PRICE 2023 was won by?
Salman Rushdie who wrote books - Satanic Verses and Midnights children
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SAHITYA AKADEMI CHILDREN's LITERATURE AWARD was won by?
PRIYA A.S for Perumazahayathe Kunjithalukal (Children Who never Withered)
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1st Indian to win Nobel Prize
Rabindranath Tagore 1913
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1st woman to win Bharat Ratna
Indira Gandhi
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1st Indian to win Bharat Ratna Postmously
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Gandhi Peace Prize 2021
Geeta Press
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Higest gallantry award
Param Veer Chakr Maha Veer Chakr Veer Chakr
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Peace time defence awards
Ashok Chakra Kirti Chakra Shuarya Chakr
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Wildlfie Conservation Award 2023
Aliya Mir
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Oscars 2023
Best original song - Naatu- Naatu by MM Keervani Best film - Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Actor - Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Director - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert for EEATO Best Documentary- The Elephant Wisperers by Kartiki Ginsalves (Tamil)
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Which Indian film won WHO Health For All Award
When climate change turns violent
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2023 Lautreate of Pritzker Architecture Prize
Sir David Alan Chipperfeild
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Only person to receive both oscar and nobel prize
GB Shaw
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1st Indian to win Pritzker Prize
BV Doshi
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Who won Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award on 24 April 2023
Asha Bhosle
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1st Person to win Dadasaheb Phalke award
Devika Rani 1969
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Who won order of merit 2023
Angela Markel
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1st winner of Gandhi Peace Prize
Julius Nyere 1995
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Abel Prize 2023 - Nobel of Mathematics
Luis Caffarelli for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation.
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Marconi Prize 2023 - Nobel Prize of Telecommunications
Hari Balkrishnan
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Best Picture of 2023
Karthik Subramaniam
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Indian to win Lifetime Achievement Awards 2023 by UK
Manmohan Singh
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Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandan Puraskar
Odisha State Disaster Management Authority
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Assam baibhav 2023
Dr Tapan Saikia for his contribution to Cancer treatment
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Miss India 2023
Nandini Gupta
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Saraswati Samman 2022
Sivasanskari
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Vyas Samman is awared by?
KK Birla Foundation
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57th Jnanpith Award
Damodar Mauzo
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Leipzig Book Award 2023
Russian Poet Maria Stepanova for Girls Wothout Clothes
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1st in 1917)
Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver

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