Awards And Honours

Alam Ara was the first talkie feature film of India.

B. C. Roy Award is given in the field of Medical Science.

Amartya Sen, Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Fireflies in the Abyss won the award in the Non – Feature Film Category at the 64^th National Film Awards 2016.

The correct answer is Pulitzer Award. Indian – American Sanghamitra Kalita, who was the then managing editor of Los Angeles Times, was part of the team that won the Pulitzer in the breaking news category in 2016.

Sanjaya Rajaram, a wheat breeder who has spent his life developing more than 480 varieties of the staple crop, was awarded The World Food Prize among an international audience at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.

The Madhya Pradesh government, in May 2013, conferred the 28^th Annual Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 2013 on famous playback singer Hariharan.

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi conferred Harvard University’s 2015 Humanitarian of the Year Award. He was awarded for his continuing contribution to the cause of child rights and abolition of child slavery.

Mahindra & Mahindra, a homegrown automotive multinational that produces everything from two-wheelers to tractors, was named Innovator for the Year 2017.