Awards And Honours

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She has been chosen ‘Person of the year 2015’ by Times magazine.

Except for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

Ed Sheeran won two Grammy awards including song of the Year for “Thinking Out Loud”.

The Goa government executed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (GoI) and Nobel Media, Sweden to hold the ‘Nobel Prize Series’.

The Kalidas Samman is a prestigious arts award presented annually by the government of Madhya Pradesh in India.

Bhubaneswar has become the first Indian city to win Pierre Lenfant International Planning excellence award 2017 for its town planning process.

Indu Malhotra was directly elected for the post of judge of the supreme court.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.

The nine cities include three from Uttar Pradesh – Moradabad, Bareilly and Saharanpur, Bihar Sharif (Bihar), Silvassa (Dadra and Nagar Havelli), Erode (Tamil Nadu), Daman and Diu, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and Kavaratti (Lakshadweep).

Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.