List of

Awards
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Honours
October
2020
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List of Awards and Honours – October 2020

General Awareness is a very significant section in almost every Bank/ Insurance/ SSC/
Railways and other Government Exams and staying up to date with the latest happenings
around the world is indeed important. GK can be divided in two parts that is static and
dynamic. In this e-book we will be covering the GK topic of major Awards and Honours
distributed in the month of October 2020. Let’s have a look at a few questions that can be
raised from the topics.

Sample Questions

Q1) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize 2020 - Literature 2020?

1. Louise Glück
2. Anurag Srivastav
3. Parag Raja
4. None of the above

Correct Answer: “1”

Q2) Which organisation won the FICCI National Award?

1. Army Sports Institute, Pune

2. BCCI
3. IOC
4. Insmart Systems

Correct Answer: “4”

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List of Awards and Honours – October 2020

LIST OF AWARDS AND HONOURS

October 2020

Awardee Award

Dr. Tulsi Das Chugh Award for research work on Malaria Parasite’s
CSIR-CDRI Scientist,
Life Cycle, which is a complex process involving two hosts and three
Dr. Satish Mishra bags
invasive stages.

Global Himalayan Expedition UN Global Climate Action Award

Harvey J. Alter, Michael

Nobel Prize 2020 - Medicine
Houghton and Charles M. Rice
Roger Penrose, Reinhard
Nobel Prize 2020 - Physics
Genzel and Andrea Ghez
Emmanuelle Charpentier and
Nobel Prize 2020 - Chemistry
Jennifer A. Doudna

Louise Glück Nobel Prize 2020 - Literature

World Food Programme

Nobel Prize 2020 - Peace
(WFP)

Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B.

Nobel Prize 2020 - Economic Sciences
Wilson

Gujarat Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya (State Level)

Tirunelveli Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya (District Level)

Kharchrod block in Ujjain
Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya (Block Level)
district of Madhya Pradesh

Chinnanur village of Tamil

Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya (Gram Panchayat Level)
Nadu

Kalpana Chawla Awards Dr Bhim Singh of IIT Delhi and Dr Aaesha Alnuaimi of UAE

Japan in the Asia Pacific Region and to Netherlands in the Europe

Visvesvaraya Award
region

Diwakar Award Arushi Institute and Arpan Institute

United Nations award on prevention, control of non-communicable

Kerala
diseases
List of Awards and Honours – October 2020

Poet Ezhacheri Ramachandran Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literary Award 2020

Kani Kusruti Best actress award at 42nd Moscow Film Festival

Harish Kotecha Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award

Mrs Seema Gupta GOLD Stevie Award (Lifetime Achievement)

Ritesh Rawal’s “Manifestism” “Innovation of an Education Philosophy”

Anika Chebrolu Winner of 3M young scientist challenge

Malayalam film Kaanthi Best film award at the India International Film Festival of Boston

Insmart Systems FICCI National Award

Rajesh Goenka, Director, RP

Global CMO Leadership Award 2020
tech India
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