An award is given to recognize achievement. No matter what field it represents, it is important to give an award to show that a person’s achievement is appreciated and commended. Awards are commonly given in the following fields or areas:
- Sports
- Corporate Events
- Academic Institutions
Important Awards and Honours January 2022
| 1. | Shaylyn Ford | Mrs World 2022 |
| 2. | Satish Adiga | ICMR national award “Dr Subhas Mukherjee Award” |
| 3. | Danish Siddiqui (Posthumously) | Mumbai Press Club’s RedInk Award 2020 |
| 4. | Kishore Kumar Yedam | World CEO Winner of the Year 2021 award |
| 5. | Rohit Kumar (Founder of Media Trendz) | Bihar Vibhuti Samman at the Bihar Entrepreneurship Conclave |
| 6. | Harshaali Malhotra | 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022 |
| 7. | Zishaan A Latif | Ramnath Goenka Award in the Photo Journalism category for his photo essay work |
| 8. | South Indian Bank (SIB) | UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under ‘Crisis for business continuity |
| 9. | JC Chaudhry (numerologist) | First-ever Guinness World Record in Numerology and the first world record of 2022 |
| 10. | Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) | KOCH Award in the Silver category for its contributional work to combat Crime and Violence against Children |
| 11. | Kerala Arts and Crafts Village Organisation | International Craft Award 2021 by World Crafts Council International as the best craft village in the entire world (KAVC) |
| 12. | Clive Lloyd | Knighthood by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle |
| 13. | Navdeep Kaur | Best National Costume award at Mrs World 2022 Pageant |
| 14. | NIRAMAI Health Analytix Pvt Ltd, and InnAccel Technologies Pvt Ltd | World Bank Group and Consumer Technology Association’s Global Women’s Health Tech Awards |
| 15. | Axis Bank and CRMNEXT Solution | IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Innovation Award for 2021 under the category of ‘Best CRM System Implementation’ |
| 16. | Sumit Bhale (Lavni artist from Maharashtra) | Gold medal at the International Folk Art Festival in Dubai |
| 17. | Albert Bourla (Pfizer Inc.’s Chairman and CEO) | Prestigious Genesis Prize 2022 |
| 18. | Sushmita Sen | International Association of Working Women Award at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) 2021 |
| 19. | Prajakta Koli (Indian Youtuber and Actor) | India’s First-ever ‘Youth Climate Champion’ by UNDP |
| 20. | Shinzo Abe (Former Japan Prime Minister) | Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau |
| 21. | PV Sindhu | Women’s singles title at the Syed Modi International Tournament in Lucknow |
| 22. | Koozhangal | Best film award at Dhaka International Film Festival |
| 23. | Neeraj Chopra | Param Vishisht Seva Medal |
| 24. | Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (Tamil Nadu) | TX2 award for doubling the population of wild tigers |
| 25. | Ratan Tata | Assam government’s highest civilian award ‘Assam Baibhav’ |
February 2022
| 1. | Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand) | ICC Spirit of Cricket Award 2021 |
| 2. | Neeraj Chopra | Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award 2022 |
| 3. | Street Student (Telugu short film) | NHRC’s Short Film Award |
| 4. | Nitin Gadkari | 18th Late Madhavrao Limaye Award |
| 5. | ICICI Bank’s Sandeep Bakhshi | Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21 |
| 6. | RailTel | ICAI award for excellence in financial reporting for the year 2020-21 in Public Sector Entities Category |
| 7. | Karnataka Bank | Three awards at the 17th Annual Banking Technology Conference and Awards: 2020-21 Next-Gen Banking |
| 8. | Bill Gates | Hilal-e-Pakistan honour |
| 9. | Coal India | India’s Most Trusted Public Sector Company’ award |
March 2022
| 1. | Professor Deepak Dhar | Boltzmann Medal 2022 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics for his contribution to statistical physics |
| 2. | National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) | ‘Special Jury Award’ at the 7th India Industry Water Conclave and the 9th edition of the FICCI Water Awards |
| 3. | CtrlS | ASSOCHAM Award for Sustainability Excellence in Energy Management |
| 4. | National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd | 1st prize in the Ispat Rajbhasha Award for 2018-19 and 2020-21 and the Ispat Rajbhasha Prerna Award for 2019-20 |
| 5. | Bangladeshi Rizwana Hasan | US International Women of Courage Award 2022 |
| 6. | Jammu and Kashmir Bank | “National Award for Outstanding Performance for FY 2020-21″ |
| 7. | Axis Bank | ‘Asian Bank of the Year’ at IFR Asia Awards 2021 |
| 8. | Narayan Pradhan | GD Birla Award for Scientific Research |
| 9. | Poland’s Karolina Bielawska | Miss World 2021 |
| 10. | Neeraj Chopra | Sportsman of the Year award: Sportstar Aces 2022 |
| 11. | Francis Kéré | First African to win Pritzker Prize 2022 |
| 12. | American mathematician Dennis P. Sullivan | Abel Prize for the year 2022 |
| 13. | Devendra Jhajharia | 1st para-athlete to receive Padma Bhushan |
| 14. | Mario Marcel | Governor of the year award 2022 |
| 15. | Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) | ‘Covid champion’ award at Wings India 2022 |
| 16. | Prof Wilfried Brutsaert | Stockholm Water Prize 2022 |
| 17. | Actress Deepika Padukone | TIME100 Impact Awards 2022 |
| 18. | Mirabai Chanu | ‘BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year’ award 2021 |
April 2022
| 1. | Dr. Bhushan Kumar and Sahyog Kushtha Yagna Trust | Prestigious International Gandhi Award for Leprosy, by Hon. Vice President of India |
| 2. | Volodymyr Zelensky | John F Kennedy profile in courage award |
| 3. | PM Narendra Modi | 1st Lata Mangeshkar Award 2022 |
| 4. | Aarefa Johari | Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Media person 2021 |
| 5. | Prof Ramdarash Mishra | Prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2021 |
| 6. | Amber Bracken titled “Kamloops Residential School” | 2022 World Press Photo of the Year award |
| 7. | Veteran Bengali Author Amar Mitra | Prestigious O. Henry Award |
| 8. | Assamese poet Nilamani Phookan | 56th Jnanpith Award |
| 9. | Falguni Nayar | EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 |
| 10. | M. Venkaiah Naidu | International Gandhi Awards for Leprosy, 2021 |
| 11. | Prabhat Patnaik | Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2022 |
| 12. | Shoojit Sircar | Director Of The Year award for Sardar Udham |
| 13. | IndusInd Bank | Global ‘Celent Model Bank’ Award for its EPH initiative |
| 14. | Indian-American Defense Expert Vivek Lall | 6th Entrepreneur Leadership Award 2022 |
| 15. | Sir David Attenborough | UN ‘Champion of the Earth Lifetime Achievement award’ |
| 16. | Ardeshir B K Dubash | Highest Diplomatic Award by Peru Government |
| 17. | Charudutt Mishra | Whitley Gold Award |
May 2022
| 1. | Danish Siddiqui | Pulitzer prize again, this time under the feature photography category |
| 2. | IB V Doshi | Royal Gold Medal 2022 |
| 3. | Dr. Frank Wilczek | 2022 Templeton Prize |
| 4. | Mr.Ajay Piramal chairman of the Piramal group | British honorary Award |
| 5. | Author and Journalist Wesley Morgan | William E. Colby Award for military and intelligence writing |
| 6. | Political Journalist and orator Nitin Kumar | Seema Nazareth Award For Excellence in Journalism 2021 |
| 7. | Shaunak Sen | 2022 L’OEil d’Or award for his documentary “All That Breathes” |
| 8. | Triangle of Sadness | Palme d’Or at 75th Cannes Film Festival |
| 9. | Wesley Morgan | William E.Colby Award for 2022 |
| 10. | RJ Umer | Best Content Award and Immunization Award by UNICEF |
| 11. | Sanjit Narwekar | V Shantharam lifetime achievement award at MIFF (Mumbai International Film Festival)2022 |
June 2022
| 1. | Jharkhand | World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) Award-2022 |
| 2. | Director of Ruchi Foodline Rashmi Sahoo | Times Business Award 2022 |
| 3. | West Indies Captain Darren Samy | Sitara-i-Pakistan Award for services to Pakistan |
| 4. | Ahmed Salman Rushdie | Queen’s Birthday Honors List in 2022 |
| 5. | Ramakrishna Mukkavilli | SDG Pioneer for water stewardship by UNGC |
| 6. | Vijay Amritraj | Golden Achievement Award by the International Tennis Hall of Fame and International Tennis Federation |
| 7. | S M Krishna, N R Narayana Murthy and Prakash Padukone | ‘Kempegowda International Award’ |
| 8. | “Turn Your Body to the Sun” | Golden Conch award for the Best Documentary Film at MIFF 2022 |
| 9. | Indian Railways | UIC International Sustainable Railway Awards (ISRA) in the category of “Best use of Zero-Carbon Technology” |
| 10. | Ruth Ozeki | Women’s Prize for Fiction this year for her novel ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness” |
| 11. | Khushi Patel | Miss India Worldwide 2022 |
| 12. | Odisha govt bags | “National MSME Award 2022 to States/UTs for outstanding contribution in the promotion |
July 2022
| 1. | Ashok Soota | CII Quality Ratna Award 2021 |
| 2. | HCL Technologies | Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2022 |
| 3. | Tanuja Nesari | Ayurveda Ratna Award by the UK Parliament |
| 4. | Sini Shetty | Femina Miss India 2022 |
| 5. | Michelle Poonawalla | Shiromani Award at NRI World Summit 2022 |
| 6. | Maryna Viazovska | Fields Medal 2022 |
| 7. | Gita Gopinath | 1st woman to feature on IMF’s ‘wall of former chief economists’ |
| 8. | Pallavi Singh | Mrs Universe Divine Crown in South Korea |
| 9. | Narayanan Kumar | Japan’s ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ Award |
| 10. | Dia Mirza & Afroz Shah | Mother Teresa Memorial Award |
| 11. | National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) | Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institute Award 2021 |
| 12. | DBS Bank | ‘World’s Best SME Bank’ by Euromoney |
| 13. | KP Kumaran | JC Daniel Award 2022 |
| 14. | Professor Kaushik Rajashekara | Global Energy Prize 2022 |
| 15. | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Churchill Leadership Award |
| 16. | Dinesh Shahra Foundation (DSF) | “Dinesh Shahra Lifetime Award for Excellence” in Music |
August 2022
| Miss Diva Universe 2022 | Divita Rai (Karnataka) | Beauty Pageant |
| Liberty Medal 2022. | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Humanitarian efforts |
| UNESCO Peace Prize 2022 | Former German chancellor Angela Merkel | effort to promote peace |
| Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award | Marina Tabassum | contribution to architectural and spatial practice |
| France’s highest civilian honour “Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur” | Shashi Tharoor | writings and speeches |
| US Heritage Wall of Fame | Indian professor, Ramadhar Singh | Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) |
| Miss India USA 2022 | Indian origin teenager Aarya Walvekar (Virginia) | Beauty Pageant |
| Miss Teen India USA | Tanvi Grover | Beauty Pageant |
| ‘dPal rNgam Duston’ award (Ladakh’s highest civilian award) | Dalai Lama | immense contribution to humanity |
| ‘President’s Colours honours | Tamil Nadu Police | Military, police decoration |
September 2022
| Ramon Magsaysay Awards 2022 | • Sotheara Chhim (Cambodia) – For mental health • Bernadette Madrid (Philippines) – For effort in child protection • Tadashi Hattori (Japan) – For training local doctors who have treated Vietnamese • Gary Bencheghib (Indonesia) – For fight against marine plastic pollution | Outstanding contributions in Government Service |
| Emmy Award | Former President of the USA Barack Obama | for his narration in the Netflix documentary “Our Great National Parks” |
| International Tourism award 2023 | West Bengal | for ‘best destination for culture. |
| Sahitya Puraskar of the Lok Nayak Foundation | Telugu actor Tanikella Bharani | Telugu literature |
| France’s top civilian honour ‘Knight of the Legion of Honour’ | Swati Piramal | contribution in the fields of business and industry, science, medicine, art and culture, both nationally and internationally. |
| German PEN award | Indian author & poet Meena Kandasamy | Standing up for the rights of persecuted writers and journalists. |
| Queen Elizabeth II Woman of the Year award | Indian-origin Suella Braverman | To honour South Asians for their great achievements in the UK. |
| Airport Service Quality award-2022 | Cochin International Airport Ltd | Highest honour in the global aviation sector. |
| 52nd Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Asha Parekh | outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema |
| Lata Mangeshkar Award | • Kumar Sanu • Shailendra Singh • Anand-Milind | To promote excellence in the area of light music |
| Best adventure tourism destination | Uttarakhand | Adventure tourism destination |
67th Filmfare Awards 2022
• Best Actor- Ranveer Singh (83) as Kapil Dev
• Best Actress- Kriti Sanon (Mimi) as Mimi Rathore
• Best Film- Shershaah (Dharma Productions)
• Best Director- Vishnuvardhan (Shershaah)
• Best Supporting Actor- Pankaj Tripathi (Mimi)
• Best Supporting Actress- Sai Tamhankar (Mimi)
October 2022
| National Digital Transformation Awards (DX 2022 Awards) | Karnataka Bank | Digital transformation |
| Sakharov prize 2022 | Ukrainian people | Human rights and freedoms |
| Prestigious Saturn Award 2022 | SS Rajamouli’s period epic RRR | Best International Film category |
| Karnataka Ratna award | Puneeth Rajkumar (posthumously) | Social service |
| National Intellectual Property award for 2021 & 2022 | IIT Madras | Top Indian Academic Institution for patents filing, grants and commercialization |
| Sir Syed Excellence Award 2022 | American historian Barbara Metcalf | Historian |
| World Green City award 2022 | Hyderabad | Living Green for Economic Recovery and Inclusive Growth |
| FIH Goalkeeper of the Year awards | Savita Punia & PR Sreejesh | Sports |
| Lifetime Achievement Award by US President | Dr. Vivek Lall | Aerospace Engineering |
| Best Indian movie | Pather Panchali | Best Indian film of all time by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) |
| Most Popular GI’ award | Telangana Hyderabadi Haleem | Most Popular GI Food items |
| Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U) Award | Uttar Pradesh | Social Security Welfare Schemes |
| 2022 Ballon d’Or awards | Alexia Putellas, Karim Benzema | Best performer in football sports |
| Britain’s Booker Prize 2022 | Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lankan author) For his work “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”. | Author |
| ‘Changemaker’ award | Srishti Bakshi | Women’s rights activist |
| 32nd Bihari Puraskar | Madhav Hada (for his 2015 literary criticism book ‘Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri’) | for an outstanding work published in the last 10 years by a Rajasthani author in Hindi or Rajasthani |
| Valley of Words Book Awards | English non-fiction book “Tagore & Gandhi” | Literary award |
| UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award | Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel | leadership, courage and compassion |
| SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 | Yunqing Tang | Outstanding contribution to the field of mathematics |
| Sports Journalists’ Federation of India medal 2019 | Badminton legend Prakash Padukone | Sports Journalism |
