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Biodiversity Award :

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Biodiversity Award :
The Government of India in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced the first-ever Biodiversity Award 2012 in Hyderabad on October 17, 2012. The winners of the awards were: Pir Jahania Jungle Suraksha Samiti from Odisha, Shankarpur Village Gram Panchayat from Maharashtra, Van Utthan Sansthan from Rajasthan and Periyar Tiger Reserve in the protected areas category.
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Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award

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Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award :
 India’s leading strategic thinker and analyst Mr. Brahma Chellaney won the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his recently published book Water: Asia’s New Battleground. Mr. Chellaney will be honoured and presented with the $20,000 prize on January 23, 2013.
BAFTA 2013 :
 The 66th British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards were presented on February 10,   2013 in London The
prominent winners were : Best Film : Argo; Best Director : Ben Affleck (Argo); Best Actor in a Leading Role : Daniel Day-Lewis {Lincoln);Best Actress in a Leading Role : Emmanuelle Riva [Amour); Best Actor in a Supporting Role : Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained); Best Actress in a Supporting Role : Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables); Best Original Screenplay : Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino); etc., among others
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Norman Borlaug Award

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Norman Borlaug Award :
New Delhi-based social scientist Ms. Aditi Mukherji, on August 28, 2012, became the first
Indian winner of the prestigious $10,000 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and
Application given by the World Food Prize Foundation. Ms. Mukherji, a researcher at the
International Water Management Institute in New Delhi, was chosen for her work on groundwater
resources in agriculture, leading to policy changes benefiting farmers in West Bengal.
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Anshu Gupta Ramon Magsaysay Awardee

Dronacharya Award

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Dronacharya Award : 
 
Virender Poonia (Athletics); Sunil Dabas 
 
(*Kabaddi—Women); Yashvir Singh (Wrestling); 
 
Harendra Singh (Hockey); Dr. Satyapal Singh 
 
(Athletics, Para Sports); B.I. Fernandez 
 
(Boxing); J.S. Bhatia (Athletics—Lifetime 
 
Achievement); Bhawani Mukherjee (Table Tennis
 
— Lifetime Achievement).
Dhyan Chand Award :
Jagraj Singh Mann
(Athletics); G undeep Kumar (Hockey); Vinod
Kumar (Wrestling); Sukhbir Singh Tokas (Para
SportS).
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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

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Recipients of the Awards
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award : Vijay Kumar
(Shooting) ;Yogeshwar Dutt (Wrestling).
Arjuna Award : Deepika Kumari (Archery);
Laishram Bombayla Devi (Archery); Sudha Singh
(Athletics); Kavita Ramdas Raut (Athletics);
Ashwini Ponnappa (Badminton); Parupalli
Kashyap (Badminton); Aditya S. Mehta (Billiards
& Snooker); Vikas Krishan (Boxing); Yuvraj
Singh (Cricket) ; Sardar Singh (Hockey);
Yashpal
Solanki (Judo); Anup Kumar (Kabaddi); Samir
Suhag (Polo); Annu Raj Singh (Shooting); Omkar
Singh (Shooting); Joydeep Karmakar (Shooting);
Deepika Pallikal (Squash); Sandeep Sejwal
(Swimming); Ng. Sonia Chanu (Weightlifting);
Narsingh Yadav (Wrestling); Rajinder Kumar
(Wrestling); Geeta Phogat (Wrestling); M.
Bimoljit Singh (Wushu); Deepa Mallick
(Athletics, Paralympics); Ramkaran Singh
(Athletics, Paralympics).
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