Prize in 2017

Abel prize

French mathematician Yves Meyer wins 2017 Abel Prize

Oscar 

89th Academy Awards (Oscar Awards)
Winners are Best Picture: Moonlight.

Best Actress: Emma Stone (La La Land).

Best Actor: Casey Affleck (Manchester By The Sea).

Damien Chazelle (La La Land). At 32, he became the youngest director to win Oscar

Padma Vibhushan

Awardee	Field of Prominence
Sharad Pawar	Public Affairs
Murli Manohar Joshi	Public Affairs
P.A. Sangma (posthumous)	Public Affairs
Sunder Lal Patwah (posthumous)	Public Affairs
K.J.Yesudas	Art - Music
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev	Others - Spiritualism
Udipi Ramachandra Rao	Science & Engineering

Padma Bhushan

Awardee	Field of Prominence
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	Art - Music
Devi Prasad Dwivedi	Literature & Education
Tehemton Udwadia	Medicine
Ratna Sundar Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism
Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati	Others-Yoga
H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner)	Literature & Education
Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous)	Literature & Education –Journalism

Padma Shri

Awardee	Field of Prominence
Basanti Bisht	Art-Music
Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair	Art-Dance
Aruna Mohanty	Art-Dance
Bharathi Vishnuvardhan	Art-Cinema
Sadhu Meher	Art-Cinema
T K Murthy	Art-Music
Laishram Birendrakumar Singh	Art-Music
Krishna Ram Chaudhary	Art-Music
Baoa Devi	Art-Painting
Tilak Gitai	Art-Painting
Aekka Yadagiri Rao	Art-Sculpture
Jitendra Haripal	Art-Music
Kailash Kher	Art-Music
Parassala B Ponnammal	Art-Music
Sukri Bommagowda	Art-Music
Mukund Nayak	Art-Music
Purushottam Upadhyay	Art-Music
Anuradha Paudwal	Art-Music
Wareppa Naba Nil	Art-Theatre
Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary	Civil Service
T.K. Viswanathan	Civil Service
Kanwal Sibal	Civil Service
Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla	Literature & Education
Eli Ahmed	Literature & Education
Narendra Kohli	Literature & Education
G. Venkatasubbiah	Literature & Education
Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri	Literature & Education
Kashi Nath Pandita	Literature & Education
Chamu Krishna Shastry	Literature & Education
Harihar Kripalu Tripathi	Literature & Education
Michel Danino	Literature & Education
Punam Suri	Literature & Education
VG Patel	Literature & Education
V Koteswaramma	Literature & Education
Balbir Dutt	Literature & Education-Journalism
Bhawana Somaaya	Literature & Education-Journalism
Vishnu Pandya	Literature & Education-Journalism
Subroto Das	Medicine
Bhakti Yadav	Medicine
Mohammed Abdul Waheed	Medicine
Madan Madhav Godbole	Medicine
Devendra Dayabhai Patel	Medicine
Harkishan Singh	Medicine
Mukut Minz	Medicine
Arun Kumar Sharma	Others-Archaeology
Sanjeev Kapoor	Others-Culinary
Meenakshi Amma	Others-Martial Art
Genabhai Dargabhai Patel	Others-Agriculture
Chandrakant Pithawa	Science & Engineering
Ajoy Kumar Ray	Science & Engineering
Chintakindi Mallesham	Science & Engineering
Jitendra Nath Goswami	Science & Engineering
Daripalli Ramaiah	Social Work
Girish Bhardwaj	Social Work
Karimul Hak	Social Work
Bipin Ganatra	Social Work
Nivedita Raghunath Bhide	Social work
Appasaheb Dharmadhikari	Social Work
Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal	Social Work
Virat Kohli	Sports-Cricket
Shekar Naik	Sports-Cricket
Vikasa Gowda	Sports-Discus Throw
Deepa Malik	Sports-Athletics
Mariyappan Thangavelu	Sports-Athletics
Dipa Karmakar	Sports-Gymnastics
P. R. Shreejesh	Sports-Hockey
Sakshi Malik	Sports-Wrestling
Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu	Trade & Industry
Imrat Khan  (NRI/PIO)	Art-Music
Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education
H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education-Journalism
Suniti Solomon (Posthumous)	Medicine
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous)	Others-Archaeology
Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous)	Social Work
Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner)	Social Work

Booker Prize

George Saunders was awarded the 2017 Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo

2017 Pulitzer Prize

pulitzer winner----Krishna Sobti

Miss Universe

South Africa’s Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters wins Miss Universe 2017 crown

Miss World

Manushi Chhillar wins Miss World 2017 title

Indira Gandhi Award

Manmohan Singh selected for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development

First In India-part (6)

PART 6

GK - Quiz Questions with Answers

 The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was?— ANSRabindra Nath Tagore

Which Indian Scientist has had the distinction of receiving not only the Nobel Prize, but also Bharat Ratna ?ANS     Dr. C. V. Raman

With what game is the name of Cara Black associated ?
Lawn Tennis

India successfully launched its first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 ?
22nd Oct., 2008

Who has been appointed the first woman Prime Minister of Tobago ?
Kamla Prasad Bissessar

The famous Akshardham Temple is situated in the city of—
Gandhi Nagar

The Nobel Laureate who is fighting to liberate the people of Myanmar is—
Aung San Suukyi

"India House" is located in—
London

Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution ?
Rousseau

D-Day is the day when—
Allied troops landed in Normandy

The first airline to allow flyers to surf the net was—
Singapore Airlines

World Computer Literacy Day is celebrated on—
2nd December

Fabianism is closely related to—
Democratic Socialism

The Bandung Conference was a major milestone in the history of—
The Non-Aligned Movement

Who said, " Man is a Social Animal" ?
Aristotle

'Red Revolution' in China took place in—
1949

Who was ruling over Pakistan at the time when Bangladesh became independent?
Yahya Khan

The first unified theatre commanded by the Indian Defence Forces has been set at—
Andaman Nicobar Islands

‘Daughters of Shame’ is a book written by—
Jasvinder Sanghera

First In India -Part(5)

PART 5

First Women

• The first woman Air Vice Marshal :P. Bandopadhyaya
• Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
• High Court Judge: Anna Chandy
• Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly :
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit,  1953
• Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
• Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
• Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
• Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
• Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–   1967
• Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
• Women Governor of West Bengal: Padmaja Naidu, 1956–1967.
• Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of  local self-government and public health, 1937
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
• President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
• IPS Officer: Kiran Bedi
• Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984
• Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
• To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
• To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
• Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova)  in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
• State Finance Minister: Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October 2010
• Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate(44): August 2011
• The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
• To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar(33):2011
• First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha
• first woman IAS officer: Anna Rajan George(b1927)Kerela qualified in 1950 sub-divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951
• First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October 2007) 

Transport

·  First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro

·  First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853

·  First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857

·  First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr. Forster of Crompton Greaves

·  First Motorcar in regular use: Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901.

·  First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905

·  First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000

·  First airplane in India: Maharaja of Patiala, 1910

First In India-part(4)

PART 4

Olympics

• Individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
• Medal in Tennis: Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
• Individual medal by a woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney.
• Individual Gold medal: Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
• Individual Silver medal (Independent India): Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
• Medal in Boxing: Vijender Kumar in the Beijing Olympics 2008.
• Medal in Badminton: Saina Nehwal, winning a Bronze in the London Olympics 2012

Chess

• Chess Grandmaster : Male - Vishwanathan Anand, 1988.
• Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.(Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 14years and 6 months.)

Tennis

• Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.

• Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open

• Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.

• Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.

• Grand Slam junior title: Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship.

• Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

• Yuki Bhambri became the first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.

     Cricket

• First Test Victory : Against England At Madras

• Captain in Tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.

• ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar.

• Cricketer to score a century in a Test match : Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds.

• Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match : Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56