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AWARDS HONOURS AND PERSON CURRENT AFFAIRS 2024 FOR COMPETATIVE EXAM

⇒ The third Rohini Nayyar Prize for outstanding contribution to rural development in India was awarded to Anil Pradhan from Odisha.
⇒ Australian Filmmaker Phillip Noyce Honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at IFFI 2024
⇒ “Kairos” by Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Booker Prize 2024.
⇒ Prime Minister Modi conferred with Dominica’s highest National Award. The Prime Minister will also receive top honours from Guyana and Barbados.
⇒ PM Narendra Modi gifts Silofar Panchamrit Kalash to Nigeria.
⇒ Nobel Prize Winners 2024 – Nihon Hidankyo (Peace Prize), Han Kang (Literature), James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Economic Sciences), Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield (Physics), Demis Hassabis, David Baker, John Jumper (Chemistry), Victor Ambros, Gary ⇒ Ruvkun (Physiology or Medicine)
⇒ At the IIFA Awards 2024, Shah Rukh Khan won Best Actor, Rani Mukerji won Best Actress, and Animal won Best Film.
⇒ Odisha won the first prize in the Best State category at the 5th National Water Awards 2023.
⇒ Rachel Gupta from Jalandhar, was crowned Miss Grand International (MGI) 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
⇒ Nikita Porwal from Madhya Pradesh has been crowned Femina Miss India World 2024.
⇒ The prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship has been awarded to Ruskin Bond, the renowned British-Indian author.
⇒ Coal India Limited (CIL) received the Green World Environment Award in the CSR category and was named Green World Ambassador.
⇒ 55th International Film Festival of India in Goa, Lithuanian film Toxic won the Golden Peacock for Best Film, while Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu won the Silver and Australia was the focus country in the festival this year.
⇒ Uday Shankar Awasthi of IFFCO became the second Indian after Dr. Verghese Kurien to receive the Rochdale Pioneers Award for his contributions to strengthening India’s cooperative sector.
⇒ Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development in 2024.
⇒ Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honored in absentia with the ‘Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Global Peace Award for Minority Upliftment.
⇒ Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable.’
⇒ Denmark’s Victoria Kjaer Theilvig was crowned the 73rd Miss Universe 2024, becoming the first woman from Denmark to win the title.
⇒ Major Radhika Sen of India received the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.
⇒ Srinivas R. Kulkarni, an Indian-origin US scientist, won the 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
⇒ Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light bagged the Grand Prix, the second-highest award at the Cannes Film Festival.
⇒ Seven-year-old Moksha Roy, of Indian origin, won the British Prime Minister’s Points of Light award for her environmental efforts.
⇒ The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper.
⇒ The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.
⇒ The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson.
⇒ The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.
⇒ John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
⇒ Rishab Shetty won the Best Actor award at the 70th National Film Awards for his performance in Kantara.
⇒ Ramcharitmanas, Panchtantra, and Sahrdayaloka-locana have been included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Asia Pacific Regional Register.
⇒ Jyoti Atre from Bhopal becomes the oldest Indian woman to summit Mount Everest.
⇒ 16-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan from Jharkhand becomes India’s youngest and world’s second youngest to climb Mount Everest from Nepal side.
⇒ Assam’s wildlife biologist Dr. Purnima Devi Burman wins the Whitley Gold Award (Green Oscar) for the second time.
⇒ Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for excellence in journalism.
⇒ Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi appointed as the 26th Chief of the Indian Navy.
⇒ Dileep Sanghani elected as Chairman of IFFCO.
⇒ Kami Rita Sherpa of Nepal sets a world record by climbing Mount Everest 30 times, breaking his own record.
⇒ In 2024, the Ekalavya Award was given to swimmer Pratyasa Ray from Odisha.
⇒ Aru village in Jammu and Kashmir wins the Best Tourism Villages Competition 2024 in the adventure tourism category.
⇒ Rhea Singha was crowned Miss Universe India 2024.
⇒ Kuthlur village in Belthangady taluk selected as ‘Best Tourism Village’ in the adventure tourism category by the Ministry of Tourism.
⇒ Bollywood producer Vinod Bachchan received the Global Prestige Award at the House of Lords for his contributions to the Indian film industry.

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Which state won the first prize in the Best State category at the 5th National Water Awards 2023? A) Gujarat B) Odisha C) Maharashtra D) Uttar Pradesh
Who was crowned Miss Grand International (MGI) 2024? A) Priya Malik B) Rachel Gupta C) Manushi Chhillar D) Suman Rao
Who was crowned Femina Miss India World 2024? A) Manushi Chhillar B) Nikita Porwal C) Suman Rao D) Aishwarya Rai
Who has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship? a) Chetan Bhagat b) Arundhati Roy c) Ruskin Bond d) R.K. Narayan
What award did Coal India Limited (CIL) receive? a) Green World Environment Award b) Global Business Award c) Best CSR Initiative Award d) Green Leadership Award
Which film won the Golden Peacock for Best Film at the 55th IFFI? a) The New Year That Never Came b) Toxic c) The Last Day d) Silent Waters
Who won the Silver Peacock for Best Director at the 55th IFFI? a) Bogdan Muresanu b) Quentin Tarantino c) Martin Scorsese d) Christopher Nolan
Who is the second Indian to receive the Rochdale Pioneers Award after Dr. Verghese Kurien? a) Dr. Manmohan Singh b) Uday Shankar Awasthi c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel d) M.S. Swaminathan
Who was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development in 2024? a) Angela Merkel b) Michelle Bachelet c) Jacinda Ardern d) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
For what reason was Prime Minister Narendra Modi awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Global Peace Award? a) For promoting education b) For minority upliftment c) For economic reforms d) For environmental protection
For what theme was Amitav Ghosh recognized with the Erasmus Prize? a) Imagining the unthinkable b) Rewriting history c) Exploring cultural heritage d) Sustainability in literature
Who was crowned the 73rd Miss Universe in 2024? a) Victoria Kjaer Theilvig b) Pia Wurtzbach c) Catriona Gray d) Zozibini Tunzi
Which country has been named the Focus Country for the 55th edition of IFFI? a) United States b) Australia c) United Kingdom d) France
Who is the author of the 2024 International Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Kairos’ ? A) Annie Ernaux B) Olga Tokarczuk C) Jenny Erpenbeck D) David Diop
Who was honored with the 2023 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award? A) Major Priya Sharma B) Major Radhika Sen C) Captain Anjali Mehra D) Major Neha Singh
Who won the 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy? A) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar B) Srinivas R. Kulkarni C) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan D) C.N.R. Rao
Who directed All We Imagine as Light, the film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes? A) Zoya Akhtar B) Mira Nair C) Payal Kapadia D) Deepa Mehta
Who won the British Prime Minister’s Points of Light award for her environmental efforts? A) Arya Sharma B) Priya Patel C) Moksha Roy D) Ananya Singh
Who were the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? A) Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Linus Pauling B) David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper C) Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Katalin Karikó D) Richard Dawkins, Jane Goodall, and Stephen Hawking
Which organization won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize? A) International Red Cross B) United Nations C) Nihon Hidankyo D) Doctors Without Borders
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson.
Who were the recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics? A) Paul Krugman, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz B) Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson C) Milton Friedman, Robert Solow, and Friedrich Hayek D) Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman, and Robert Shiller.
Who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? A) Albert Einstein and Max Planck B) Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun C) Francis Crick and James Watson D) Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
Who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics? A) Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr B) John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton C) Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann D) Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne
Who won the Best Actor award at the 70th National Film Awards? A) Rajinikanth B) Rishab Shetty C) Ayushmann Khurrana D) Kamal Haasan
Which literary works have been included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Asia Pacific Regional Register? a) Gitanjali, Mahabharata, and Vedas b) Ramcharitmanas, Panchtantra, and Sahrdayaloka-locana c) Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and Arthashastra d) Rigveda, Ramayana, and Quran
Who is the oldest Indian woman to climb Mount Everest? a) Bachendri Pal b) Jyoti Atre c) Santosh Yadav d) Arunima Sinha
Who is India’s youngest climber to scale Mount Everest from the Nepal side? a) Malavath Purna b) Kaamya Karthikeyan c) Arunima Sinha d) Bachendri Pal
Which Indian wildlife biologist won the Whitley Gold Award for the second time? a) Dr. Purnima Devi Burman b) Valmik Thapar c) Dr. Salim Ali d) Jane Goodall
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in which field? a) Science and Technology b) Journalism and Literature c) Sports d) Business
Who has been appointed as the 26th Chief of the Indian Navy? a) Admiral Karambir Singh b) Admiral R. Hari Kumar c) Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi d) Admiral Sunil Lanba
Who has been elected as the Chairman of IFFCO? a) Dileep Sanghani b) R.S. Sodhi c) Sharad Pawar d) Ajay Tyagi
Who set the world record for climbing Mount Everest 30 times? a) Tenzing Norgay b) Reinhold Messner c) Kami Rita Sherpa d) Nirmal Purja
Who received the Ekalavya Award in 2024? a) Dutee Chand b) Pratyasa Ray c) Rani Rampal d) Manu Bhaker
Aru village win the Best Tourism Villages Competition 2024 in the adventure tourism category is located ? a) Ladakh b) Himachal Pradesh c) Jammu and Kashmir d) Uttarakhand
Who was crowned Miss Universe India 2024? a) Urvashi Rautela b) Rhea Singha c) Saanvi Sharma d) Kajal Choudhary
Which village was selected as the ‘Best Tourism Village’ in the adventure tourism category by the Ministry of Tourism? a) Aru b) Kuthlur c) Mawlynnong d) Khonoma
Who was awarded the Global Prestige Award at the House of Lords for contributions to Indian cinema? a) Karan Johar b) Vinod Bachchan c) Aditya Chopra d) Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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