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List of Important Awards and Honours- July 2017 | GK Updates:

Dear Readers, List of Awards and Honours that conferred in the month of July 2017 was given here. Candidates those who are preparing for upcoming competitive exams 2017 can use these GK materials.

Awards	Winners
Winner of prestigious ‘Great Immigrants’ annual award on US’s Independence day	Adobe Chief Shantanu Narayen and former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy both are Indian-Americans,
Winner of Order of Australia for community work, the highest civilian award in Australia.	Guruswamy Jayraman (a 69-year-old Glenwood resident who migrated from Delhi to Australia in 1991) About Australia: Capital – Canberra Currency – Australian Dollar PM – Malcolm Turnbull
Prime Minister’s trophy for ‘Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant’	Tata Steel Ltd (Has won this for third consecutive year) About TATA Steel: HQ – Mumbai Founder – Jamsetji Tata
Winner of 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Heroes Award	Mahesh Bhagwat (Presently he serves as the first Commissioner of Police of Rachakonda.)
Nominated at the World Soundtrack Awards	Music composer AR Rahman for his music in the film ‘Viceroy’s House’ Director – Gurinder Chadha
‘Golden Peacock Award’ for Environment Management	Danfoss India (Climate and energy efficiency solutions company, the award was presented in Hyderabad during the 19th World Congress on Environment Management’ in the presence of Supreme Court Justice Kurien Joseph.) About Danfoss HQ – Nordborg, Denmark Present President of Danfoss India – Ravichandran Purushothaman Country – Denmark Capital – Copenhagen Currency – Danish krone
Honoured as world’s first completely green metro system	Delhi Metro
Young Leaders Award for 2017	Ankit Kawatra (Award presented by by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in the Buckingham Palace)
‘Sportsperson of the Year’ award	P V Sindhu (Rio Olympics silver medallist was bestowed with the ‘Sportsperson of the Year’ award during the ‘Maruti Suzuki Sportsperson of the Year’ Charity Gala Awards) Useful Information: P V Sindhu – Sportsperson of the Year Sindhu’s Coach P Gopichand – Coach of the Year award Milkha Singh – Living Legend of the Year award Cricketer K L Rahul – Game changer of the Year award Abhinav Bindra – Lifetime Achievement Award Deepa Malik – Inspirational athlete of the year award Gaurav Gill – Athlete of the year award
Honorary Membership from Jodhpur Guide Association	Shah Rukh Khan
Winner of 2017 Mahanayak Samman	Shakuntala Barua
Honoured as World’s Best City in a survey by Travel and Leisure magazine	San Miguel de Allende in Mexico Top 5 in the List: · San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) · Charleston (US) · Chiang Mai (Thailand) · Kyoto (Japan) · Florence (Italy)
Indian city has been declared as a World Heritage City (WHC) by UNESCO	Ahmedabad
Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions as a parliamentarian in the Lok Sabha	BJP leader L.K. Advani (JD-U leader Sharad Yadav also received the Lifetime Achievement Award as a Rajya Sabha) The other awardees from the Lok Sabha: • Best Parliamentarian- Revolutionary Socialist Party MP N.K. Premachandran, • Best Woman Parliamentarian- Congress leader Kumari Sushmita Dev and • Best Debut Woman Parliamentarian- BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi. The awardees from the Rajya Sabha • Best Parliamentarian- CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury, • Best Woman Parliamentarian- Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan and • Best Debut Woman Parliamentarian- Congress MP Rajni Patil. Useful Info • Present Speaker of Lok Sabha – Sumitra Mahajan • Present Chairman of Rajya Sabha – Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Honoured with a fellowship by the Department of Culture, Government of India (GoI)	Nandakishore Kapote (Internationally-acclaimed senior kathak dancer)
Winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards	Yoshiaki Ishizawa, a Japanese historian who helped Cambodians preserve the Angkor temples, and Gethsie Shanmugam, a Sri Lankan teacher who counseled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares, are among the six winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards. The other recipients named are AbdonNababan, an Indonesian, a Singaporean businessman Tony Tay, a Philippine theater group and Lilia de Lima , a Filipino. About the Award: The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award named after former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay. It is regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize and was first awarded in the year 1958. Country – Philippines Capital –Manila Currency –Philippine Peso
Winner of 2017 UNDP Equator Prize for sustainable farming model	Swayam Shikshan Prayog (Indian NGO)
The Personality of the Year award by Skoch Consultancy Services (SCS)-2017	Kishore Sansi (MD & CEO of Vijaya Bank)
Winner of Mohun Bagan Ratna for this year	Subrata Bhattacharya.
Winner of Indian of the year award by Brands Academy in New Delhi	Preeti Shenoy (Indian Writer)
Topped in the list of most Powerful Arab Women by Forbes	Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (UAE Minister of State for Tolerance)
Honoured as World’s Richest Man	Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon with a fortune of over $90.5 billion)

18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) 2017:

Best Film– Neerja
Best Director-Anirudh Roy Chaudhary for Pink
Best Actor (Male)- Shahid Kapoor for Udta Punjab
Best Actor (Female)- Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab
Best Actor in Supporting Role (Female)- Shabana Azmi for Neerja
Best Actor in Supporting Role (Male)- Anupam Kher for MS Dhoni: The Untold Story
Best Debutant (Female):Disha Patani for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Best Debut (Male)- Diljit Dosanjh for Udta Punjab
Best Lyricist- Amitabh Bhattacharya for the song Channa Mere Ya from Ae Dil Hai Mush kil
Best Playback Singer (Male)- Amit Mishra for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Best Playback Singer (Female)- Kanika Kapoor for Udta Punjab and Tulsi Kumar for Airlift
Best Music Direction- Pritam for AeDil Hai Mushkil
Best Actor In Comic Role- Varun Dhawan for Dishoom
Myntra Style Icon Award- Alia Bhatt
IIFA Woman Of The Year- Tapsee Pannu