GK FOR XAT 2017 EXAM
Read the most important GK updates for the XAT 2017 examination in this article. This article contains the current affairs pointers from Awards & Honors section for the GK paper in XAT 2017 Exam.
(1) Who has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Merit) by the French government?
Prajna Chowta
(2) Who has won a $50,000 scholarship at the annual Google Science Fair held in the United States?
Kiara Nirghin (Indian-origin South African)
(3) Who has been named as the Future Leader of Audiology?
Vinaya Manchaiah
(4) Which film won the first prize at the Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival (SBSFF)?
Murga
(5) Who has been named for 2016 Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Maharashtra government?
Uttam Singh
(6) Who was conferred with the prestigious Moortidevi Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith for the year 2015?
Prof.Kalakaluri Enoch
(7) Which film has been selected as the India’s official entry to Oscars 2017 (89th Academy Awards) in the Foreign Language Film category?
Visaranai (Tamil Film)
(8) Which group has won the prestigious Right Livelihood Award which is also known as ‘alternative Nobel’ prize?
White Helmets (Syrian aid group)
(9) Who has won the Fellows of Nature (FON) South Asia Short Story Award in Nature writing?
Writer Meghna Pant
(10) Who has won the prestigious 2016 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for his contribution to radio waves?
Dinesh Bharadia (Indian-born researcher)
(11) Who has been selected for the prestigious 2015 National Humanities Medal?
Abraham Verghes ( Indian-American physician-author )
(12) Who has won the prestigious 2016 Lemelson-MIT Prize ?
Ramesh Raskar
(13) Who has been honoured with Tamil Ratna award by America Tamil Sangam (ATS) in New York?
MP Subramanian Swamy
(14) Which state has won ‘Best Horticulture State’ award of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)?
Haryana
(15) Who has won prestigious ‘Heritage Heroes Award’ of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?
Bibhuti Lahkar ( Assam-based ecologist and conservation activist )
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