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Two Indian NGOs — Mumbai-based “Prerana” and “Sense International India”, Ahmedabad — are to get $100,000 each under “Stars Impact” awards (UK) for their work among disabled and poor children.

Shahrukh Khan conferred honorary Black belt in Taekwondo by the Korean government. The actor was also appointed the Honorary Ambassador of Korea (Culture and Tourism) in India.

Tamil Nadu’s Agricultural Scientist Subramanyam was conferred with MS Swaminathan award.

The Right Livelihood Awards
David Suzuki (Honorary Award, Canada) for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science, and for his massive contribution to raising awareness about the perils of climate change and building public support for policies to address it".
René Ngongo (Democratic Republic of Congo) is honoured "for his courage in confronting the forces that are destroying the Congo's rainforests and building political support for their conservation and sustainable use".
Alyn Ware (New Zealand) is recognised "for his effective and creative advocacy and initiatives over two decades to further peace education and to rid the world of nuclear weapons".
Catherine Hamlin (Ethiopia) is awarded "for her fifty years dedicated to treating obstetric fistula patients, thereby restoring the health, hope and dignity of thousands of Africa's poorest women".

Bharat Shiromani awards for 2008-09 were conferred on the Arunachal Pradesh Governor and former Army Chief, General J.J. Singh, Law Commission Chairman Justice A. R. Lakshmanan, actor and MP Jayaprada and former cricketer and MP Mohammad Azharuddin. These awards were started in 1977 by Shiromani Institute.

Dr. Nageswar Reddy, Director of Asian Institute of Gastroenterology has been conferred with Endoscopist award by American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Tata Motors Chairman, Mr Ratan Tata, has been named the winner of The Economist’s eighth ‘Business Process Innovation Award’. The British news weekly has selected Mr Tata for the development of the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano.

Ninety-year-old playback legend Manna Dey is being honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema.

Kathrin Bringman, the Professor from Germany was conferred with Sastra Ramanujam Award for the year 2009 for his work in Mathematics.

Indian-American Human rights activist Mallika Dutt has won the American Courage Award for her human rights work in India and the United States. Ms. Dutt presently heads “breakthrough: building human rights culture” an international human rights organization which spreads the message of social justice through popular media.

IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] Chief Muhammad Al-Baradi'i was conferred the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize.

2009 Nobel Prizes:
Barak Obama (U.S.President) Won Nobel Prize in Peace for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
Herta Muller won Nobel Prize in Literature for the Landscape of Dispossessed.

Elizabeth H.Blackburn (University of California San Francisco,CA,USA) , Carol W.Greider (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore,MD,USA) & Jack W.Szostak (Harvard Medical chool,Massachusetts General Hospital,Boston,MA,USA) are awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge,United Kingdom) , Thomas A.Steitz (Yale University New Haven,CT,USA) & Ada E.Yonath (Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot,Israel) are awarded Nobel Prizes in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

Willard S. Boyle (Bell Laboratories) & George E. Smith (Bell Laboratories) are awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD Sensor".

Charles K.Kao (Standard Telecommunication Laboratories) is awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication".

Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel economics prize for their analyses of economic governance, the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and economic systems. Ms. Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since it was founded in 1968.

Hilary Mantel was selected for the Man Booker Prize for her Wolf Hall.

Noted journalist, writer and human rights activist Balraj Puri has been nominated for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.

The Centre announced a bravery award for 22-year-old Rukhsana, who killed a top LeT militant in Jammu and Kashmir.