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Jnanpith Award — Complete Guide: History, All 60 Awards (1965–2025), Records & Exam Facts
The Jnanpith Award is India's oldest and most prestigious literary honour, given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an Indian writer each year for their outstanding contribution to literature in one of the Eighth Schedule languages or English. Conceived in 1961 and first awarded in 1965, it has recognised sixty editions of the prize through 2025, honouring 65 individual writers across sixteen of the twenty-three eligible languages. This article covers the full history from G. Sankara Kurup's inaugural award to R. Vairamuthu's 60th edition win, the records, the rule changes, the notable firsts, and everything competitive exam students need to lock in.
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2025: Full Winners List Across 24 Languages
Three months after a scheduled press event was quietly shelved, Sahitya Akademi broke its silence on 16 March 2026 and released the 2025 award roster — 24 books, 24 languages, one winner each. The English slot went to Navtej Sarna for his novel Crimson Spring; Hindi went to Mamta Kalia for a memoir built around her years in Allahabad. Every winner walks away with Rs 1 lakh, a hand-woven shawl and the Akademi's copper plaque — a piece of design history that Satyajit Ray sketched when the body was barely a year old. The ceremony is fixed for 31 March 2026 in New Delhi.
98th Academy Awards 2026: Complete Winners List & Key Highlights
Paul Thomas Anderson's political drama One Battle After Another walked out of the 98th Academy Awards with six Oscars — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Casting and Best Film Editing. Ryan Coogler's Sinners came in with a record 16 nominations and left with four, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan. Jessie Buckley became the first Irish woman to win Best Actress, taking the prize for Hamnet. The ceremony was held on 15 March 2026 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien for the second year running.
Padma Awards 2026: Complete Winners List & Key Highlights
The Government of India announced 131 Padma Awards on the eve of Republic Day 2026, comprising 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri. Among the 131 recipients, 19 are women, 16 honours are conferred posthumously, and 6 belong to the Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI category. Notable awardees include Dharmendra Singh Deol and V.S. Achuthanandan (Padma Vibhushan, posthumous), Alka Yagnik and Mammootty (Padma Bhushan), and Rohit Sharma and Harmanpreet Kaur (Padma Shri).
Bharat Ratna Awards — Complete List from 1954 to 2026
The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour India can bestow. Instituted on 2 January 1954 by President Rajendra Prasad, it has been awarded 53 times to date — to scientists, prime ministers, musicians, a cricketer, freedom fighters, and two people who were not even Indian citizens. The 2024 cycle broke every record by naming five recipients in a single year, four of them posthumous. No award was given in 2025 or 2026. This article covers the full list year by year, the stories behind the most notable recipients, the rules governing the award, and everything competitive exam students need to know.
National Sports Awards 2026 — Nominations List, Hardik Singh for Khel Ratna
The National Sports Awards 2026 — recognising performance in the 2025 sports year — had their nominations finalised on 24 December 2025 by a selection panel including Olympic medallist Gagan Narang. Hockey vice-captain Hardik Singh was the sole nominee for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, becoming only the seventh hockey player and the third in three years to be nominated for the award. A 24-strong Arjuna nominees list included a historic first: Aarti Pal, a yogasana athlete, became the first practitioner of that discipline ever recommended for the Arjuna Award. No cricketer appeared on the list — the first time in several cycles.
Science Awards 2026 — Infosys Prize 2025 Complete Winners with Profiles
The Infosys Prize 2025 was presented at a ceremony on 10 January 2026 at the Taj West End hotel in Bengaluru. In its seventeenth year, the prize continued the under-40 policy it adopted in 2024, producing a list of six researchers whose work spans sustainable chemistry, DNA repair biology, Prakrit language scholarship, market design theory, algorithm design, and complex mathematics. The ceremony's chief guest was Prof. Randy Schekman, the 2013 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine from UC Berkeley. Each winner received a pure gold medal, a citation, and a prize of USD 100,000.
International Gandhi Peace Prize — Complete Guide: All 20 Winners (1995–2021)
The International Gandhi Peace Prize is India's most prestigious civilian honour for work done in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi — honouring individuals and institutions that have transformed lives through non-violence, service, and Gandhian methods. Instituted on 2 October 1995, the prize has been awarded twenty times across more than a quarter century, to recipients ranging from Nelson Mandela and Grameen Bank to the Ramakrishna Mission and Gita Press. It was withheld for seven consecutive years between 2006 and 2012, given posthumously for the first time in 2019 and 2020, and has not been announced for years 2022 through 2026 as of the time this article was written. This article covers the full history, every recipient, the stories behind notable awards, and everything competitive exam students need to lock in.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award — Complete Guide: All 55 Recipients (1969–2023)
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest honour in cinema — a lifetime achievement recognition that the Government of India has presented annually since 1969 to individuals whose work has shaped the country's film heritage. Named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, the man who directed India's first feature film in 1913, it was instituted in the year of his birth centenary to ensure that every generation of filmmakers knew who had started it all. This article covers the full history from Devika Rani in 1969 to Mohanlal in 2023, the records, the sibling pairs, the two posthumous awards, and everything competitive exam students need for their preparation.
Booker Prize — Complete Guide: History, Winners 2024 & 2025, Indian Winners
The Booker Prize has been the English-speaking world's most closely watched literary award since 1969. It began as a prize for Commonwealth writers and has steadily grown into something with genuine global reach — open today to any author writing in English, published in the UK or Ireland. Two years in a row have produced notable firsts: in 2024 Samantha Harvey's Orbital became the first novel set aboard the International Space Station to win, and in 2025 David Szalay became the first Hungarian-British author to take the prize. This article covers the full history, the records, the five Indian-origin winners, both recent cycles in detail, and everything you need to know for competitive exams.
Ramon Magsaysay Award — Complete Guide: History, 2024 & 2025 Winners, Indian Winners
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, widely called the Nobel Prize of Asia, has been recognising selfless service and transformative leadership across the continent since 1958. Named after the seventh President of the Philippines who died in a plane crash at forty-nine, the award was set up within months of his death by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and has since honoured over 300 individuals and organisations. This article covers who Magsaysay was, how the award works, the complete 2024 and 2025 winner batches, India's long history with the prize, and every fact you need for competitive exams.
Indian Nobel Prize Winners — All 9 Laureates from 1913 to 2019
Between 1913 and 2019, nine people with Indian roots received the Nobel Prize. Five of them — Rabindranath Tagore, C.V. Raman, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen, and Kailash Satyarthi — were Indian citizens when the prize arrived. The other four were born in India but had settled abroad and carried foreign passports by then. The nine span six different prize categories and more than a century of history. This article profiles each of them — what they did, why it mattered, and what you need to remember for competitive exams.