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Science Awards 2025 — Infosys Prize 2024 and Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar 2025
Two of India's most significant science award cycles converged in 2025. The Infosys Prize 2024 — presented at a ceremony in Bengaluru on 11 January 2025 — honoured six researchers under forty in fields from quantum physics to the study of maritime Islam, with mathematician Neena Gupta's long-delayed recognition for solving a seventy-five-year-old problem being the standout story. The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar 2025 — announced by the Government of India on 26 October 2025 — gave its lifetime Vigyan Ratna posthumously to astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar and recognised twenty-three other scientists across its Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva, and Vigyan Team categories. Together, the two award cycles provide the most complete picture of where Indian scientific excellence was recognised in 2025.
Nobel Prize Winners 2025 — All 6 Categories with Full Details
In October 2025, the Nobel committees in Stockholm and Oslo named 14 scientists, a novelist, and a democracy activist as laureates across six fields. The year's prizes ranged from the quantum mechanics behind tomorrow's computers to the immune cells that keep our bodies from attacking themselves — with a literature prize to Hungary and a peace prize to Venezuela. This article walks through every category, what each winner actually did, and what competitive exam students need to lock in.
National Sports Awards 2025 — Complete Winners List with Profiles
The National Sports Awards 2025 ceremony — recognising performance in the 2024 sporting year — was held on 17 January 2025 at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. President Droupadi Murmu presented the honours to the largest gathering of awardees in recent memory: four Khel Ratna recipients, 32 Arjuna Awards (including a Lifetime Arjuna to 80-year-old Murlikant Petkar), five Dronacharya Awards, and three universities sharing the MAKA Trophy. The year's awards were shaped almost entirely by the Paris Olympics and Paris Paralympics of 2024, where India won six Olympic medals and a record 29 Paralympic medals.
Nobel Prize Winners 2024 — Complete Guide with Category-wise Details
The October 2024 Nobel announcements will be remembered as the year artificial intelligence walked into Stockholm. Two physicists who spent decades building the theoretical foundations of neural networks shared the Physics prize, while the Chemistry prize went in part to the team behind AlphaFold — the AI that cracked protein folding. Beyond AI, 2024 also brought a Medicine prize for a discovery made in roundworms, a Literature prize to South Korea for the first time, a Peace prize to Japanese atomic bomb survivors, and an Economics prize for work on why institutions determine national wealth.