WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
• Indian-American physician-author, Abraham
Verghese (61) has been selected for the prestigious
2015 National Humanities Medal.
• India-born innovator and scientist Ramesh Raskar
has won the prestigious 2016 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
• Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP
Subramanian Swamy has been honoured with Tamil
Ratna award by America Tamil Sangam (ATS) in New
York.
• Haryana has won ‘Best Horticulture State’ award of
the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA).
• Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Sindhudurg in
Maharashtra have emerged the cleanest districts in
India according Gramin Swachh Survekshan.
• Novel based on Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh
titled Into the Hidden Valley has won 2016 MM
Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction in the United
Kingdom.
• Indian film Thithi has won the best film award at the
first BRICS Film Festival concluded in New Delhi.
• Assam-based ecologist and conservation activist
Bibhuti Lahkar has won prestigious ‘Heritage Heroes
Award’ of the International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN).
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