Winners of 57th National Film Awards

Best Actor – Amitabh Bachchan (Paa)
Best Actress – Ananya Chatterjee (Abohoman)
Best Director – Rituparno Ghosh (Abohoman)
Best Film – Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment – 3 Idiots
Nargis Dutt award for Best Film with Social Message – Delhi-6
Best Children’s Film – Putaani Party (kannada) Keshu(Malayalam)
Best Screen Play: Harikrishnan, PF Mathews(Kutty Srank-Malayalam)
Best Music – Amit Trivedi (Dev D)
Best Playback Singer (Male) – Rupam Islam (Mahanagar)
Best Playback Singer (Female) – Nilanjana Sarkar (Housefull)
Best Background Score – Illayaraja(Film-Pazhassiraja)
Best Lyrics Award – Swanand Kirkere (Behti Hawa Sa -3 Idiots)
Best Supporting Actor – Farooque Sheikh (Lahore)
Best Supporting Actress – Arundhati Naag (Paa)
Best Film on Social Awareness – Well Done Abba
Best Cinematography – Anjali Shukla (Kutty Srank)
Best Choreography – K Shivashankar (Magadheera)
Best Audiography – Resul Pookutty (Pazhassi Raja (film))
Best Special Effects – Kamal Kannan (Magadheera)(Telugu)

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Nobel Awardees for Nobel Economics Prize

Year	Name of Awardee
2010	Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides
2009	Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E. Williamson
2008	Paul Krugman
2007	Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson
2006	Edmund S. Phelps
2005	Robert J. Aumann, Thomas C. Schelling
2004	Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott
2003	Robert F. Engle III, Clive W.J. Granger
2002	Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith
2001	George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz
2000	James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden
1999	Robert A. Mundell
1998	Amartya Sen
1997	Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes
1996	James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey
1995	Robert E. Lucas Jr.
1994	John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten
1993	Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North
1992	Gary S. Becker
1991	Ronald H. Coase
1990	Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe
1989	Trygve Haavelmo
1988	Maurice Allais
1987	Robert M. Solow
1986	James M. Buchanan Jr.
1985	Franco Modigliani
1984	Richard Stone
1983	Gerard Debreu
1982	George J. Stigler
1981	James Tobin
1980	Lawrence R. Klein
1979	Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis
1978	Herbert A. Simon
1977	Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade
1976	Milton Friedman
1975	Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans
1974	Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich August von Hayek
1973	Wassily Leontief
1972	John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow
1971	Simon Kuznets
1970	Paul A. Samuelson
1969	Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen

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Nobel Awardees for Nobel Physiology Medicine Prize

Year	Name of Awardee
2010	Robert G. Edwards
2009	Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak
2008	Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier
2007	Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans, Oliver Smithies
2006	Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello
2005	Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren
2004	Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck
2003	Paul C. Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield
2002	Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston
2001	Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul M. Nurse
2000	Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
1999	Günter Blobel
1998	Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
1997	Stanley B. Prusiner
1996	Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1995	Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
1994	Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
1993	Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp
1992	Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
1991	Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
1990	Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
1989	J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
1988	Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
1987	Susumu Tonegawa
1986	Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
1985	Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
1984	Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein
1983	Barbara McClintock
1982	Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
1981	Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
1980	Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
1979	Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1978	Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
1977	Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
1976	Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek
1975	David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
1974	Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
1973	Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
1972	Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter
1971	Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
1970	Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
1969	Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria
1968	Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
1967	Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
1966	Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins
1965	François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
1964	Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
1963	Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
1962	Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
1961	Georg von Békésy
1960	Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar
1959	Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
1958	George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
1957	Daniel Bovet
1956	André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards
1955	Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
1954	John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
1953	Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
1952	Selman Abraham Waksman
1951	Max Theiler
1950	Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench
1949	Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
1948	Paul Hermann Müller
1947	Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, Bernardo Alberto Houssay
1946	Hermann Joseph Muller
1945	Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey
1944	Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
1943	Henrik Carl Peter Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy
1942	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1941	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1940	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1939	Gerhard Domagk
1938	Corneille Jean François Heymans
1937	Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt
1936	Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi
1935	Hans Spemann
1934	George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy
1933	Thomas Hunt Morgan
1932	Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
1931	Otto Heinrich Warburg
1930	Karl Landsteiner
1929	Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
1928	Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
1927	Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1926	Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
1925	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1924	Willem Einthoven
1923	Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod
1922	Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
1921	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1920	Schack August Steenberg Krogh
1919	Jules Bordet
1918	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1917	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1916	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1915	No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1914	Robert Bárány
1913	Charles Robert Richet
1912	Alexis Carrel
1911	Allvar Gullstrand
1910	Albrecht Kossel
1909	Emil Theodor Kocher
1908	Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
1907	Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
1906	Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1905	Robert Koch
1904	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
1903	Niels Ryberg Finsen
1902	Ronald Ross
1901	Emil Adolf von Behring

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Recipients of Dadasaheb Phalke Award

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian cinema.
Following is the list of award winners:

Name of Awardee	Year	Occupation/Field
D. Ramanaidu	2009	Producer
V. K. Murthy	2008	Cinematographer
Manna Dey	2007	Playback Singer
Tapan Sinha	2006	Director
Shyam Benegal	2005	Director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan	2004	Director
Mrinal Sen	2003	Director
Dev Anand	2002	Actor, Director, Producer
Yash Chopra	2001	Director, Producer
Asha Bhosle	2000	Playback Singer
Hrishikesh Mukherjee	1999	Director
B.R. Chopra	1998	Director, Producer
Pradeep	1997	Lyricist
Sivaji Ganesan	1996	Actor
Rajkumar	1995	Actor
Dilip Kumar	1994	Actor
Majrooh Sultanpuri	1993	Lyricist
Bhupen Hazarika	1992	Director
Bhalji Pendharkar	1991	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Akkineni Nageswara Rao	1990	Actor
Lata Mangeshkar	1989	Playback Singer
Ashok Kumar	1988	Actor
Raj Kapoor	1987	Actor, Director
B. Nagi Reddy	1986	Producer
V. Shantaram	1985	Actor, Director, Producer
Satyajit Ray	1984	Director
Durga Khote	1983	Actress
L. V. Prasad	1982	Actor, Director, Producer
Naushad Ali	1981	Music Director
Paidi Jairaj	1980	Actor, Director
Sohrab Modi	1979	Actor, Director, Producer
Rai Chand Boral	1978	Music Director, Director
Nitin Bose	1977	Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
Kanan Devi	1976	Actress
Dhirendranath Ganguly	1975	Actor, Director
Bomireddi Narasimha Reddy	1974	Director
Ruby Myers (Sulochana)	1973	Actress
Pankaj Mullick	1972	Music Director
Prithviraj Kapoor	1971	Actor (Posthumous)
B. N. Sircar	1970	Producer
Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich	1969	Actress

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Recipients of Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is the highest literary award in India. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of The Times of India newspaper. The Jnanpith Award is given to any Indian writer for his or her outstanding contribution in any of the 18 languages mentioned in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. It is given for outstanding contribution to creative writing in a specified period of 15 years but excluding the five years immediately preceding the year.
Following is the list of the Jnanpith Awardees, so far:

Laureates Awarded	Year	Language
Akhlaq Khan Shahryar	2008	Urdu
O. N. V. Kurup	2007	Malayalam
Satyavrat Shastri	2006	Sanskrit
Ravindra Kelekar	2006	Konkani
Kunwar Narain	2005	Hindi
Rahman Rahi	2004	Kashmiri
Vinda Karandikar	2003	Marathi
D. Jayakanthan	2002	Tamil
Rajendra Shah	2001	Gujarati
Indira Goswami	2000	Assamese
Nirmal Verma	1999	Hindi
Gurdial Singh	1999	Punjabi
Girish Karnad	1998	Kannada
Ali Sardar Jafri	1997	Urdu
Mahasveta Devi	1996	Bangla
M.T. Vasudevan Nair	1995	Malayalam
U.R. Anantha Murthy	1994	Kannada
Sitakant Mahapatra	1993	Oriya
Naresh Mehta	1992	Hindi
Subhash Mukhopadhyaya	1991	Bangla
V.K. Gokak	1990	Kannada
Qurratulain Hyder	1989	Urdu
C. Narayana Reddy	1988	Telugu
V.V.S. ‘Kusumagraj’	1987	Marathi
Satchidanand Rautroy	1986	Oriya
Pannalal Patel	1985	Gujarati
Thakazhi S. Pillai	1984	Malayalam
Masti V. Iyengar	1983	Kannada
Mahadevi Varma	1982	Hindi
Amrita Pritam	1981	Punjabi
S.K. Pottekkatt	1980	Malayalam,
B.K. Bhattacharya	1979	Assamese
S.H.V. Ajneya	1978	Hindi
K.S. Karanth	1977	Kannada
Ashapurna Devi	1976	Bangla
P.V. Akilandam	1975	Tamil
V.S. Khandekar	1974	Marathi
D.R. Bendre	1973	Kannada,
Gopinath Mohanty	1973	Oriya
Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar’	1972	Hindi
Bishnu Dey	1971	Bangla
V. Satyanarayana	1970	Telugu
Firaq Gorakhpuri	1969	Urdu
Sumitranandan Pant	1968	Hindi
Uma Shankar Joshi	1967	Gujarati
K.V. Puttappa	1967	Kannada
T.S. Bandyopadhyaya	1966	Bangla
G. Sankara Kurup	1965	Malayalam

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International Trophies Associated with Sports

Below the list of International Trophies and awards with associated games and sports:

Games/Sports	Trophies/Awards
Air Races	King’s Cup
Badminton	Thomas Cup
Badminton (Women)	Uber Cup
Basketball	William’s Cup
Cricket	Ashes
Cricket	Benson and Hedges
Cricket	World Cup
Cricket	Reliance Cup
Cricket	Rothman’s Trophy
Football	Colombo Cup
Football	Merdeka Cup
Football	European Champions Cup
Golf	Canada Cup
Golf	Rydet Cup
Golf	Walker Cup
Golf	Eisenhower Cup
Hockey	World Cup
Hockey	Essande Champions Cup
Hockey	Rene Frank Trophy
Horse Race	Derby
Horse Streple Chase Race	Grand National
Lawn Tennis	Davis Cup
Lawn Tennis	Wightman Cup
Lawn Tennis	Edgbaston Cup
Lawn Tennis	Grand Prix
Polo	Westchester Cup
Table Tennis	Grand Prix
Table Tennis (Men)	Swaythling Cup
Table Tennis (Women)	Corbitton Cup
Tennis	U. Thant Cup
Weight-lifting	World Cup
World Soccer Cup	Jules Rimet Trophy
Yacht Racing	American Cup

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Davis Cup Championship Winner Countries since 1990

Below is the list of Davis Cup Championship Winner Countries since 1990. In total, 13 nations have been crowned Davis Cup champion ince USA won the inaugural competition in 1900. In 1901 and 1910, finals were not played where as in  1974, South Africa won by walkover.

Year	Winner	Won by	Against	Venue
2010	Serbia	3 – 2	France	Belgrade Arena, Belgrade
2009	Spain	5 – 0	Czech Rep	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona
2008	Spain	3 – 1	Argentina	Estadio Islas Malvinas, Mar del Plata
2007	USA	4 – 1	Russia	Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
2006	Russia	3 – 2	Argentina	Olympic Stadium, Moscow
2005	Croatia	3 – 2	Slovak Rep	Sibamac Arena National TC, Bratislava
2004	Spain	3 – 2	USA	Estadio Olimpico De Sevilla, Seville
2003	Australia	3 – 1	Spain	Melbourne Park, Melbourne
2002	Russia	3 – 2	France	Palais Omnisports Bercy, Paris
2001	France	3 – 2	Australia	Melbourne Park, Melbourne, VIC
2000	Spain	3 – 1	Australia	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona
1999	Australia	3 – 2	France	Acropolis Exhibition Hall, Nice
1998	Sweden	4 – 1	Italy	Forum, Milan
1997	Sweden	5 – 0	USA	Scandinavium, Gothenburg
1996	France	3 – 2	Sweden	Massan Hall, Malmo
1995	USA	3 – 2	Russia	Olympic Stadium, Moscow
1994	Sweden	4 – 1	Russia	Olympic Stadium, Moscow
1993	Germany	4 – 1	Australia	Exhibition Hall, Dusseldorf
1992	USA	3 – 1	Switzerland	Tarrant County Centre, Fort Worth, TX
1991	France	3 – 1	USA	Gerland Sports Palace, Lyon
1990	USA	3 – 2	Australia	Sun Coast Dome, St Petersburg, FL
1989	Germany F.R.	3 – 2	Sweden	Schleyer Halle, Stuttgart
1988	Germany F.R.	4 – 1	Sweden	The Scandinavium, Gothenburg
1987	Sweden	5 – 0	India	The Scandinavium, Gothenburg
1986	Australia	3 – 2	Sweden	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1985	Sweden	3 – 2	Germany F.R.	Olympia Halle, Munich
1984	Sweden	4 – 1	USA	The Scandinavium, Gothenburg
1983	Australia	3 – 2	Sweden	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1982	USA	4 – 1	France	Sports Palace, Grenoble
1981	USA	3 – 1	Argentina	Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH
1980	Czechoslovakia	4 – 1	Italy	Sportovni Hall, Prague
1979	USA	5 – 0	Italy	Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
1978	USA	4 – 1	Great Britain	Mission Hills CC, Rancho Mirage, CA
1977	Australia	3 – 1	Italy	White City Stadium, Sydney, NSW
1976	Italy	4 – 1	Chile	Estadio Nacional, Santiago
1975	Sweden	3 – 2	Czechoslovakia	Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm
1974	South Africa	-	India	South Africa won by walkover
1973	Australia	5 – 0	USA	Public Auditorium, Cleveland, OH
1972	USA	3 – 2	Romania	Club Sportiv Progresul, Bucharest
1971	USA	3 – 2	Romania	Olde Providence RC, Charlotte, NC
1970	USA	5 – 0	Germany F.R.	Harold Clark Courts, Cleveland, OH
1969	USA	5 – 0	Romania	Harold Clark Courts, Cleveland, OH
1968	USA	4 – 1	Australia	Memorial Drive, Adelaide, SA
1967	Australia	4 – 1	Spain	Milton Courts, Brisbane, QLD
1966	Australia	4 – 1	India	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1965	Australia	4 – 1	Spain	White City Stadium, Sydney, NSW
1964	Australia	3 – 2	USA	Harold Clark Courts, Cleveland, OH
1963	USA	3 – 2	Australia	Memorial Drive, Adelaide, SA
1962	Australia	5 – 0	Mexico	Milton Courts, Brisbane, QLD
1961	Australia	5 – 0	Italy	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1960	Australia	4 – 1	Italy	White City Stadium, Sydney, NSW
1959	Australia	3 – 2	USA	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1958	USA	3 – 2	Australia	Milton Courts, Brisbane, QLD
1957	Australia	3 – 2	USA	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1956	Australia	5 – 0	USA	Memorial Drive, Adelaide, SA
1955	Australia	5 – 0	USA	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1954	USA	3 – 2	Australia	White City Stadium, Sydney, NSW
1953	Australia	3 – 2	USA	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1952	Australia	4 – 1	USA	Memorial Drive, Adelaide, SA
1951	Australia	3 – 2	USA	White City Stadium, Sydney, NSW
1950	Australia	4 – 1	USA	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1949	USA	4 – 1	Australia	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1948	USA	5 – 0	Australia	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1947	USA	4 – 1	Australia	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1946	USA	5 – 0	Australia	Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
1939	Australia	3 – 2	USA	Merion CC, Haverford, PA
1938	USA	3 – 2	Australia	Germantown CC, Philadelphia, PA
1937	USA	4 – 1	Great Britain	AELTC, Wimbledon, London
1936	Great Britain	3 – 2	Australia	AELTC, Wimbledon, London
1935	Great Britain	5 – 0	USA	AELTC, Wimbledon, London
1934	Great Britain	4 – 1	USA	AELTC, Wimbledon, London
1933	Great Britain	3 – 2	France	Roland Garros, Paris
1932	France	3 – 2	USA	Roland Garros, Paris
1931	France	3 – 2	Great Britain	Roland Garros, Paris
1930	France	4 – 1	USA	Roland Garros, Paris
1929	France	3 – 2	USA	Roland Garros, Paris
1928	France	4 – 1	USA	Roland Garros, Paris
1927	France	3 – 2	USA	Germantown CC, Philadelphia, PA
1926	USA	4 – 1	France	Germantown CC, Philadelphia, PA
1925	USA	5 – 0	France	Germantown CC, Philadelphia, PA
1924	USA	5 – 0	Australia	Germantown CC, Philadelphia, PA
1923	USA	4 – 1	Australia	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1922	USA	4 – 1	Australia	West Side TC, 238th Street, NY
1921	USA	5 – 0	Japan	West Side TC, 238th Street, NY
1920	USA	5 – 0	Australia	Domain CC, Auckland
1919	Australia	4 – 1	Great Britain	Double Bay Grounds, Sydney, NSW
1914	Australia	3 – 2	USA	West Side TC, Forest Hills, NY
1913	USA	3 – 2	Great Britain	Worple Road, Wimbledon, London
1912	British Isles	3 – 2	Australasia	Albert Ground, Melbourne, VIC
1911	Australasia	5 – 0	USA	Hagley Park, Christchurch
1910	Australasia	-	British Isles	Final not played
1909	Australasia	5 – 0	USA	Double Bay Grounds, Sydney, NSW
1908	Australasia	3 – 2	USA	Albert Ground, Melbourne, VIC
1907	Australasia	3 – 2	British Isles	Worple Road, Wimbledon, London
1906	British Isles	5 – 0	USA	Worple Road, Wimbledon, London
1905	British Isles	5 – 0	USA	Worple Road, Wimbledon, London
1904	British Isles	5 – 0	Belgium	Worple Road, Wimbledon, London
1903	British Isles	4 – 1	USA	Longwood CC, Boston, MA
1902	USA	3 – 2	British Isles	Crescent AC, Brooklyn, NY
1901	USA	-	British Isles	Final not played
1900	USA	3 – 0	British Isles	Longwood CC, Boston, MA

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Name of Awardees for Padma Awards 2011

Following are names of all awardees for Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan Padma Shri Award 2011:

Name of Padma Vibhushan Awardees 2011
Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
Dr. (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan	Art – Art Administration and Promotion.	Delhi
Mrs. Homai Vyarawalla	Art – Photography	Gujarat
Shri A Nageshwara Rao	Art- Cinema	Andhra Pradesh
Shri Parasaran Kesava Iyengar	Public Affairs	Delhi
Dr. Akhlaq-ur-Rehman Kidwai	Public Affairs	Delhi
Shri Vijay Kelkar	Public Affairs	Delhi
Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia	Public Affairs	Delhi
Shri Palle Rama Rao	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
Shri Azim Premji	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
Shri Brajesh Mishra	Civil Services	Madhya Pradesh
Prof. (Dr.) Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup	Literature and Education	Kerala
Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra	Literature and Education	Orissa
Late Shri L. C. Jain	Public Affairs	Delhi *
Name of Padma Bhushan Awardees 2011
Shri Satyadev Dubey	Art - Theatre	Maharashtra
Shri Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi alias Khayyam	Art – Cinema - Music	Maharashtra
Shri Shashi Kapoor	Art – Cinema	Maharashtra
Shri Krishen Khanna	Art – Painting	Haryana
Shri Madavur VasudevanNair	Art – Dance - Kathakali	Kerala
Ms. Waheeda Rehman	Art – Cinema	Maharashtra
Shri Rudrapatna Krishna Shastry Srikantan	Art – Music-Vocal	Karnataka
Ms. Arpita Singh	Art – Painting	Delhi
Dr. Sripathi Panditharadhyula   Balasubrahmanyam	Art – Playback Singing, Music Direction & acting	Tamil Nadu
Shri C.V. Chandrasekhar	Art – Classical Dance-Bharatanatyam	Tamil Nadu
Shri Dwijen Mukherjee	Art	West Bengal
Smt. Rajashree Birla	Social work	Maharashtra
Mrs. Shobhana Ranade	Social work	Maharashtra
Dr. Suryanarayanan Ramachandran	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
Shri S.(Kris) Gopalakrishnan	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
Shri Yogesh Chander Deveshwar	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
Ms. Chanda Kochhar	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
Dr. K. Anji Reddy	Trade and Industry- Pharmacy	Andhra Pradesh
Shri Analjit Singh	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Shri Rajendra Singh Pawar	Trade and Industry	Haryana
Dr. Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy	Trade and Industry	Andhra Pradesh
Shri Ajai Chowdhary	Trade and Industry	Delhi
Shri Surendra Singh	Civil Services	Delhi
Shri M. N .Buch	Civil Services	Madhya Pradesh
Shri Shyam Saran	Civil Services	Delhi
Shri Thayil Jacob Sony George	Literature and Education	Karnataka
Dr. Ramdas Madhava Pai	Literature and Education	Karnataka
Shri Sankha Ghosh	Literature and Education	West Bengal
Late Shri K. RaghavanThirumulpad	Medicine - Ayurveda.	Kerala*
Late Dr. Keki Byramjee Grant	Medicine – Cardiology	Maharashtra *
Late Shri Dashrath Patel	Art	Gujarat *
Name of Padma Shri Awardees 2011
Ms. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry	Art – Theatre	Chandigarh
Shri Makar DhwajaDarogha	Art- Chhau Dance	Jharkhand
Shri Shaji Neelakantan Karun	Art – Film Direction	Kerala
Shri Girish Kasaravalli	Art – Film making	Karnataka
Ms. Tabassum Hashmi Khan alias Tabu	Art – Cinema	Maharashtra
Shri Jivya Soma Mase	Art - Warli Painting	Maharashtra
Guru (Ms.) M.K. Saroja	Art – Dance- Bharatnatyam	Tamil Nadu
Shri Jayaram Subramaniam	Art – Cinema	Tamil Nadu
Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty	Art – Music-Indian Classical Vocal	West Bengal
Smt. Mahasundari Devi	Art - Mithilia/ MadhubaniPainting.	Bihar
Shri Gajam Govardhana	Art – Handloom Weaving	Andhra Pradesh
Ms. Sunayana Hazarilal	Art – Dance - Kathak	Maharashtra
Shri S.R. Janakiraman	Art - Carnatic Vocal Music	Tamil Nadu
Shri Peruvanam KuttanMarar	Art - Chenda Melam- Drum concert	Kerala
Smt. Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran	Art – Dance - Mohiniattam	Kerala
Shri Dadi DorabPudumjee	Art – Puppetry	Delhi
Shri Khangembam Mangi Singh	Art – Traditional Music of Manipur (Pena)	Manipur
Shri Prahlad Singh Tipaniya	Art – Folk Music	Madhya Pradesh
Smt. Usha Uthup	Art – Music.	West Bengal
Smt. Kajol	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
Shri Irfan Khan	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
Shri Mamraj Agrawal	Social work	West Bengal
Shri Jockin Arputham	Social work	Maharashtra
Ms. Nomita Chandy	Social work	Karnataka
Ms. Sheela Patel	Social work	Maharashtra
Ms. Anita Reddy	Social work	Karnataka
Shri KanubhaiHasmukhbhai Tailor	Social work	Gujarat
Shri Anant Darshan Shankar	Public Affairs	Karnataka
Prof. M. Annamalai	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
Dr. Mahesh Haribhai Mehta	Science and Engineering – Agricultural Science	Gujarat
Shri Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
Dr. (Mrs.) Suman Sahai	Science and Engineering	Delhi
Prof.(Dr.) E.A. Siddiq	Science and Engineering – Agricultural Science	Andhra Pradesh
Shri Gopalan Nair Shankar	Science and Engineering – Architecture	Kerala
Shri Mecca RafeequeAhmed	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
Shri KailasamRaghavendra Rao	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
Shri Narayan Singh Bhati	Civil Services	Andhra Pradesh
Shri P K Sen	Civil Services	Bihar
Ms. Shital Mahajan	Sports – Adventure Sports- Para Jumping	Maharashtra
Ms. Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi	Sports – Weightlifting	Manipur
Shri Sushil Kumar	Sports – Wrestling	Delhi
Shri VangipurapuVenkata Sai Laxman	Sports – Cricket	Andhra Pradesh
Shri Gagan Narang	Sports – Shooting	Andhra Pradesh
Smt. Krishna Poonia	Sports – Discus Throw	Rajasthan
Shri Harbhajan Singh	Sports – Mountaineering	Punjab
Dr. Pukhraj Bafna	Medicine - Padeatrics	Chhattisgarh
Prof. Mansoor Hasan	Medicine- Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mandal	Medicine - Orthopaedic	Delhi
Prof. (Dr.) Sivapatham Vittal	Medicine – Endocrinology	Tamil Nadu
Prof. (Dr.) Madanur Ahmed Ali	Medicine – Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
Dr. Indira Hinduja	Medicine – Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	Maharashtra
Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram	Medicine – Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.	Kerala
Prof. (Dr.) A. Marthanda Pillai	Medicine – Neurosurgery	Kerala
Shri Mahim Bora	Literature and Education	Assam
Prof. (Dr.) Pullella Srirama Chandrudu	Literature and Education- Sanskrit	Andhra Pradesh
Dr. Pravin Darji	Literature and Education	Gujarat
Dr. Chandra Prakash Deval	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
Shri Balraj Komal	Literature and Education	Delhi
Mrs. Rajni Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi
Dr. Devanooru Mahadeva	Literature and Education	Karnataka
Shri Barun Mazumder	Literature and Education	West Bengal
Dr. Avvai Natarajan	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
Shri BhalchandraNemade	Literature and Education	Himachal Pradesh
Prof. Riyaz Punjabi	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
Ms. Buangi Sailo	Literature and Education	Mizoram
Prof. Devi Dutt Sharma	Literature and Education	Uttarakhand
Shri Nilamber Dev Sharma	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
Ms. Urvashi Butalia #	Literature and Education	Delhi
Ms. Ritu Menon #	Literature and Education	Delhi
Prof. Krishna Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi
Shri Deviprasad Dwivedi	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Mamang Dai	Literature and Education	Arunachal Pradesh
Dr. Om Prakash Agrawal	Others – Heritage Conservation	Uttar Pradesh
Prof. Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar	Others – Archeology	Maharashtra
Ms. Shanti Teresa Lakra	Others-Nursing	Andaman & Nicobar
Smt. Gulshan Nanda	Others – Handicrafts promotion	Delhi
Dr. Azad Moopen	Social work	UAE *
Prof. Upendra Baxi	Public Affairs -Legal Affairs	United Kingdom *
Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik	Science and Engineering	USA *
Dr. Subra Suresh	Science and Engineering	USA *
Prof. Karl Harrington Potter	Literature and Education	USA *
Prof. Martha Chen	Social work	USA *
Shri Satpal Khattar	Trade and Industry	Singapore *
Shri Granville Austin	Literature and Education	USA *
Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. And # indicates duo case.

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83rd Oscar Award Winners 2011

83rd Oscar Award Winners 2011: Detailed list of nominated winners with their category award. The King’s Speech” won the top Academy Award, for best picture, giving the British royals drama a total of four Oscars.

Award Category	Nominated Winner
Actor in a Leading Role	Colin Firth in The King’s Speech
Actor in a Supporting Role	Christian Bale in The Fighter
Actress in a Leading Role	Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Actress in a Supporting Role	Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Animated Feature Film	Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
Art Direction	Alice in Wonderland
Best Picture	The King’s Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers)
Cinematography	Inception (Wally Pfister)
Costume Design	Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
Directing	The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
Documentary (Feature)	Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Documentary (Short Subject)	Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Film Editing	The Social Network (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter)
Foreign-Language Film	In a Better World (Denmark) (defeating Montrealer Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies)
Makeup	The Wolfman (Rick Baker and Dave Elsey)
Music (Original Score)	The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Music (Original Song)	We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Music and Lyric by Randy Newman)
Short Film (Animated)	The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Short Film (Live Action)	God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Sound Editing	Inception (Richard King)
Sound Mixing	Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick)
Visual Effects	Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)	The Social Network (Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin)
Writing (Original Screenplay)	The King’s Speech (Screenplay by David Seidler)

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Vietnam

Vietnam

AREA	331,114 sq km (127,844 sq miles).
POPULATION	75,355,200 (1996).
POPULATION DENSITY	227.6 per sq km.
CAPITAL	Hanoi.
CAPITAL POPULATION	2,154,900 (1993).
GEOGRAPHY	Vietnam shares borders to the north with the People's Republic of China and to the west with Laos and Cambodia. The South China Sea lies to the east and south. The land is principally agricultural with a central tropical rainforest.
GOVERNMENT	Socialist republic since 1980. Gained independence from France in 1954. Head of State: Chairman Trân Duc Luong since 1997. Head of Government: Prime Minister Phan Van Khai since 1997.
LANGUAGE	Vietnamese is the official language. English, French, Chinese and occasionally Russian and German are spoken.
RELIGION	Buddhist majority. There are Taoist, Confucian, Hoa Hao, Caodaist and Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic) minorities.
STANDARD TIME	GMT + 7.
ELECTRICITY	220 volts AC, 50Hz.

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