Awards Current Affairs January 2015
- Arundhathi Subramaniam won Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry
- She won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize at Jaipur Literature Festival.
- Arundhati was awarded for her book When God is a Traveller.
- Major Mukund Varadarajan, Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh were posthumously awarded with Ashok Chakra.
- Padma Awards 2015 were given on the Republic Day. Some notable recipients:
- Padma Vibhushan-
- Lal Krishna Advani
- Prakash Singh Badal
- Dr. D Veerendra Heggade
- Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Padma Bhushan
- Rajat Sharma
- Professor Manjul Bhargava
- Bill Gates (Foreigner)
- Melinda Gates (Foreigner)
- Saichiro Misumi (Foreigner)
- Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap
- Padma Shri
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Tarak Mehta
- Huang Baosheng (Foreigner)
- Sardara Singh
- Professor Jacques Blamont(Foreigner)
- Jean-Claude Carriere (Foreigner)
- P. V. Sindhu
- Miss Colombia Paulina Vega was as the crowned Miss Universe 2014.
- Periyar Tiger Reserve of Kerela won the National Tiger Conservation Authority award 2015.
- Prabhu Nath Dwivedi was named as the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit.
- Amitabh Bachchan was chosen for the Social Media Person of the Year award 2015.
- Indian Golfer Anirban Lahiri was voted as Asian Tour’s 2014 Player of the Year.