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Quick Review of November 2014 Awards & Honors

Arunachal Pradesh - India's Best Project-2014 award Bhuvneshwar Kumar - ICC People's choice award-

2014 Bhuvneshwar Kumar - Polly Umrigar Award Darjeeling Zoo - The Earth Heroes Award 2014 Erach Bharucha - Earth Hero award Gunjan Sarma - 1st state bravery award (Assam) Hanumappa Sudarshan - India Social Entrepreneur of

the Year 2014 Kedarnath Singh -Jnanpith award 2013 Keith Vaz - Labour MP of the Year Krishna Iyer - K.R. Narayanan Award Mangalyaan - Best inventions of 2014 Manmohan Singh - Japan national award Manoj Kumar (Boxer) - Arjuna Award Narinder Batra - President's Award of International

Hockey Federation Pandit Jasraj - Sumitra Charat Ram Award 2014

(Lifetime Achievement) Rajinikanth - Indian Film Personality of the Year Renaud Lavillenie (French pole vaulter) - IAAF World

Athlete of the Year 2014 Rubber Board - Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Award Valerie Adams (New Zealand's shotputter) - IAAF

World Athletes of the Year 2014 Vengsarkar - BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award Venkat Mohan - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Virat Kohli - ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year Award SCOPE Meritorious Awards

o Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). o Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). o Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL). o Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). o Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). o Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC). o National Safai Karamcharis Finance &

Development Corporation (NSKFDC) 45th International Film Festival

o Russian Film "LEVIATHAN" - Golden Peacock Award

o Marathi film "EK HAZARACHI NOTE - Special Jury Award and Special centinary Award.

o Alexel Serebriakov and Dulal Sarkar Best Actor

o Arina Rodriguez Sarit Larry Best Actress o Nadaf Lapid (The Kindgarten Teacher) Best

Director o Wong Kar-wai Lifetime Achievement Award

New Appointments

Ajit Doval - Special Representative of India to China Ami Bera - Member, U.S. House of Representatives Anita Kapur - Chairperson, Central Board of Direct

Taxes (CBDT) Anoop Mishra - Lok Sabha Secretary General Baldev Raj Mahajan - Advocate General (AG),

Haryana C.K. Prasad - Chirman, Press Council of India (PCI) Deepak Gupta - Chairman, UPSC E.V.K.S. Elangovan - TN Congress Committee

President Ganpat Vasava - Speaker, Gujarat Assembly Giriraj Singh - Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium

Enterpirses Haribhau Bagde - Speaker, Maharashtra, Assembly Hasmukh Adhia - Secretary, Department of Financial

Services Keshari Nath Tripathi - Governor of Bihar (additional

charge) Laxmikant Parsekar - Chief Minister, Goa Manan Kumar Mishra - Chairman, Bar Council of

India Mark Ramprakash - Batting Coach, England and

Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Michel Kafando - Interim President, Burkina Faso P K Gupta - Chief Secretary of Haryana Ratan Tata - Member, Interpol Foundation S Prabhakaran - Co Chairman, Bar Council of India

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Sania Mirza - United Nations Goodwill Ambassador (South Asian region)

Scott Price - President and CEO, Walmart Asia Sutirtha Bhattacharya - CMD, Coal India limited (CIL) New Ministers :

o Manohar Parrikar -Defence Minister. o Suresh Prabhu - Railway Minister. o D.V. Sadananda Gowda - Law and Justice

Minister. o Ravi Shankar Prasad - Communications and

Information Technology. o Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare. o Dr. Harsh Vardhan - Science and Technology,

Earth Sciences. o Birender Singh - Minister for Rural

Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation.

ICC CWC 2015 Ambassadors o Australia fast-bowler Mitchell Johnson o New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum o Indias Virat Kohli o Sri Lankas former captain Kumar Sangakkara o Australias Shane Watson.

Deaths

Murli Deora - Former Union Ministe (longest serving petrolium minister)

Sitara Devi - Eminent Kathak danseuse Phillip Hughes - Australian cricketer PD James - Crime novelist Veenapani Chawla - Theatre personality Acker Bilk - Legendary jazz clarinetist

Sadashiv Amrapurkar - Veteran Bollywood actor Qimat Rai Gupta - Chairman, Havells India Limited M.V. Raghavan - Founder, Communist Marxist Party

(CMP) Wolfgang Theuerkauf - Social Worker, Botanist

(Mukkuruti forest in Karnataka) Mathias Samuel Soundra Pandian - JNU Professor,

Author Ravi Chopra - Mahabharat Director, Film maker Chandrasekhar P. Sant - President, Sports Journalists

Association of Mumbai Ken Takakura - Japanese Actor Kottarapattu Chattu - Sri Lanka's oldest hotel

doorman, Rudraiya Chockalingam - Tamil film director (Aval

Appadithaan) Marion Shepilov Barry Jr. - Ex-Washington DC mayor

Important Days

November 6th - Guru Nanak Jayanti November 7th - National Cancer Awareness Day November 9th - Legal Services Day November 12th - Public Service Broadcasting Day November 14th - Childrens Day November 19th - World Toilet Day November 21st - World TV Day November 21st - World Fisheries day November 25th - International Day for the

Elimination of Violence against Women November 26th - Constitution Day November 26th - National Milk Day

All the Best