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List of Awards & Honors of the year 2014-

• Abhishikta S Shetty  - Miss South India 2014 
• Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year
• Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013
• Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014
• Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013
• Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction")
• Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize
• Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival.
• Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award
• Chandi Prasad Bhatt - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013)
• Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA)
• Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature
• Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge
• Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013
• Govind Mishra - Sarawasti Samman (2013)
• Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013
• Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013.
• ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt
• Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt
• Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade
• Jhumpa Lahiri - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted)
• Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel
• Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award
• Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
• Koyal Rana - Miss India 2014
• Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US
• Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix
• Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014
• Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated)
• Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon 
• Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014
• MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award
• Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013)
• Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012)
• Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction)
• Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013
• Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International
• Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna
• Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix Award.
• Rajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013)
• Ratan Tata - Knight Grand Cross
• Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013
• Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna
• Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013)
• Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014
• Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award
• Sikkim - National Tourism Award
• Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU
• Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award
• Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title
• TCS - Top Employer in Europe
• Tomas Halik -  Templeton Prize 2014
• Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman Awards (2013)
• Yushi (Taiwanese poet) -  Thiruvalluvar award

List of Appointments 2014-

• A L Banerjee - New DGP (UP)
• Aditi Khanna - first woman President of Indian Journalists‘ Association (IJA), London.
• Ajoy Misra - MD & CEO, Tata Global Beverages Limited.
• Akhilesh Das Gupta - President (Re-Elected), Badminton Association of India (BAI)
• Akhilesh Gupta - President of Indian Meteorological Society
• Amitabh Kant - Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.
• Arvind Mayaram - New Finance Secretary
• Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Interim Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Arun Kumar Gupta - CMD, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)
• Ashraf Jehan - First female judge, Pakistan‘s National Sharia Court
• Chetan Tamboli - Chairman of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Western Region.
• Devendra Kumar Pathak - Special DG, Border Security Force.
• Dinesh Sarraf - New CMD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
• Edward Snowden - New Rector of the University of Glasgow
• Glen Attewell - New CEO to Tesco HSC
• G. Rohini – First Woman Chief Justice, Delhi High Court
• H C Meena - Secretary Security, Cabinet Secretariat.
• Harish Rawat - CM of Uttrarakhand.
• Ibrahim Mahlab - New PM of Egypt
• Jamila Bayaz - First Women Police chief, Afghanistan
• Janet Yellen - Head of US Federal Reserve (1st Woman)
• Jatinder Bir Singh - Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB)
• John Thompson - Chairman of Microsoft.
• Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur - Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission
• Justice B.S. Chauhan - Judge of the Supreme Court
• Kailash Meghwal - Speaker, Rajasthan Assembly
• Kalyan Singh - vice president of BJP
• Kiran Mazumdar Shaw - Chairperson, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B)
• Lt Gen P R Kumar - Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), Indian Army
• M Teresa Kho - ADB's (Asian Development Bank) new country director for India
• Malala Yousafzai - World Children's Prize, Sweden 
• Manoj Vaish - MD and CEO, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX)
• Marco Lambertini - Director-general of the WWF International
• Matteo Renzi - Italy's youngest PM
• Mukul Mudgal - chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC)
• Narendra Kothari – New Chairman, NMDC
• N P Singh - CEO, Multi Screen Media
• N. Ramachandran - President, Indian Olympic Association 
• N. Srinivasan - Chairman of the International Cricket Council 
• Oleksandr Turchynov - Interim President of Ukraine
• P. Madhusudan - CMD, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL)
• Poonam Khetrapal Singh - Regional Director of World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region
• Pradeep Kumar Saxena - GM, South Western Railway
• Priyadarshi Mohapatra - MD Avaya's India and SAARC operations)
• R. Chandrashekhar – President, NASCOM
• R Gandhi – Deputy Governor of RBI
• R.K.Tiwari - Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
• R. M. Lodha - New Chief Justice of India
• R. K. Dhowan – New Navy Chief
• Rajeev Kher - Secretary in Department of Commerce.
• Rajiv Takru - New Revenue Secretary 
• Rakesh Khurana - Dean, Harvard College
• Rakesh Maria - Mumbai Police Commissioner
• Ravi Chauhan  - MD, SAP India
• S.K. Sharma - CMD of Bharat Electronics Ltd.
• Sanjay - Deputy Chairman of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Western Region.
• Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft 
• Saurabh Chandra - Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
• Shankar Venkateswaran - Chief, Tata Sustainability Group 
• Sheikh Hasina - Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 3rd Time
• Sheila Dikshit - Governor of Kerala
• Shikhar Dhawan - Brand Ambassador to Canara Bank
• Soma Mondal - first woman director of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO).
• B.N. Sri Krishna - Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB)
• Sudhir Gupta - Secretary, TRAI
• Sunil Kumar Sood - General Manager, Central Railway 
• Sushil Koirala - PM of Nepal
• T. Nanda Kumar - Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
• Uday Sareen - Deputy CEO, ING Vysya Bank
• V. Kannan - CMD of Vijaya Bank.
• Vinod Sawhny - CEO of Reliance Communications (RCom)
• Yaduvendra Mathur - CMD of Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank)