Awards & Honours Mixed Quiz: Set 19

Barman built a network of village women known as the Hargila Army to protect the tall trees in which the birds nest and to change the local view of a bird once treated as a bad omen; UNEP honoured her in the Entrepreneurial Vision category in 2022.

It is the highest peacetime gallantry award and is given for the most conspicuous bravery or self-sacrifice away from the field of battle, to members of the armed forces and to civilians alike.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, the national academy for music, dance and drama set up by a government resolution in 1952 and inaugurated in January 1953, gives its annual awards widely but reserves the Fellowship as its highest distinction, limited to a small fixed number of living artists at any one…

The Gandhi Peace Prize is administered by the Ministry of Culture, which issues the notification and arranges the ceremony, although the selection rests with a jury chaired by the Prime Minister.

The ecologist Madhav Gadgil, who founded the Centre for Ecological Sciences at Bengaluru and chaired the expert panel that reported on the ecology of the Western Ghats, was honoured in 2024 for a career of research and advocacy rather than for a single project.

The Hungarian-born American publisher Joseph Pulitzer left money in his will to Columbia University in New York, which set up a school of journalism and the prizes that carry his name; the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 and are announced every year by the university on the recommendation…

The award is named after Tansen, the celebrated musician of Akbar's court who is associated with Gwalior, and it is presented at the Tansen Samaroh, the annual music festival held at Gwalior in that state.

The wrestler Vinesh Phogat was nominated in 2019 for the Laureus World Sports Award in the Breakthrough of the Year category, the first Indian athlete to be shortlisted in that category.

The airport is also notable as the first in India built through a public limited company with participation by the state government, non-resident Indians and the public.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him, and he was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any of the sciences; he made the discovery on…

The Academy in Chennai confers the Sangeetha Kalanidhi on the musician who presides over its annual December music season, and the title is treated as the highest distinction a Carnatic musician can receive.

The UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was instituted in 1997 and honours a person or an organisation that has defended freedom of the press, often at great personal risk.

The Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award was instituted in 1994 and is named after Amrita Devi, who in 1730 at Khejarli in Rajasthan died, along with hundreds of other Bishnois, resisting the felling of khejri trees ordered by the ruler of Jodhpur, and the community has protected trees and…

The prize for 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi of India, who founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan against child labour, and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, who campaigned for girls' education and who remains the youngest person to receive any Nobel Prize.

The Carnatic vocalist was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1998, becoming the first musician to receive the country's highest civilian honour; she had earlier been the first Indian musician to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award, in 1974.

The prize is named after Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, the first Director General of the Council, and is given by the Council to scientists working in India, usually announced around its foundation day on 26 September.

The correct answer is B, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, which instituted the award in 1987 for outstanding contribution to the protection of the environment by an individual or an organisation.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's national academy of music, dance and drama, was created by a government resolution of 31 May 1952 and formally inaugurated on 28 January 1953 by President Rajendra Prasad.

Samantara pursued a twelve year legal battle that ended with the recognition of the community's rights and the blocking of a proposed open pit bauxite mine, and the Goldman Prize followed in 2017.

He also wrote the national anthems sung in India and in Bangladesh.