Awards & Honors 2023 For Kerala PSC

 This page summarises all of the notable awards and honours granted in 2023 at the international, national, and state levels for various forthcoming Kerala PSC examinations, including Prelims and Mains.

List of Important Awards & Honors of 2023

 International Level Awards 2023

• Golden Globe Award 2023 – 
• Best Original Song – Naatu Naatu (RRR)
• Best Director – Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans).
• Best Actor – Austin Butler (Elvis).
• Best Actress – Cate Blanchett (Tár).
• Oscar Awards 2023
• Oscar Nominated Indian Films 2023 – 2
• RRR (S.S. Rajamouli).
• The Chello Show (Paan Nalin)
• Oscar Nominated Indian Documentaries 2023 – 2
• All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen) 
• The Elephant Whispers (Kartiki Gonsalves)
• Miss Universe 2022 – R’Bonney Gabriel (USA)
• 9th winner of the pageant from US.
• First Runner up – Amanda Dudamel (Venezuela).
• Second Runner up –  Andreína Martínez (Dominican Republic).
• UN Medal for Exemplary Service – Peacekeepers from India.
• 1,171 peacekeepers from India deployed for UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
• Second highest troop-contributing countries to UN – India (2370).
• Highest troop-contributing countries to UN – Rwanda (2637).
• UN's World Habitat Award 2023 – Odisha.
• for its 5T Jaga Mission, the world’s largest land titling and slum upgrading program which empowers the life of slum dwellers.
• Winners of 111th Australian Open – 
• Men's singles – Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
• Women's singles – Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)
• Men's doubles – Rinky Hijikata & Jason Kubler (Australia)
• Women's doubles – Barbora Krejčíková & Kateřina Siniaková (Czech Republic)
• Mixed doubles – Luisa Stefani & Rafael Matos (Brazil)
• Runner Up of Mixed doubles Australian Open 2023 – Sania Mirza & Rohan Bopanna.
• Lifetime Achievement Honour (UK) – Manmohan Singh.
• Winners of Women's Under-19 T20 Cricket World Cup 2023 – India.
• Venue – South Africa.
• Runners Up – England.
• Hosts of Women's Under-19 T20 Cricket World Cup 2025 – Malaysia & Thailand.
• Hosts of Women's Under-19 T20 Cricket World Cup 2027 – Bangladesh & Nepal.
• Grammy Award 2023 – 
• Record of the Year – Lizzo.
• Song of the Year – Lizzo (About Damn Time).
• Album of the Year – Harry Styles (Harry’s House).
• Best Dance/Electronic Recording – Beyoncé (Break My Soul).
• Best Immersive Audio Album – Ricky Kej & Stewart Copeland (Divine Tides).
• UNESCO Peace Prize 2023 – Angela Merkel (For her assistance to refugees by omplementing the "open-door" policy in Germany).
• Golden Book Awards 2023 – 
• Sohan Roy (Kathakavyam; കഥാകാവ്യം)
• Arun Kunjunny (Merrored Poetry 101)
• Lijeesh Kumar (Ormakal Ente Urakkam Keduthunnu; ഓർമ്മകൾ എന്റെ ഉറക്കം കെടുത്തുന്നു)
• Shaji Kumar AP (Oru Minute; ഒരു മിനിറ്റ്)
• Sanjay Ambala Parambath (Kanmani, കൺമണി)
• Dr. Ashok D’cruz (Malayala Gaveshanam Akavum Puravum; മലയാള ഗവേഷണം അകവും പുറവും)
• Dr. K. Sreekumar (Buddhavelicham; ബുദ്ധവെളിച്ചം)
• Manoj Vaz Ramchandran (Queendom, Tinsel)
• Manoj Krishneswary (Subhachinthakalude 365 Dinangal ; ശുഭചിന്തകളുടെ 365 ദിനങ്ങൾ)
• Vrinda Menon (Asthamikkatha akashangalil ente kathakal; അസ്തമിക്കാത്ത ആകാശങ്ങളിൽ എന്റെ കഥകൾ)
• Dr. K. Venugopal (Karshakarude Thozhil Janya Rogangal; കർഷകരുടെ തൊഴിൽ ജന്യരോഗങ്ങൾ)
• National Geographic ‘Pictures of the year’Award 2023 – Karthik Subramaniam (Indian Origin).

• 76th BAFTA Awards 2023 – 
• Best Film – All Quiet on the Western Front
• Best Actor – Austin Butler (Elvis)
• BestActress – Cate Blanchett (Tar)
• Best Director – Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front).
• International Mother Language Award – Dr. Mahendra Mishra (for the advancement of indigenous languages in Odisha).  
• Marconi Prize 2023 – Hari Balakrishnan (for fundamental contributions to wired and wireless networking, mobile sensing, and distributed systems).
• Porter Prize 2023 – Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry (for the government’s strategy in managing COVID-19).
• Pritzker Architecture Prize 2023 – Sir David Chipperfield.
• Oscars Awards 2023 – 
• Best Picture – Everything Everywhere All At Once.
• Best Director – Daniel Kwan & Daniel Schienert (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
• Best Actor – Brendan Fraser  (The Whale).
• Best Actress – Michelle Yeoh  (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
• India @ Oscars Awards 2023 – 
• Best Original Song – 'Naatu Naatu' (RRR).
• Singers – Rahul Sipligunj & Kaala Bhairava.
• Lyrics – Chandrabose.
• Best Documentary Short Film – 'The Elephant Whisperers' (Kartiki Gonsalves & Guneet Monga)
• The first Indian documentary to win an Oscar award – The Elephant Whisperers.
• A 41-minute short documentary aired on Netflix set in the backgrounds of Mudumalai Tiger Reserveof Tamil Nadu.
• Honorary Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia – Ratan Tata.
• Governor of the Year 2023 – Shaktikanta Das.
• 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award – Aasif Sheikh (Nepal).
• ATP Masters 1000 titles – 
• Most no. of ATP Masters 1000 titles – Novak Djokovic (38).
• The oldest duo to win an ATP Masters 1000 title – Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden (Australia).
• Saudi Arabia Grand Prix 2023 – Sergio Pérez.
• Abel Prize 2023 – Luis Caffarelli.
• for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation.
•  IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023 – 
• Indian Winners – 
• Middleweight – Lovlina Borgohain (75 kg, Gold)
• Minimumweight – Nitu Ghanghas (48 kg, Gold)
• Light flyweight – Nikhat Zareen (50 kg, Gold)
• Light heavyweight – Saweety Boora (81 kg, Gold)
• 2023 International Prize in Statistics  –  C.R. Rao (Indian origin).
• Best Production/Process Development award in Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) @ World Vaccine Congress 2023  –  Bharat Biotech.
• Indian nomination for Laureus Sport for Good Award – Slum Soccer. 
• a New Delhi based Foundation which helps children from slum areas to get a hand in life through football thereby reducing the crime rates in the slum areas.
• Founder of Slum Soccer –  Vijay Barse.
• Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023 – Utsa Patnaik.
• Federal Cross of Merit/Bundesverdienstkreuz – Angela Merkel.
• Germany’s highest Order of Merit.
• Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 (India) – 
• Men’s Freestyle – 
• Gold – Aman Sehrawat (57kg)
• Bronze – Deepak Mirka & Anirudh Gulia (125 kg)
• Men’s Greco-Roman Wrestling – 
• Silver – Rupin Gahlawat (55kg) & Neeraj Chhikara (63 kg)
• Bronze – Vikas Dalal (72 kg) & Sunil Kumar (87kg) 
• Women’s Wrestling – 
• Silver – Antim Panghal (53kg) & Nisha Dahiya (68kg)
• Bronze – Anshu Malik (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg), Reetika Hooda (72kg) & Priya Malik (76kg)
• Order of Australia – Ratan Tata.
• Goldman Environment Prize 2023 – Alessandra Korap (environmental,  Munduruku ethnic group, Brazil)
• Inaugural Latin Women of the Year award – Shakira (Columbian Singer).
• Global Gold Award for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by the Green Organization – Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL).
• Immigrant Achievement Award (USA) – Neeli Bendapudi (Indian origin, president of Penn State University, for for her contributions to higher education in the US).
• Leipzig Book Prize 2023 – Maria Stepanova.
• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2023 – Niloufar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi & Narges Mohammadi (three imprisoned female journalists from Iran).
• Honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes – Michael Douglas.
• Pulitzer Prize 2023 – 
• Fiction – Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver) & Trust (Hernan Diaz).
• Drama – English (Sanaz Toossi).
• History – Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Jefferson Cowie).
• Memoir/Autobiography – Stay True (Hua Hsu).
• Biography – G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Beverly Gage).
• Poetry – Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)).
• General Nonfiction – His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)).
• Music – Omar (Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels).
• Best Long Documentary Award @ South Asian Film Festival of Montreal 2023 – Gauri.
•  Directed by Kavitha Lankesh.
• About the journalist Gauri Lankesh who was assassinated in 2017.
• International Booker Prize 2023 – Georgi Gospodinov (Time Shelter, Bulgaria)
• Translated by Angela Rodel.
• Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu (GCL) – Narendra Modi.
• The highest civilian award of Papua New Guinea.

National Level Awards 2023

• Digital India Platinum Award 2022 – e-NAM (National Agriculture Market).
• an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India under Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
• Launched on – April 14, 2016.
• Union Agriculture Minister – Narendra Singh Tomar.
• Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Prabha Atre.
• Padma Awards Winners 2023 – 
• Padma Vibhushan (6) – 
• Zakir Hussain (Art)
• S.M. Krishna (Public Affairs)
• Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous, Medicine)
• Srinivas Varadhan (Science & Engineering, USA)
• Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous, Public Affairs)
• Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous, Others - Architecture)
• Padma Bhushan (9) – 
• Vani Jairam (Art)
• Suman Kalyanpur (Art)
• Sudha Murty (Social Work)
• Deepak Dhar (Science & Engineering)
• Kapil Kapoor (Literature & Education)
• S. L. Bhyrappa (Literature & Education)
• Kumar Mangalam Birla (Trade & Industry)
• Kamlesh D. Patel (Others - Spiritualism)
• Swami Chinna Jeeyar (Others - Spiritualism)
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award 2023 – A.B.K. Prasad (Journalist).
• PEN / Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 – Vinod Kumar Shukla.
• Gaja Capital Business Book Prize 2022 – Harish Damodaran (Book - 'Broke to Breakthrough: The Rise of India's Largest Private Dairy Company')
• Golden Kailasha' Award (Ajanta-Ellora Film Festival) – Naanera (Rajasthan).
• BBC Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 –  Pritam Siwach (Hockey).
• BBC Indian Sportswoman of The Year 2022 – Mirabai Chanu (Boxing).
• The first athlete to win the BBC Indian Sportswoman of The Year award twice – Mirabai Chanu (2019 & 2022).
• BBC Para Sportswoman of the Year – Bhavina Patel (Table Tennis).
• BBC Emerging Player of the Year – Nitu Ghanghas (Boxing).
• 36th National Games –
• Venue – Gujarat.
• Winners – Services (128 medals: 61 Gold, 35 Silver, 32 Bronze).
• First Runners Up – Maharashtra.
• Second Runners Up – Haryana.
• Best State Trophy – Maharashtra.
• Best Male Athlete – Sajan Prakash (5 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze).
• Best Female Athlete – Hashika Ramchandra (6 Gold, 1 Bronze).
• Host of 37th National Games – Goa.
• Irani Cup 2022 – Rest of India.
• defeated Madhya Pradesh by 238 runs.
• Ranji Trophy 2022–23 –  Saurashtra (2nd title, deafeated Bengal by 9 wickets).
• The first brothers from India to become Grandmasters – Vignesh NR & Visakh NR.
• Vignesh NR –  80th Grandmaster of India after winning the 24th NordWest Cup 2023  in Germany.
• Visakh NR – 59th Grandmaster of India.
• Vyas Samman 2022 – Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi (Pagalkhana, satirical novel).
• Saraswati Samman 2022 – Sivasankari (Surya Vamsam, Memoir).
• Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2023 of Madras Music Academy – Bombay Jayashri.
• Winners of 13th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2023 – Madhya Pradesh (defeated Maharashtra).
• Wildlife Conservation Award 2023 – Aaliya Mir.
• The First Woman From J&K To Receive Wildlife Conservation Award – Aaliya Mir.
• 13th AGBA (AEGIS GRAHAM BELL AWARDS) – Hello Ujjivan app.
• Femina Miss India 2023 – Nandini Gupta (Rajasthan).
• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman – Raj Subramaniam (Indian origin, Malayali; CEO of FedEx)
• Santokbaa Humanitarian Award – Sonam Wangchuk.
• Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Puraskar – Asha Bhosle.
• Shatabdi Purush (Man of the Century) – Pandit Ramkishan (for his contribution to Indian socialism).
• Dr. Ambedkar Award – Yogi Adityanath (CM of Uttar Pradesh).
• Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 – Jayant V. Narlikar.
• The inaugural Award was presented by the Astronomical Society of India for the outstanding contributions of individuals to the field of astronomy.
• Astronomical Society of India
• Founded in  – 1972.
• Headquarters – Hyderabad.

State Level Awards 2023

• Harivarasanam Award – Sreekumaran Thampi.
• Odakkuzhal Award 2022 – Ambikasuthan Mangad (Pranavayu).
• Basheer Award Award 2022 – M. Mukundan (Nrutham Cheyyunna Kutakal; നൃത്തം ചെയ്യുന്ന കുടകൾ).
• Prof. M.P. Paul Puraskaram  2023 – Dr. M. Leelavathy (Oveall Contribution) & N. Radhakrishnan Nair (ആത്മബലിയുടെ ആവിഷ്‌കാരം)
• Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award – K. Satchidanandan.
• Bala Sahitya Institute Awards 2022 – 
• Poetry – Manoj Maniyur (Chimminivettam; ചിമ്മിനിവെട്ടം)
• Drama / Play – Dr. Nethallur Harikrishnan (Kayalamma; കായലമ്മ)
• Biography / Autobiography – Sudhir Poochali (Marconi; മാ‌ർക്കോണി)
• Story / Novel – E.N. Sheeja  (Ammamanamulla Kanivukal; അമ്മമണമുള്ള കനിവുകൾ)
• Mathrubhumi Book of The Year – Dr. Peggy Mohan (Wanderers, Kings and Merchants).
• Smrithi Puraskaram –
• C. Radhakrishnan (Kaalam Kathuvekkunnath; കാലം കാത്തുവെക്കുന്നത്)
• Kanayi Kunhiraman (Oveall Contribution, Sculpture)
• Akbar Kakkattil Award 2022 – Subhash Chandran (Samudrashila; സമുദ്രശില).
• M.V. Kumaran Sahitya Puraskaram – N. Prabhakaran (Oveall Contribution)
• V.V. Rugmini Award – P. Praveena (Ashtamoorthi; അഷ്ടമൂര്‍ത്തി)
• Swaraj Trophy 2021-22 – 
• Best Grama Panchayat – Mulanthuruthy grama panchayat.
• 2nd – Pappinissery grama panchayat.
• 3rd – Marangattupilly grama panchayat.
• Best Block Panchayat – Perumpadappu.
• 2nd – Kodakara.
• 3rd – Nedumangad.
• Best District Panchayat – Kollam.
• Best Municipality – Tirurangadi.
• 2nd –  Wadakkanchery.
• 3rd – Sulthan Bathery.
• Best Corporation – Thiruvananthapuram.
• Mahatma Ayyankali award for the implementation of the Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme (AUEGS) – Kollam Corporation.
• Mahatma award for the best implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) – Kallikkad grama panchayat (Thiruvananthapuram).
• Jnanappana Prize 2023 – V. Madhusoodanan Nair.
• Malliyoor Shankara Smriti Award – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
• Television Lifetime Achievement Award (Kerala govt's highest visual media award) – Shyamaprasad (Film Director).
• Ardrakeralam Puraskaram 2021-22 – 
• for activities related to Ardram Mission as a part of Navkerala Karma Project.
• State Level Awards – 
• Block Panchayat – Mulanthuruthi (Ernakulam),  
• 2nd – Nedunkandam (Idukki), 
• 3rd – Sasthamkotta (Kollam).
• Village Panchayat – Chennirkkara (Pathanamthitta), 
• 2nd – Pothencode (Thiruvananthapuram), 
• 3rd – Kinanoor Karinthalam (Kasaragod).
• District Panchayat – Kozhikode, 
• 2nd – Palakkad, 
• 3rd – Kottayam.
• Municipality – Piravam (Ernakulam), 
• 2nd – Karunagapally (Kollam), 
• 3rd – Vaikom (Kottayam).
• Municipal Corporation – Thiruvananthapuram, 
• 2nd – Kollam. 
• National Panchayat Awards 2023 (Kerala) – 4 awards.
• Best child-friendly village panchayat – Cheruthana (Alappuzha).
• Best grama panchayat with self-sufficient infrastructure – Veeyapuram grama panchayat (Alappuzha).
• Second position for the activities done for water sufficiency – Perumbadappu gram Panchayat (Malappuram).
• Third position in the good governance category – Alagappa Nagar panchayat (Thrissur).
• mRube Accolades Award 2023 (by Rubber Board) – MRF.
• Vaishnavam Award 2023 – C. Radhakrishnan.
• Padmaprabha Literary Award 2023 – Subhash Chandran.
• Sagar Shreshtha Sammaan Award 2023 – Cochin Port Authority (CPA).
• By the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
• for the best turnaround time in non-container category during 2022-23.
• Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways – Sarbananda Sonowal.
• Mathrubhumi Literary Award 2022 – Sethu. 
• Maiden Prem Nazir Award of Samskara Sahithi – Madhu.
• ONV Literary Award 2023 – C. Radhakrishnan.

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