| List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 Important Awards and Honours August 2021 |
| S.No. | Awardee | Award |
| 1. | Cyrus Poonawalla | Lokmanya Tilak National Award |
| 2. | DBS Bank | Global winner for Most Innovative in Digital Banking by Financial Times publication |
| 3. | Renowned economists Jagdish Bhagwati and C Rangarajan | Prof. C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Medal award |
| 4. | Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project | Brunel Medal awarded by the London-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) |
| 5. | Nagaland | Seven national awards on the first Van Dhan Annual Awards 2020-21, |
| 6. | National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps (NSF I-Corps) Teams Award | US Innovation Award |
| 7. | Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport (50th spot)Hyderabad: 64 (placed at 71 in 2020)Mumbai: 65 (placed 52 in 2020)Bengaluru: 71 (placed 68 in 2020) List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 | Skytrax World Airport Awards 2021 |
| Important Awards and Honours July 2021 – List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 1. | ‘Decoding Shankar’ | Best Film Award in the Documentary section (Best Biographical) |
| 2. | Dr Rajendra Kishore Panda | Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar |
| 3. | Invest India | Investment Promotion Agency 2021 award by OCO Global |
| 4. | Korean Air | ‘Air Transport World’s (ATW) 2021 Airline of the Year’ |
| 5. | Kaushik Basu | Humboldt Research Award in Economics |
| 6. | N N Pillai | Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS)’s Literary Award for 2021 |
| 7. | Muhammad Yunus | Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games |
| 8. | Director Payal Kapadia’s, ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ | Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at the 74th Cannes Film Festival |
| 9. | Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar | Alexander Dalrymple awarded by the British Government for his work in hydrography and nautical cartography |
| 10. | Edible Routes Private Limited, Oorja Development Solutions India, and Taru Naturals | UN Food Systems Summit Competition called ‘Best Small Business: Good Food for All’ |
| 11. | Satpura Tiger Reserve | Natwest Group Earth Heroes Award 2021 in the category of Earth Guardian for its best management role |
| 12. | Invest India | The most innovative Investment Promotion Agency 2021 award List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 13. | Zaila Avant-garde, an African-American | 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee |
| 14. | Syed Osman Azhar Maqsusi – Hyderabad’s hunger activist | Commonwealth Points of Light award |
| 15. | Sophie Ecclestone & Devon Conway | ICC Player of the Month Award June 2021 List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 16. | Journalist N N Pillai | Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS)’s Literary Award for 2021 |
| 17. | Palme d’Or: Julia Ducournau for Titane (France)Grand Prix (TIE): Ashgar Farhadi for A Hero (Iran) and Juho Kuosmanen for Compartment No.6 (Finland)Best Director: Leos Carax Annette (France)Best Actress: Renate Reinsve for Worst Person in the World (Norway)Best Actor: Caleb Landry Jones for Nitram (US)Best Screenplay: Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Takamasa Oe for Drive My Car (Japan)Jury Prize (TIE): Shared by Nadav Lapid for Ahed’s Knee (Israel) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul for Memoria (Thailand)Best First Film: Antoneta Kusijanovic for Murina (Croatia)Best Short Film: Hong Kong’s All The Crows In The World Tang YiShort Film Palme d’Or: Tian Xia Wu Ya by Tang YiSpecial Jury Mention for Short Film: Cebu de Agosto by Jasmin Tinucci | Cannes Film Festival 2021 List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 18. | Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus | Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games |
| 19. | Aadhimalai Pazhangudiyinar Producer Company Limited and Snehakunja Trust | UNDP Equator Prize 2021 List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 20. | Payal Kapadia | Best documentary award in Cannes 2021 |
| 21. | Shibaji Banerjee (Posthumously) | Mohun Bagan Ratna List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 22. | Cachar District | National Silver SKOCH Award |
| 23. | Sandesh Jhingan | AIFF men’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21 List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 24. | Ngangom Bala Devi | AIFF ‘Women’s Footballer of the Year’ 2020-21 |
| 25. | Pramod Bhagat | Named Differently Abled Sportsman of the Year 2019 |
| 26. | Sunjeev Sahota | Prestigious 2021 Booker Prize |
| 27. | Vaidehi Dongre | Miss India USA 2021 |
| 28. | Asha Bhosle | Maharashtra Bhushan award 2021 |
| 29. | Graphic artist Anand Radhakrishnan | Prestigious Eisner award |
| Important Awards and Honours June 2021 | List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 1. | Valeria Luiselli | International Dublin Literary Award 2021 for her novel ‘Lost Children Archive List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 2. | Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan | ‘WHO Director-General Special Recognition Award List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 3. | Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind | International Business Book of the Year Award 2021 |
| 4. | David Diop | International Booker Prize 2021 for ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’ |
| 5. | Thomas Vijayan | 2021 Nature TTL Photography Awards for his photo of an Orangutan clinging to a tree |
| 6. | GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) | ‘Gold Recognition’ award from ACI (Airport Council International) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2021 List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 7. | Prof. Shailesh Ganpule | ‘NSG Counter-IED & Counter-Terrorism Innovator Award 2021’ |
| 8. | Familial Forestry | Land for Life Award by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) |
| 9. | Larsen & Toubro Infotech | Global Innovation Partner of the Year by Snowflake |
| 10. | KK Shaileja | Central European University’s highest award of Open Society Prize 2021 for her work in public health services |
| 11. | NTPC | India’s Best Employers among Nation Builders 2021 |
| 12. | Cochin International Airport (CIAL) | Airport Council International (ACI) Director General’s Roll of Excellence List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 13. | Delhi Metro | ‘Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award’ for 2020 |
| 14. | RK Sabharwal | ‘The Order of Polar Star List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 15. | P Sainath | Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021 List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 16. | Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson | 2020-21 Kia NBA Sixth Man Award |
| 17. | David Diop | International Booker 2021 |
| 18. | Thomas Vijayan | Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021 |
| 19. | Arunachal Pradesh’s Water Burial bags | Best film National Award on environment conservation at 67th National Films Awards 2021 |
| 20. | Tsitsi Dangarembga | PEN Pinter prize 2021 |
| 21. | Tillotama Shome | Best Actor award at the 2021 UK Asian Film Festival (UKAFF) |
| 22. | RS Sodhi | Conferred with the regional award as Asia Pacific Productivity Champion from Asian Productivity Organization (APO), Tokyo, Japan |
| 23. | DBS Bank | Forbes ‘World’s Best Banks’ list in India List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 24. | IIT Roorkee prof – Shailesh Govind Ganpule | ‘NSG Counter-IED and Counter-Terrorism Innovator Award 2021′ for developing a “blast-resistant” helmet |
| 25. | Vinoo Mankad | ICC Hall of Fame |
| 26. | Environmental Organisation ‘Familial Forestry’ of Rajasthan | Prestigious UN Award – The 2021 Land for Life Award |
| 27. | Larsen & Toubro Infotech | Global Innovation Partner of the Year by Snowflake |
| 28. | Sumita Mitra | European Inventor Award 2021 in the ‘Non-European Patent Office countries’ category |
| 29. | KK Shailaja | The Central European University (CEU) Open Society Prize for 2021 |
| 30. | NTPC | India’s Best Employers among Nation-Builders 2021 |
| 31. | Emmanuel Carrere | Spanish Princess of Asturias Literature Award |
| 32. | RK Sabharwal – Engineers India Limited (EIL) Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) | Highest civilian award of Mongolia ‘The Order of Polar Star List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 33. | Journalist P Sainath | Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize |
| 34. | Decoding Shankar | Toronto International Women’s Film Festival |
| 35. | Rajendra Kishore Panda | Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar |
| Winners of BAFTA TV Awards 2021 – List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 1. | Leading Actress | Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You |
| 2. | Leading Actor | Paul Mescal, Normal People |
| 3. | Drama Series | Save Me Too |
| 4. | Best Comedy Performance | Charlie Cooper and Aimee Lou Wood |
| 5. | Best Comedy Series | Inside No. 9 |
| 6. | Original Music | Harry Escott, Roadkill |
| 7. | Sports | England v West Indies Test Cricket – Sky Sports Cricket |
| Complete List of 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners – List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| JOURNALISM |
| 1. | Public service | The New York Times |
| 2. | Criticism | Wesley Morris of The New York Times |
| 3. | Editorial writing | Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times |
| 4. | International Reporting | Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News List of Important Awards and Honours 2021 |
| 5. | Breaking News Reporting | The staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn. |
| 6. | Investigative Reporting | Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe |
| 7. | Explanatory Reporting | Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters |
| 8. | Local Reporting | Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times |
| 9. | National Reporting | Staffs of The Marshall Project; AL.com, Birmingham; IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute, Chicago |
| 10. | Feature Writing | Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor, Runner’s World |
| 11. | Commentary | Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch |
| 12. | Breaking News Photography | Photography Staff of Associated Press |
| 13. | Feature Photography | Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press |
| 14. | Audio Reporting | Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio |
| BOOKS, DRAMA, AND MUSIC |
| 15. | Fiction | The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich |
| 16. | Drama | The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall |
| 17. | History | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton) |
| 18. | Biography or autobiography | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne |
| 19. | Poetry | Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz |
| 20. | General nonfiction | Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino |
| 21. | Music | Stride, by Tania León (Peermusic Classical) |
| 22. | Special Citation | Darnella Frazier, The teenager who recorded the killing of George Floyd |
| Important Awards and Honours May 2021 |
| 1. | Shyamala Ganesh | “Order of Rising Sun” by the Japanese Government |
| 2. | Maria Ressa (Rapple’s CEO) | 2021 laureate of UNESCO /Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize |
| 3. | Pink (Singer) | Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards |
| 4. | Justice Gita Mitta | Arline Pacht Global Vision Award 2021 |
| 5. | Babar Azam (Pakistan) | ICC Men’s Player of the Month for April 2021 |
| 6. | Alyssa Healy (Australia) | ICC Women’s Player of the Month for April 2021 |
| 7. | Dr Tahera Qutbuddin | 1st Indian to win the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
| 8. | Anupam Kher | Best Actor Award for his performance in a short film named ‘Happy Birthday’ at New York City International Film Festival |
| 9. | IREDA (Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency) | ‘Green Urja Award’ by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) |
| 10. | Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted | 2021 World Food Prize for her work in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems |
| 11. | Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (Union Education Minister) | International Invincible Gold Medal 2021 |
| 12. | Baljeet Kaur (Himachal Pradesh) and Gunbala Sharma (Rajasthan) | 1st Women Mountaineers to summit Mount Pumori in Nepal |
| 13. | Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian and Prof. David Klenerman | 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for developing revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques namely, Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) |
| 14. | Suresh Mukund | 10th Annual World Choreography Award 2020 |
| 15. | Jane Goodall | Templeton Prize 2021 |
| 16. | Hockey India | Prestigious Etienne Glichitch Award |
| 17. | Max Verstappen | Monaco Grand Prix 2021 |
| 18. | SpiceHealth | Gold Award at 2021 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards for ‘Most Valuable Medical Innovation’ under COVID-19 |
| 19. | Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS) | Prestigious India Biodiversity Awards 2021 under the category ‘Sustainable Use of Biological Resources.’ |
| 20. | VK Pandian | President’s award by International Hockey Federation for his contribution to promoting Hockey in Odisha |
| 21. | Bharat Ratna Professor C.N.R. Rao | International ENI Award 2020 for his research in renewable energy sources and energy storage |
| 22. | Amartya Kumar Sen | Spain’s top Princess of Asturias Award in the social sciences category, the Spanish prize foundation |
| 23. | Padma Bhushan Dr D Nageshwar Reddy | Rudolf V Schindler Award from the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) |
| 24. | Robert Lewandowski | European Golden Boot |
| Important Awards and Honours April 2021 |
| 1. | Dr Sharankumar Limbale | Saraswati Samman 2020 |
| 2. | Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ | National Book Critics Circle Prize |
| 3. | Rajinikanth | 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award |
| 4. | Biswabhushan Harichandan (Governor of Andhra Pradesh) | Kalinga Ratna Samman 2021 |
| 5. | Aniyan Midhun | South Asian Wushu Championship |
| 6. | Prof. Suman Chakraborty | 30th GD Birla Award for Scientific Research |
| 7. | Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman | 2020 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award |
| 8. | Guneet Monga (Filmmaker) | Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, the second-highest civilian French honour |
| 9. | Yusuff Ali M. A | Abu Dhabi’s Top Civilian Award |
| 10. | Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) | National Award for Innovation Training Practices 2019-2020 |
| 11. | Kane Williamson (New Zealand cricket player) | Sir Richard Hadlee Medal |
| 12. | ‘Puglya’ (Name of Marathi Film) | Best Foreign Language Feature Award at Moscow International Film Festival 2021 |
| 13. | Roberto Benigni | 78th Venice International Film Festival |
| 14. | Aditya Birla Group’s Birla Cellulose Limited | UN’s National Innovative and Sustainable Supply Chain Award |
| 15. | Rumana Sehgal | Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award 2021 by the Diplomatic Mission Global Peace |
| 16. | Dr Krithi K Karanth | ‘Wild Innovator Award’ by Wild Elements Foundation |
| 17. | IIT Kharagpur | CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 6.0 |
| 18. | ESAF Small Finance Bank | ‘Great Place to Work’ by the Great Place to Work Institute |
| 19. | Carmen Maria Machado | Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 for her book titles as ‘ In the Dream House: A Memoir’ |
| 20. | HDFC Bank | ‘India’s Best Bank for SME’s’ at the Asiamoney Best Bank Awards |
