Awards Notes -

1. Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013 :Javed Akhtar has been chosen for "Lava", his compilation of 55 Urdu poems
2. C.K. Nayudu award: Former India captain Kapil Dev received the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013
3. Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize 2014 for South Asian literature for his book “Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer”.

4. FIFA named Portuguese attacker Cristiano Ronaldo world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season.
5. Indian Writer Pankaj Mishra won Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014.. Vyas Samman 2013: 6.Vishwanath Tripathi been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2013.
Note: Tripathi has been chosen for the coveted annual literary award instituted in 1991 by the K K Birla Foundation for his memoir 'Vyomkesh Darvesh', a biolgraphy of noted Hindi scholar Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.
7. Saraswati Samman 2013: Govind Mishra selected for for his book Dhool Paudho Par.
8. Gandhi Peace Prize for 2013: Eminent Gandhian and environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhat selected for the award.
9.Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013: Veteran poet and film lyricist Gulzar has been chosen for the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for 2013. He is the 45th winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
10. Pulitzer Prize 2014: India‐born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his
work '3 Sections'.
11. Goldman Prize for environmental activist Ramesh Agrawal.
12. Bharat Ratna Award: Sachin Tendulkar and CN Rao conferred Bharat Ratna Award 2013.
13. Caparo Group founded by leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has won the International Business of the Year award 2014.