list of award winning

List of Awards for RRB, SBI, IBPS PO OnlineExamS 2014
• Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014
• Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize2014
• Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon ofthe 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 civilianhonour (the "Medal of Distinction")
• APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh
• 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
• Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014
• Caparo Group - International Business of theYear award 2014
• Chandi Prasad Bhatt - Gandhi Peace Prize(2013)
• Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer playerfor the 2012/2013 season (FIFA)
• Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asianliterature
• Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) -Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction)
• Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award
• Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize forExcellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge
• Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013
• Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool PaudhoPar) - Sarawasti Samman (2013)
• Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013
• Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) -Navaratna award
• ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - MorningstarIndia‘s best fund house award in the debt
• Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt
• Javed Aktar - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013
• Jeev Milkha Singh (for the book Lava) - AsianTour‘s Player of the Decade
• Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) -Baileys Prize 2014 (Shortlisted)
• Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award
• 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 - 51st Femina Miss India
• Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, UK
• Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix
• Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award
• Luis Suarez - PFA Player of the year
• Madan Babu - Protein Science YoungInvestigator Award 2014
• Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated)
• Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award.
• Meb Keflezighi - First US male athleteto winthe Boston Marathon
• Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014
• Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal
• Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014
• MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award
• N R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global IndianAward 2014
• Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013)
• Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012)
• Pankaj Mishra - Windham CampbellLiterature 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
• Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014.
• Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix Award
• Rajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Awardfor scientific research (2013)
• Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword ofHonour award
• Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize
• Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross)
• Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013
• Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna
• Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award
• Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013)
• Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014
• Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year
• Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activismaward
• Sikkim - National Tourism Award
• Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV& Film Awards 2014
• Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU.
• Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award
• Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte' Carlo Masters Title
• Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014
• TCS - Top Employer in Europe
• Tomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014
• Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry)
• Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013.
• Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014
• Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award.
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important books for UPSC exam

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is India’s central agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination, Engineering Services Examination, Combined Defence ServicesExamination, National Defence Academy Examination, Naval Academy Examination and Combined Medical Services Examination. In this post I am going to share a complete list of recommended books for UPSC/IAS examination and preparation.

List Of Civil Services Books For General Studies

Preliminary IAS (General Studies)

•  History books of Classes XI and XII – NCERT
•  Freedom Struggle (NET) – Bipin Chandra

World Geography – including Indian Geography Good books

• Principles of Geography (Class XII-Part I, II)
• General Geography of India (Class XII) Part I – NCERT
• Geography of India – Resources and Regional Development Part II (Class XII) – NCERT
• Physical Geography – Leong
• Atlas

Indian Polity Good book

• Introduction to Indian Constitution – D.D. Basu Related

Indian Economy 

• Evolution of Indian Economy – NCERT
• Indian Economy – Dutt and Sundharam.
• Indian Economy – Mishra and Puri

General Science 

• NCERT books on Science.
• Science and Technology supplements in the Newspapers and magazines.

Current Events of National and International importance

• One major National Daily – Either The Times of India or The Hindu.
• Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
• Current Events – Spectrum

General Mental Ability 

• No special preparation is required in this area. But some practice may be done from any exercise books or quantitative aptitude. In fact, an intelligent calculation is the basic requirement for this topic.

Main (General Studies)

History of Modern India

• India’s struggle for Independence – Bipan Chandra and others.
• Modern India – NCERT.
• Freedom Struggle (NBT) – Bipan Chandra
• Modern India – IGNOU

Note: -If one is hard pressed for time, he/she may skip the Modern India and Freedom Struggle.

Indian Culture

• Art and Culture portions of history books and Gazetteer of India.
• Culture Chapter (s) in the India Year Book.
• Encyclopedia of Indian Culture. A good library invariably has more than one encyclopaedia on Indian Art and Culture selected notes may be taken from it.
• Books on culture / cultural topics brought out by Publications Division of Ministry of Information and broadcasting and National Book Trust.

Current Affairs

• At least one major national newspaper – either The Times of India or The Hindu
• Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
• Current Affairs and News Analysis of BBC.
• Current events – Spectrum

Statistics

• Book on Statistics (Class XI) – NCERT

Indian Polity and Constitution

• Introduction to the Constitution of India – D.D. Basu.
• Our Parliament – S.C. Kashyap

Indian Geography and Economy

• Indian Geography (Class XI and XII) – NCERT
• Yozna
• Indian Economy – Dutt and Sundharam/Mishra and Puri
• The editorial page of the Economic Times.

Science and Technology

• Science and Technology section of the Wednesday edition of the newspaper ‘The Hindu’.
• Science and Technology Published by the Spectrum.
• Yozna contains science and environment related topics.

1. Indian History – India Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra; NCERT Books ( XI & XII )

2. Geography – Spectrum

3. Indian Polity – Constitution of India by Bakshi

4. Indian Economy – Plus One, Plus Two Books, Pratiyogita Darpan

5. General Science – Tata Mc Graw Hill Guide

6. Mental Ability – Quantitative Apitude by R.S. Aggarwal

7. Current Affairs – Some magazines and Newspapers

i. The Hindu/The Times of India

ii. Frontline

iii. Civil Service Chronicle

iv. Chanakya

v. Competition WIZARD

vi. Civil Services Today

8. Guides

1. Tata Mc Graw Hill

2. Spectrum

3. Unique

Books on Indian History & Culture:

• NCERT (+ 2 level):  Ancient India, Medieval India, Modern India.
• Publication Division : Gazetteer of India (Vol 2 : History & Culture)
• Gandhi Nehru Tagore & Ambedkar : Gopal Krishna
• Bipin Chandra – Modern India
• A.C.Banerjee – History of Modern India Raghavan Aiyer : Mahatma Gandhi

Books on Geography:

• NCERT : Physical Geography of India for X – XII Std
• A Good School Atlas
• Sharma & Cotinho : Economic and Commercial Geography of India.
• Khullar : India- A Comprehnsive Geography
• Charles Farro : General Principles of World Geography
• Charles Farro : Monsoon Asia Reports published by Centre for Science and Enviornment And Tata Energy Research Institute
• National journal – Kurukshetra, Yojana etc.
• Down to earth

Books on Indian Economy:

• NCERT (+1 level) : Evolution of Indian Economy(I C Dhingra).
• Mishra & Puri or Dutt & Sundaram – Indian Economy
• Economic Survey
• The Economic Times,Business Standard
• Yojana

Books on Social and National Issues :

• Social Problem – Ram Ahuja
• Social Welfare Magazine – Published by ministry of social welfare
• Yojana/Kurukshetra
• IIPa Journal

Books on Indian Polity:

• NCERT (+1 level) : Indian Political System
• N.L. Madan : Bhartiya Rajya Vyavastha
• D.D. Basu: Indian Constitution
• Kashyap: Constitution of India
• Publication Division : Subhash C. Kashyap : Our Parliament
• P.M. Bakshi: Indian Constitution
• Our Constitution : Subhash C. kashyap
• Perspective on Constitution : S.C. Kashyap
• Frontline Magazine
• IIPa Journal

Books on Science & Technology:

• NCERT : (10 level) : Science, (+2 level) : Biology.
• Popular Science Series (CSIR)
• Reports Of the Ministry of Science and Technology Yojana
• Science Reporter
• Science and Technology in India – Spectrum
• Books on Statistics:
• (NCERT +1 level) Elementary Statistics
• S.C.Gupta : Statistical Methods

Books on India and the World :

• Journal of peace Studies
• World Focus
• Strategic Analysis
• South Asian Journal

Other Books for General Studies:

1. India Year Book latest

2. One competitive Magazine

3. Guides like Tata Mc Graw Hill, Spectrum or Unique For General Reference 4. The Pearson General Studies Manual.