Awards & Honors MCQs

The Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative from Kazakhstan won the 2024 Earthshot Prize for its efforts in restoring the steppe ecosystems.

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is a prestigious international award often referred to as the 'Nobel Prize for Environment'.

Alok Shukla won the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize for his campaign to save the Hasdeo Aranya forests in Chhattisgarh from coal mining.

Hindi writer Pushpa Bharati received the 33rd Vyas Samman for her 2016 memoir 'Yaadein, Yaadein aur Yaadein'.

Malayalam poet and writer Prabha Varma was awarded the Saraswati Samman 2023 for his work 'Roudra Sathwikam'.

The 59th Jnanpith Award for 2023 was conferred upon renowned Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya.

The International Booker Prize is specifically for fiction translated into English. Arundhati Roy is a celebrated author, and winning this prize would be for a translated novel that has garnered critical acclaim.

The International Booker Prize specifically celebrates translated works, meaning it is awarded for books originally written in languages other than English, which have been translated into English. The prize money is indeed split equally between the author and translator.

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel, 'The God of Small Things'. The International Booker Prize is a separate award for a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

IISc has strong research programs in various fields of science and engineering, including a globally recognized focus on Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, alongside other disciplines like aerospace, electrical, and computer science.