CNN-News18 Indian of the Year
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CNN-News18 Indian of the Year | |
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Awarded for | An Honour That Embodies Greatness |
Country | India |
Presented by | CNN-News18 |
First awarded | 2006 |
Website | indianoftheyear.com |
The CNN-News18 Indian of the Year (originally CNN-IBN Indian of the Year) is an award presented annually to various Indians for their work in their respective fields by the Indian media house CNN-News18. The awards are presented in various categories of Politics, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Public Service and Global Indian. The idea of the award was originated by journalists: Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose.
In addition to the traditional award categories of Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Public Service and Global Indian, a new category, that of a ‘CNN-IBN Indian of the Year - Popular Choice’ was introduced in the ninth edition, where one awardee was chosen from the 35 nominees across categories basis the votes received from public through Facebook.
Winners[]
Special awards[]
1. 2007 Lifetime Achievement - R K Laxman Cartoonist
2. 2008 Lifetime Achievement - Dilip Kumar Actor
- Special Awards - Tukaram Omble Extraordinary service to the nation.
- Special Awards - Mumbai Police Extraordinary service to the nation.
- Special Awards - Sheila Dikshit
3. 2009 Lifetime Achievement - Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Special Awards - Kamal Haasan Completing 50 years in cinema 2009
- Special Awards - Indian Cricket Team Test cricket to break on through to the number one spot for the first time ever.
4. 2010 Lifetime Achievement - M. S. Swaminathan
5. 2011 Lifetime Achievement - Verghese Kurien
- Outstanding Achievement - K J Yesudas
- Special Awards - Yuvraj Singh
- Special Awards -
- Special Awards - Ronjan Sodhi
6. 2012 Lifetime Achievement - Heroes of Rezang La, 1962
- Special Awards - Aamir Khan & Team Satyamev Jayate
- Special Awards - MC Mary Kom
- Special Awards - Tessy Thomas & Team DRDO
7. 2013 Outstanding Achievement - Leander Paes[1]
- 2013 Outstanding Achievement - Ramakant Achrekar[1]
- Special Awards - Team ITBP and NDRF
- Special Awards - Deepika Padukone[2]
8. 2014 Winners
- CNN-IBN Indian of the Year: Narendra Modi
- Lifetime Achievement Award: ISRO team
- Outstanding Achievement Award: Azim Premji, Kailash Satyarthi
- Special Achievement Award: Kangana Ranaut
- Popular Choice Award: Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, P Vijayan
- Sports: Jitu Rai
- Business: N Chandrasekaran
- Entertainment:
- Public Service: Tongam Rina
- Politics: Arun Jaitley
- Global Indian: Satya Nadella
8. 2015 Winners
- CNN-News18 Indian of the Year: People of Chennai
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Balbir Singh Dosanjh
- Outstanding Achievement Award: Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak, United Technologies (Make in India)
- Special Achievement Award: Kangana Ranaut, Ranveer Singh
- Sports: Sania Mirza
- Business: Bandhan Bank
- Entertainment: SS Rajamouli
- Public Service: People of Chennai
- Special Jury Award: Leander Paes
10. 2017 Winners
- Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment (2017): Team Baahubali[6][7]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Leander Paes and Ramakant Achrekar named CNN-IBN Indian of the Year". Yahoo News. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Kapil Sharma honoured with Indian of the Year award". The Times of India. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ "INDIAN OF THE YEAR 2013". CNN IBN. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08.
- ^ "Stop Acid Attacks is Indian of the Year, Arvind Kejriwal wins for politics". IBN LIVE. 21 December 2013. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013.
- ^ "News18.com: CNN-News18 Breaking News India, Latest News Headlines, Live News Updates". News18. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ Upadhyaya, Prakash. "Baahubali 3 will happen in sometime in future, producer reveals after being honoured at CNN-News18 Awards". International Business Times, India Edition.
- ^ "Virat Kohli named CNN-NEWS18 Indian of the Year; says, 'Would love for cricket to be Olympic sport' LIVE News, Latest Updates, Live blog, Highlights and Live coverage - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com.
- Indian awards
- Awards established in 2005
- 2005 establishments in India