Awards, Publications & Authors
Key facts
- Bharat Ratna 2024 had five awardees across the March 30 and March 31 conferments.
- Padma Awards 2025 totalled 139: 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.
- Mithun Chakraborty received the 2022 Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the 70th National Film Awards ceremony.
- Aattam was the Best Feature Film at the 70th National Film Awards and is a Malayalam film.
- Nihon Hidankyo and Han Kang are the 2024 Nobel Peace and Literature anchors respectively.
Key Points at a Glance
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Bharat Ratna 2024 had five awardees across the March 30 and March 31 conferments.
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Padma Awards 2025 totalled 139: 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.
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Mithun Chakraborty received the 2022 Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the 70th National Film Awards ceremony.
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Aattam was the Best Feature Film at the 70th National Film Awards and is a Malayalam film.
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Nihon Hidankyo and Han Kang are the 2024 Nobel Peace and Literature anchors respectively.
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Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are tied to microRNA; Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson are tied to institutions and prosperity.
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Heart Lamp needs author-translator-language recall: Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi and Kannada.
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Khel Ratna 2024 pairs four names with four disciplines; Shakti's This Moment is the Grammy album fact.
Which civilian-award facts matter for Bharat Ratna 2024 and Padma Awards 2025?
For RAS current affairs, the civilian-award facts to store are the five Bharat Ratna 2024 awardees and the Padma Awards 2025 count of 139 awards split as 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.
The highest-yield civilian-award cluster for this topic is the unusually large Bharat Ratna 2024 set, followed by the category-wise Padma Awards 2025 split. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Padma Awards 2025 list includes 23 women among the awardees.
Bharat Ratna 2024
- The President of India presented Bharat Ratna on 30 March 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan to:
- P.V. Narasimha Rao - posthumously
- Chaudhary Charan Singh - posthumously
- M.S. Swaminathan - posthumously
- Karpoori Thakur - posthumously
- L.K. Advani was conferred the award separately on 31 March 2024.
- That makes five awardees in the 2024 current-affairs cycle.
| Person | Public contribution link for RAS recall |
|---|---|
| P.V. Narasimha Rao | prime-ministership and economic reform |
| Chaudhary Charan Singh | agrarian politics |
| M.S. Swaminathan | the Green Revolution |
| Karpoori Thakur | social justice politics |
| L.K. Advani | national public life |
Padma Awards 2025
- The Padma Awards 2025 form the second civilian-award count cluster.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs notification records 139 awards.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Padma Vibhushan | 7 |
| Padma Bhushan | 19 |
| Padma Shri | 113 |
- This count matters because prelims items often ask either a direct number or an incorrect category split.
- Padma categories are also fields-based, so the same list can support art, medicine, public affairs, literature, sports and civil-service matching.
- Keep the two clusters separate: Bharat Ratna 2024 is a named-recipient cluster, while Padma Awards 2025 is a count-and-category cluster.
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PREDICTED Predicted RAS Questions
Based on PYQ trends and 2026 syllabus analysis
1 MCQ Which set completes the Bharat Ratna 2024 awardee cluster?
Explanation
The 2024 Bharat Ratna cluster contains those five public figures. Option B lists dignitaries present at a ceremony, option C mixes literary-award figures, and option D mixes sports-award figures.
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