CORE Key Points at a Glance

  1. 1

    Bharat Ratna 2024 had five awardees across the March 30 and March 31 conferments.

  2. 2

    Padma Awards 2025 totalled 139: 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.

  3. 3

    Mithun Chakraborty received the 2022 Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the 70th National Film Awards ceremony.

  4. 4

    Aattam was the Best Feature Film at the 70th National Film Awards and is a Malayalam film.

  5. 5

    Nihon Hidankyo and Han Kang are the 2024 Nobel Peace and Literature anchors respectively.

  6. 6

    Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are tied to microRNA; Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson are tied to institutions and prosperity.

  7. 7

    Heart Lamp needs author-translator-language recall: Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi and Kannada.

  8. 8

    Khel Ratna 2024 pairs four names with four disciplines; Shakti's This Moment is the Grammy album fact.

CORE Civilian-award clusters: Bharat Ratna 2024 and Padma Awards 2025

The highest-yield civilian-award cluster for this topic is the unusually large Bharat Ratna 2024 set. The President of India presented Bharat Ratna on 30 March 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan to P.V. Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh, M.S. Swaminathan and Karpoori Thakur posthumously, while L.K. Advani was conferred the award separately on 31 March 2024. That makes five awardees in the 2024 current-affairs cycle. For RAS recall, keep the set as persons plus public contribution: Rao is tied to prime-ministership and economic reform, Charan Singh to agrarian politics, Swaminathan to the Green Revolution, Karpoori Thakur to social justice politics, and Advani to national public life. The Padma Awards 2025 form the second civilian-award count cluster. The Ministry of Home Affairs notification records 139 awards: 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri. 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.

PREDICTED Predicted RAS Questions

Based on PYQ trends and 2026 syllabus analysis

1 1M Which set completes the Bharat Ratna 2024 awardee cluster? 1 marks · 0 words

Model Answer

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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