December 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Ranjitsinh Disale | 2020 Global Teacher Prize |
| Adar Poonawalla | ‘The Straits Times Asian of the Year 2020’ |
| Mondo Duplantis (Sweden, Pole Valuter) | Male World Athletes of the Year 2020 |
| Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela, triple jumper) | Female World Athletes of the Year 2020 |
| Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) | International King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award for 2020 |
| Invest India | 2020 UN Investment Promotion Award by UNCTAD |
| Dr Carolina Araujo | 2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematics |
| Joe Biden and Kamala Harris | Time Magazine’s Person of the Year |
| Ashraf Patel | Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award –India 2020 |
| Paul Sein Twa | Goldman Environmental Prize 2020 by IUCN |
| Robert Lewandowski (Poland) | Best FIFA Men’s Player 2020 |
| Lucy Bronze (England) | Best FIFA Women’s Player 2020 |
| Ratan Tata | ASSOCHAM Enterprise of the Century Award |
| Ratan Tata | Global Visionary of Sustainable Business and Peace award |
| K. Veeramani | Dr Narendra Dabholkar Memorial Award |
| Hemant Kumar Pandey | DRDO’s ‘Scientist of the Year Award’ |
November 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Dr Dinesh Katre | Emmett Leahy Award 2020 |
| Paul Zacharia | Ezhuthachan Puraskaram 2020 |
| Hariharan | JC Daniel Award for lifetime contribution to Malayalam Cinema |
| S Hareesh | JCB Prize in Literature for 2020 |
| Azim Premji | Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020 |
| Ruskin Bond | Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 |
| Sadat Rahman | International Children’s Peace Prize 2020 |
| Douglas Stuart | 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction |
| Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank | Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Naseeruddin Shah | 2020 Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Puraskar |
| Neel Choudhary and Irawati Karnik | 2020 Aditya Vikram Birla Kalakiran Puraskar |
| Dr Bish Agrawal | 2020 AESC (Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants) lifetime Achievement Award 2020 |
October 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Sanjay Singh | ‘2020 Gandhi Award’ |
| Ratan Tata | IACC (Indo-American Chamber of Commerce) lifetime and Global Excellence Award |
| Ales Bialiatsli (Belarus), Nasrin Sotoudeh (Iran), Bryan Stevenson (US) and Lottie Cunningham Wren (Nicaragua) | Right Livelihood Award 2020 |
| Nityanand Nayak (Odia Poet) | Sarala Puraskar |
| Mark Carney | Governor of the year at Central Bank of the Year Award 2020 |
| Aishwarya Sridhar | 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award |
| Seema Gupta | 17th annual Stevie Award for Women in Business |
| Dr Jajini Varghese | ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020’ |
| Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) of India | 2020 UN Global Climate Action Award |
| Dr Satish Mishra | ‘Dr. Tulsi Das Chugh Award 2020’ by National Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Late Actor Om Puri | Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 at 3rd India International Film Festival of Boston |
| Chef Vikas Khanna | ‘Pride of India’, a special award at 3rd India International Film Festival of Boston |
September 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Hyderabad International Airport or GMR led Rajiv Gandhi International Airport | ‘National Energy Leader’ and ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ Awards at National Award for ‘Excellence in Energy Management’ |
| Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Vizag Steel Plant) | ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ award by Confederation of Indian industry and Godrej Green Business Centre |
| Aditya Puri | Lifetime Achievement Awards by Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2020 |
| Chef Vikas Khanna | Asia Game Changer Award 2020 |
| Margaret Atwood | 2020 Dayton Literacy Peace Prize’s Lifetime Achievement |
| Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Ig Noble Prize 2020 for Medical Education |
| Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (Goalkeeper) | All India Football Federations Men’s Footballer of the Year 2019-20 |
| Sanju Yadav (Midfielder) | All India Football Federations Women’s Footballer of the Year 2019-20 |
| Usha Mangeshkar | Gan Samragni Lata Mangeshkar Award 2020-21 |
| Sonu Sood | SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award |
August 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Marieke Lucas Rijneveld | International Booker Prize 2020 for her debut novel ‘The Discomfort of Evening’ |
| Sudha Painuli | National Award to Teachers 2020 |
| Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash Jonnalagadda | First Gold Medal for India in Mental Calculations World Cup (MCWC) |
July 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| C Rangarajan | P C Mahalanobis Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee and Raj Chetty | Carnegie Corporation of New York’s 2020 list of ‘Great Immigrants’ |
| Freya Thakral | 2020 Diana Award |
| International Olympic Committee | EU Green Building Award 2020 |
| NTPC Ltd | CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019 |
| Kezang D Thongdok | 2020 Dada Saheb Phalke Award |
| Institute for Human Development (IHD) | ‘Development Marketplace Award 2020:Innovations to Address Gender-Based Violence’ |
| K Sivan | Von Karman Award 2020 by International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) |
| Hockey Player Gurubux Singh and Cricketer Palash Nandi | Mohun Bagan Ratna Award |
| Chhattisgarh CM Darpan website and mobile app | Elites Excellence Award 2020 |
| N Chandrasekaran and Jim Taiclet | US-India Business Council (USIBC) Global Leadership Award 2020 |
| Ved Prakash Dudeja | ‘Infra Business Leader of the year 2020 award by Rail Infra and Mobility Digital Award (RIMBDA)’ |
| Sachin Awasthi | Global Humanitarian Award 2020 |
| Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh), Mohammad Mosaed (Iran), Dapo Olorunyomi (Nigeria) and Svetlana Prokopyeva (Russia) | CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) International Press Freedom Award 2020 |
| Guinean doctor Morissana Kouyate and Marianna Vardinoyannis from Greece | Nelson Mandella Prize 2020 |
| Arnab Chaudhuri | ‘Legend of Animation’ |
| Greta Thunberg | Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity |
| Kala Naryanasamy | President’s Award for Nurse in Singapore |
| Aditya | Gustave Trouve Award for Excellence in Electric Boats and Boating |
| Jamie Vardy | Premier League Golden Boot Football Award |
| Sunil YDV SS | ‘Karamveer Chakra Award’ |
June 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Kiran Mazumdar Shaw | EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 |
| Javed Akhtar | Richard Dawkins Award 2020 |
| Renjith Kumar | ‘NASA Distinguished Service Medal’ |
| Shobha Sekhar | Medal of the order of Australia (OAM) |
| Rattan Lal | World Food Prize 2020 |
| Chef Angad Singh Rana | QualityNZ Culinary Cup 2020 in the category of Seafood challenge |
| Chef Vaibhav Bhargava | QualityNZ Culinary Cup 2020 in the category of Mutton/lamb challenge |
| Amrtya Sen | German Book Trade for 2020 Peace Prize |
| Gulabbai Sangamnerkar | Lifetime Achievement Award of Vithabai Naryangaokar |
| Popstar Beyonce | 20th Annual BET Awards 2020 |
| Kritika Pandey | Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 |
| Deccan Development Society | Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award |
| Himachal Pradesh | e-Panchayat Puraskar-2020 |
May 2020
| Awardee | Award |
| Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Vaneeza Rupani | Naming NASA’s 1st Mars Helicopter |
| Arktika-M | Russia’s 1st Satellite to Monitor Arctic Climate |
| Saurabh Lodha | Young Career Award in Nano Science and Technology for the year 2020 |
| Indian journalist Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand | 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography |
| Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring, and Nicholas C Coops | Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020 |
| White Gold Technologies LLP, Mumbai | Startup India Animal Husbandry Grand Challenge Awards |
| Kempegowda International Airport, Bangalore | SKYTRAX Award 2020 in the category of Best Regional Airport in India and Central Asia |
| Changi Airport of Singapore | SKYTRAX Award 2020 in the category of World’s Best Airport |
| Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai | Best airport staff in India and Central Asia category |
| Sania Mirza | Fed Cup Heart Award for Aisa/Oceania Zone |
April 2020
| Award | Awardee |
| ‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA India | Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik |
| Chinese Virtual Grand Prix Championship | Charles Leclerc |
| Inclusion in The Medicine Maker Power List 20 For 2020 | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw |
| William E. Colby Award 2020 | Adam Higginbotham |
| 13th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2020 | Novelist Abdelouahab Aissaoui |
| Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Men | England All-rounder Ben Stokes |
| Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 2020 Women | Ellyse Perry of Australia |
| Edison Award | Tata Power for campaign ‘Club Enerji #Switchoff2SwitchOn’ |
| Forbes billionaires list “The Richest in 2020” | Jeff Bezos |
March 2020
| Award | Awardee |
| MS Swaminathan Award | V Praveen Rao |
| Chameli Devi Jain Award | Arfa Sherwani & Rohini Mohan |
February 2020
| Award | Awardee |
| 1st Position for the Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana | Madhya Pradesh |
| 1st Men’s section Khelo India Ice Hockey tournament 2020 | Ladakh Scouts Regimental Centre (LSRC) Red |
| 2019 FIH Women’s Rising Star of the Year | Lalremsiami |
| SERB Women Excellence Award-2020 | Dr Niti Kumar |
| 34th Cannes Open | D Gukesh |
| ‘Central Banker of the Year 2020’ for the Asia-Pacific region | Shaktikanta Das |
| 1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award | Vinod Kumar Shukla |
| Lifetime Achievement Award by International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) | Pullela Gopichand |
| Dan David Prize 2020 | Gita Sen |
| Miss Diva Universe 2020 | Adline Castelino |
| National e-Governance Award | RailMadad |
| Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award | Lewis Hamilton and Footballer Lionel Messi |
| Mystic Kalinga Literary Award | Manoj das |
| French honour for Theatre Artiste | Sanjana Kapoor |
| National Award for Implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana | South Salmara Mankachar of Assam |
| Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 | Jadav Payeng |
January 2020
| Award | Awardee |
| ‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award for Excellence’ | Dr M S Swaminathan |
| ‘Muppavarapu National Award for Social Service’ | Dr Gutta Muniratnam |
| Polly Umrigar Award | Jasprit Bumrah |
| ‘World Games Athlete of the Year’ Award | Rani Rampal |
| Global Bihar Excellence Award 2019 | Piyush Jaiswal |
| 29th Saraswati Samman | Vasdev Mohi |
| “Merck Young Scientist Award 2019” | Sakya Singha Sen |
| Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2019 | Priya Prakash |
| Kerala National Media Award | N. Ram |
| ‘Harit Ratna Award 2019’ | Dr N Kumar |
| 1st Prize at the Republic Day Parade, 2020 | Tableaux of Assam |
| 2020 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar Award | Disaster Mitigation & Management Centre (DMMC) |
| Plastic Waste Management Award 2020 | Assam’s Dibrugarh district |