Awards in 2010 Jnanpith Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Dhyan Chand Award

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Table of Awards in 2010
Jnanpith Award (for 2006)Ravindra KelkarKonkani Writer
2007ONV KurupMalayalam Writer
2008Akhlaq Khan ShahryarUrdu Poet
Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaSaina NehwalBadminton
Arjuna AwardsJoseph AbrahamAthletics
Krishna PooniaAthletics
Dinesh KumarBoxing
Parimrajan NegiChess
Deepak Kumar MandalFootball
Sandeep SinghHockey (Men)
Jasjeet Kaur HandaHockey (Women)
Dinesh KumarKabaddi
Sanjeev RajputShooting
Rehan Jehangir PonchaSwimming
Kapil Dev K JVolleyball
Rajeev TomarWrestling
Rajesh ChaudharyYachting
Jagseer SinghParalympic (Athletics)
Dhyan Chand AwardSatish PillaiAthletics
Kuldeep SinghWrestling
Anita ChanuWeightlifting
Dronacharya AwardsA K KuttyAthletics
Subhash B AggarwalBilliards and Snooker
L Ibomcha SinghBoxing
Ajay Kumar BansalHockey
Captain Chandrup (For lifetime contribution to coaching)Wrestling
Rashtriya Khel Protsahana PuraskarServices Sports Control BoardCommunity Sports Identification and nurturing of budding and young talent
Tata Steel LimitedFinancial Support for Sports Excellence
Khel Evam Yuva Vibhag, Govt of MPEstablishment and Management of Sports Academies of Excellence
Services Sports Control BoardEmployment of sportsperson and sports welfare measures
Dada Saheb Phalke Award, 2009D Ramanaidu
National Film Awards for 2009
Best Feature FilmKutty SrankMalayalam. Starring Mammootty.
Best Popular Film3 Idiots
Best film on national integrationDelhi-6
Best film on social issuesWell Done Abba
Best ActorAmitabh BacchanFor Paa. (Has won the award 3 times now)
Best ActressAnanya ChatterjeeFor Abohoman (Bengali)
Best DirectorRituparno GhoshFor Abohoman
Best Film in non-feature categoryThe Postman and Bilal (Joint)
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2010
Sanjeev Galande (Bio sciences)National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
Shubha Tole (Bio Sciences)TIFR
Swapan K PatiJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
Sandeep VermaIITK
G K AnanthasureshIISc
Sanghamitra BandopadhyayISI, Kolkata
Mitali MukherjiInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi
Umesh Vasudeo WaghmareJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
Kalobaran MaitiTIFR
Sangit Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna) for 2009
Lalgudi G JayaramanCarnatic Violinist
Shriram LagooFilm Actor (Hindi and Marathi)
Yamini KrishnamurtiBharatanatyam⟋Theatre
Kamlesh Dutt TripathiTheatre
Kishori AmonkarKhayal⟋Thumri⟋Bhajan singer
Pandit JasrajHindustani Classical Vocalist
India International Film Festival 2010
Golden Peacock AwardMoner Manush (Bengali) (dir: Gautam Ghose)The film is a saga of the life of Lalan Faquir, a 19th century Bengali Philosopher poet and his liberal sect whose message was tolerance
Best ActorGuven Kiran (Turkey)For the film: The Crossing
Best ActressMagdalena Boczarska (Poland)For the film: Little Rose
Sahitya Academi Awards
PoetsArun SakhardandeKonkani
VanitaPunjabi
Mithila Prasad TripathiSanskrit
Sheen Kaaf NizamUrdu
Laxman DubeySindhi
Mangat BadalRajasthani
Aurobindo UzirBodo
Gopi Narayan PradhanNepali
NovelistsEsther DavidEnglish
Bani BasuBengali
Dhirendra MehtaGujarati
M BorkanyaManipuri
Short StoriesNanjil NadanTamil
Uday PrakashHindi
ManojDongri
Padmavibhushan
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Brijesh MishraFormer National Security Advisor
Azim Premji
A Nageshwara RaoTelugu film celebrity
Kapila VatsyayanaArt Historian
Lakshmi Chand Jain (posthumous) – the family declined the honour as LC Jain was against the concept of state honours.Gandhian activist. Served as a member of Planning Comm and Indian HC to S. Africa
Padma Bhushan
Waheeda Rahman
Padma Shri
VVS Laxman
Reference Article
Ashok Chakra
Major Laishram Jyotin SinghPosthumous. He was an Army doctor.
Kirti ChakraCptn Deepak Sharma (Path) , Cptn Vikrant Ajit Deshmukh, Major Rahul GurungFor fighting insurgents and terrorists in J&K, J&K and Manipur respectively
Shaurya ChakraMajor Deepak Yadav and Major Nitish Roy: killed during attack on Indian mission in Kabul

Guardsman Krishnan Kumar, Sepoy Ravi Kant and Sepoy Sangat Singh

All posthumous
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for National IntegrationPresented by the Assam government
M J Akbar (2008)Journalist
Hema Bharali (2009)Freedom fighter