Question: Recently who has been announced to be awarded with 6th Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award?
(a) Vishwanathan Anand
(b) V. V. S Laxman
(c) Pankaj Advani
(d) Karun Chandhok
Ans (a)
Related facts:
- On 6 April 2016 Five-time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand has been announced to be awarded with 6th Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award.
- Viswanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 at Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu.
- Viswanathan Anand became India’s first grandmaster in 1988.
- Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 for the first time and became first Indian to do so.
- He won World Chess Championship in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, consistently.
- The award was established in 2011 by Mumbai- based socio-cultural organisation Hridayesh Art in the honour of music composer and singer Hridaynath Mangeskar.
- The honour carries be a cash award of Rs 2 lakh and a memento.
- State Governor C Vidyasagar Rao will present the award to the 46-year-old sportsman at an event here on April 12.
- It may be recalled that Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman has been conferred with prestigious 2015 Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award.
Reference:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/vishwanathan-anand-to-be-feted-with-hridaynath-award-116040500414_1.html
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report-vishwanathan-anand-to-be-feted-with-hridaynath-award-2198469
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand