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Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major Indian languages recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 100,000.

Wipro won the award in the categories of Managed IT Services, Managed Security Services, Enterprise Infrastructure Automation Services, Systems Integrator, Network Maintenance Services, Service Assurance Program, and Application Managed Service.

Jnanpith Award is presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith (a trust). Any citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the award.

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances.

The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards

• the Nobel Prize in Physics,
• the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and
• the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences;

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards

• the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine;
• the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and
• the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organization but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

All the statements are correct. Vyas Samman is presented for the outstanding work in literature. Kabir Samman is presented for communal harmony. Bhatnagar Award is presented for science and Dhanwantari award is conferred in medical science.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is not one of the Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.

The Prize in Economics, as it is referred to by the Nobel Foundation, was established and endowed by Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 on the occasion of the bank's 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel.

International Simón Bolívar Prize winners are selected by the unanimous decision a jury of seven “eminent persons” – five representing the regions of the world, one chosen by the Venezuelan authorities, and a representative of the director-general – from a list of candidates submitted by UNESCO member states and associate members.