PSC Current Affairs - March 21, 2021

63-MW Grammy Awards 2021

  • Record of the year - 'Everything I Wanted' - Billie Eilish
  • Album of the year - Folklore - Taylor Swift
  • Song of the year - 'I can't Breathe' - Dernst Emile II, H.E.R & Tiara Thomas
  • Best New Artist - Megan Thee Stallion

  • American woman musician who has made a record of winning most number of Awards by a woman in the history of Grammy Awards - Beyonce (28 awards)
  • Indian origin who was recently awarded George Poyla Prize in Applied Combinations instituted by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA - Alex Pothen
  • Recepient of Neyyattinkara Vasudevan Award Instituted by Edappally Sangeetha  Sadassu- Thushar Murali Krishna
  • Former Malayali Professional Footballer who passed away recently - C.A Listan 
  • First Male Cricketer to score 3000 runs in International T-20 Cricket- Virat Kohli
  • First Afghanistan Cricketer to score a double century in Test Cricket - Hashmatullah Shahidi
  • Recepient of Kendra Sahitya Akademi Children’s Book Prize 2020 (Konkani language) - V. Krishna Vadyar (Novel - Balu)
  • First Indian transgender entrepreneur in fisheries sector - Athithi Achyuth
  • Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 in the Bengali language- Mani Shanker Mukhopadhyay (Memoir - Eka Eka Ekasi)
  • Former veteran cricketer who has been recently appointed as a board member in Professional Golf Tour of India - Kapil Dev
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