Prof. S.P. Ganguly, Centre for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies has been conferred upon the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services by the Government of Peru for his outstanding contribution in promotion and dissemination of Peruvian and Latin American culture and literature in India and abroad.

Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, has been conferred upon the ILO Decent Work Research Prize for her outstanding contribution in the field of Economic Policy Reforms by the International Labour Organization.

Prof. Ummu Salma Bava, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies have been conferred with the 'Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany' by the President of Germany, in recognition of her contribution to the Indo-German relations.

Prof. Akhtar Mahdi, Centre for Persian & Central Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies has been nominated as a member of the National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Education for a period of three years by the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education (Minority Cell).

Dr. Milap Punia, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences has been conferred upon the 'Best Paper Award 2011' for the article entitled “Mining land cover information using multilayer perception and decision tree from MODIS Data” published in the Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, alongwith his co-authors (Uttam Kumar, Mr. N. Kerle and T.V. Ramachandra).

Dr. Akhlaque Ahmad 'Ahan', Assistant Professor, Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies received Qazi Abdul Wadood Award for the year 2011. The award is given by Bihar Urdu Academy to a renowned academician for his research work in the field of Literature. Academic and poet Dr. Akhlaque 'Ahan' got this award for his work titled "Maqalat e Arshi". He has published ten books and more than fifty papers on Indo-Persian studies.

Mr. Vishwa Pal, Ph.D. student, School of Physical Sciences working under the supervision of Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh received the Best Oral Presentation award at the IONS (International OSA Network of Students) conference organized by the Optical Society of America (OSA) student chapter at IIT Delhi during 1-2 December 2011, for their joint paper.

Mr. Santosh Kumar, Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh, School of Physical Sciences, received the 'Sterlite Innovation Award' in "PHOTONICS 2010: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics" organized at IIT-Guwahati from 11-15 December 2010, for their joint paper.