The India Youth Icon Awards, a platform to identify and honour young Indians who can be emulated for their varied contribution and exemplary merit across various fields, having made a positive imprint on the society, was held recently in Gurgaon.

Youth Icons were selected from a total of nine categories, including Politics, Technology Entertainment, Art, Social Justice and Welfare, Media, Business and Sports. These iconic achievers were honoured with the ''I award''. The ''I'' symbolizing Individual, Inspiration, Icon and India.

Following is the list of the winners:

India Youth Icon award for Entertainment:

Actor Hrithik Roshan in Male category

Actress Priyanka Chopra in Female category

India Youth Icon in Entrepreneurship

Ajay Bijli, Chairman and Managing Director, PVR Cinemas Ltd.

India Youth Icon for Sports:

Abhinav Bindra - Shooting

Special Awards:

Global Face of the Year - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

ICON of the Year - Rahul Gandhi

Fashion Icon of the year - Deepika Padukone

Community icon of the year - Pukar and Community

India Youth Icon for the Arts

Chetan Bhagat Author

India Youth Icon for Media

Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, English News Channel NDTV

India Youth Icon for Social Justice and Welfare

Rahul Bose, Founder, The Foundation.

India Youth Icon for Politics

Omar Abdullah

India Youth Icon for Technology:

Sachin Bhatia, Founder and CEO, Makemytrip.com

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