The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award was conferred ______ Mary Kom, a six-time world boxing champion, recently in a ceremony ______ the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
The standard expression is “confer an award on someone”, and the ceremony takes place “at” the named venue. Thus “on, at” is the grammatically intended pair C. This question concerns the sentence’s prepositions.
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