Complex sentence: The Government of Brazil conferred on him the Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) in 1996 and the same year, he received the "Ugadi Puraskar" from the Madras Telugu Academy.
Split into simpler sentences: The Government of Brazil conferred on him the Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) in 1996. The same year, he received the "Ugadi Puraskar" from the Madras Telugu Academy.