Padma Awards
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Venkaiah Naidu, Bindeshwar Pathak among five to get Padma Vibhushan
Art patron and philanthropist Kiran Nadar and Indian squash star Joshna Chinappa will receive the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award.
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Padma awards: Mulayam Yadav, Zakir Hussain among six to get India’s second-highest civilian honour
SM Krishna, Dilip Mahalanabis, Balkrishna Doshi and Srinivas Varadhan are the other persons who have been conferred the Padma Vibhushan.
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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rejects Padma Bhushan award, singer Sandhya Mukherjee declines Padma Shri
The names of four persons for the Padma Vibhushan awards, 17 for the Padma Bhushan and 107 for the Padma Shri were announced on Tuesday.
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Padma awards 2021: Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, singer SP Balasubrahmanyam among winners
The list included three political leaders who died last year – Ram Vilas Paswan, Tarun Gogoi and Keshubhai Patel.
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Padma Awards 2020: Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj get second-highest civilian honour
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President Ram Nath Kovind confers Padma awards on 47 recipients
The remaining winners will be conferred the honour on March 16.
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Padma awards: Nambi Narayanan, Gautam Gambhir, Kader Khan and Kuldip Nayar among recipients
Find the complete list of recipients here.
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‘Plastic is poor man’s friend’: Padma Shri winner Rajagopalan Vasudevan uses waste to build roads
The ‘Plastic Man of India’ has found a way to reuse plastic waste and to make durable roads.
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Who else won Padma awards apart from Rajinikanth and Anupam Kher
The list of recipients include a gypsy dancer and a paddy-field singer.
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Aam Aadmi Party unlikely to live up to promise, say American political scientists awarded Padma Bhushan
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