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106 Padma Awards this year; Mulayam Singh Yadav awarded Padma Vibhushan po
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Padma Awards, which were instituted in 1954, are one of the highest civilian honours of India announced annually on the eve of Republic Day.
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Raveena Tandon, MM Keeravaani get Padma Shri, Ustad Zakir Hussain to be ho
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Tandon and Keeravani, the composer behind RRR's widely popular number 'Naatu, Naatu' who won the Golden Glode award this year in the category of 'Best Original Song', will receive the Padma Shri -- the fourth highest civilian honour in India.
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Rupa Group Chairman PR Agarwala to be awarded Padma Shri
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 1 (ANI/PNN): Prahlad Rai Agarwala, Executive Chairman of the Rupa Group, has been awarded the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian honours of the country.
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India's first woman Air Marshal Dr Padma Bandopadhyay awarded Padma Shri
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Air Marshal Dr Padma Bandopadhyay (Retd) on Monday received the Padma Shri award, the fourth-highest civilian honour of the country, in the field of medicine.
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Cong leader Harish Rawat demands Bharat Ratna for Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Harish Rawat has demanded the Narendra Modi government to give Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. Rawat has advocated the award of Bharat Ratna to BSP chief Mayawati along
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Telangana assembly passes resolution seeking Bharat Ratna for Narasimha Ra
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 8 (ANI): The Telangana assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the central government to confer Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, on former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.
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Pranab Mukherjee: A consensus builder who left an imprint on India's poli
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): A leader of vast experience and knowledge who strived for consensus in the polity and left an imprint on India's modern history, Pranab Mukherjee was India's 13th President and was conferred its highest civilian honour.
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'A great encouragement': PV Sindhu on being conferred with Padma Bhushan
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 27 (ANI): Elated on being conferred with India's third-highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, shuttler PV Sindhu on Sunday said that such awards serve as great encouragement for sportsmen to achieve a lot more.
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Padma Bhushan not for me but for people of J-K, says Muzaffar Hussain Baig
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Jan 26 (ANI): PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig, who has been conferred with Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, on Sunday said that the award is not for him but for all the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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NDA govt should straightaway confer Bharat Ratna to Godse instead of Savar
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tiwari on Wednesday took potshots at the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for propping up the name of Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna in the party's manifesto for the upcoming Maharashtra elections and said that the party sh
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UAE confers Zayed II Order on outgoing envoy Navdeep Singh Suri
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Abu Dhabi [UAE], Sep 12 (ANI): Outgoing India's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Navdeep Singh Suri has said that it was an "amazing surprise" to be conferred with the Order of Zayed II, the highest civilian honour in the country, by President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahya
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LS Speaker congratulates PM Modi for being decorated with UAE's highest ci
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 26 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on being awarded the 'Order of Zayed', the highest civilian honour of the United Arab Emirates.
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