Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of J&K Ghulam Nabi Azad was given the Padma Bushan award on Tuesday while India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who died in a helicopter crash recently was awarded Padma Vibhushan.
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh was also given the Padma Vibhushan and former West Bengal CM and CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was given Padma Bhushan.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were conferred Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award.
Late Punjabi folk singer Gurmeet Bawa, actor Victor Banerjee and former Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi have been awarded Padma Bhushan.
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra and singer Sonu Nigam were awarded Padma Shri.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the President approved conferment of 128 Padma Awards, including two duo cases, this year. In a duo case, the award is counted as one.
The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri awards. Thirty-four of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 posthumous awardees.
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President Ram Nath Kovind approved conferment of Padma Shri award to a young poet from Kargil this year on the eve of the 73rd Republic Day
Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat was nominated for Padma Shri in the field of Literature and Education.