LIVE UPDATES: Here’s the complete list of 2019 Padma Awardees List 112 Padma Awards awarded this year – 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan & 94 Padma Shri. 21 awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 3 Posthumous awardees and 1 transgender[Read More…]
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Poet Gopaldas passes away: Sneak-peek into his work
Famous Hindi lyricist-poet Gopaldas Neeraj passed at the age of 93 away on Thursday evening at the AIIMS trauma centre. Kavi Neeraj, who was a Padma Bhushan awardee, had suffered a head injury following a fall at his house in Agra and was undergoing treatment at a hospital there. Veteran poet Neeraj[Read More…]
Hyderabadi shuttler PV Sindhu recommended for Padma Bhushan
Noted Indian shuttler PV Sindhu was recommended for the Padma Bhushan award by the Sports Ministry on Monday. The 22-year-old created history at the Rio Olympics in 2016 when she became the first Indian woman to seal a silver medal. Earlier in 2015, she became the youngest recipient of the[Read More…]