By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala: Poverty has not stopped nonagenarian Thanga Darlong — all of 91 years — from playing the rosem, a flute-like tribal musical instrument made of bamboo. This labour of love saw him nominated for the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award, in the Republic Day honours[Read More…]
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Meet Padma Shri Friederike Bruning, a German shelter to cows in Mathura
2019 shall be remembered as the year that honoured unsung heroes from the crowd of commons. After inspiring story of Odisha’s Padma Shri ‘Chai Wala’ who imparts free education to poor kids from his meagre earnings from tea stall, here comes another epitome of humankind, Friederike Irina Bruning who was[Read More…]
Meet Padma Shri ‘chai wala’ who imparts education from tea stall earnings
Devarapalli Prakash Rao, who runs a tea stall in the city’s Buxi Bazaar area has been conferred with nation’s top honour Padma Shri for his contribution in the field of social work. Selling tea for the past 50 years, what more that he gives away is education to 80 children from the[Read More…]
Padma Shri an honour for conviction: Manoj Bajpayee
“It’s a huge honour for any professional because it’s not an honour for just one particular film or performance. It’s an honour for your journey, for your conviction and belief that you had,” Manoj told IANS in a telephonic interview on Saturday — a day after being named for the[Read More…]
Padma Awards 2019 announced: Here is the full list
President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday conferred the Padma Awards, one of the highest civilian awards of the category, to 112 people from various disciplines. The awards were conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The list includes 112 Padma Awards awarded this year – 4 Padma[Read More…]
Padma Awards 2019 Live Updates: Late Kader Khan, Gautam Gambhir, Prabhu Deva among awardees
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…]
Full list: Virat Kohli, Sakshi Malik and Kailash Kher to receive Padma Shri
Cricketer Virat Kohli and wrestler Sakshi Malik along with Singer Kailash Kher may receive the Padma Shri award this year, as per a report in HT. Five sportspersons including captain Virat Kohli, Olympian Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar, discus thrower Vikas Gowda and national hockey team captain PR Sreejesh along[Read More…]