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TopicPadma Awards

Topic: Padma Awards

Former CJI to paralympics gold medallist: The full list of 2025 Padma awardees

The President has approved the conferment of 139 awards, including seven Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards.

President Murmu presents Padma Awards 2024

The Vice President of India, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, and the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, were also present on the occasion.

Venkaiah Naidu, Vyjayantimala, Mithun among 132 Padma awardees

The list approved by President Droupadi Murmu included 30 women and eight persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and nine posthumous awardees.

SM Krishna, Chinna Jeeyar Swamy & Narendra Chandra Debbarma — poll flavour in Padma awards 2023

Highest number of awardees this time are from Maharashtra (12), followed by Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Gujarat (8 each). This time, total 13 awardees are from the Northeast.

President approves 106 Padma awards, winners include Zakir Hussain, Mulayam Singh Yadav

President Droupadi Murmu has approved the conferment of 106 Padma Awards, the most in the Art category. The awardees include ORS pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis, Sudha Murthy among others.

‘Feel stabbed in back by govt’ — artists evicted from Centre-allocated homes talk of ‘disrespect’

In 2014, Modi govt stopped renewing 3-year terms on which many eminent artists were allotted houses by Centre. As Monday is last day for them to vacate, ThePrint records their stories of despair.

Padma Awards 2022 brought back controversies, politics and the question of its relevance

Buddhadeb Bhattacharya declined Padma Bhushan and Ghulam Nabi Azad drew jibes from Congress leaders for accepting the award from Modi govt. But such controversies are not new.

‘Would’ve accepted if given 10 years ago’: Tabla maestro Anindo Chatterjee declines Padma Shri

Besides Chatterjee, ex-Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and veteran singer Sandhya Mukherjee have also turned down the Padma Awards this year.

Bipin Rawat, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Read full list of Padma awardees here

Padma awardees include Cyrus Poonawalla of Serum Institute of India, Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech, Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra & Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

This Padma Shri awardee could not bury his dead son. It broke his heart & gave him a mission

Mohammed Sharif has performed the last rites of more than 5,000 unclaimed bodies, including during the Covid second wave. But now the Padma Shri awardee needs help, he told ThePrint.

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UPSC Civil Services Exam has been reduced to a memory test. That’s not how you select officers

India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.