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Medical practitioner to return Padma Shri after Naxal threats

Traditional medicine practitioner Hemchand Manjhi, renowned for his stellar work from a remote village in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district, on Monday said he will return his Padma Shri award,......

First woman elephant mahout among 34 unsung heroes awarded Padma Shri

India's first woman elephant mahout Parbati Baruah famous as Hasti Kanya, tribal environmentalist Chami Murmu, social worker Sangthankima who runs Mizoram's largest orphanage and plastic surgeon......

PM awards Padma Shri to Prof Karashima in Tokyo

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday awarded the Padma Shri award to Professor Noburu Karashima for his contribution in the field of literature and education. Professor Noburu had been unable......

Padma awards announced, no word on Bharat Ratna

President Pratibha Patil has approved the conferment of Padma Awards 2012. This year the president has approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of......

Government announces Padma Shri awardees

Keeping its promise of honouring “unsung heroes”, the government on Thursday announced Padma Shri awards for personalities who served the poor, set up free schools and popularised......

Bibek Debroy, chief of PM's economic council, passes away

Bibek Debroy, a key economic adviser to the Prime Minister whose prolific work included translations of the puranas and the vedas, passed away on Friday. He was 69. Photograph: Utpal Sarkar/ANI......

Who is Prasanta Pattanaik, Padma Shri?

Had he not been a student, admirer and follower of Amartya Sen, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan feels it might have been a Padma Bhushan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The year was 1971.......

Reliance's 'discovery man' gets Padma Shri

Reliance Industries found huge natural gas reserves in the very first well it drilled, which subsequently proved to be the world's second largest deepwater discovery in the last decade. But few......

'Don't feel special about getting Padma Shri'

Veteran Malayalam actor Madhu, 79, was so passionate about cinema that he resigned his job as a college lecturer to join the National School of Drama. His first break came in 1963 when Ramu......

PIX: Jeetendra, Anil Kapoor celebrate Sridevi's Padma Shri

Sahara group chief Subroto Roy organised a bash for Sridevi to celebrate her Padma Shri award at the Sahara Hotel in Mumbai on April 23. The actress cut a medal cake while her friends --......

Raveena, Keeravaani Honoured With The Padma Shri

Raveena Tandon has been awarded the fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, by President Draupadi Murmu at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Expressing her gratitude at......

Sridevi: Don't hanker for awards but Padma Shri is special

The gorgeous Sridevi was recently awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, and she seems delighted by the honour.“It’s my good fortune that people still love......

Kader Khan's son receives Padma Shri in Toronto

IMAGE: Sarfaraz Khan receives the Padma Shri from Dinesh Bhatia, India's consul general in Toronto, right. Kader Khan, the much missed actor-writer-director who passed away in Canada in January,......

Sindhu, Sardar, Saba and Arunima receive Padma Shri award

Indian men's hockey team captain Sardar Singh and former skipper of the national women's side Saba Anjum were conferred with the prestigious PadmaShri Award by President Pranab Mukherjee......

Bhajji slams media on Padma Shri awards issue

India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh denied that he was forced to miss the Padma Shri presentation ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday because of his endorsements and advertising......

Squash star Joshna Chinappa conferred with Padma Shri

IMAGE: Indian squash star Joshna Chinappa receives the Padma Shri from President Draupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on Thursday. Photograph: Rashtrapati Bhawan/X Indian squash......

Advani flays Padma Shri awards selection process

Reigning World billiards champion Pankaj Advani has supported fellow-cueist Yasin Merchant's criticism of the Padma awards' selection procedure, saying that despite it being by and large fair, it......

Virender to return Padma Shri, urges Sachin Tendulkar, Neeraj Chopra to...

IMAGE: Showing solidarity with Bajrang Punia, Virender Singh Yadav is set to return his Padma Shri to the government. Photograph: Virender Singh/X Deaflympics gold medallist Virender Singh Yadav,......

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