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Padma Vibhushan for Ambani, Rajini; Bhushan for Anupam Kher, Sania

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New Delhi: The Centre on Monday announced Padma awards – the country’s highest civilian honours – for imminent persons under various categories for the year 2016.

As per ANI, among those who have been selected for Padma Vibhushan awards for this year include – Yamini Krishnamurthi, Girija Devi, Ramoji Rao, Shri Shri Ravi Shankar, Dr Viswanathan Shanta.

Padma Vibhushan will also be accorded to Reliance Group founder Dhirubhai Ambani posthumously.

Meanwhile, South Indian superstar Rajnikanth will also be awarded Padma Vibhushan, reported ANI.

Barjinder Singh Hamdard, Swami Tejomayananda, Prof NS Ramanuja Tatacharya, Prof D Nageshwar Reddy, Anupam Kher, Udit Narayan, Ram Sutar, Vinod Rai and Heisnam Kanhailal are among Padma Bhushan awardees.

Sportstars Saina Nehwal and Sania Mirza will be felicitated with Padma Bhushan.

(ANI)

 

Salim Khan rejected Padma award; Ramdev was not even considered for award, reveals RTI

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New Delhi: Noted movie writer Salim Khan, former diplomat K S Bajpai and spiritual gurus Sri Ravi Shanker, Mohammed Burhanuddin and Mata Amritanandamayi had refused to accept the Padma awards this year while Ramdev was not considered for the honours, according to an RTI response.

To a query seeking to know the names of persons who were shortlisted for the civilian honours but turned it down, the Home Ministry said Salim Khan, former diplomat K S Bajpai and spiritual gurus Sri Ravi Shanker, late Mohammed Burhanuddin and Mata Amritanandamayi had refused to accept the Padma awards.

The Ministry in an RTI response to activist Subhash Agrawal referred him to web site which had lists of people considered for Padma awards and those shortlisted for them but it did not have name of yoga guru Ramdev.

Two days before the awards were to be presented on January 26, 2015, Ramdev had claimed that he had written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh declining the award as he came to know that he was being considered for it.

“Meeting of the Padma Awards Committee was held on October 31, December 5, and December 13-14, 2014 for two days. The minutes of the meeting were not maintained,” the Ministry said in its response.

The reply said recommendations for the awards were dispatched from MHA to Awards-Committee members for their study and perusal before the meeting of the committee on October 25, 2014.

The Ministry refused to give information about persons whose names were recommended but were not considered following objections from agencies like CBI, IB and tax authorities saying information received from such agencies is secret in nature and cannot be provided under RTI Act.

It said search committee meetings were held on August 21, 2014 and September 8, 2014.

Recently, Ramdev created controversy saying lobbying takes place for Padma awards.

(PTI)

People lobby for Padma awards: Ramdev

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New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev sparked off a controversy on Saturday by saying lobbying for Padma awards is a known fact and those with political clout get it.

Ramdev said ‘politically influential people are successful in getting the awards.’

“The whole world knows that all awards from Padma Bhushan to Padma Shri are given to good people for their achievements but people do lobbying to get this award,” said Ramdev on the sidelines of an event.

Earlier this year, Ramdev had declined any Padma award for him after reportedly being considered by the government for the honour.

(IANS)

Owaisi questions highest honours for Vajpayee, Advani

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Photo: ARIJIT SEN, DNA

Photo: ARIJIT SEN, DNA

Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has kicked up a row by questioning the Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan awards being given to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and BJP patriarch L K Advani.

How can the country’s second highest civilian honour, Padma Vibhushan, be given to Advani who was facing criminal cases (in connection with the Babri masjid demolition), Owaisi said here at a book release function last night.

“The same L K Advani who spread destruction in the country with his ‘Rathyatra’…This could probably be the first instance of Padma Vibhushan being given to a person who is facing criminal cases,” the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen leader said.

As to Vajpayee, Owaisi alleged that the BJP stalwart had made some controversial comments on the Ayodhya issue, the videos of which were available on the YouTube.

“Have we forgotten December 5 (1992)? The same Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had said ‘we are going to level the ground’ (has been now given the Bharat Ratna),” he claimed.

(PTI)

Advani, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh conferred Padma Vibhushan

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New Delhi: BJP leader L.K. Advani, spiritual leader and philanthropist Aga Khan, actors Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal are among the nine awarded India’s second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, Sunday.

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, journalists Swapan Dasgupta and Rajat Sharma, lawyer Harish Salve, filmmaker Jahnu Barua, former chief election commissioner N.Gopalaswami, wrestler-turned-coach Satpal, and maths “Nobel Prize” winner Manjul Bhargava were among the 20 recipients of the Padma Bhushan, said a home ministry release.

National hockey team captain Sardar Singh was among the five sportspersons chosen for this year’s Padma Shri awards.

Women’s badminton player P.V. Sindhu, former women’s hockey player Saba Anjum, Arunima Sinha — the first woman amputee mountaineer to climb Mount Everest, and Indian women’s cricket team skipper Mithali Raj were the other sportspersons selected for this year’s Padma Shri awards.

The Padma Shri has been awarded to 75 people.

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