Kolkata: Cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar should not be honoured with the Bharat Ratna as the demand to give the award to filmstars and cricket players spoke of 'the low cultural level', Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju said on Saturday. "Somebody says the award should go to Tendulkar or to Sourav Ganguly. I say it should be given to none of them," Katju said. "Sometimes demands are made...
12:38 AM, May 13, 2012
Sachin Tendulkar accepted the Rajya Sabha nomination proposed by the Congress and became the first active sportsperson to have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. ...
09:20 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Aurangabad: Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Thursday said here that instead of nominating the master cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha, the Union Government should award him the Bharat Ratna award. Munde was talking to media in the city during his visit to attend the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Marathwada Mukti Sangram Museum. He was answering a question about the government's nomination of Tendulkar to the upper...
01:02 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government has recommended cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's name for the country's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan made the announcement in the Assembly on Wednesday. "We felicitated both players from the state after the World Cup. From that time plans were on to recommend the name of the son of the soil, the son of Maharashtra for the Bharat Ratna for his...
08:30 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Udhagamandalam: Defence Minister AK Antony and Army Chief Gen VK Singh on Tuesday paid tributes and aid wreaths at the new gravestone of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw on his 98th birth anniversary. Paying tributes to him, Antony said he will be an inspiration to generations of armed forces. The Defence Minister said the people and the country will never forget his contribution, particularly the victorious 1971 Indo-Pakistan war that led...
05:04 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Hockey India (HI) on Wednesday congratulated the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for recommending the name of hockey legend major Dhyan Chand for the coveted Bharat Ratna award. "Hockey India has congratulated the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for recommending the name of hockey legend major Dhyan Chand for being given the coveted Bharat Ratna award," a Hockey India release said. In a letter earlier, HI...
06:02 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Ending speculation over a sportsperson getting the highest civilian honour, the government on Wednesday made it clear that there will be no Bharat Ratna this year, the PMO sources said. The government on Wednesday announced the Padma awards. Music maestro Bhupen Hazarika has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan along with cartoonnist Mario Miranda and both have been honoured with the coveted title posthumously. Meanwhile, actors Shabana Azmi, Dharmendra...
02:55 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar's name has not been recommended for the Bharat Ratna award. Sources have said that the BCCI did not send any names, not even Sachin's. They say that the Sports Ministry has recommended the names of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay for India's highest civilian honour. The criteria for Bharat Ratna was recently broadened to include sports because of the huge demand. Infact,...
09:17 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: They entertained, educated and enlivened our lives with their talent and sheer brilliance. As another year draws to a close, it is time to remember their magic and say adieu once again to some of those who left us in 2011. Bhimsen Joshi: In what was described as the sun setting on Indian classical music, the iconic Hindustani music vocalist passed away at his hometown Pune Jan 24...
05:26 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Former Indian cricket captain Md. Azharuddin feels hockey wizard Dhyanchand deserves Bharat Ratna more than Sachin Tendulkar. ...
04:02 PM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: Sports heroes Sachin Tendulkar and Dhyan Chand are now eligible for the Bharat Ratna as the government has changed the eligibility criteria for the Bharat Ratna to widen its scope. The Bharat Ratna category has been broadened and excellence in all fields of human endeavour is the new eligibility norm. The Prime Minister's Office has accepted the Ministry of Home Affairs' recommendation of broad basing the Bharat Ratna...
09:11 AM, Dec 16, 2011
Ahmednagar: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday said Sachin Tendulkar should be conferred with the Bharat Ratna, joining a long list of admirers who have demanded the country's top civilian honour for the cricketer. "Sachin Tendulkar is an icon for Indian youth. He has made India proud with his exploits in cricket. I feel he deserves the Bharat Ratna," the anti-graft crusader said after inaugurating a tennis tournament in memory...
11:01 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Bhopal: Singing legend Asha Bhosle has endorsed master blaster Sachin Tendulkar for the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, while her sister Lata Mangeshkar is pitching for Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan. In reply to IANS query as to who should be given Bharat Ratna - Amitabh or Sachin, she said: "I think Sachin Tendulkar is the most deserving person for it." The 78-year-old singer, whose name has been recently included...
07:33 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday demanded that the country's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, be conferred on Amitabh Bachchan. "Amitabh Bachchan is the last 'Shahenshah' (emperor) of Bollywood. In many countries of the world, the people don't know who is the president or prime minister of the country, but they know Bachchan," Thackeray said in an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna. "He is a real...
12:13 PM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar could be one step closer to receiving India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna. Sources have said that the Prime Minister's Office will accept the Home Ministry's recommendations. The Prime Minister's office seems inclined to accept Home ministry's request to make sports a category for awarding the Bharat Ratna. This means that Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar could soon be a Bharat Ratna. The Home Ministry had spoken to...
01:01 PM, Jul 23, 2011
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