New Delhi: Veteran actress Dimple Kapadia recently received Padma Bhushan from President Pranab Mukherjee on behalf of her late husband Rajesh Khanna.
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11:53 AM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday conferred the Padma awards on several eminent personalities including industrialist Adi Godrej, Olympic medal winners Yogeshwar Dutt and Vijay Kumar, actor Nana Patekar and designer Ritu Kumar. Professor Roddam Narasimha, a internationally renowned expert on fluid dynamics and famous painter Sayed Haider Raza were given the prestigious Padma Vibhushan at an impressive ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The Padma Bhushan awardees who were honoured...
05:46 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: At a glitzy ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday honoured the 108 Padma Award winners. This year's winners include DRDO chief Dr Vijay Saraswat, cricketer Rahul Dravid, Olympic medallist boxer Mary Kom, actress Sharmila Tagore and Sridevi. Actor Rajesh Khanna and comedian Jaspal Bhatti were honoured posthumously. Here is the list of awardees: Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra, Art S Haider Raza,...
12:07 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee will on Friday felicitate the Padma Award winners at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. The 108 personalities, who were selected from different fields, include DRDO chief Dr Vijay Saraswat, cricketer Rahul Dravid, Olympic medallist boxer Mary Kom, actress Sharmila Tagore amongst others. Here is the list of awardees: Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra, Art S Haider Raza, Art Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science...
11:15 AM, Apr 05, 2013
The future of Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' continues to be uncertain with the Madras High Court deferring the verdict on its release till Tuesday. ...
05:29 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Government on Sunday rejected noted playback singer S Janaki's claim that artistes from south were generally neglected in Padma awards. "There is no bias towards any state in selecting the awardees. But she had stated she was not interested in receiving the award because south Indians were neglected. It is not so. There is no question of south Indians being neglected," Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanaswamy said....
03:21 AM, Jan 28, 2013
What's the point in honouring an actor with a Padma award a good 35 years after his hey days are over? ...
12:09 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Veteran South Indian singer S Janaki has refused to accept the Padma Bhushan saying it has come too late and that artistes from the South are not given their due recognition. In 1960, MG Ramachandran had also rejected the Padma Shri because it was written only in Devanagari script. ...
09:12 AM, Jan 27, 2013
In a career spanning five decades, he became a superstar like no other with hits like 'Aradhana' and 'Do Raaste'. ...
04:28 PM, Jan 26, 2013
The 74-year-old veteran refused to accept the award saying artistes from South India have long been neglected for the country's top-most civilian honour. Janki has sung over 15,000 songs in a career spanning five decades across all southern languages and in Hindi. ...
04:07 PM, Jan 26, 2013
Expressing dissatisfaction over the number of people from South India figuring in the Padma awards list for 2013, southern playback singer Sreeramamurthy Janaki on Friday refused to accept Padma Bhushan award announced for her on the eve of 64th Republic Day. ...
08:13 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Dravid retired from international cricket last year after scoring 13,288 runs in 164 Tests at an average of 52.31. ...
09:52 PM, Jan 25, 2013
108 personalities from various fields have been selected for the Padma Awards this year. ...
09:50 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Late actor Rajesh Khanna and late satirist Jaspal Bhatti are among Padma Bhushan recipients this year. Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, will also be given to actor Sharmila Tagore, boxing champion Mary Kom, cricketer Rahul Dravid. Rajesh Khanna and Jaspal Bhatti, who died in 2012, will receive the award posthumously. ...
09:29 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Five-time world champion boxer Mary Kom brought laurels to the country last year when she won a bronze medal at the London Olympics. ...
12:19 PM, Jan 25, 2013
New Delhi: Bollywood's first superstar Rajesh Khanna, who was not considered for Padma awards during his lifetime, could get one posthumously. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is understood to have recommended Khanna's name for Padma Vibhushan under the arts category to the Home Ministry. Names of filmmaker Ramesh Sippy and singer Kailash Kher are being recommended for Padma Shri, sources in I&B Ministry said. Khanna, who was also a Congress...
11:19 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday expressed hope that a time would come when her governments views would be taken seriously by the Centre. She made the remark while speaking at a mega event to mark the 14th anniversary of Jaya TV wherein music maestros of Tamil film industry, M S Viswanathan and T K Ramamurthy, were honoured. Jayalalithaa said last year she had recommended Padma awards for the...
12:05 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday expressed hope that a time would come when her governments views would be taken seriously by the Centre. She made the remark while speaking at a mega event to mark the 14th anniversary of Jaya TV wherein music maestros of Tamil film industry, MS Viswanathan and TK Ramamurthy, were honoured. Jayalalithaa said last year she had recommended Padma awards for the duo but...
10:02 AM, Aug 30, 2012
