Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna awarded Padma Bhushan

New Delhi: Noted physicist Yash Pal and space scientist Roddam Narasimha were today chosen for this year’s second highest civilian honour of Padma Vibhushan while yesteryear cine stars late Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Rahul Dravid were selected for Padma Bhushan. Renowned sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and painter S Haider Raza were chosen for Padma Vibhushan as government came out with a list of 108 Padma awardees that included actress Sridevi, actors Nana Patekar and Malayalam star Madhu of Chemmeen fame and Olympians Mary Kom, Yogeshwar Dutt and Vijay Kumar. [caption id=“attachment_602658” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Sharmila Tagore. Reuters.[/caption] In all four personalities were awarded Padma Vibhushan, 24 for Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri. Of the awardees 24 are women, 11 belong to the category of foreigners, NRI, PIOs and posthumous. Nobody was named for Bharat Ratna for this year too. The last awardee was late Bhimsen Joshi in 2008. Following is a list of all the Padma awardees this year. Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra, Art, Orissa S Haider Raza, Art, Delhi Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering, Karnataka Padma Bhushan Dr Ramanaidu Daggubati, Art, Andhra Pradesh Sreeramamurthy Janaki, Art, Tamil Nadu Dr (Smt) Kanak Rele, Art, Maharashtra Sharmila Tagore, Art, Delhi Dr (Smt) Saroja Vaidyanathan, Art, Delhi Abdul Rashid Khan, Art, West Bengal Late Rajesh Khanna, Art, Maharashtra Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Art, Punjab Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, Public Affairs, Maharashtra Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai, Science, Engineering Delhi Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Science and Engineering, Delhi Dr Ashoke Sen Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh B N Suresh, Science and Engineering, Karnataka Prof Satya N Atluri, Science and Engineering, USA Prof Jogesh Chandra Pati, Science and Engineering, USA Padma Bhushan Ramamurthy Thyagarajan, Trade and Industry, Tamil Nadu Adi Burjor Godrej, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra Dr Nandkishore Shamrao Laud, Medicine, Maharashtra Mangesh Padgaonkar, Literature and Education, Maharashtra Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Literature & Education USA Hemendra Singh Panwar, Civil Service, Madhya Pradesh Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Civil Service, Delhi Rahul Dravid, Sports, Karnataka H Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, Sports, Manipur Padma Shri Gajam Anjaiah, Art, Andhra Pradesh Swami G C D Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu, Art, Chhattisgarh B Jayashree, Art, Karnataka Sridevi Kapoor, Art, Maharashtra Kailash Chandra Meher, Art, Orissa Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, Art, Maharashtra Vishwanath D Patekar alias Nana Patekar, Art, Maharashtra R Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji, Art, Andhra Pradesh Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju, Art, Tamil Nadu Jaymala Shiledar, Art, Maharashtra Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar, Art, Maharashtra P Madhavan Nair alias Madhu, Art, Kerala Apurba Kishore Bir, Art, Maharashtra Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan, Art, Assam Hilda Mit Lepcha, Art, Sikkim Sudha Malhotra, Art, Maharashtra Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Art, Jammu and Kashmir Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy, Art, Maharashtra Mahrukh Tarapor, Art, Maharashtra Balwant Thakur, Art, Jammu and Kashmir Purna Das Baul, Art, West Bengal Rajendra Tikku, Art, Jammu and Kashmir Pablo Bartholomew, Art, Delhi Shri S Shakir Ali, Art, Rajasthan S K M Maeilanandhan, Social Work, Tamil Nadu Nileema Mishra, Social Work, Maharashtra Reema Nanavati, Social Work, Gujarat Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, Social Work, Bangladesh Late Dr Ram Krishan, Social Work, Uttar Pradesh Late Manju Bharat Ram, Social Work, Delhi Prof Mustansir Barma, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra Avinash Chander, Science and Engineering, Delhi Sanjay Govind Dhande, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Prof (Dr) Sankar Kumar Pal, Science, Engineering, West Bengal Deepak B Phatak, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra Dr Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju, Science and Engg, Andhra Pradesh Prof Ajay K Sood, Science and Engineering, Karnataka Prof Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan, Science & Engg, Karnataka Dr Manindra Agrawal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Dr Jayaraman Gowrishankar, Science & Engineering, Andhra Pradesh Prof Sharad Pandurang Kale, Science & Engineering, Maharashtra Vandana Luthra, Trade and Industry, Delhi Rajshree Pathy, Trade and Industry, Tamil Nadu Hemendra Prasad Barooah, Trade and Industry, Assam Milind Kamble, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra Kalpana Saroj, Trade and Industry, Maharashtra Dr Sudarshan K Aggarwal, Medicine, Delhi Dr C Venkata S Ram alias Chitta, Venkata Sundara Ram, Medicine, Andhra Pradesh Dr Rajendra Achyut Badwe, Medicine, Maharashtra Dr Taraprasad Das, Medicine, Orissa Prof (Dr) T V Devarajan, Medicine, Tamil Nadu Prof (Dr) Saroj Chooramani Gopal, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh Dr Pramod Kumar Julka, Medicine, Delhi Dr Gulshan Rai Khatri, Medicine, Delhi Dr Ganesh Kumar Mani, Medicine, Delhi Dr Amit Prabhakar Maydeo, Medicine, Maharashtra Dr Sundaram Natarajan, Medicine, Maharashtra Prof Krishna Chandra Chunekar, Medicine, Uttar Pradesh Dr Vishwa Kumar Gupta, Medicine, Delhi Prof (Capt) Dr M Sharaf-eAlam, Literature & Education, Bihar Dr Radhika Herzberger, Literature & Education, Andhra Pradesh J Malsawma, Literature and Education, Mizoram Devendra Patel, Literature & Education, Gujarat Dr Rama Kant Shukla, Literature & Education, Delhi Prof Akhtarul Wasey, Literature & Education, Delhi Prof Anvita Abbi, Literature & Education, Delhi Nida Fazli, Literature & Education, Madhya Pradesh Surender Kumar Sharma, Literature & Education, Delhi Dr Jagdish Prasad Singh, Literature & Education, Bihar Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi, Literature & Education, West Bengal Prof Noboru Karashima, Literature & Education, Japan Christopher Pinney, Literature & Education, UK Premlata Agrawal, Sports, Jharkhand Yogeshwar Dutt, Sports, Haryana Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha, Sports, Karnataka Subedar Major Vijay Kumar, Sports, Himachal Pradesh Ngangom Dingko Singh, Sports, Maharashtra Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar, Sports, Rajasthan Ritu Kumar, Fashion Designing, Delhi Dr Ravindra Singh Bisht, Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh. 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