RATNA BHUSHAN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other cabinet members are expected to attend the daylong event, they added. The awards were announced early this year on the eve of the Republic Day.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh, along with green revolution pioneer M S Swaminathan, will be conferred with the prestigious Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India. Thi...

Dr. MS Swaminathan, hailed as the father of India’s green revolution, was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna for his outstanding contributions to agriculture and farmers’ welfare. Recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the twenty most influential ...

Bharat Ratna awarded to L K Advani and Karpoori Thakur, taking the total recipients to 50. Previous recipients include Pranab Mukherjee, Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika, Nanaji Deshmukh, and many more. Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award, awarded fo...

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat returned her Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award, leaving them at Kartavya Path in New Delhi after being barred from reaching the Prime Minister's office. The Asian Games gold medallist had earlier announced the return in a letter to ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for leaving wrestler Vinesh Phogat's Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award on the Kartavya Path. Phogat, along with Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, protested against t...

Even the election of a new Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) committee could not restore normalcy as the Sports Ministry suspended the Sanjay Singh-led panel citing the violation of its own constitution in announcing the national U-15 and U-20 Cha...

President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a bill aimed at appointing Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners. The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term o...

The Indian Olympics Association (IOA) has formed a three-member panel to manage the operations of the suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). The Ad hoc committee, comprising Bhupinder Singh Bajwa, MM Somaya, and Manjusha Kanwar, will oversee...

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat, in a letter to PM Modi, said she has decided to return the Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards. Alongside wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, Phogat accused BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of exploiting women wrestlers during...

The wrestlers have been sitting on protest since April 23, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan alleging that he has sexually harassed seven female grapplers, including one minor. However, the top court ...

Indian wrestlers, including Olympic medalists Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, and Bajrang Punia, have threatened to return their awards and medals, including the Padma Shri, if they are subjected to such humiliation by the Delhi Police. The wrestlers w...

Pandit Ravi Shankar, a celebrated sitar player and composer, is being remembered on his 103rd birth anniversary on April 7. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the country, in 1999. Shankar's contribution to Indian classic...

Author and philanthropist Sudha Murty, physicist Deepak Dhar, who is known for his long-standing research career in statistical physics, novelist S L Bhyrappa and Vedic scholar Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji were given the Padma Bhushan at a functio...

President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday conferred Padma awards to former Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna, noted industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and famous playback singer Suman Kalyanpur at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Billionaire sto...

Padma Vibhushan honorees include late Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, S M Krishna, and Ustad Zakir Hussain. This year's Padma Vibhushan awardees are Balkrishna Doshi, Srinivas Vardhan, and Dilip Mahalanabis.

Arjun Deshpande recorded an emotional birthday message for his ‘mentor’, clutching Tata's hand, and made a public demand that the Indian government bestow the business magnate with the ‘Bharat Ratna’, India's highest civilian honor.

Top BJP leaders on Thursday paid tributes to singer Bhupen Hazarika on his birth anniversary.

The Union Home Ministry said online nominations or recommendations for the awards, to be announced on the eve of Republic Day, 2022, are open, with the last date being September 15, 2021.