India’s first chief of defence staff,General Bipin Rawat, former governor Kalyan Singh and Radheshyam Khemka, Educationist, will be posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the government said on the eve of 73rd Republic Day. The government further announced Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech and Cyrus Poonawalla of Serum Institute of India will receive Padma Bhushan, while Olympic medalist Neeraj Chopra has been given the Padma Shri. Also, Communist leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad will be awarded Padma Bhushan.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google's Sundar Pichai are among the 17 Padma Bhushan awardees this year.
The list comprises four Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. Out of 128 awardees, 34 are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.
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