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Padma Awards 2014

President Pranab Mukherjee announced the names of Recipients of this year’s Padma awards. He approved conferment of 127 Padma Awards including one duo case (counted as one). Padma Awards, the country’s  highest civilian awards, are conferred in three Categories viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The list comprises two Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 101 Padma Shri Awardees.

2014 Padma Vibhushan Awards :

These are awarded for exceptional and distinguished service. This year both the awardees were from Maharashtra:

• Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar for Science and Engineering
• Shri B.K.S. Iyengar for Yoga

2014 Padma Bhushan Awards:

These are awarded for distinguished service of high order:

• Prof. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Art – Painting, Gujarat
• Begum Parveen Sultana, Art – Classical Singing, Maharashtra
• Shri T.H. Vinayakram, Art – Ghatam Artist, Tamil Nadu
• Shri Kamala Haasan, Art-Cinema, Tamil Nadu
• Justice Dalveer Bhandari, Public Affairs, Delhi
• Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram, Science and Engineering, Karnataka

• Prof. Jyeshtharaj Joshi, Science and Engineering, Maharashtra
• Dr. Madappa Mahadevappa, Science and Engineering, Karnataka
• Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami, Science and Engineering, Delhi
• Dr. Vinod Prakash Sharma, Science and Engineering, Delhi
• Dr. Radhakrishnan Koppillil, Science and Engineering, Karnataka
• Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya, Literature and Education, Delhi
• Ms. Anita Desai, Literature and Education, Delhi
• Dr. Dhirubhai Thaker, Literature and Education, Gujarat
• Shri Vairamuthu Ramasamy Thevar, Literature and Education, Tamil Nadu
• Shri Ruskin Bond, Literature and Education, Uttarakhand
• Shri Pullela Gopichand, Sports – Badminton, Andhra Pradesh
• Shri Leander Paes, Sports – Tennis, Maharashtra
• Shri Vijayendra Nath Kaul, Civil Service, Delhi
• Late Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma, Public Affairs, Uttar Pradesh #
• Late Dr. Anumolu Ramakrishna, Science and Engineering, Andhra Pradesh #
• Prof. Anisuzzaman, Literature and Education, Bangladesh*
• Prof. Lloyd I. Rudolph and Prof. Susanne H. Rudolph, Literature and Education, USA*$
• Dr. (Smt.) Neelam Kler, Medicine – Neonatology, Delhi

                                                                                                 

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