Former Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Kalyan Singh and first Chief of Defence Staff(CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat conferred Padma Vibhushan ,while Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, former chief minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and actor Victor Banerjee given Padma Bhushan.
India confers third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Cyrus Poonawalla of Serum Institute of India, Bharat Biotech’s Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella awarded Padma Bhushan.
This year the President has approved the conferment of 128 Padma Awards including two duo cases. The list comprises four Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. Among them, 34 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of foreigners, NRI and OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.
Cyrus Poonawalla of the Serum Institute of India, which manufactured COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, and Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech, which produced India’s indigenous coronavirus vaccine Covaxin, were also given Padma Bhushan.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were conferred Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award.
Late Punjabi folk singer Gurmeet Bawa, actor Victor Banerjee and former Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi have been awarded Padma Bhushan. Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra and singer Sonu Nigam were awarded Padma Shri.
