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Bill Gates, wife Melinda, Manjul Bhargava conferred Padma Bhushan
New Delhi, Jan 25
BJP leader L.K. Advani,
spiritual leader and philanthropist Aga Khan, actors Dilip Kumar and
Amitabh Bachchan and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal are among
the nine awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma
Vibhushan, Sunday.
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill
Gates and his wife Melinda, journalists Swapan Dasgupta and Rajat
Sharma, lawyer Harish Salve, filmmaker Jahnu Barua, former chief
election commissioner N.Gopalaswami, wrestler-turned-coach Satpal, and
maths "Nobel Prize" winner Manjul Bhargava were among the 20 recipients
of the Padma Bhushan, said a home ministry release.
The Padma Shri has been awarded to 75 people
Padma Bhushan for wrestling coach Satpal; Padma Shri for Sardar
Iconic wrestler-turned-coach Satpal was Sunday named for the prestigious Padma Bhushan award, while national hockey team captain Sardar Singh was among the five sportspersons chosen for this year's Padma Shri awards.Women's badminton player P.V. Sindhu, former women's hockey player Saba Anjum, Arunima Sinha -- the first woman amputee mountaineer to climb Mount Everest, and Indian women's cricket team skipper Mithali Raj were the other sportspersons selected for this year's Padma Shri awards.
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