Padma Awards announced

The Padma Awards have been announced. The President of India approved the names of the 119 persons for Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. The list included 13 Padma Vibhushan, 35 Padma Bhushan and 71 Padma Shri winners.

Some of the promiment Padma Vibhushan award winners are Asha Bhosle, Justice A.S Anand, Pranab Mukherjee, Dr. R K Pachauri, Late Edmund Hillary (Posthumous), Sachin Tendulkar, Vishwanathan Anand, L N Mittal, N R Narayana Murthy, Ratan Tata and PRS Oberai.

Here's the final list of winners:

Padma Vibhushan Winners:

Art: Asha Bhonsle.

Public Affairs: Justice A.S Anand, PN Dhar and foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Science and Engineering: Dr E Sreedharan, and Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri.

Sports: Late Mr Edmund Hillary (Posthumous), Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Viswanathan Anand.

Trade and Industry: Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, N R Narayana Murthy, PRS Oberoi, Ratan Naval Tata.

Padma Bhushan Winners:

Art: Amarnath Sehgal (Posthumous), Ustad Asad Ali Khan, P Susheela, Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar and Prof. Sushil Kumar Saxena.

Civil Services: Chandrshekhar Dasgupta, K Padmanabhiah and V Ramachandran.

Literature and Education: Prof Brijinder Nath Goswamy, Prof Ji Xianlin (China), Prof Kaushik Basu (USA), Prof. (Smt.) Padma Desai (USA), Ravindra Kelekar, Dr (Smt.) Shayama Chona, Shri Lal Shukla, Dr Srinivasa SR Varadhan, Prof TK Oommen and Prof (Dr) Jagjit Singh Chopra.

Medicine: Prof Nirmal Kumar Ganguly.

Public Affairs: Mian Bashir Ahmed, Late Yuli Mikhailovitch Vorontsov (Posthumous), Lord Meghnad Desai.

Science and Engineering: Prof Asis Datta and Prof. Sukh Dev.

Astronautics: Sunita Williams.

Social Work: Vasant Gowarikar, DR Mehta, Dominique Lapierre (France) and Dr (Ms.) Inderjit Kaur.

Trade and Industry: Suresh Kumar Neotia, Baba Neelkanth Kalyani, K. V. Kamath (ICICI Bank), Shiv Nadar and Vikram Pandit.

Padma Shri Winners:

Art: Gangadhar Pradhan, Mikhailovich Pechinkov (Russia), Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj, Hans Raj Hans, Dr.(Smt.) Helen Giri, Jatin Goswami, Jawahar Wattal, John Martin Nelson, Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty, Kekoo M. Gandhy, Madhuri Dixit, Mangala Prasad Mohanty, Manoj Night Shyamalan, Meenakshi Chitharanjan, Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar, P.K. Narayanan Nambiar, Pratap Pawar (UK), Sabitri Heisnam, Sentila T. Yanger, Dr. Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram, Tom Alter and Prof. Yella Venkateswara Rao.

Journalism: Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai and Vinod Dua.

Literature and Education: Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Balasubramanian Sivanthi Adithan, Bholabhai Patel, Dr. (Smt.) Bina Agarwal, Prof. (Dr.) K.S. Nisar Ahmed, Dr. (Smt.) M. Leelavathy, Dr. Nirupam Bajpai, Dr. Srinivas Udgata, Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat, Shri Surjya Kanta Hazarika, Dr. Vellayani Arjunan and Mohammad Yousuf Taing.

Mango Plantation and Grafting: Haji Kaleem Ullah Khan.

Medicine: Dr. A. Jayanta Kumar Singh, Prof. (Dr.) Arjunan Rajasekaran, Prof. (Dr.) C.U. Velmurugendran, Dr. Deepak Sehgal, Prof. (Dr.) Dinesh K. Bhargava, Dr. Indu Bhushan Sinha, Dr. Keiki R. Mehta, Dr. (Smt.) Malvika Sabharwal, Dr. Mohan Chandra Pant, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Jain, Dr. Raman Kapur, Dr. Randhir Sud, Dr. Shyam Narayan Arya, Prof. (Dr.) Surendra Singh Yadav, Dr. Tatyarao Pundlikrao Lahane and Dr. Tony Fernandez.

Public Affairs: Colette Mathur (Switzerland).

Science and Engineering: Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain, Dr. Joseph H. Hulse (Canada), Prof Kasturi Lal Chopra, Dr. Sant Singh Virmani (USA).

Social Work: Kailash Chandra Agrawal, Sister Karuna Mary Braganza, Dr. (Smt.) Kshama Metre, Dr. Kutikuppala Surya Rao, Madan Mohan Sabharwal, Dr. (Ms.) Sheela Barthakur, V.R. Gowrishankar, Vikramjit Singh Sahney and Yousaf Ali Musaliamveettil Abdul Kader of UAE.

Sports: Baichung Bhutia and Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty.

Trade and Industry: Dr. Amit Mitra.