CONGRATS!!!
PADMA Awards Announced- 58th Anniversary Republic of India
2008

PADMA VIBHUSHAN Asha Bhosle (Art), Justice (Dr.) A.S Anand, (Public Affairs), PN Dhar (Public Affairs), Pranab Mukherjee (Public Affairs),  Dr E Sreedharan ( Science and Engineering) Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri  (Science and Engineering),  Late Mr Edmund Hillary (Posthumous) (Sports),                 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (Sports)- Cricket  Viswanathan Anand (Sports)-  Chess  Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (Trade and Industry), N R Narayana Murthy (Trade and Industry),  PRS Oberoi (Trade and Industry),  Ratan Naval Tata (Trade and Industry) PADMA VIBHUSHAN

PADMA BHUSHAN ART Amarnath Sehgal (Posthumous), Ustad Asad Ali Khan, P Susheela,  Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Prof. Sushil Kumar Saxena.   CIVIL SERVICE: Chandrshekhar Dasgupta,  K Padmanabhiah and V Ramachandran. LITERATURE & 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, Lord Meghnad Desai,  Late Yuli Mikhailovitch Vorontsov (Posthumous) SCIENCE & ENGINERING:  Prof Asis Datta, Prof. Sukh Dev ASTRONAUTICS:  Astronaut Sunita Williams USA- born in India SOCIAL WORK: Vasant Gowarikar,  DR Mehta, Dominique Lapierre (France),  Dr (Ms.) Inderjit Kaur TRADE & INDUSTRY: Suresh Kumar Neotia, Baba Neelkanth Kalyani, K. V. Kamath,  Shiv Nadar Vikram Pandit PADMA BHUSHAN

PADMA SHRI / SHREE 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 & 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 AGRICULTURE- 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 & 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 & INDUSTRY  Dr. Amit Mitra PADMA SHRI

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