Velu Aasan, Padma Shri winner, revolutionized parai drumming in Tamil Nadu, teaching and performing worldwide.

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Among the recipients are late musicians Sharda Sinha and Pankaj Udhas, Actors Ajith Kumar, Nandamuri Balakrishna, filmmaker ...

Veteran actor Anant Nag and journalist A. Surya Prakash among Padma award winners; also honored are L. Subramaniam and Ricky ...

The Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, was posthumously awarded to renowned Malayalam writer MT ...

This year, the government has awarded 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri awards. The President confers these awards at a ceremonial function held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, usually ...

Folk singer Sinha and noted Malayalam screenwriter-director M.T. Vasudevan Nair have been posthumously honoured with Padma ...

Chief Justice of India JS Khehar, former chief of Suzuki Motor late Osamu Suzuki, Ram temple architect Chandrakant Sompura, ...

Former Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar, former chief of Suzuki Motor late Osamu Suzuki, Ram temple architect Chandrakant ...

The Centre announced the list of recipients for the prestigious Padma Awards on Saturday with President Droupadi Murmu ...