Padma Shri  

On Thursday, Indian women's team captain Rani Rampal became the first-ever hockey player to win the prestigious 'World Games Athlete of the Year' award. Earlier in the week, she was one among the six recipients from the category of sports to be conferred with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of our country. On Friday, January 31, 2019, the Indian Women's Hockey Team captain handed an out-of-turn promotion by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) to honour her achievement. In this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer, let’s take a look at Rani Rampal’s inspiring journey so far.

Singer Adnan Sami was conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri award on Republic Day. However, several leaders from the Opposition expressed their displeasure over the Centre's decision.

The night of December 2nd, 1984, will remain etched in our country’s memory. On that horrific night, deadly methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, claiming over 20,000 lives and leaving lakhs severely disabled. Abdul Jabbar, who was 28 then, lost his mother, father, brother and himself suffered lung fibrosis and lost 50% of his vision. On November 14, 2019, he passed away after fighting for justice for the victims and survivors for close to 3 decades. With the government of India awarding this Bhopal gas tragedy activist the Padma Shri posthumously, let’s take a look at his lesser-known story in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

Once a manual scavenger, Usha Chaumar from Alwar bagged the Padma Shri award this year, inspiring one and all with her journey full of adversity, where she emerged as a winner. Let’s find out more about her journey in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Padma Shri S. L. Bhyrappa and Jnanpith Award recipient Chandrashekhar Kambara. Describing the interaction as ‘wonderful’, the prime minister lauded their strong passion towards literature and culture. But how many of you know much about these two intellectual doyens?

The president of 'Promuovi Scorrana' Vito Maraschio sent an invitation to Pattnaik to participate in the World Sand Sculptures Championship. In India, Pattnaik was awarded Padma Shri by the union government in 2014.
 

On October 14, a tsunami of congratulatory messages poured in for Nobel Economics Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee, leaving us to wonder if India erupted with similar enthusiasm when Madurai's Iron Lady received the Padma Shri earlier this year for reducing poverty in Tamil Nadu villages?

Organisers of the National Sports Day celebrations in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, put up a poster congratulating PT Usha for winning the Padma Shri and the Arjuna Award. But the catch was that they put up Sania Mirza's poster with PT Usha's name on it! Catch this on MyNation's Just For Laughs.

The Padma awards are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, the second, third and fourth highest civilian awards of the country respectively, only after Bharat Ratna.
 

Salumarada Thimmakka received the prestigious Padma Shri award and blessed President Ram Nath Kovind on the occasion

Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the 53rd episode of his radio programme by paying tribute to the martyrs of the Pulwama attack. He also expressed immense happiness for the 12 farmers who have been honoured with the Padma Shri award this year. 

This year's Padma Shri awardee Salumarada Thimmakka who is known as the Vriksa Mata has planted 8000 trees. Except for numerous awards and felicitations, she has nothing to live.

Narthaki Nataraj, a renowned dancer from Tamil Nadu, is now the first person from the transgender community to be honoured with the Padma Shri. She has trained under Tanjore Shri K P Kittappa Pillai.