S.P. Balasubramaniam, Shinzo Abe awarded Padma Vibhushan
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Colonel B Santhosh Babu, Commanding Officer of 16 Bihar who was in Galwan and misplaced his life together with 19 others within the violent conflict with China’s PLA in June final 12 months has been posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra.
Late singer and music composer S.P. Balasubramaniam, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan have been conferred India’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.
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In the annual nationwide honours checklist, singer K.S Chithra, former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Nripendra Misra, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among the many 10 recipients of the Padma Bhushan.
The Padma Bhushan will likely be conferred posthumously to former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel and Shia cleric Kalbe Sadiq.
Colonel B Santhosh Babu, Commanding Officer of 16 Bihar who was in Galwan as a part of Operation Snow Leopard and misplaced his life together with 19 others within the violent conflict with China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) in June final 12 months has been posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC), the nation’s second highest struggle time gallantry award. Five different personnel deployed in Galwan have been awarded Vir Chakra — 4 of them posthumously. The Vir Chakra is the third highest struggle time gallantry award.
More than 900 police and central armed police drive (CAPF) personnel obtained medals, together with 207 gallantry medals, on the eve of Republic Day.
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Assistant Sub Inspector Mohan Lal of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who was killed within the suicide assault in Pulwama on February 14, 2019 was awarded President’s Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) posthumously.
None of the 21 Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel who confronted Chinese aggression and thwarted incursion in varied sectors in Eastern Ladakh final 12 months in April-May obtain any medal this 12 months. ITBP had advisable gallantry medals for the 21 personnel in August final 12 months.
