Dhoni, Ilaiyaraaja, Advani among 2018 Padma Awardees: See full list here

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January 26, 2018

Music director Ilaiyaraaja, cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh ideologue P Parameswaran are among the 85 personalities named for the 2018 Padma Awards by the Home Ministry. In an "unprecedented and symbolic gesture of India ASEAN bonding" Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also announced Padma Shri awards for one individual from each ASEAN country, the foreign ministry said.

Full list of Padma Awardees

Padma Vibhushan:

1. Shri Illaiyaraja
Art-Music
Tamil Nadu

2. Shri Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Art-Music
Maharashtra

3. Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran
Literature and Education
Kerala

Padma Bhushan:

4. Shri Pankaj Advani
SportsBilliards/Snooker
Karnataka

5. Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom
Others-Spiritualism
Kerala

6. Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Sports-Cricket
Jharkhand

7. Shri Alexander Kadakin
(Foreigner/Posthumous)
Public Affairs
Russia

8. Shri Ramachandran Nagaswamy
Others-Archaeology
Tamil Nadu

9. Shri Ved Prakash Nanda
(OCI) Literature and Education
USA

10. Shri Laxman Pai
Art-Painting
Goa

11. Shri Arvind Parikh
Art-Music
Maharashtra

12. Ms. Sharda Sinha
Art-Music
Bihar

Padma Shri:

13. Shri Abhay Bang and Ms. Rani Bang (Duo)
Medicine
Maharashtra

14. Shri Damodar Ganesh Bapat
Social Work
Chhattisgarh

15. Shri Prafulla Govinda Baruah
Literature and Education-Journalism
Assam

16. Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia
Art-Folk Music
Uttar Pradesh

17. Shri Sudhanshu Biswas
Social Work
West Bengal

18. Ms. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
Sports-Weightlifting
Manipur

19. Shri Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi
Literature and Education-Journalism
Chhattisgarh

20. Shri Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III
(Foreigner)
Trade & Industry
Philippines

21. Ms. Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi
Art-Weaving
Manipur

22. Shri Somdev Devvarman
Sports-Tennis
Tripura

23. Shri Yeshi Dhoden
Medicine
Himachal Pradesh

24. Shri Arup Kumar Dutta
Literature and Education
Assam

25. Shri Doddarange Gowda
Art-Lyrics
Karnataka

26. Shri Arvind Gupta
Literature and Education
Maharashtra

27. Shri Digamber Hansda
Literature and Education
Jharkhand

28. Shri Ramli Bin Ibrahim
(Foreigner)
Art-Dance
Malaysia

29. Shri Anwar Jalalpuri
(Posthumous)
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh

30. Shri Piyong Temjen Jamir
Literature and Education
Nagaland

31. Ms. Sitavva Joddati
Social Work
Karnataka

32. Ms. Malti Joshi
Literature and Education
Madhya Pradesh

33. Shri Manoj Joshi
Art-Acting
Maharashtra

34. Shri Rameshwarlal Kabra
Trade & Industry
Maharashtra

35. Shri Pran Kishore Kaul
Art
Jammu and Kashmir

36. Shri Bounlap Keokangna
(Foreigner)
Others-Architecture
Laos

37. Shri Vijay Kichlu
Art-Music
West Bengal

38. Shri Tommy Koh
(Foreigner)
Public Affairs Singapore

39. Ms. Lakshmikutty
Medicine-Traditional
Kerala

40. Ms. Joyshree Goswami Mahanta
Literature and Education
Assam

41. Shri Narayan Das Maharaj
Others-Spiritualism
Rajasthan

42. Shri Pravakara Maharana
Art-Sculpture
Odisha

43. Shri Hun Many
(Foreigner)
Public Affairs
Cambodia

44. Ms. Nouf Marwaai
(Foreigner)
Others- Yoga
Saudi Arabia

45. Shri Zaverilal Mehta
Literature and Education-Journalism
Gujarat

46. Shri Krishna Bihari Mishra
Literature and Education
West Bengal

47. Shri Sisir Purushottam Mishra
Art-Cinema
Maharashtra

48. Ms. Subhasini Mistry
Social Work
West Bengal

49. Shri Tomio Mizokami
(Foreigner)
Literature and Education
Japan

50. Shri Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong
(Foreigner)
Others-Spiritualism
Thailand

51. Shri Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar
Literature and Education
Madhya Pradesh

52. Dr Thant Myint – U
(Foreigner) Public Affairs
Myanmar

53. Ms. V Nanammal
Others-Yoga
Tamil Nadu

54. Ms. Sulagitti Narasamma
Social Work
Karnataka

55. Ms. Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan
Art-Folk Music
Tamil Nadu

56. Shri I Nyoman Nuarta
(Foreigner)
Art- Sculpture
Indonesia

57. Shri Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman
(Foreigner) Social Work
Brunei Darussalam

58. Shri Gobaradhan Panika
Art-Weaving
Odisha

59. Shri Bhabani Charan Pattanaik
Public Affairs
Odisha

60. Shri Murlikant Petkar
Sports-Swimming
Maharashtra

61. Shri Habibullo Rajabov
(Foreigner)
Literature and Education
Tajikistan

62. Shri M R Rajagopal
Medicine-Palliative Care
Kerala

63. Shri Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)
Social Work
Maharashtra

64. Shri Chandra Sekhar Rath
Literature and Education
Odisha

65. Shri S S Rathore
Civil Service
Gujarat

66. Shri Amitava Roy
Science and Engineering
West Bengal

67. Shri Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)
MedicineOphthalmology
Nepal

68. Shri R Sathyanarayana
Art-Music
Karnataka

69. Shri Pankaj M Shah
Medicine-Oncology
Gujarat

70. Shri Bhajju Shyam
Art-Painting
Madhya Pradesh

71. Shri Maharao Raghuveer Singh
Literature and Education
Rajasthan

72. Shri Kidambi Srikanth
Sports-Badminton
Andhra Pradesh

73. Shri Ibrahim Sutar
Art-Music
Karnataka

74. Shri Siddeshwara Swamiji
Others-Spiritualism
Karnataka

75. Ms. Lentina Ao Thakkar
Social Work
Nagaland

76. Shri Vikram Chandra Thakur
Science and Engineering
Uttarakhand

77. Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan and Shri Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo)
Art-Music
Karnataka

78. Shri Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner)
Others-Spiritualism
Vietnam

79. Shri Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi
Literature and Education
Uttar Pradesh

80. Shri Rajagopalan Vasudevan
Science and Engineering
Tamil Nadu

81. Shri Manas Bihari Verma
Science and Engineering
Bihar

82. Shri Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji
Literature and Education
Maharashtra

83. Shri Romulus Whitaker
Others-Wildlife Conservation
Tamil Nadu

84. Shri Baba Yogendra
Art
Madhya Pradesh

85. Shri A Zakia
Literature and Education
Mizoram

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Supporters chant Death to America at Soleimani funeral

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January 7,2020

Jan 7: Body of the senior Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq last week, has arrived in his home town of Kerman in southeast Iran for burial, the official IRNA news agency said on Tuesday.

State TV broadcast live images of thousands of people in the streets of the town, many of them dressed in black, to mourn Soleimani's death.

Soleimani was widely seen as Iran’s second most powerful figure behind Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 80, who wept in grief along with hundreds of thousands of mourners who thronged the streets of Tehran for Soleimani’s funeral on Monday.

Khamenei led prayers at the funeral in the Iranian capital, pausing as his voice cracked with emotion. Soleimani, 62, was a national hero even to many who do not consider themselves supporters of Iran’s clerical rulers.

He was killed while leaving Baghdad airport last Friday. Mourners packed the streets, chanting: “Death to America!” - a show of national unity after anti-government protests in November in which many demonstrators were killed.

The crowd, which state media said numbered in the millions, recalled the masses gathered in 1989 for the funeral of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The killing of Soleimani has prompted fears around the world of a broader regional conflict, as well as calls in the U.S. Congress for legislation to keep President Donald Trump from going to war against Iran.

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Amit Shah unveils 5.5 lakh ‘thank you’ letters to PM Modi on CAA

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January 12,2020

Ahmedabad, Jan 12: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday unveiled over 5.5 lakh postcards written by Ahmedabad residents to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thanking him for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The postcards were stacked on the dais as Shah addressed a gathering of BJP workers who formed letters `C A A’ in front of him.

The state BJP claimed that the party’s “largest awareness campaign” in support of the CAA had found a place in Limca Book of Records and World Record of India.

“It is not just words but a letter of thanks written from the heart. Our public outreach programme is a reply to the lies being spread against the CAA,” Shah said addressing BJP workers from his former Assembly constituency Naranpura.

The BJP had promised to enact the CAA in its manifesto, he said, asking why the Congress did not oppose it then.

Targeting Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Shah said, “Congress has a government in Rajasthan. The Congress party in that state had promised that Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan would be given citizenship.

“Why do you oppose it when we fulfill the promise made by you?” the Union home minister asked.

“In 2006 and 2009, Ashok Gehlot wrote a letter for the same. We covered Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians, all of them under the Act, you had only mentioned Hindus and Sikhs,” Shah claimed.

Saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by bringing in the CAA, granted “human rights to lakhs of people”, he asked why opposition was against it.

He challenged “Rahul Baba” (Congress leader Rahul Gandhi), Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal to show if any provision of the CAA took away the citizenship of Indian Muslims.

“There is no such provision. Lakhs and crores of people have come to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh to save their religion, their self-respect, to save themselves. Where else will they go?” he asked.

“From the first prime minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru to the first home minister, first president of the country, and Mahatma Gandhi himself had said that whoever comes to India from Pakistan will be granted citizenship. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains coming from Pakistan have nowhere else to go,” he said.

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From this figure its clear that most of BJP mebers are aganst CAA, Becuase its below 0.5% from Indian population.

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India records highest single-day spike of 14,516 COVID-19 cases, tally reaches 3,95,048

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June 20,2020

New Delhi, Jun 20: With the highest single-day increase of 14,516 COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's coronavirus count stood at 3,95,048 on Saturday.

The death toll has gone up to 12,948 in the country with 375 persons succumbing to the infection.

According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of cases includes 1,68,269 active cases, 2,13,831 cured/discharged/migrated and 12,948 deaths.

Maharashtra with 1,24,331 cases continues to be the worst-affected state in the country with 55,665 active cases while 62,773 patients have been cured and discharged in the state so far. The death toll due to COVID-19 stands at 5,893 in the state.

The number of confirmed cases in Tamil Nadu also crossed the 50 thousand mark on Saturday and reached 54,449.

The national capital is the third-worst affected by the infection in the country with the count reaching 53,116 today.

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