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Noted scientists G. Madhavan Nair and Anil Kakodkar, environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna and Missionaries of Charity head Sister Nirmala are among the 10 Indians conferred with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.

The Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, has already been announced on November 4, 2008, for legendary Hindustani classical music vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who is now 86.

President Pratibha Patil has approved the conferment of 133 Padma awards, among them 30 Padma Bhushans and 93 Padha Shris, an official statement said on Sunday (January 25) on the eve of Republic Day.

The Padma Bhushan is the country's third highest civilian award and the Padma Shri the fourth.

Among those on whom the Padma Bhushan will be conferred are educationist C.K. Prahlad, yesteryears' singer-actress Shamshad Begum, former bureaucrat S.K. Mishra, journalist Shekhar Gupta, historian Ramchandra Guha, author Isher Judge Ahluwalia, shooter Abhinav Bindra and techno-entrepreneur Sam Pitroda.

Among those named for the Padma Shri are Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, former star Helen, composer-musician Pandit Hridayanath Mangeshkar and singer Penaz Masani, broadcaster Ameen Sayani, pathologist Arvind Lal, advocate Shyamla Pappu, social worker Bilkees Latif, Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and world billiards champion Pankaj Advani.

Four foreigners also figure in the list of awardees. They are Minoru Hara, Geshe Ngawang Samten and John Ralston Marr (literature and education) and Devayani Chaymotty (art).

The highest number of awards - 40 - are in the art category, followed by literature and education with 27, medicine with 19 and social work with 11. The other categories in which the awards have been given are science/engineering (9), trade/industry and public affairs (5 each), civil service (3) and journalism (2).

Former Karnataka governor Gavind Narain is among those to be conferred the Padma Vibhushan.

Among those honoured with the Padma Bhushan are Khalid Hameed (medicine), Lt. Gen. (retd) Satish Nambiar (national security affairs) and Kirit Shantilal Parikh (public affairs).

The list of Padma Shri conferees includes industrialist R.K. Krishna Kumar, artists Aruna Sairam, Geeta Kapur and Hemi Bawa, singer Udit Narayan, journalist Abhay Chhajlani, writers Shashi Deshpande and Sunny Varkey and cricketer Harbhajan Singh.

The following is the full list of Padma awardees on the occasion of Republic Day:

Bharat Ratna:

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Hindustani classical music (announced November 4, 2008).

Padma Vibhushan:

Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (civil service - Maharashtra), Sunderlal Bahuguna (environment conservation - Uttarakhand), D.P. Chattopadhyaya (literature & education - West Bengal), Jasbir Singh Bajaj (medicine - Punjab), Purshotam Lal (medicine - Uttar Pradesh), Govind Narain (public affairs - Uttar Pradesh), Anil Kakodkar (science & engineering - Maharashtra), G. Madhavan Nair (science & engineering - Karnataka), Sister Nirmala (social work - West Bengal), A.S. Ganguly (trade & industry - Maharashtra).

Padma Bhushan:

G. Sivarama Krishna Murthy alias Krishna (art - Andhra Pradesh), Ramanlal C. Mehta (art - Gujarat), Shamshad Begum (art - Maharashtra), V.P. Dhananjayan & Shanta Dhananjayan (duo - art - Tamil Nadu), Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati (art - Tamil Nadu), S.K. Misra (civil service - Haryana), Shekhar Gupta (journalism - Delhi), Alappat Sreedhara Menon (literature & education - Kerala), C.K. Prahlad (literature & education - NRI/ PIO), D. Jayakanthan (literature & education - Tamil Nadu).

Isher Judge Ahluwalia (literature & education - Delhi), Kunwar Narain (literature & education), Delhi, Minoru Hara (literature & education - foreigner), Ramachandra Guha (literature & education - Karnataka), Brijendra Kumar Rao (medicine - Delhi), Vaidya Devendra Triguna (medicine - Delhi), Khalid Hameed (medicine - NRI/ PIO), Lt. Gen. (retd) Satish Nambiar (national security affairs - Delhi), Inderjit Kaur Barthakur (public affairs - Meghalaya), Kirit Shantilal Parikh (public affairs - Delhi).

Bhakta B. Rath (science & engineering - NRI/ PIO), Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri (science & engineering - Tamil Nadu), Gurdip Singh Randhawa (science & engineering - Delhi), Sam Pitroda (science & engineering - Delhi), Sarvagya Singh Katiyar (science & engineering - Uttar Pradesh), Thomas Kailath (science & engineering - NRI/ PIO), Naganath Nayakawadi (social work - Maharashtra), Sarojini Varadappan (social work - Tamil Nadu), Abhinav Bindra (sports - Punjab), Anil Manibhai Naik (trade & industry - Maharashtra).

Padma Shri:

Thilakan (art - Kerala), A. Vivekh (art - Tamil Nadu), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (art - Maharashtra), Akshay Kumar (art - Maharashtra), Ameena Ahmed Ahuja (art - Delhi), Aruna Sairam (art - Tamil Nadu), Devayani Chaymotty (art - foreigner), Geeta Kapur (art - Delhi), Govind Ram Nirmalkar (art - Chhattisgarh), Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma (art - Manipur).

Hashmat Ullah Khan (art - Jammu & Kashmir), Helen Khan (art - Maharashtra), Hemi Bawa (art - Delhi), Hridaynath Mangeshkar (art - Maharashtra), Iravatham Mahadevan (art - Tamil Nadu), K.P. Udayabhanu (art - Kerala), Kanneganti Brahmanandam (art - Andhra Pradesh), Kiran Seth (art - Delhi), Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee (art - Maharashtra), Leela Omchery (art -Delhi).

Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar (art -Kerala), Niranjan Goswami (art - West Bengal), Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa (art - Punjab), Penaz Masani (art - Maharashtra), Prakash N. Dubey (art - Maharashtra), Pratapaditya Pal (art - NRI/ PIO), Ram Kishore Chhipa (art - Rajasthan), Saoli Mitra (art - West Bengal), Skendrowell Syiemlieh (posthumous - art - Meghalaya), Subrahmanyam Krishnaswamy (art - Tamil Nadu).

Suresh Dutta (art - West Bengal), Tafazzul Ali (posthumous - art - Assam), Udit Narayan (art - Maharashtra), Vadakka Manalath Govindan alias Kalamandalam Gopi (art - Kerala), S.B. Ghosh Dastidar (civil service - Haryana), Ameen Sayani (commentary & broadcasting - Maharashtra), Abhay Chhajlani (journalism - Madhya Pradesh), A. Sankara Reddy (literature & education - Delhi), Alok Mehta (literature & education - Delhi), Bannanje Govindacharya (literature & education - Karnataka).

Birendranath Datta (literature & education - Assam), Geshe Ngawang Samten (literature & education - foreigner), Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen (literature & education - Puducherry), Jayanta Mahapatra (literature & education - Orissa), John Ralston Marr (literature & education - foreigner), Lalthangfala Sailo (literature & education - Mizoram), Laxman Bapu Mane (literature & education - Maharashtra), Mathoor Krishnamurty (literature & education - Karnataka), Norden Tshering (literature & education - Sikkim), Panchapakesa Jayaraman (literature & education - NRI/ PIO).

Ram Shankar Tripathi (literature & education - Uttar Pradesh), Ranbir Chander Sobti (literature & education - Chandigarh), Ravindra Nath Srivastava literature & education - Bihar), Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (literature & education - Uttar Pradesh), Shashi Deshpande (literature & education - Karnataka), Sunny Varkey (literature & education - NRI/ PIO), Suresh Gundu Amonkar (literature & education - Goa), Utpal K. Banerjee (literature & education - Delhi), A.K. Gupta (medicine - Maharashtra), Alampur Saibaba Goud (medicine - Andhra Pradesh).

Arvind Lal (medicine - Delhi), Ashok K. Vaid (medicine - Delhi), Ashok Kumar Grover (medicine - Delhi), Balswarup Choubey (medicine - Maharashtra), D. S. Rana (medicine - Himachal Pradesh), Govindan Vijayaraghavan (medicine - Kerala), Kalyan Banerjee (medicine - Delhi), P.R. Krishna Kumar (medicine - Tamil Nadu), R. Sivaraaman (medicine - Tamil Nadu), Shaik Khader Noordeen (medicine - Tamil Nadu).

Thanikachalam Sadagopan (medicine - Tamil Nadu), Yash Gulati (medicine - Delhi), K. Asungba Sangtam (public affairs - Nagaland), Shyamlha Pappu
(public affairs - Delhi), Syed Iqbal Hasnain (research on Himalayan glaciers - Delhi), Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav (science & engineering - Andhra Pradesh), Pramod Tandon (science & engineering - Meghalaya), Bansilal Rathi (social work - Madhya Pradesh), Bilkees I. Latif (social work - Andhra Pradesh), Cheril Krishna Menon (social work - NRI/PIO).

Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira (social work - Maharashtra), K. Viswanathan (social work - Kerala), Keepu Tshering Lepcha (social work - Sikkim), Shyam Sunder Maheshwari (social work - Rajasthan), Sunil Kanti Roy (social work - West Bengal), Balbir Singh Khullar (sports - Punjab), Harbhajan Singh (sports - Punjab), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (sports - Jharkhand), Pankaj Advani (sports - Karnataka), Surinder Mehta (technology solutions - Delhi).

Arunmugam Sakthivel (trade & industry - Tamil Nadu), Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty (trade & industry - NRI/ PIO), R.K. Krishna Kumar (trade & industry - Maharashtra).