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8 stories for “Awards & Personalities” · January 2026
Clear filtersD. Gnanasundaram, who served as Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil and contributed scholarly works on the Ramayana, Kamba Ramayanam and Divya Prabandham, passed away. He received the Ilakkiya Mam...
A Bombardier Learjet 45 crash at Baramati, Maharashtra, on 28 January 2026 led to the death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. First elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Baramati in 1991 (wh...
Veteran space scientist Dr A. E. Muthunayagam, pioneer of India's liquid rocket propulsion programme and founding Director of ISRO's Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), was awarded the Padma Shri in 2026. Born 11 Ja...
On Republic Day 2026, IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla received the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award. It recognised his role as mission pilot of Axiom Mission-4 to the International Space Stati...
For Republic Day 2026, 131 Padma awards were announced: 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri. They include 19 women, 6 foreigners or overseas Indians and 16 posthumous honours. N. Rajam and the late Dha...
The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development 2025 was awarded to Mozambican rights activist Graca Machel, recognising her contributions to human rights and development.
Music composer Ilaiyaraaja has been chosen for the Padmapani Award at the 11th Ajanta-Ellora International Film Festival in Maharashtra. The award honours his contribution to Indian music and cinema over five decades, in...
Ecologist Madhav Gadgil has died. He was born in 1942. He wrote the concept plan for the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India's first biosphere reserve under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme, and founded the Centre f...
