List of Padma Award Winners of 2013

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners 

• Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering
• Raghunath Mohapatra, Art
• S Haider Raza, Art
• Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering

  Padma Bhushan Award Winners

• Abdul Rashid Khan, Art
• Late Rajesh Khanna, Art
• Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Art
• Dr Ramanaidu Daggubati, Art
• Sreeramamurthy Janaki, Art
• Dr (Smt) Kanak Rele, Art
• Sharmila Tagore, Art
• Dr (Smt) Saroja Vaidyanathan, Art
• Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, Public Affairs
• Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai, Science, Engineering
• Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Science and Engineering
• Dr Ashoke Sen, Science and Engineering
• BN Suresh, Science and Engineering
• Prof Satya N Atluri, Science and Engineering
• Prof Jogesh Chandra Pati, Science and Engineering
• Padma Bhushan
• Ramamurthy Thyagarajan, Trade and Industry
• Adi Burjor Godrej, Trade and Industry
• Dr Nandkishore Shamrao Laud, Medicine
• Mangesh Padgaonkar, Literature and Education
• Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Literature & Education
• Hemendra Singh Panwar, Civil Service
• Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Civil Service
• Rahul Dravid, Sports
• H Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom, Sports

Padma Shree Award Winners

• Gajam Anjaiah, Art
• Swami GCD Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu, Art
• B Jayashree, Art
• Sridevi, Art
• Kailash Chandra Meher, Art
• Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, Art
• Nana Patekar, Art, Maharashtra
• R Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji, Art
• Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju, Art
• Jaymala Shiledar, Art
• Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar, Art
• P Madhavan Nair alias Madhu, Art
• Apurba Kishore Bir, Art
• Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan, Art
• Hilda Mit Lepcha, Art
• Sudha Malhotra, Art
• Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, Art
• Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy, Art
• Mahrukh Tarapor, Art
• Balwant Thakur, Art
• Puran Das Baul, Art
• Rajendra Tikku, Art
• Pablo Bartholomew, Art
• Shri S Shakir Ali, Art
• SKM Maeilanandhan, Social Work
• Nileema Mishra, Social Work
• Reema Nanavati, Social Work
• Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, Social Work
• Late Dr Ram Krishan, Social Work
• Late Manju Bharat Ram, Social Work
• Prof Mustansir Barma, Science and Engineering
• Avinash Chander, Science and Engineering
• Sanjay Govind Dhande, Science and Engineering
• Prof (Dr) Sankar Kumar Pal, Science
• Deepak B Phatak, Science and Engineering
• Dr Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju, Science and Engg
• Prof Ajay K Sood, Science and Engineering
• Prof Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan, Science & Engg
• Dr Manindra Agrawal, Science and Engineering
• Dr Jayaraman Gowrishankar, Science & Engineering
• Prof Sharad Pandurang Kale, Science & Engineering
• Vandana Luthra, Trade and Industry
• Rajshree Pathy, Trade and Industry
• Hemendra Prasad Barooah, Trade and Industry
• Milind Kamble, Trade and Industry
• Kalpana Saroj, Trade and Industry
• Dr Sudarshan K Aggarwal, Medicine
• Dr C Venkata S Ram alias Chitta, Venkata Sundara Ram, Medicine
• Dr Rajendra Achyut Badwe, Medicine
• Dr Taraprasad Das, Medicine
• Prof (Dr) T V Devarajan, Medicine
• Prof (Dr) Saroj Chooramani Gopal, Medicine
• Dr Pramod Kumar Julka, Medicine
• Dr Gulshan Rai Khatri, Medicine
• Dr Ganesh Kumar Mani, Medicine
• Dr Amit Prabhakar Maydeo, Medicine
• Dr Sundaram Natarajan, Medicine
• Prof Krishna Chandra Chunekar, Medicine
• Dr Vishwa Kumar Gupta, Medicine
• Prof (Capt) Dr M Sharaf-eAlam, Literature & Education
• Dr Radhika Herzberger, Literature & Education
• J Malsawma, Literature and Education
• Devendra Patel, Literature & Education
• Dr Rama Kant Shukla, Literature & Education
• Prof Akhtarul Wasey, Literature & Education
• Prof Anvita Abbi, Literature & Education
• Nida Fazli, Literature & Education
• Surender Kumar Sharma, Literature & Education
• Dr Jagdish Prasad Singh, Literature & Education
• Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi, Literature & Education
• Prof Noboru Karashima, Literature & Education
• Christopher Pinney, Literature & Education
• Premlata Agrawal, Sports
• Yogeshwar Dutt, Sports
• Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha, Sports
• Subedar Major Vijay Kumar, Sports
• Ngangom Dingko Singh, Sports
• Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar, Sports
• Ritu Kumar, Fashion Designing
• Dr Ravindra Singh Bisht, Archaeology

Current Affairs – January 2013

1) A senior Scientist from ISRO, S. Ramakrishnan took over as the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
2) Along with Vidya Balan, Neha Dhupia has been named PETA’s hottest celebrity vegetarians of 2012.
3) The human rights chief of UN- Navi Pillay termed Rape as National Problem in India.  He asked the union government of India to strengthen the legal administration against sexual crimes, primarily rapes but he was against death penalty for the rapists.
4) Justice D K Jain has been announced the chairman of 20th Law Commission of India.
 5) Jammu & Kashmir state government has decided to dedicate the year 2013 to daughters and observe it as ‘Save the Girl Child Year’.
6) MobiCash Easy, a mobile wallet which offers facilities such as fund transfer, bill payment, balance inquiry, mini statement, mobile top-ups and DTH recharge, has been launched by State Bank of India.
7) Sanjiv Bhatt has been conferred the 5th Mother Teresa Memorial International Award 2012 for Social Justice.
8) Syed Asif Ibrahim, the IPS officer, took over as the Director of Intelligence Bureau on 1 January 2013 succeeding Nehchal Sandhu.
9) Chief Justice of India-Altamas Kabir inaugurated the first fast-track court in Saket Court Complex, Delhi for dealing with the crime against females.
10) Urjit Patel was appointed as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) . He succeeded Subir Gokarn whose term ended on 31 Dec 2012.
11)  Bharti Airtel has launched ‘mEducation services‘ that will enable its customers to access courses for English learning, competitive exam preparation and career counselling on their mobile phones.
12) One of the biggest Hindu temples in US, which is built at a cost of 100 million dollar near Hollywood is the first Earthquake-Proof Hindu Temple of the world.
13) Srikanth Srinivasan,  Indian-American origin has been nominated as federal judge by the US President Barack Obama for the US Court of Appeals.
14) Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney, a housewife from the state of Punjab in January 2013 emerged as the first woman to win 5 crore rupees on the TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati 6 (KBC).
15) Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan shot by Taliban received France’s Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom in Paris.
16) Chandrakanta Rawat, the 37-year-old Uttrakhand woman became the first complete body donor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
17) Virat Kohli won ‘CEAT international cricketer of the year’ 2011-12 award.
18) Indian-origin Halimah Yacob became the first woman and the 9th Speaker of the Singapore Parliament. 
19) The first space weather-reading centre of India is scheduled to be opened by Mid-2013 in Kolkata.
20) K U B Rao committee has been appointed by the RBI on gold loan companies (GLCs)
21) ’Bhagyalakshmi’, a new home loan product for women home seekers, has been launched by” LIC Housing Finance”
22) Zero Dark Thirty film is based on the capture of Osama bin Laden.
23) Lakshya- IT/web-enabled initiative has been launched by Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister to enable consumers book and track refills online as well on mobile phone.
24) Chinese Government appointed Wei Wei as its new Ambassador to India.
25) The implementation of General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) was deferred by two years by the government of India. It will now come into force from 1 April 2016.
26) Manmohan Singh elected Kamal Nath, the Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs, as a leader of Indian delegation for World Economic Forum 2013.
27) Online Marketplace Snapdeal.com tied up with Mahindra & Mahindra for selling of its two-wheelers to customers on the site.
28) Election Commission of India nominated Mary Kom and Saina Nehwal, the Olympic Bronze Medalists as National Icons.
29) Rajnath Singh was appointed as the National President of BJP and he replaced outgoing President Nitin Gadkari to be at the post.
30) Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is to be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade for the year 2013.