Sachin among 13 to get Padma Vibhushan

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to get Padma Vibhushan.
     
Industrialists Ratan Naval Tata, Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, steel tycoon Lakshmi Narayan Mittal and hotelier P R S Oberoi also to get Padma Vibhushan.
     
Noted playback singer Asha Bhosle, chess wizard Vishwanathan Anand and mountainer Edmund Hillary also to get Padma Vibhushan.
     
Nobel prize winner and noted environmentalist R K Pachauri, Delhi Metro Chief E Sreedharan, former bureaucrat P N Dhar and former Chief Justice of India Justice A S Anand are among the 13 personalities who will get the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award.

Thirty-five Padma Bhushan awards and 71 Padma Shri are being given this year.
     
For the seventh consecutive year, no one has been named for the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna.

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, Centre's interlocutor for talks with Naga groups and former Home Secretary K Padmanabhiah, noted commentator Jasdev Singh, DPS R K Puram principal Shyama Chona and ICICI Chief K V Kamath are among those named for Padma Bhushan awards.

Noted French writer Dominique Lapierre, HCL Chief Shiv Nadar, Head of the Citibank Vikram Pandit and former diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta are among the Padma Bhushan awardees.

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, Hollywood film maker Manoj Night Shyamalan, actor Tom Alter, UGC Chairman Sukhdeo Thorat, FICCI General Secretary Amit Mitra and noted footballer Baichung Bhutia and swimmer Bula Chowdhury have
been named for Padma Shri awards.