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The highest civilian honour of Dominica. DAH [20] Order of Excellence of Guyana Guyana: 20 November 2024 President Irfaan Ali: Honorary Class, the highest civilian honour of Guyana. OE [21] Order of Freedom of Barbados Barbados: Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Honorary Class, the highest civilian honour of Barbados awarded to foreign dignitaries ...
The Padma Bhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the third-highest civilian award in India. Padma Shri is awarded for "distinguished service". The Padma Shri ("Noble Lotus") is the fourth-highest civilian award in India. Unlike national honours, the Padma awards do not include cash allowances, benefits, or special concessions in rail/air travel. [4]
List of Padma Shri award recipients showing year, field and State/Union Territory/Other Nationality [1] Year S. No. Recipient Field State/Country 2020 1 Shashadhar Acharya: Arts: Jharkhand 2 Yogi Aereon: Medicine: Uttarakhand 3 Jai Prakash Agarwal: Trade & Industry: Delhi 4 Jagdish Lal Ahuja: Social Work: Punjab 5 Kazi Masum Akhtar: Literature ...
An Indian freedom fighter and public figure, H. N. Kunzru was nominated for the highest Indian civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1968 but he declined, citing his opposition to such honours in a Republic, which he had first voiced during the Constituent Assembly debates. [5]
President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, billionaire Democratic megadonor George Soros ...
[6] [7] The suspension was rescinded on 25 January 1980, after Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister. [8] The civilian awards were suspended again in mid-1992, when two Public-Interest Litigations were filed in the High Courts questioning the civilian awards being "Titles" per an interpretation of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution.
He went on to say that the award he gave Adelson was the civilian “equivalent" of the Medal of Honor — the highest military award given to soldiers and armed forces who show valor in combat ...
The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (lit. ' Prime Minister's National Award for Children '), [2] formerly called the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement, is India’s highest civilian honour for children, [3] [4] awarded annually by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.