New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi poses with Olympic Medal Winners, Khel Ratna Awardees in New Delhi on Sunday. The players are silver medallist shuttler P V Sindhu (2L) bronze medal winning wrestler Sakshi Malik (2R), gymnast Dipa Karmakar (R) and ace shooter Jitu Rai. PTI Photo(PTI8_28_2016_000156B)
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The Padma awards this year will be conferred on 120 distinguished people. The list includes sportspersons P V Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and P Gopichand.
Also in the list are 75-year-old Sukri Bommagowda, known as the nightingale of the Halakki Vokkaliga tribes. The awardees, officials said, will include Imrat Khan, a folk singer from West Bengal, and 70-year-old IITian Alok Sagar. Other names include Google chief Sundar Pichai, Microsoft head Satya Nadella and Indian American Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, the officials added.
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