Bharat Ratna

Union Minister of State (MoS) Nityanand Rai said in the Lok Sabha that the decisions regarding the award of Bharat Ratna are taken from time to time and no formal recommendations are necessary

After the demise of Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, party workers are seeking steps to commemorate his memory

APJ Abdul Kalam died on July 27, 2015 at the age of 83

Songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar that were dedicated to Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman would also be played in Ayodhya

A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi stated that it was not for the court to direct the authorities to award the highest civilian honour to a person

She had over 30,000 songs to her name and was awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 2001.

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Shailesh Dobhal argues why it makes sense to award Bharat Ratna to Verghese Kurien

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday sought that the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, be given to noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna posthumously

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to PM Modi, seeking that country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna should be given this year to all doctors, nurses, paramedics who served amid pandemic

Tata on Saturday requested people to refrain from demanding the Bharat Ratna for him

Hockey wizard and triple Olympic gold medallist Dhyan Chand should definitely be conferred the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, says 1964 Olympic gold medallist Harbinder Singh Chimni

Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Shiv Sena's chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut reiterated that Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, be given to the "great and Hindutvavadi leader" Savarkar

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy requested the Government of India to confer the nations highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna' upon legendary singer S P Balasubrahmanyam, who passed away on September 25

Mukherjee had served as the President of India from 2012 to 2017, and held several important portfolios previously in various Congress-led governments from the 1970s to 2012

Veteran politician's career spanned five decades; was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2019

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had kicked up a row in December, 2019, when he refused to apologise for his "rape in India" remark, saying "My name is Rahul Gandhi, not Rahul Savarkar".

The campaign was started by the NCP's social justice cell led by its Thane city chief Kailas Hawle under the guidance of Mumbra-Kalwa MLA Jitendra Awhad, said a party functionary

Mukherjee was conferred the highest civilian award by his successor Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday

Several senior BJP leaders have pushed for the Bharat Ratna award for Savarkar