CNN-IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai awarded Padma Shri

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It is a proud day for Network 18. CNN-IBN's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai is one of the chosen ones. The two other TV journalists include Barkha Dutt and Vinod Dua.

The 13 who will get the Padma Vibhushan include singer Asha Bhonsale, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand, industrialists Ratan Tata, Narayana Murthy and LN Mittal, mountaineer late Edmund Hillary, Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan, environmentalist RK Pachauri and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.


Astronaut Sunita Williams, writer Dominique Lapierre, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, industrialist Baba Neelkanth Kalyani and academic Meghnad Desai are among the 35 who get the Padma Bhushan.

Actors Madhuri Dixit and Tom Alter and sportspersons Bhaichung Bhutia and Bula Chowhury are among the 71 selected for the Padma Shri.
 
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