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Bharat Ratna awardee Lata Mangeshkar passes away at 92, know benefits of Bharat Ratna award

The news of Bharat Ratna awardee Lata Mangeshkar’s demise has is deeply saddening. On February 6, she lost the battle against Covid-19.

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The Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar has passed away. She was 92 years old at the time of her demise. She was conferred with Bharat Ratna in 2001. She will always be remembered as the queen of melody and her legacy will never be forgotten.

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The Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, is bestowed to distinguished individuals for outstanding contributions to the fields of art, literature, and science, as well as any other domain of human endeavour. Though there have been numerous controversies, it is not every day that one receives this prize.

Initiated in 1954, Bharat Ratna has been awarded to 48 individuals to date including 12 posthumously. The first set of individuals to be honoured by the award were CV Raman, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and C Rajagopalachari. Recipients who were awarded the Bharat Ratna in recent times include late former President of India Pranab Mukherjee, social activist Nanaji Deshmukh, and musician-music director Bhupen Hazarika.

List of Bharat Ratna Awardees

  • CV Raman 1954
  • C Rajagopalachari 1954
  • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954
  • M Visvesvaraya 1955
M Visvesvaraya
  • Bhagwan Das 1955
Bhagwan Das
  • Jawaharlal Nehru 1955
  • Govind Ballabh Pant 1957
Govind Ballabh Pant
  • Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958
Dhondo Keshav Karve
  • Bidhan Chandra Roy 1961
Bidhan Chandra Roy
  • Purushottam Das Tandon 1961
Purushottam Das Tandon
  • Rajendra Prasad 1962
  • Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963
Pandurang Vaman Kane
  • Zakir Husain 1963
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966
  • Indira Gandhi 1971
  • Varahagiri Venkata Giri 1975
Varahagiri Venkata Giri

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  • K Kamaraj 1976
  • Mother Teresa 1980
  • Vinoba Bhave 1983
  • Frontier Gandhi Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987
  • MG Ramachandran 1988
  • Nelson Mandela 1990
  • BR Ambedkar 1990
  • Vallabhbhai Patel 1991
  • Rajiv Gandhi 1991
  • Morarji Desai 1991
  • Satyajit Ray 1992
  • Abul Kalam Azad 1992
  • JRD Tata 1992
  • Aruna Asaf Ali 1997
Aruna Asaf Ali
  • Gulzarilal Nanda 1997
Gulzarilal Nanda
  • APJ Abdul Kalam 1997
  • MS Subbulakshmi 1998
  • Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998
  • Amartya Sen 1999
  • Ravi Shankar 1999
  • Gopinath Bardoloi 1999
Gopinath Bardoloi
  • Jayaprakash Narayan 1999
  • Bismillah Khan 2001
  • Lata Mangeshkar 2001
  • Bhimsen Joshi 2008
  • CNR Rao 2013
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee 2014
  • Madan Mohan Malaviya 2014
  • Sachin Tendulkar 2014
  • Nanaji Deshmukh 2019
  • Pranab Mukherjee 2019
  • Bhupen Hazarika 2019

What benefits does a Bharat Ratna awardee get?

None of the winners of the Bharat Ratna got the award for worrying about what benefits it gets them. But in ghor Kalyug, these are the privileges they are entitled to, a small thing compared to their years of dedication and service to the country and to their field of expertise. The benefits that the Bharat Ratna awardee gets is a nominal hat tip to them by the people of India.

  • Bharat Ratna awardees are declared state guests while travelling anywhere in India.
  • Awardees are entitled to a diplomatic passport through which they get access to VIP lounge at airports, a separate immigration counter. Moreover, the Indian missions abroad provide them with all support in their foreign visits.
  • Bharat Ratna holders can enjoy a lifetime of free first-class flight travel on Air India.
  • Awardees are eligible for Z category protection whenever required.
  • They are at 7A position in the Table of Precedence that is published by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The order in this table is organised for state and ceremonial occasions.
  • Bharat Ratna awardees receives pention equal to or 50 percent of Prime Minister of India’s salary.
  • The reicipients of the Bharat Ratna receive a certificate called Sanad which is signed by the President and a peepal leaf-shaped medallion. On the obverse side of the peepal-leaf shaped medallion, an image of the Sun in inscribed along with the words Bharat Ratna in Devanagri script. On the reverse side, the medallion has a platinum State Emblem of India with Satyameva Jayate inscribed in the centre.

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JMM-RJD-Congress are supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators: PM Modi at Jharkhand rally

Narendra Modi further claimed that if the bad policies of JMM, Congress and RJD continue, the adivasi society in Jharkhand will shrink

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JMM-RJD-Congress are supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators: PM Modi at Jharkhand rally

Ahead of the Jharkhand Assembly election, PM Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the incumbent Hemant Soren government, accusing it to put appeasement at the top of its agenda.

While addressing a rally in Jharkhand’s Garhwa, the Prime Minister said the coalition government of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Congress and RJD are supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators. He said that the JMM-RJD-Congress government has taken appeasement to its peak, and that these parties are destroying the state’s social harmony. He alleged that the parties are supporters of infiltrators, and to get votes of Bangladesh infiltrators, they are getting them settled across Jharkhand.

The Prime Minister stated that when schools disallow Saraswati Vandana, one can imagine how big the danger is. When there is stone-pelting during festivals, Maa Durga is stopped and curfew is imposed, one knows how dangerous it is, he continued. The Prime Minister also added that when the issue of infiltration goes to court and the administration denies, it becomes clear that the government machinery has been infiltrated. PM Modi was referring to allegations that a Muslim teacher stopped prayers to Goddess Saraswati at a school in Jharkhand’s Giridih.

Narendra Modi further claimed that if the bad policies of JMM, Congress and RJD continue, the adivasi society in Jharkhand will shrink, and advised people to use their vote to uproot this infiltrator coalition. He maintained that Jharkhand’s swift development is possible only if it has a government that expedites the implementation of central schemes.

Referring to the JMM’s decision to replace Champai Soren as Chief Minister after Hemant Soren was granted bail in a money laundering case, PM Modi said that the party has left no stones unturned in humiliating an adivasi son. He asked how the party will take care of the people of the state when nothing matters to them more than family. He added that he does not have a family, and the people are his family. He also mentioned that Champai Soren, once a trusted lieutenant of Hemant Soren, is now with the BJP.

Slamming the ruling coalition of corruption, he said that corruption hollows out the country like termites, and destroys the poor, Dalits, people from backward classes and tribals. He claimed that Jharkhand has seen for five years the corruption of the JMM-Congress-RJD government.

He also referred to the massive cash haul from the home of Congress’s former Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu last year. Mentioning that mountains of cash are recovered from the home of Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP, he questioned if this money didn’t belong to Jharkhand.

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Ruckus in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over resolution against Article 370 abrogation

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing the session, said that the resolution has no importance and it is only for the cameras.

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Ruckus in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over resolution against Article 370 abrogation

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Monday witnessed chaos after People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Waheed Para moved a resolution opposing the abrogation of Article 370 and called for restoring the union territory’s special status.

Waheed Para, the PDP MLA from the Pulwama Assembly seat, submitted the resolution to newly elected Speaker, Abdul Rahim Rather and requested for a discussion on the matter during the five-day session, despite not being a part of the agenda.

It was submitted that although the agenda of the House has been finalised, they believe that the authority as the Speaker allows the inclusion of the resolution, as it reflects the sentiment of the people at large. After the resolution was submitted, all 28 Jammu and Kashmir BJP MLAs stood up to oppose the move, leading to noisy scenes inside the Assembly.

As the members protested, BJP MLA Sham Lal Sharma demanded Para’s suspension for bringing the resolution in violation of Assembly rules. The agitation continued even after the Speaker repeatedly requested the protesting members to take their seats. He asserted the resolution has not come to him yet and when it does, he would examine it.

While the BJP members refused to call off their protest, National Conference MLAs slammed them for interrupting the proceedings of the House. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing the session, said that the resolution has no importance and it is only for the cameras.

The Chief Minister added that how the House will reflect and discuss this matter will not be decided by any one member. If there was a purpose behind the resolution, then they would have discussed this with the government before, he continued.

Nonetheless, CM Abdullah also admitted that the people of Jammu and Kashmir do not approve of the decision taken on August 5, 2019, when Article 370 was abrogated. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha also said that his government will make all efforts for the restoration of full statehood. He mentioned that restoration of full statehood would be a reciprocation of the faith reposed by the people of Jammu and Kashmir in democratic institutions.

Meanwhile, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti expressed that she was proud of Waheed Para for submitting the resolution.

Notably, Article 370 was a provision in the Constitution that granted special autonomy to the region of Jammu and Kashmir. It also allowed the state to have its own constitution, flag, and autonomy over internal matters except defense, communications, and foreign affairs.

However, the Centre on August 5, 2019 revoked Article 370, effectively removing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganising it into two Union Territories namely, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

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20 killed after bus falls into gorge near Uttarakhand’s Pauri-Almora border, CM Dhami expresses grief

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh each for the injured.

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20 killed after bus falls into gorge near Uttarakhand’s Pauri-Almora border, CM Dhami expresses grief

In a tragic incident, nearly 20 people were killed after a Garwal Motors Users bus fell into a 200-metre deep gorge near Uttarakhand’s Kupi in Ramnagar at Pauri-Almora border on Monday. The injured are being hurried to the hospital and a search operation is currently underway. At least 35 people were inside the bus when the accident occured.

The fatal accident was reported to authorities at around 9 am by passengers who had fallen from the bus during the accident. Police and teams from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are at the accident site in Marchula’s Salt area. 

Speaking to the media, District Magistrate Alok Kumar Pandey said that the bus was going from Garhwal to Kumaon where the accident took place at Marchula in Almora. Sanjay Kumar, Salt Sub-District Magistrate stated that some of the passengers have been rescued and admitted to hospital. 

Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh each for the injured. The Chief Minister also directed the Commissioner of the Kumaon division to carry out a magisterial inquiry into the incident. 

Taking to social media platform X, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed grief, and said that a very sad news has been received about the casualties of passengers in the unfortunate bus accident that took place in Marchula of Almora district. He added that the district administration has been instructed to carry out relief and rescue operations swiftly. 

Furthermore, CM Dhami stated that the local administration and SDRF teams at the accident site are working rapidly to evacuate the injured and take them to the nearest health centre for treatment. He mentioned that instruction have also been given to airlift seriously injured passengers if required. 

In a tweet, the Prime Minister’s office also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from PMNRF for the next of kin of each deceased in the mishap in Almora, adding that the injured would be given Rs 50,000.

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