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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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PM Modi takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi, says Pakistan wants him as Prime Minister

PM Modi said Pakistan is eager to make the prince the Prime Minister and everyone knows that the Congress is a fan of Pakistan. The prime minister further added that the partnership between Pakistan and Congress has now been completely exposed.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi on Thursday. He was addressing an election rally in Gujarat’s Anand where PM Modi said, Congress is dying here and Pakistanis are crying. He further added that Pakistani leaders want to make shehzada of Congress the prime minister of India.

He said everyone should look at the coincidence that today the Congress is getting weak in India and Pakistani leaders at the same time are praying for the grand old party. PM Modi said Pakistan is eager to make the prince the Prime Minister and everyone knows that the Congress is a fan of Pakistan. The prime minister further added that the partnership between Pakistan and Congress has now been completely exposed.

A few days earlier Pakistani leader Chaudhary Fawad Hussain had shared a video on X which featured Rahul Gandhi, in which the Congress leader is seen targetting the BJP and PM Modi. In the video shared by the former Pakistan minister, rahul Gandhi can be seen attacking the BJP government over the invitees at Ram Mandir’s Pran Pratishtha ceremony.

The edited video shows Rahul Gandhi speaking about the Ram Mandir’s inauguration and charging the BJP government of sidelining the interests of the poor and youth.  PM Modi further added at the Anand rally that Congress Shahzade is dancing around with the Constitution on their foreheads. But for 75 years, this did not apply to all parts of Hindustan. The Constitution was not applicable in Kashmir, where Article 370 was like a wall that the BJP government had demolished.

The Prime Minister said it is his guarantee that he will work 24×7 to make India a developed country by 2047. He pointed out that in the last 10 years, the BJP government has given tap water connections to 14 crore houses, while the Congress gave just 3 crore houses in 60 years.

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Farooq Abdullah accuses PM Modi of trying to divide the country over religion

Faroukh Abdullah reacted to PM Modi’s remark that the Congress will redistribute people’s money and property to Muslims if voted to power and said Muslims respect all religions. He said that they are Muslims and Allah has told them to respect other religions. He further added that a Muslim cannot snatch anyone’s right.

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Farooq Abdullah, Jammu and Kashmir’s National Conference President said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to divide the country over religion. He also said that those who will vote for them must prepare for hell. Farooq Abdullah said Muslims cannot snatch away the rights of others.

Farooq Abdullah also called Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government a threat to the survival of the country. Omar Abdullah, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister cautioned the people not to divide this country on the basis of religion, otherwise a storm will unleash making the survival of the nation difficult. He said it is better to talk about uniting the country, instead of dividing its people.

He was addressing an election rally in Thanamandi area of the Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. The Anantnag parliamentary constituency will go for elections on May 25. Faroukh Abdullah reacted to PM Modi’s remark that the Congress will redistribute people’s money and property to Muslims if voted to power and said Muslims respect all religions. He said that they are Muslims and Allah has told them to respect other religions. He further added that a Muslim cannot snatch anyone’s right.

He remembered an incident when former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi once stopped his car in Pulwama and assured a poor Hindu woman that he would give her a mangalsutra as she could not afford it. Farooq Abdullah said those who were against the INDIA bloc are against the nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier sparked a controversy last month as he commented that the Congress would take away the hard-earned money of the masses and distribute them among infiltrators and those with many children.  Speaking at a rally today, the Prime Minister took a jibe at the Congress and said the governments in the past were not able to implement the Indian Constitution in Jammu and Kashmir. He was referring to the revocation of Article 370.

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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah writes to PM Modi, urges home ministry to cancel diplomatic passport of Prajwal Revanna

CM Siddaramaiah wrote in the letter to PM Modi that he must be aware of the serious case of alleged sexual exploitation of a number of women by the sitting Hassan Lok Sabha member of Parliament (MP) and the NDA candidate, Prajwal Revanna, for the same constituency for the  ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where he urged the Home Affairs Ministry to cancel the diplomatic passport of Prajwal Revanna. Earlier a day before Revanna was suspended by JD(S) amid a row over explicit videos. Revanna is believed to have escaped to Germany shortly after the first phase of elections ended in Karnataka on April 26, in which he was JD(S)-BJP’s candidate from Hassan.

CM Siddaramaiah wrote in the letter to PM Modi that he must be aware of the serious case of alleged sexual exploitation of a number of women by the sitting Hassan Lok Sabha member of Parliament (MP) and the NDA candidate, Prajwal Revanna, for the same constituency for the  ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The Karnataka Chief Minister wrote in letter that the Congress government in Karnataka has constituted a Special Investigation Team to investigate the allegations against Revanna. The SIT is working day and night to investigate the allegations of crimes against several women by Prajwal Revanna and getting him back to the country is of utmost importance so that he faces investigation and trial as per the existing law of the land.

Siddaramaiah urged PM Modi to move the Home Ministry to take swift action to cancel the diplomatic passport of Prajwal Revanna and appropriate action must be taken using diplomatic and police channels of the Government of India as well as international police agencies to ensure the swift return of the absconding member of parliament to face the existing law of the land.

Suspended JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna, accused of sexually assaulting multiple women, broke his silence on Wednesday and said that truth will prevail soon. In his first response since the controversy erupted, Prajwal Revanna said on X that he is not in Bengaluru currently and has communicated the same to CID.

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