Padma Awards 2025: Arijit Singh, Nandamuri Balakrishna Receive Top Honours

Nandamuri Balakrishna, Ajith Kumar, and Arijit Singh, Shekhar Kapur, Ricky Kej and extra have been a number of the well-known folks from the leisure world who obtained Padma Awards from President Droupadi Murmu. The ceremony, held at Rashtrapati Bhawan, acknowledged many vital figures from totally different fields. Pankaj Udhas was honoured posthumously.

Arijit Singh and Ricky Kej have been honoured with the Padma Shri award, whereas Nandamuri Balakrishna, Ajith Kumar, Shekhar Kapur and Shobhana obtained Padma Bhushan. Pankaj Udhas’ spouse accepted his award in his honour. Many different awardees, within the area of sports activities, drugs and enterprise have been additionally honoured.

Ajith Kumar had beforehand shared an announcement concerning the honour. He stated, “I’m deeply humbled and honoured to obtain the esteemed Padma Award by the President of India. I lengthen my heartfelt gratitude to the Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu and the Honourable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi for this prestigious honour. It’s a privilege to be acknowledged at such a degree and I’m actually grateful for this beneficiant acknowledgment of my contributions to our nation.”

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