Prestigious Padma Awards are declared by Indian Gov.: Sachin Tendulkar get the Padma Vibhushan

Thirty-five Padma Bhushan awards and 71 Padma Shri are being given this year. For the seventh consecutive year, no one has been named for the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will be awarded Padma Vibhushan this year. Industrialists Ratan Naval Tata, Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy, steel tycoon Lakshmi Narayan Mittal and hotelier P R S Oberoi are among the personalities to be awarded Padma Vibhushan.

Noted playback singer Asha Bhosle, chess wizard Vishwanathan Anand and mountainer Edmund Hillary also to get Padma Vibhushan.

Nobel prize winner and noted environmentalist R K Pachauri, Delhi Metro Chief E Sreedharan, former bureaucrat P N Dhar and former Chief Justice of India Justice A S Anand are among the 13 personalities who will get the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award.

Cricket star Sachin Tendulkar, Grand Master Viswanathan Anand and renowned mountaineer Edmund Hillary have been chosen for Padma Vibhushan among 13 people who were named for the nation's second highest civilian award on the eve of the Republic Day.

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, Centre's interlocutor for talks with Naga groups and former Home Secretary K Padmanabhiah, noted commentator Jasdev Singh, DPS R K Puram principal Shyama Chona and ICICI Chief K V Kamath are among those named for Padma Bhushan awards.