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Thursday, January 10, 2013

PRESIDENT DISTRIBUTES AWARDS TO NRIs


Prized moment:President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards to Bava Pandalingal, Mohammed Rabeeh Karuvanthodi, and Narendra Ramakrishna Kumar in Kochi on Wednesday. Vayalar Ravi, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs, is present.—Photo: Vipin Chandran

    PRESIDENT DISTRIBUTES AWARDS TO NRIs

President Pranab Mukherjee distributed the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards to 15 persons.The awardees included Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag, who was the chief guest at the inaugural of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.The other recipients are: Ashok Shambhomal Vaswani, Tan Sri Ravindran Menon, Rasik Vihari Joshi, Satendra Kumar Singh, Gilbert Canabady Moutien, Mohammed Rabeeh Karuvanthodi, Ismail Ebrahim Ebrahim, Bava Pandalingal, Patricia Maria Rozario, Narendra Ramakrishna Kumar and Subash Razdan.The Australia India Society of Victoria and the Indian Doctors Forum, Kuwait, also won awards.Kuldeep Aurora received the award on behalf of the Australia India Society of Victoria while Narayanan Namboodiri, chairman of Indian Doctors Forum, Kuwait received the same on behalf of his organisation.Another award winner Gursharan Singh Chhatwal could not be present to receive the award.The award consisted of a medal, a citation scroll and a memento. On behalf of the winners, Subash Razdan thanked the organisers for the gesture.


                                                                               Prof. John Kurakar
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