The awards are conferred in three categories:

The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind on March 20, 2018 presented the Padma awards to 43 eminent personalities at a Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The awards are conferred in three categories:

Padma Vibhushan: For exceptional and distinguished service.

Padma Bhushan: For distinguished service of high order.

Padma Shri: For distinguished service in any field.

The Awards are conferred to people belonging to various disciplines or fields including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports and civil service.

This year, the second highest civilian award- the Padma Vibhushan was conferred upon three personalities including music composer Illaiyaraja, classical musician Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Hindutva thinker P. Parameswaran.

Following is the full list of awardees:

Padma Vibhushan
Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Shri Illaiyaraja	Art-Music	Tamil Nadu
2.	Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art-Music	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran	Literature and Education	Kerala

	Padma Bhushan
Sl. No		Name	Field	State
1.		Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom	Others-Spiritualism	Kerala
2.		Dr.  Ramachandran Nagaswamy	Others-Archaeology	Tamil Nadu
3.		Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI)	Literature and Education	USA
4.		Pandit Arvind Parikh	Art-Music	Maharashtra

GK

1. The first person to reach Mount Everest    

Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary

2. The first person to reach North Pole 

Robert Peary

3. The first person to reach South Pole

Amundsen

4. The first religion of the world  

Hinduism

5. The first country to print book

China

6. The first country to issue paper currency  

China

7. The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services   

China

8. The first President of the U.S.A.       

George Washington

9. The first Prime Minister of Britain    

Robert Walpole

10. The first Governor General of the United Nations

Trigveli (Norway)

11. The first country to win football World cup

Uruguay

12. The first country to prepare a constitution

U.S.A.

13. The first Governor General of Pakistan      

Mohd. Ali Jinnah

14. The first country to host NAM summit       

Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

15. The first European to attack India    

Alexander, The Great

16. The first European to reach China   

Marco Polo

17. The first person to fly aeroplane       

Wright Brothers

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18. The first person to sail round the world     

Magellan

19. The first country to send man to the moon

U.S.A.

20. The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space      

Russia

21. The first country to host the modern Olympics   

Greece

22. The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped     

Hiroshima (Japan)

23. The first person to land on the moon         

Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin

24. The first shuttle to go in space        

Columbia

25. The first spacecraft to reach on Mars

Viking—I

26. The first woman Prime Minister of England        

Margaret Thatcher

27. The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country      

Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

28. The first woman Prime Minister of a country       

Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)

29. The first woman to climb Mount Everest    

Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)

30. The first woman cosmonaut of the world   

Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)

31. The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly       

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

32. The first man to fly into space

Yuri Gagarin (Russia)

33. The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut 

Mohd. Azharuddin

34. The first man to have climbed Mount Everest Twice      

Nawang Gombu

35. The first U.S. President to resign Presidency       

Richard Nixon

Indian seas and ocean

Indian seas and ocean

1. INDIA INDIA is surrounded by 3 oceans namely the Arabian Sea (west), Indian Ocean (south), Bay of Bengal (east).

2. THE INDIAN OCEAN The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the worlds oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on theEarths surface

3. THE ARABIAN SEA The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the south by northeastern Somalia, on the east by India and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula. Some of the ancient names of this body of water include Sindhu Sagar(meaning "Sea of Sindh" in Sanskrit) and Erythraean Sea.

4. THE BAY OF BENGAL The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Roughly triangular in shape, it is bordered mostly by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma (Myanmar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.

                                   

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