Bharat Ratna Award Winners

Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour, given for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of Public Service of the highest order. The provision of Bharat Ratna was introduced in 1954.

The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister himself to the President. No formal recommendations for this are necessary. The number of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of three in a particular year. On conferment of the award, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion. The award does not carry any monetary grant. In terms of Article 18 (1) of the Constitution, the award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name. However, should an award winner consider it necessary, he/she may use the following expression in their bio-data/letterhead/visiting card etc. to indicate that he/she is a recipient of the award: – ‘Awarded Bharat Ratna by the President’ or ‘Recipient of Bharat Ratna award’

Complete list of Bharat Ratna Awardees

S.No	Name	Birth / death	Awarded	Notes	Indian state or country
1.	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher.	Tamil Nadu
2.	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter.	Tamil Nadu
3.	C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Nobel-prize winning Physicist	Tamil Nadu
4.	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Philosopher, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Civil Engineer	Karnataka
6.	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author.	Uttar Pradesh
7.	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Freedom Fighter, Home Minister	Uttar Pradesh
8.	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858–1962	1958	Educationist, Social Reformer	Maharashtra
9.	B. C. Roy	1882–1962	1961	Physician, Politician	West Bengal
10.	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882–1962	1961	Freedom Fighter, Educationalist.	Uttar Pradesh
11.	Rajendra Prasad	1884–1963	1962	First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist	Bihar
12.	Zakir Hussain	1897–1969	1963	Former President, Scholar.	Andhra Pradesh
13.	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar	Maharashtra
14.	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904–1966	1966	Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
15.	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Former Prime Minister	Uttar Pradesh
16.	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Former President, Trade Unionist.	Andhra Pradesh
17.	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu.	Tamil Nadu
18.	Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)	1910–1997	1980	Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979).	West Bengal
19.	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1895–1982	1983	Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher.	Maharashtra
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter.	Pakistan
21.	M. G. Ramachandran	1917–1987	1988	Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor.	Tamil Nadu
22.	B. R. Ambedkar	1891–1956	1990	Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Buddhist people of India	Maharashtra
23.	Nelson Mandela	b. 1918	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement.	South Africa
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Posthumous, Former Prime Minister	New Delhi
25.	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India.	Gujarat
26.	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter.	Gujarat
27.	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1888–1958	1992	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator.	West Bengal
28.	J. R. D. Tata	1904–1993	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist.	Maharashtra
29.	Satyajit Ray	1922–1992	1992	Legendary Indian Film Director	West Bengal
30.	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	b. 1931	1997	Former President, Scientist.	Tamil Nadu
31.	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister.	Punjab
32.	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908–1996	1997	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter.	West Bengal
33.	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1916–2004	1998	Classical singer.	Tamil Nadu
34.	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910–2000	1998	Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture(Father of Green revolution).	Tamil Nadu
35.	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902–1979	1998	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer.	Uttar Pradesh
36.	Ravi Shankar	b. 1920	1999	Classical sitar player.	west bengal
37.	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	1999	Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist.	West Bengal
38.	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Posthumous, freedom fighter	Assam
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	b. 1929	2001	Play back singer.	Maharashtra
40.	Ustad Bismillah Khan	1916-2006	2001	Classical Maestro	Uttar Pradesh

Note : No one was awarded the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an organisation of South Asian nations, founded in December 1985 and dedicated to economic, technological, social, and cultural development emphasising collective self-reliance. Its seven founding members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan joined the organization in 2005. Meetings of heads of state are usually scheduled annually; meetings of foreign secretaries, twice annually. It is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Current members

•      Afghanistan
•      Bangladesh
•      Bhutan
•      India
•       Maldives
•       Nepal
•      Pakistan
•      Sri Lanka

Secretaries General :

Abul Ahsan	January 16, 1987 to 15 October 1989
Kant Kishore Bhargava	October 17, 1989 to December 31, 1991
Ibrahim Hussain Zaki	January 1, 1992 to December 31, 1993
Yadav Kant Silwal	January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1995
Naeem U. Hasan	January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1998
Nihal Rodrigo	January 1, 1999 to January 10, 2002
Q.A.M.A. Rahim	January 11, 2002 to February 28, 2005
Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji	March 1, 2005 to February 29, 2008
Sheel Kant Sharma	March 1, 2008 to February 28, 2011
Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed	March 1, 2011 to present

SAARC summits :

No	Date	Country	Host	Host leader
1st	7–8 December 1985	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Ataur Rahman Khan
2nd	16–17 November 1986	India	Bangalore	Rajiv Gandhi
3rd	2–4 November 1987	Nepal	Kathmandu	Marich Man Singh Shrestha
4th	29–31 December 1988	Pakistan	Islamabad	Benazir Bhutto
5th	21–23 November 1990	Maldives	Malé	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
6th	21 December 1991	Sri Lanka	Colombo	Dingiri Banda Wijetunge
7th	10-11 April 1993	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Khaleda Zia
8th	2–4 May 1995	India	New Delhi	P. V. Narasimha Rao
9th	12–14 May 1997	Maldives	Malé	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
10th	29–31 July 1998	Sri Lanka	Colombo	Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
11th	4–6 January 2002	Nepal	Kathmandu	Sher Bahadur Deuba
12th	2–6 January 2004	Pakistan	Islamabad	Zafarullah Khan Jamali
13th	12–13 November 2005	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Khaleda Zia
14th	3–4 April 2007	India	New Delhi	Manmohan Singh
15th	1–3 August 2008	Sri Lanka	Colombo	Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
16th	28–29 April 2010	Bhutan	Thimphu	Jigme Thinley
17th	November 2011 (Planned)	Maldives	Addu	Mohamed Nasheed

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