Padma Shri award was first given in the year 1954. This award is awarded to citizens of India in recognition of their contribution in various activities such as the arts, education, literature, industry, cinema, sports, medicine, social service, public affairs, and others.
Marit Nybakk
Marit Nybakk (born 14 February 1947) is a Norwegian Labour Party politician. She has been a Member of Parliament for Oslo since 1986. She is the First Vice President of the Norwegian parliament since 2013, and is also the woman who has served the longest time in the parliament during its entire history. She is also President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights since 2016.
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Vibhushan is the second highest civilian award of India after the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna. This award was followed by Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. This award was started to be awarded to the citizens of India since 1954. This award was awarded to the recipients on the Republic Day of India.
The first recipients to be awarded with Padma Vibhushan are Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk and V.K.Krishna Menon. Vikram Sarabhai became the first person to be awarded Padma Vibhushan posthumously in 1972.
Oberhofen am Thunersee
Oberhofen am Thunersee is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Oberhünigen
Oberhünigen is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. The municipality was made in 1980 by splitting from the municipality of Schlosswil.
Padma Bhushan
Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award awarded by Government of India after Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan but before Padma Shri. This award was also awarded in the Republic Day of India.
Padma Bhushan award was started to be awarded to the citizens of India from 1954. As of 2015, 1230 peoples were awarded with Padma Bhushan. Some citizens refused to get the award.S.Janaki, a renowned singer of the Southern parts of India refused to get the award in 2013 as the honour came to her too late and she also stated that South Indian artists are not recognised.
Oberlangenegg
Oberlangenegg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Duncan Fletcher
Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher is a former Zimbabwe cricketer. He is a left hand batsman and Right arm medium fast bowler. He was born in 27 September 1948 in Salisbury (modern Harare), Southern Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe). He was the former coach of India national cricket team. He was also the coach of England cricket team from 1999-2007. Fletcher played for Zimbabwe cricket team and took the team for victory in the 1982 ICC Trophy. But he had never played Test cricket.
Under Fletcher, England cricket team achieved famous victories against Sri Lanka national cricket team, Pakistan national cricket team, West Indies cricket team and South Africa national cricket team between 2000-2004. He coached the England team to win the Ashes series for 18 years when the team secured 2-1 victory over the Australia national cricket team.India national cricket team won 8 series in a row including the ICC Champions Trophy under Fletcher's coaching from 2011.
Oberönz
Oberönz was a municipality in Wangen in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2008 Oberönz became part of Herzogenbuchsee.
Oberösch
Oberösch is a former municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Oberösch and Niederösch merged into the municipality of Ersigen.
Elaine Fantham
Elaine Fantham (25 May 1933 – 11 July 2016) was a British classicist. She was Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University from 1986 to 1999. She was chair of the Department of Classics at Princeton from 1989 to 1992 and the president of the American Philological Association serving only in 2004.
Fantham was an expert on Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion. She was classics commentator on NPR's "Weekend Edition".
Oberried am Brienzersee
Oberried am Brienzersee is a municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano (; 31 January 1933 – 13 July 2016) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia ("Cosa Nostra"). He was suspected of having been the head of the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction from the town of Corleone. He was the de facto "capo di tutti capi" (boss of all bosses) of the entire Sicilian Mafia until his arrest in 2006.
On 13 July 2016, Provenzano died from complications of bladder cancer at a hospital in prison at age 83.
Obersteckholz
Obersteckholz is a municipality of the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Zygmunt Zimowski
Zygmunt Zimowski (7 April 1949 – 12 July 2016) was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Zimowski had served until his death in July of 2016 as President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers. He was born in Kupienin, Poland.
He has been head of that office since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 April 2009. He lastly served as bishop of Radom from 2002 until 2009.
Zimowski died on 12 July 2016 from pancreatic cancer in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland, aged 67.
Oberstocken
Oberstocken is a former municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Oberstocken, Höfen and Niederstocken merged into the new municipality of Stocken-Höfen.
Stocken-Höfen
Stocken-Höfen is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Höfen, Niederstocken and Oberstocken merged into the new municipality of Stocken-Höfen.
Oberthal, Switzerland
Oberthal is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Oberwil bei Büren
Oberwil bei Büren is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Oberwil im Simmental
Oberwil im Simmental is a municipality in the administrative district of Frutigen-Niedersimmental in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Ochlenberg
Ochlenberg is a municipality of the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Oeschenbach
Oeschenbach is a municipality in the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Oppligen
Oppligen is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Bui Thi Minh Hang
Bui Thi Minh Hang (Vietnamese Bùi Thị Minh Hằng) is a Vietnamese activist and blogger. In 2016, Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., named her one of twenty women political prisoners in the Free the 20 campaign. Bui Thi Minh Hang was released Feb. 11, 2017.
In 2011, Bui Thi Minh Hang protested in Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City. She protested against Chinese land claims on the Spratly and Paracel Islands. Police arrested her and sent her to sent her to Thanh Ha Education Center, a reeducation camp in Vinh Phuc province. There was an international protest about her arrest. She was in the reeducation camp for six months without a trial.
In 2012, Bui Thi Minh Hang was free again, and started to work for human rights again. She wrote about her time in the Thanh Ha Education center. She also gave people a “Manual for the Implementation of Human Rights” (Cam nang thuc thi quyen lam nguoi). In 2014, Bui Thi Minh Hang and a group of 21 bloggers and Hoa Hao Buddhist activists went to visit a political prisoner. The police arrested Bui Thi Minh Hang and two others. She was charged with disrupting traffic under Article 245 of the Penal Code. She was sentenced to three years in prison.