<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">President Ram Nath Kovind has conferred the prestigious Padma awards for 2018 on 43 prominent personalities at a function in New Delhi. Noted music composer Illaiyaraja, litt'rateur P Parameswaran and Classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan.&nbsp;</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Law Professor and jurist Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda, Historian Dr. Ramachandran Nagaswamy, Kerala Bishop Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom and classical musician Pandit Arvind Parikh received the Padma Bhushan.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Indian Tennis player Somdev Kishore Devvarman, Badminton Player Kidambi Shrikant litt'rateur and Prof. Digamber Hansda are among the 36 personalities who received Padma Shri.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This year, as many as 84 Padma awards were announced. The remaining awardees will be conferred with the honour at another function to be held later.</div>