Defence Research and Development Organisation chief V.K. Saraswat was conferred the Padma Bhushan. Others who got the award included Hemandra Singh Panwar (civil service), S.G. Patil (public affairs) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (literature and education).
Others who won the award included Trichur Viswanathan Devarajan (medicine) and B. Jayashree (art).
Nobody was named for the Bharat Ratna this year too. The last awardee was the late Bhimsen Joshi in 2008.
