Tennis sensation Sania Mirza today became the youngest achiever to be honoured with the Padmashree for her emergence in the international tennis arena.
At 19, Sania was the youngest to join 106 distinguished Padmashree awardees selected for Republic Day honours. She is one of the five from Andhra Pradesh to be decorated with one of the highest civilian awards along with actor Chiranjeevi, Shahnaz Hussain (beautician), Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain (VC of Hyderabad University) and Harsha Kumar Gupta (former NGRI director).
Besides Sania, the two other sportspersons to figure among the awardees this year were: former long distance runner Bahadur Singh from Punjab and former National Badminton champion Madhumita Bisht from Railway (Delhi)
Thursday, January 26, 2006
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