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Padma Awards 2020: Jaitley, Sushma conferred Padma Vibhushan; Anand Mahindra, Manohar Parrikar get Padma Bhushan; Karan Johar gets Padma Shri
Fp Staff •Padma Awards: The Padma Vibhushan for this year has been awarded to a total of seven prominent personalities, while 16 have been given the Padma Bhushan and 118 have been given the Padma Shri
Shoojit Sircar likely to direct biopic on former George Fernandes; film will be produced by Sanjay Raut
Fp Staff •Shiv Sena leader and MP-turned-filmmaker will produce the biopic on George Fernandes, after bankrolling a biopic on Bal Thackeray.
Daily Bulletin: Modi to inaugurate Satyagraha Memorial in Dandi; fuel prices decline; Apple disables Group FaceTime; day's top stories
Fp Staff •Today's top stories: Narendra Modi to inaugurate Salt Satyagraha Memorial at Dandi today; Venezuela targets Juan Guaido with probe, travel ban; Apple temporarily disables Group FaceTime; and more.
George Fernandes dead at 88: Ex-defence minister's tenure defined by attention to detail, fierce commitment
Syed Ata Hasnain •This piece recalls George Fernandes' tenure as defence minister of National Democratic Alliance-I
George Fernandes dead at 88: Officials recall how he sent two defence ministry bureaucrats to Siachen over procurement delay
•George Fernandes, as defense minister, sent two bureaucrats to Siachen when he came to know that they had held back a file on purchase of snow bikes
Firstpost Editor's Picks: Fernandes' shifting loyalties, Rahul's pledge, Taliban emboldened; today's must-read stories
Fp Staff •George Fernandes transcended the boundaries of region, religion and caste.
George Fernandes was a die-hard proponent of anti-Congressism, but with shifting loyalties
Ajay Singh •There is no doubt that Fernandes belonged to a genre of socialist leaders who were exceptionally deft at defending the indefensible
George Fernandes was 'giant killer' who defeated 'Bombay's uncrowned king' SK Patil in 1967: Prakash Reddy
•George Fernandes had also shared a close relationship with Shiv Sena supremo late Bal Thackeray. He was also among the very few to refer the Sena patriarch as 'Bal', city-based senior journalist Yogesh Trivedi remembered
At Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0, Narendra Modi says parents should not expect children to fulfil their own unfulfilled dreams
•Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked parents not to expect their children to fulfil their unfulfilled dreams as he interacted with a number of students, teachers and parents in the second edition of the Pariksha Pe Charcha event at New Delhi's Talkatora Stadium.
Last rites of George Fernandes to take place on Wednesday; ex-defence minister had been suffering from Alzheimer's
•The last rites of former defence minister George Fernandes, who passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 88, will be performed on Wednesday, said social activist and former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly. Jaitly is currently at Fernandes' residence.