chandigarh jagdish lal ahuja 84 of chandigarh and indian women hockey team captain rani rampal of haryana were conferred with padma shri on saturdayahuja got the prestigious award for social work while rani bagged the award for her contribution in the field of sports famously known as langar baba ahuja has been organising langars for over 500 poor patients and their attendants daily for over two decades outside post graduate institute of medical education and research pgimer chandigarh not only this he provides patients other support from financial assistance to blankets and clothesa selfmade billionaire who had come to india at the age of 12 emptyhanded after partition started serving free food in 1980s in diffrent parts of chandigarh and later moved his base to pgimer in 2000 he sold his properties worth crores to fund his missionwhile talking to toi ahuja who is suffering from stomach cancer said serving langar to people is like going to temple and vowed to continue to serve people in need till his last breathsaturday turned out to be a great day for rampal whose brace enabled her team to started their first tour of the olympic year with a confident 40 victory over new zealand development squad in aucklandrani who is instrumental in india qualifying for the first time in backtoback olympic games is also been nominated for the world games athlete of the year by international hockey federationin recent years it is her composure and experience that has helped push the indian women ahead whether it is medals won or a top10 fih ranking and successive olympic qualification about the awardspadma awards the highest civilian awards of the country after bharat ratna are given in three categories padma vibhushan padma bhushan and padma shri padma vibhushan is given for exceptional and distinguished service padma bhushan for distinguished service of high order and padma shri is given for distinguished service in any field these awards are conferred by the president of india at a ceremonial function at rashtrapati bhawantimes news networkshimla shimla resident prof abhiraj rajendra mishra has been conferred with the padma shri in the field of literature and education he is the former head of sanskrit department of himachal pradesh university shimla and the vicechancellor of sampurnanand sanskrit university varanasiprof mishra has enriched modern sanskrit literature with more than 250 sanskrit epics lyrical songs dramatic works fictions ghazal collections and poems and has earned much name and fame in the countryhis works are being taught in the postgraduate course of more than 13 universities and 48 students have received their phd degrees through their thesis on the works of prof mishra at present he is the convener of the sanskrit advisory committee of the sahitya akademi new delhihe was born in dronipur in jaunpur district in uttar pradesh to pandit durgaprasad mishra and abhiraji devi abhiraj rajendra mishra is the winner of sahitya akademi award for sanskrit for the year 1988 and is popularly known as trive kavi as