Ved Nanda awarded Padma Bhushan |
Indian American Ved Prakash Nanda is among 85 people to be honored with one of India`s highest civilian honors, the Padma Award, which recognizes distinguished service. Nanda, a professor at the University of Denver since 1965, is a legal scholar and expert in international law. He is the founding director and director emeritus of the International Legal Studies Program; director of the Ved Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law; and was previously a United States Delegate to the World Federation of the United Nations. He is the patron of PIO TV, which wishesd him for the award that he deserved for his academic and philonthropic services to India. He has been in Delhi to visit Indri in Haryana where he has donated a huge sum for the development of the village. Billiards player Pankaj Advani, cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Metropolitan Bishop of the Mar Thomas Syrian Church of India Philipose Mar Chrysostom and former Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin (1999-2004) were among the other eminent personalities selected for the Padma Bhushan, India`s third highest civilian honor. Kadakin has been honored posthumously.
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