📣📣📣Padma Awards 🎖️2025 – Complete List
🔰Padma Vibhushan 2025 (7 Awardees)
🔹Dr. Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy – Awarded for his contributions to Medicine (State: Telangana)
🔹Justice (Retd.) Jagdish Singh Khehar – Public Affairs (State: Chandigarh)
🔹Kumudini Rajnikant Lakhia – Art (State: Gujarat)
🔹Lakshminarayana Subramaniam – Art (State: Karnataka)
🔹M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Posthumous) – Literature and Education (State: Kerala)
🔹Osamu Suzuki (Posthumous) – Trade and Industry (Country: Japan)
🔹Sharda Sinha (Posthumous) – Art (State: Bihar)


🔰Padma Bhushan 2025 (19 Awardees)
🔸A. Surya Prakash – Literature and Education (Journalism) (State: Karnataka)
🔸Anant Nag – Art (State: Karnataka)
🔸Bibek Debroy (Posthumous) – Literature and Education (State: Delhi)
🔸Jatin Goswami – Art (State: Assam)
🔸Jose Chacko Periappuram – Medicine (State: Kerala)
🔸Kailash Nath Dikshit – Archaeology (State: Delhi)
🔸Manohar Joshi (Posthumous) – Public Affairs (State: Maharashtra)
🔸Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti – Trade and Industry (State: Tamil Nadu)
🔸Nandamuri Balakrishna – Art (State: Andhra Pradesh)
🔸P. R. Sreejesh – Sports (State: Kerala)
🔸Pankaj Patel – Trade and Industry (State: Gujarat)
🔸Pankaj Udhas (Posthumous) – Art (State: Maharashtra)
🔸Rambahadur Rai – Literature and Education (Journalism) (State: Uttar Pradesh)
🔸Sadhvi Ritambhara – Social Work (State: Uttar Pradesh)
🔸S. Ajith Kumar – Art (State: Tamil Nadu)
🔸Shekhar Kapur – Art (State: Maharashtra)
🔸Shobana Chandrakumar – Art (State: Kerala)
🔸Sushil Kumar Modi (Posthumous) – Public Affairs (State: Bihar)
🔸Vinod Dham – Science and Engineering (Country: USA)

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⚜️ Seventh Schedule ⚜️


Union List (100 subjects):
- Defence
- Army
- International Relations
- Ports
- Railways
- Highways
- Communication

State List (61 subjects):
- Public order
- Police
- Public health and sanitation
- Hospitals and dispensaries
- Betting and gambling

Concurrent List (52 subjects):
- Education
- Forest
- Trade unions
- Marriage
- Adoption
- Succession
- Criminal law, including criminal procedure
- Transfer of property other than agricultural land
- Contracts, including partnership and agency
- Actionable wrongs
- Bankruptcy and insolvency

NOTE:Some examples of subjects that have been transferred from the State List to the Concurrent List include:

1. Education (42nd Amendment, 1976)
2. Forests (42nd Amendment, 1976)
3. Wildlife (42nd Amendment, 1976)
4. Trade Unions (43rd Amendment, 1977)
5. Employment and Unemployment (44th Amendment, 1978)
6. Social Security and Social Insurance (44th Amendment, 1978)
7. Environmental Protection (44th Amendment, 1978)

📣📣📣Padma Shri 2025 Recipients from Andhra Pradesh
🔹K. L. Krishna – For Literature and Education
🔹Madugula Nagaphani Sarma – For contributions to Art
🔹Miriyala Appa Rao (Posthumous) – For contributions to Art
🔹Vadiraj Raghawendracharya Panchamukhi – For Literature and Education
🔹M. M. Keeravaani – For contributions to Art (noted music composer)
🔹C. V. Raju – For contributions to Art
🔹Abbareddy Nageswara Rao – For Science and Engineering
🔹Kota Satchidananda Sastry – For contributions to Art
🔹Sankurathri Chandra Sekhar – For Social Work
🔹Prakash Chandra Sood – For Literature and Education


🔰Padma Shri 2025 Recipients from Telangana
🔸Manda Krishna Madiga – For Public Affairs (noted activist for Dalit rights)
🔸Darshanam Mogilaiah – For contributions to Art (renowned for Kinnera instrument)
🔸Padmaja Reddy – For contributions to Art (noted classical dancer)
🔸Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti – For contributions to Medicine
🔸B. Ramakrishna Reddy – For Literature and Education
🔸Ramachandraiah – For contributions to Art


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With reference to the helicopter money, consider the following statements:
1. It is the large sums of money printed by the central bank and distributed to the public.
2. Unlike Quantitative easing, there is no repayment liability in case of helicopter money.

Consider the following statements with regard to the monetary policy tools and their impact:
1. Monetary policy tool includes direct lending to banks.
2. Open market operations (OMO) refer to the government buying or selling short-term treasuries and other securities in the open market.
3. Reducing CRR and SLR requirements for banks may lead to a decline in the interest rates.

Which of the following factors prevent the effective transmission of monetary policy to deposit and
lending rates of banks?
1. Mismatch of banks' assets and liabilities.
2. Competitive pressure from small savings schemes.
3. Internal benchmark for pricing of loans.

With reference to ‘Marginal Standing Facility’, consider the following statements:
1. It is an interbank borrowing facility for banks in an emergency situation.
2. The scheme was introduced by the Reserve Bank of India in 2011-12.
3. Under the scheme the interest rate for borrowing funds is always higher than the repo rate.
4. The funds can be availed overnight, upto one percent of their respective Net Demand and Time Liabilities.

With reference to Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), consider the following statements:
1. The committee is constituted by the Reserve Bank of India.
2. The MPC determines the policy interest rate required to achieve the inflation target.
3. The decisions of the committee are based on consensus.