India awards Padma Bhushan to Google’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, India News News

India on Tuesday introduced Padma Bhushan, its third-highest civilian award for Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Each tech bosses are of Indian origin. The announcement was made on the eve of India’s Republic Day.

Padma Bhushan is a part of India’s Padma Awards that are divided into three classes: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri.

Padma Vibhushan is the very best accolade among the many three awards. The Padma awards are conferred on people with distinctive service in fields akin to artwork, public affairs, science and engineering, social work,  drugs, commerce and trade, literature and schooling, sports activities, and civil service. 

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Pichai (49) and Nadella (54) are amongst 17 Padma Bhushan awardees this yr. Each of them have been awarded Padma Bhushan within the ‘commerce and trade’ class.

The awards are introduced on the event of Republic Day yearly. The awards will really be handed to recipients in a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan, the official residence of President of India. The ceremony normally takes place in March or April.

This yr the President has authorized the conferment of 128 Padma Awards together with 2 duo instances.

Born on June 10, 1972 in Madras (now Chennai), Pichai Sundararajan — higher referred to as Sundar Pichai — earned his diploma from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering.

Transferring to the US, he earned an MS from Stanford College in supplies science and engineering and additional earned an MBA from the Wharton Faculty of the College of Pennsylvania.

Pichai started his profession as a supplies engineer. After a brief stint on the administration consulting agency McKinsey & Co, he joined Google in 2004, and the remainder is historical past.

Pichai was picked up as the following CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after beforehand being appointed Product Chief by CEO Larry Web page. He was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Administrators in 2017.

He was included in Time`s annual record of the 100 most influential individuals in 2016 and 2020.

Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has two kids. His leisure pursuits embrace cricket and soccer.

However, Satya Narayana Nadella was born on August 17, 1967 in Hyderabad (present-day Telangana).

His mom Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer, and his father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an IAS officer of the 1962 batch.

Nadella studied on the Hyderabad Public Faculty, Begumpet, earlier than receiving a bachelor`s in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Expertise in Karnataka in 1988.

He then moved to the US to check for an MS in laptop science on the College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, incomes the diploma in 1990.

Later, he acquired an MBA from the College of Chicago Sales space Faculty of Enterprise in 1997.

He’s presently the Govt Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as Chairman.

Earlier than turning into the CEO, he was the Govt Vice President of Microsoft`s cloud and enterprise group, answerable for constructing and working the corporate`s computing platforms.

(With inputs from businesses)