{"id":78997,"date":"2020-01-27T10:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T10:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=78997"},"modified":"2020-01-27T10:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T10:38:56","slug":"mary-kom-to-be-conferred-padma-vibhushan-padma-bhushan-for-sindhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mary-kom-to-be-conferred-padma-vibhushan-padma-bhushan-for-sindhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kom to be conferred Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan for Sindhu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Celebrated boxer M C Mary Kom will be conferred with the Padma Vibhushan, the country&#8217;s second highest civilian award, while world champion shuttler P V Sindhu will be bestowed with the Padma Bhushan among eight sportspersons named for the prestigious honours on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36-year-old Mary Kom, also a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament, won a bronze medal in the 2012 London Olympics while also being crowned as world champion six times in an illustrious career.The 24-year-old Sindhu is a silver medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics and is also the only Indian world champion in badminton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other six sportspersons were named for Padma Shri. They are cricketer Zaheer Khan, current Indian women&#8217;s hockey captain Rani Rampal, former Indian men&#8217;s hockey player M P Ganesh, shooter Jitu Rai, former Indian women&#8217;s football team captain Oinam Bembem Devi and archer Tarundeep Rai.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated boxer M C Mary Kom will be conferred with the Padma Vibhushan, the country&#8217;s second highest civilian award, while world champion shuttler P V Sindhu will be bestowed with the Padma Bhushan among eight sportspersons named for the prestigious honours on Saturday. The 36-year-old Mary Kom, also a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament, won [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78999,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78997\/revisions\/78999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}