The Government of India has awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
(award) to astronaut Kalpana Chawla and eleven other Non Resident
Indians and Persons of Indian Origin.

Other who have been selected for the award are:

Ahmed Moosa Ebrahim, former chief of Zimbabwe Cricket Union

Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana

Prof Deepak Jain, Dean, Kellog's Business School, North Western
University, Chicago

Fitz Remedios Santana De Souza, former deputy speaker from Kenya

Mahendra Pal Chaudhuri, former prime minister of Fiji

Mariam Chisti from Kuwait

Lord Meghnath Desai from the United Kingdom

Narender Singh Kapany from the US

P Mohammed Ali from Oman

Shashi Tharoor, United Nations Under-Secretary General for
Communications

Sukhi Turner, wife of former New Zealand cricketer Glenn Turner


The awards were presented by the Prime Minister at the three-day
second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. The award comprises a gold medal and
a citation.

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