President Murmu To Confer Bharat Ratna Awards Upon LK Advani, Karpoori Thakur And 3 Others Today

Among the five personalities to be awarded Bharat Ratna, except for former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, four others -- ex-Prime Ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh and P.V. Narasimha Rao, eminent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan, and former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, would be awarded posthumously.