President Murmu confers Arjuna Awards; no Khel Ratna selected this year

New Delhi, Nov 13 (UNI) President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Sports Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday, with decathlete Tejaswin Shankar and chess Grandmasters Divya Deshmukh and Vidit Gujrathi among the prominent Arjuna Award recipients. For the first time since 2014, no sportsperson was selected for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna. A total of 17 sportspersons received the Arjuna Award following an unprecedented re-evaluation of recommendations made by a selection committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Arun Kumar Mishra. The ceremony, which lasted a little over 36 minutes, was attended by union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and…