Chandigarh, March 4 -- Panjab University (PU) is set to honour five distinguished individuals with the prestigious PU Ratna awards at its 72nd annual convocation on March 12, with Olympic medallist and PU alumna Manu Bhaker leading the list.

The ceremony, to be graced by President of India Droupadi Murmu as the chief guest, will also see prominent figures like mathematician RJ Hans-Gill, spiritual leader Kamlesh D Patel and social worker Sushri Nivedita Raghunath Bhide receiving honorary degrees.

Hans-Gill and Patel will be awarded Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), while Raghunath Bhide will receive Doctor of Literature (Honoris Causa).

Hans-Gill is recognised for her ground-breaking work in Number Theory and Discrete Geometry, while ...