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ET Awards has always been ‘Work Hard, Play Hard, At the Same Time.’ That was on full display after the award ceremony at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai when some 40 special guests joined host Samir Jain and foreign minister S Jaishankar, also ET Reformer of the Year, in some serious power chitchat over haute cuisine and ‘hauteur’ company.

India to geopolitical challenges, cultural adjustments, and the need for businesses to invest in domestic supply chains to counter China, said external affairs minister S Jaishankar, Reformer of the Year, covering a broad range of subjects during a conversation at the ET Awards. Edited excerpts:

Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award will be the last,” he said, drawing a cheer from the star-studded audience. At 81, the grand old man of Larsen & Toubro wears his humble beginnings on his sleeve–recalling the inspirational legacy of his grandfather and father, who served the impoverished. “Their values have been passed down through generations,” he said in his acceptance speech. His father, a teacher and principal, donated funds to support a hospital in the family’s village. That was the only time he asked for any financial help, Naik said. “If you can help, help this hospital,” Naik recalled his father’s request.

India, which has been transformed from “an economy with promise” to being on the cusp of becoming the third largest one after the US and China, Satyan Gajwani, vice chairman, Times Internet, said in his welcome address at the ET Awards for Corporate Excellence 2023. “Today, we mark 25 years since the founding of the ET Awards,” he said. “Way back in 1998, when we launched this endeavour to celebrate the best of Indian business, the Sensex hovered around 4,000 points — it has grown 18 times and is about to touch 75,000.” Gajwani spoke about the remarkable growth of India’s stock markets, showcasing a news report from ET in 1998 quoting a survey result of 3,000 households that preferred selling their stocks rather than buying them.

It firmly believes that changing geopolitics, security concerns, and waning trust in China will dovetail to enable India to marry technology and manufacturing. A day before the announcement of the Lok Sabha election dates, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and external affairs minister S Jaishankar sent across the message, underlining the Narendra Modi government’s milestones, as they addressed some of the best minds of India Inc at The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence in Mumbai on Friday.

ET Awards for Corporate Excellence came an unusual address. “My keynote today is to unlock your conscience,” said Mrs Meera Jain, founder of Evoke. Mentioning startling numbers — “1,50,000 animals perish each minute” — she outlined the Sixth Extinction, a manifestation of the Anthropocene, the era of human impacts reshaping Earth. “Humanity has wiped out 60% of the world’s wildlife since 1970,” she stated, adding ironically, “That’s thanks to Alfred Nobel’s gunpowder. So much for the Nobel Prize” However, humans can stop this apocalypse. She mentioned praiseworthy initiatives from the world of enterprise seeking to help nonhuman species. She described a visit to Vantara, the animal rescue and rehabilitation centre established by Anant Ambani. Vantara provides world-class care to species rescued from poachers, wildlife traffickers and circuses globally. Its devotion to endang e r e d a n i m a l s shows humanity at its best, she remarked. She lauded Ratan Tata’s hospital for dogs and small animals i n Mu mb a i and urged directors of Tata companies to devote more CSR funds to animal welfare.

Arvind Kejriwal for skipping probe agency summons in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned for tomorrow under section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the Delhi Jal Board case, ANI reported. According to details, the ED is investigating illegal tendering in Delhi Jal Board and laundering of alleged proceeds of crime.

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Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Saturday accused the BJP-led government of conducting a "surgical strike" on his party by freezing its bank accounts ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, saying it was rendered «economically handicapped» through "tax terror". Addressing a press conference here as part of Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, he also alleged that the ruling party was illegally collecting funds through electoral bonds. The Congress' main bank accounts were frozen last month over an income tax demand of Rs 210 crore. «BJP has done a surgical strike on Congress by freezing its bank accounts ahead of the general elections. We have no money to fight polls or prepare our election campaign. Even the money collected through crowd funding cannot be used. Congress has been made economically handicapped through tax terror,» Ramesh alleged.

Election Commission announced it would hold a press conference on Saturday at 3 pm to announce dates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, departments in the Central government went full throttle to approve projects and policies. Once the Election Commission makes the dates for the elections public, the Model Code of Conduct will kick in, curtailing government departments' abilities to make major policy decisions, with some decisions requiring prior permission from the poll body. According to a Times of India report, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and other offshoots of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India (MoRTH) were working into the night on Friday to issue letters of award for projects, which will ensure highway developers can start work.

Squid Game" star Oh Yeong-su has been sentenced to eight-month jail term. He has also been suspended for two years. The Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Court sentenced O to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, as well as 40 hours of attendance at a sexual violence treatment programme, the court official said by telephone, as per a report in Reuters.

(Reuters) -Reckitt Benckiser said on Friday it would pursue all options to have a $60 million verdict overturned in a lawsuit related to its Enfamil baby formula in the United States as it stood by the safety of all its products.

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external affairs minister S Jaishankar said India has begun to take manufacturing seriously, adding that the world's perspective towards the country's technological landscape has changed in the past decade. Speaking at the ET Awards in Mumbai, the minister said, «India is beginning to take manufacturing seriously. Without manufacturing, no one will take you seriously on technology,» he said.

Risk Manager Award by the London-based Central Banking as part of Central Banking Awards 2024. "Reserve Bank of India has been selected for the Risk Manager Award by Central Banking, London, as part of Central Banking Awards 2024, for rolling out a new enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) framework across the organization," RBI said in a post on X.

inflation within tolerable limits, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, said on Friday at ET Awards 2023. «Inspite of Covid, and value chain disruptions, droughts, and floods, this government has been very focused on keeping inflation within tolerable limits,» she said. While talking about the labour market, the FM added that it is going through a massive transformation with formalisation of the economy, including women participation in labour force.

Yashwant Sinha handed over the accolades to India's top industrialists exactly at The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence in Mumbai on October 24, 1998. The event, which has acknowledged the contributions of the India Inc's who's who for decades, with the latest edition set to announce the awardees on March 15, 2024. This year's edition termed S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, as the Reformer of the Year. AM Naik, Chairman Emeritus, Larsen & Toubro, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Also Read: Catch Electoral Bonds Data Live updates As soon as the list was published, allegation of Quid pro quo surfaced with opposition parties alleging link between top donor companies and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged that “immediately after receiving some handouts from the Central government, companies have repaid the favour through electoral bonds." On Thursday, Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan too alleged quid pro quo. He took to microblogging site X to write, “On 11 April 23, Megha Engineering gives 100s Crs in #ElectoralBonds to whom? But within a month it gets a 14,400 cr contract from BJP’s Mah govt! Though SBI has hidden Bond numbers from the info, some of donors & parties match can be guessed.

Orchestrating the dialogue on payments, EBAday invites all early-stage startups with a working proof of concept or pilot to apply for the 2024 Fintech Zone.

RailTel Corporation of India jumped 9% to Rs 369 in Friday's trade on BSE after the firm received a Rs 113.46 crore work order from Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC). The order is for setting up IP-MPLS network connectivity in Odisha under OdishaNet Phase 1.0. The project needs to be executed by September 2025, according to the company's regulatory filing.

A Vancouver police officer is talking publicly for the first time about being stabbed in the chest while on duty in 2021.