ET Awards: Business, with a side of banter

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The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence brought together numerous top industry leaders, ministers, and experts to celebrate the achievements of Corporate India..

The event was not just a celebratory ceremony but also a platform for knowledge sharing and networking in a luxurious setting, characterized by glamour, laughter, and a public-private partnership.Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman shares a lighter moment with Sunil Bharti Mittal;..

In an evening that saw finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, captains of industry, and the cream of the financial and economic world gathered under one glittering roof at the spanking new Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai, The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence seemed to pick up where the Filmfare Awards a day before at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre next door had left off..

The ET Awards, the winners and the evening had a different kind of glamour quotient, of course - of the GDP kind.. With the business end of business meeting under the Lotus Ballroom's imposing chandelier - which one guest who knows his high-end luxury products described as a 'gigantic brooch' - master of ceremonies Cyrus Sahukar kept the evening on even keel, mixing the funnies with the celebratory..

She commended India Inc for how, despite the immense challenges it faced during the pandemic and subsequently the Russia-Ukraine war, there has been "many expansions happening, new investments happening" after the government brought down the corporate tax in 2019..

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