TATA LAUNCHED HIMALAYAN WATER

The Tata group has launched its Himalyan brand of natural bottled water in chennai on monday,four months after its launch in mumbai.
The bottled water market in India is pegged at Rs 2000 crore,with the six metros comprising 30%..Chennai's share is estimated at Rs 75 crore in a study by A C Nielsen.

Courtesy : The Economic Times

KAUSHIK BASU -FAMOUS INDIAN ECONOMIST

Kaushik Basu (born January 5 1982) is an Indian economist. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. He was born in Calcutta and received his early education there, at St. Xavier's School. In 1969 he moved to Delhi to do his undergraduate studies in Economics from St. Stephen's College and then he went on to the London School of Economics, from where he received his M.Sc. (Econ) in 1974 and PhD in 1976. He did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Amartya Sen , Nobel laureate in the area of choice theory and welfare economics.
Over the years Kaushik Basu has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve) and the London School of Economics (where he was Distinguished Visitor in 1993); he has been Visiting Professor at MIT, Harvard and Princeton; and Visiting Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and recipient of the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, Kaushik Basu has published scientific papers in development economics, game theory, industrial organization and political economy. He is a columnist for BBC News Online, and for the Times of India, and is the author of several books on economics and a play, Crossings at Benaras Junction, which was published in The Little Magazine (vol. 6, 2005). In 1992 he founded the Centre for Development Economics (CDE) at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, and was the Centre's first Executive Director till 1996.
He is the editor of the Oxford Companion to Economics in India, published by Oxford University Press (February, 2007), which is a compendium on the Indian economy, with contributors that include P. Chidambaram (Finance Minister of India), Amartya Sen, and leading industrialists Ratan Tata, and N.R. Narayana Murthy. Kaushik Basu is Editor of Social Choice and Welfare, Associate Editor of Japanese Economic Review and is on the Board of Editors of the World Bank Economic Review.
In 2008, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, one of the country's highest civil honors.

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THE ECONOMIC TIMES AWARDS 2008 FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE

1.Business Leaderof the year : A.M. Naik Chairman & MD,L&T.
2.Business Womanof the year : Shikha Sharma MD & CEO,ICICI Prudential.
3.Entrepreneur of the year : Dilip Sanghavi Chairman & MD,Sun Pharmaceuticals.
4.Global Indian of the year : Arun Sarin Former CEO, Vodafone Group.
5.Business Reformer of the year :Kamal Nath Union Commerce & Industry Minister.
6.Policy Change Agentof the year : E. Sreedharan MD,Delhi Metro Rail Corporation .
7.Companyof the year : Tata Steel Represented by B Muthuraman, MD.
8.Emerging Companyof the year : Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren Represented by B K Goenka, Vice-Chairman & MD.
9.Lifetime Achievement Award : Ashok GangulyFormer Chairman,HLL.
10.Corporate Citizen of the year : Dr Reddy's Foundation Represented by Dr. Anji Reddy .

Courtesy: The Economic Times

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