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  • A TopGear car is one that simply excites you and has you searching for reasons to take your car out even if you want to get nowhere

    TopGear announces the 2011 awards, names Audi RS5 as ‘Car of 2011’

    By A Correspondent

     

    The country’s most exciting auto awards, TopGear Magazine Awards 2011, have been announced. Supported by Principal Mutual Funds, Wrangler, Zync Tablets, the TopGear Awards was one glitzy night with the who’s who of the nation’s auto industry, corporate houses and celebrities in attendance. With Black Dog Easy Evenings in charge of beverages, it was but natural to have Party Hard Drivers as the responsibility partner. With professional drivers in charge of dropping people home, nobody drove back drunk.

     

    And the Car of the Year 2011 is the fast and fierce Audi RS5. “It’s not a conventional choice, but TopGear is never about conventions,” said Girish Karkera, Editor, TopGear magazineIndia. BBC TopGearIndia, the Indian edition ofTopGear,UK’s best-selling auto magazine, has been in place since 2007. Instead of calling celebs and famous people to drive about 40 cars in a single day to pass a verdict, TopGear relies on its own editorial teams to drive and spend quality time with cars round the year.

     

    Commenting on the TopGear Awards, Tarun Rai CEO Worldwide Media said “2011 has been an exciting year for cars and bikes inIndiawith over 50 launches across categories. We are happy that BBC Top Gear magazine is the first to announce the best cars of the year. It is a comprehensive list that includes the Most Beautiful Car and the Best Value for Money Car besides another nineteen categories.”

     

    The TopGear car of the year is never about value for money or depreciation or a car that will sell by the hordes. A TopGear car is one that simply excites you and has you searching for reasons to take your car out even if you want to get nowhere.

     

    “While the RS5 isn’t exactly a value for money car, in terms of performance it’s right up there with supercars, but costs less than half of a supercar, is extremely usable and practical on an everyday basis,” explains Girish on the team’s choice.

     

    Other winners included the Maserati MC Stradale for Driver’s car of the year, the Volvo XC60 for SUV of the year and the Maruti Swift for Small car of the year. This year also sees the introduction of some new categories like Hypercar of the year – the Koenigsegg Agera – and the Reader’s Choice car of the year – Mahindra XUV 500 and cabriolet of the year – Audi R8 Spyder. “It’s a good problem to have.Indiais seeing the launch of several new cars and bikes that don’t fit into old niches. For instance, we have a Bike and Superbike of the year. And over the past couple of years the line between a bike and a superbike is beginning to blur, which only shows the way the market is headed.”

     

    Other winners include :

    Most beautiful car of the year – Aston Martin Rapide

    Luxury car of the year – Maserati Quattroporte

    Family car of the year – Skoda Rapid

    Sedanof the year – Renault Fluence

    Value for money car of the year – Mahindra XUV 500

    Bike of the year – Honda CBR 250

    Superbike of the year – BMW R1200GS

    Interior of the year – Volkswagen Passat

    Engine of the year – AMG 5.5-litre V8 Bi-Turbo

     

     

  • Mudra Group wins ‘Best Corporate Citizen, India’ Award at the GABM 2011.

    Best Citizen award for Mudra

    By A Correspondent

     

    Mudra Group has recently won the award for ‘Best Corporate Citizen, India’ at the GABM (Global Association of Billionaires and Millionaires). GABM has introduced the ‘Best India Corporate Citizen Award’ program, first and foremost, to give recognition to those outstanding Indian corporations who are engaged in good corporate citizenship practices.

    GABM was founded in 2000 as a private and exclusive non-profit society of billionaires and millionaires from all over the world. They represent a group of relentless philanthropists who firmly believe that the engagement be corporations in local Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes, or donations made by individuals to local charities does not suffice in terms of good corporate citizenship, or ultimately a way to escape our collective responsibilities towards the creation of a safe and better global economy for all mankind. Considering the enormous challenges facing the global economy of today, their philosophy is that real good corporate citizens must, as a matter of course, unite in a strong international collective to actively and physically participate in intelligently designed programmes, which significantly enhance international business development of entrepreneurship, and the creation of sustainable jobs etc.

    Commenting on winning the award, Mr Ajit Menon, Executive Director, Organisation Development, Mudra Group, said, “Mudra Group has always believed in the philosophy of ‘people first’ be it employees or the society. Being a home grown agency, we realize that it is this country and its people who have helped us become what we are today and strongly feel that we need to give back to the society that has helped us. Mudra is currently engaged in various CSR activities such as Blood Donation Camps, Protsahan India Foundation (NGO), Helen Keller Institute for Deaf & DeafBlind (NGO), Himjoli (NGO) and Udayan Care (NGO), in the country and will continue to do so.”

  • The third edition of the Dainik Bhaskar India Pride Awards in association with DNA was held at Taj Palace, New Delhi.

    Dainik Bhaskar Indian Pride Awards given

    By A Correspondent

    The third edition of the Dainik Bhaskar India Pride Awards in association with DNA was held at Taj Palace, New Delhi. The Award recognized and felicitated the contribution made by the Public Sector Undertaking and Civil Servant. Presided by Shr. Montek Singh Walia as the Chief Guest the award function ignited a sense of pride for the winners at the awards night.

    In the opening address, Mr Ramesh Chandra Agarwal, Chairman, Dainik Bhaskar Group said that India lives in Tier II & Tier III markets and the PSUs have extended their reach in such areas and Town and it’s great pride for Dainik Bhaskar to honor, the efforts taken by them for the development of the nation.

    Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Planning Commission, Govt. of India, in his address, appreciated and thanked Dainik Bhaskar for their initiative and said “such acknowledgement of the work done for the economic development of the nation, by the special vehicles called the PSUs is note-worthy”. He further added that Dainik Bhaskar’s recognition of the outstanding work done by the members of the civil society towards the welfare of the nation and a better change for the society at large was a big step.”

    Addition to this, Mr Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister for Rural Development, Govt. of India, the Guest of Honour, said, “Introducing Impact Creator-Civil Servant and Social Change Agent category awards for the individual contribution would serve as a source of inspiration for more and more citizens, specially the youth, who will get encouragement to work for the welfare of the society.”

    Also, Mr V.Narayanasamy, MOS for Parliamentary Affairs, Govt. of India, added “PSUs and civil servants are working hard for the economic development of the country and their contributions should be duly acknowledged. Dainik Bhaskar group is the first in taking up such an initiative at such a grand level.” He termed this as a welcome step.

    The grandeur of the ceremony was the Life Time Achievement Award which was bagged by Mr M D Mallya, Chairman & Managing Director, Bank of Baroda. Speaking on behalf of all the PSUs he mentioned, “Be it the Central or the State PSUs, they are giving their important contribution in the economic development of the nation. This includes development of the rural as well as the corporate sector. Dainik Bhaskar has identified the contributions of the PSUs and appreciated the same on a huge platform. India Pride Awards also instils a sense of healthy competition amongst PSUs.”

    This high powered function commenced with the performance of two time Grammy award winner Robin Hogarth and Indian classical vocalist Padamshree Sumitra Guha. It was a fusion of traditional African and Indian classical music. Adding glitter to the function was, the famous Sufi singer Kailash Kher enthralled the audience with him famous numbers.

    The initiative was supported by SKNL, Title Sponsors, ADANI Group, Principal Associate Sponsor and VIDEOCON, Associate Sponsor.