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New Delhi [India], November 16 (ANI/NewsVoir): On November 13, Emmanuel Lenain, Ambassador of France to India, conferred the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) on Sumeet Anand, Founder, IndSight Growth Partners, and President of the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry, in Mumbai. The highest French civilian award comes in recognition of Sumeet Anand's outstanding contributions in the fields of business and industry, as well as promoting Indo-French business and education ties. Sumeet Anand, one of India's leading corporate strategy advisors, especially on Indo-French cross-investments, has played a pivotal role in the development of trade and investment between India and France. He is a key actor in building bridges between industry leaders and business enterprises of France and India. In his speech at the investiture, Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain said, "Sumeet Anand is a true friend of France and a steadfast advocate of close ti
New Delhi, Oct. 19 (PTI): He lost the election but Shashi Tharoor managed to score many a political point during his campaign for Congress president, a contest he lost to veteran party colleague Mallikarjun Kharge who was favoured to win. The author, wordsmith, former UN diplomat and social media pioneer with 8.3 million followers on Twitter demonstrated during the last few weeks that he is quite the opposite of a quockerwodger’, a politically loaded term for a wooden puppet he introduced into our lexicon, and is instead independent minded, making moves on his own terms. Tharoor’s loss is reminiscent of his electoral run in the 2006 UN secretary general poll in which he was defeated by South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon but not before creating a strong buzz. It was in that contest perhaps that he first displayed his stomach for an electoral fight against daunting odds. That the often outspoken Tharoor managed 1,072 votes against perceived Gandhi favourite Kharge’s 7,897