THE NOMINEES FOR BUSINESS

Mukesh D Ambani: For revolutionizing retail, taking petroleum and a host of other businesses to dizzying heights and in the process becoming one of the richest men in the world.

01. Mukesh D. Ambani: For revolutionizing retail, taking petroleum and a host of other businesses to dizzying heights and in the process becoming one of the richest men in the world.

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02. Anil D Ambani - For piloting an affordable info-com revolution and managing unprecedented financial muscle by heavy investments in infrastructure, power and capital.

03. Sunil Bharti Mittal: For building Airtel into India's largest mobile service operator and then successfully cornering a chunk of the fixed line telephony business as well.

04. Vijay Mallya: For acquiring liquor conglomerates to airlines to even a Formula 1 team and proving the King of Good Times was truly an audacious dealmaker.

05. OP Bhatt: For showing how a public sector behemoth could flex enough muscle in the ferociously competitive banking sector.

06. Kumar Mangalam Birla: For making the Aditya Birla Group into a world player and successfully ensuring that Idea emerges as a major player in the competitive cellular telephony market.