Mitesh Vekaria gets NRI of the year award

Wednesday 18th July 2018 07:19 EDT
 
 

Mitesh Vekaria from Vascroft, UK, received the NRI of the year award at the fifth edition of Times Now & ICICI Bank NRI of the year award function in Mumbai on Thursday.

The NRI of the year awards recognize the achievements of the Indian Diaspora. For the fifth edition 23 winners were chosen in six categories: entrepreneur, professional, academics, arts and culture, philanthropy and startups, along with the Global Icon and Special Jury awards. Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju was the chief guest at the function.

The awards jury were Deepak Bagla, managing director & CEO, Invest India, Ashish Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE, Partho Dasgupta, CEO, BARC India, Harsha Bhogle, cricket commentator and Dalip Tahil, actor.

The evening was hosted by Sameer Kochhar and Mandira Bedi and witnessed a perfomance by members of the Terrence Lewis Dance Institute. The NRI of the Year Awards 2018 were open to all Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs).


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