Fri, Sep 10 10 07:53 PM
London, Sept 10 (PTI) London-based veteran Indian sports journalist Dicky Rutnagur has received a ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' from the Indian Journalists'' Association for his outstanding contribution to sports journalism. Leading NRI entrepreneurs S P Hinduja and G P Hinduja, Chairman and President respectively of the Hinduja Group presented the trophy to Dicky at a gala dinner at the prestigious Grosvenor House here last night. "I will always treasure this award as one of the high points of my life. I am really overwhelmed and I am deeply grateful to the IJA for this recognition," Rutnagur, who wrote for the Hindustan Times in India and the Daily Telegraph in the UK, said after receiving the award. The occasion was graced by Britain''s Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Dr Vince Cable, India''s High Commissioner to the UK, Nalin Surie, the only Indian-origin minister in the British government, Shailesh Vara, among others. Dr Vince Cable, in his key-note address, referred to the "extra-ordinary transformation" India has been going through in recent years, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. "It is an extra-ordinary, political, economical and technological transformation," said Dr Cable, whose first wife hailed from Goa. He also acknowledged the contributions being made to Britain by Indian entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, cricketers and journalists.
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