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Kumar Mangalam Birla, Dilip Sanghvi nominated for E&Y awards
New Delhi: United Breweries' chairman Vijay Mallya, Sun Pharma's Dilip Sanghvi and AV Birla Group's Kumar Mangalam Birla are among the 19 business leaders nominated for 'Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2005'.

The list also has other notable names like Shobhana Bhartia of the Hindustan Times, Chandra Prakash Jain (NTPC), Jignesh Shah of MCX and Ajay Bijli of the PVR group, according to an Ernst and Young India release.

The results would be declared on November 11 in Mumbai and the winner will represent India at the Ernst and Young World Entrepreneur of the Year awards in Monte Carlo in 2006.

A five-member jury consisting of eminent personalities like HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh selected the finalists from over 100 nominations received this year.

The awards honours entrepreneurs who have charted the course for the future for others and truly exemplified the company's "torchbearers" theme for the programme this year, added the release.

The 'E&Y World Entrepreneur of the Year' was won by Infosys chairman Narayana Murthy in 2003.

The past recipients of the award includes Sunil Bharti Mittal, Ratan Tata, Brijmohan Lal Munjal, Mukesh Ambani and Subhash Chandra amongst others.
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Michael Kuehner is MD of Siemens' India unit
New Delhi: Siemens Public Communication Networks India on Tuesday announced the appointment of Michael Kuehner as its managing director.

"In his previous assignment, Mr Kuehner was responsible for the communications business of Siemens Malaysia covering communications devices as well as enterprise, carrier network solution and products," a company release said here.
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