{"id":6837,"date":"2014-08-19T16:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/19\/asian-achievers-awards-nominees-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:55:45","slug":"asian-achievers-awards-nominees-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/19\/asian-achievers-awards-nominees-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Achievers Awards Nominees Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nominees have been unveiled for the 14th Asian Achievers Awards<\/h3>\n
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The nominations for the 14th<\/sup> annual Asian Achievers Awards have been revealed. Among them are clothing tycoon, Mahmud Kamani<\/strong> of boohoo.com;\u00a0footballer and founder of PS14, Paran Singh<\/strong>; writer Hanif Kureishi CBE<\/strong>; and internationally acclaimed music producer Naughty Boy<\/strong>, aka Shahid Khan<\/strong>.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Mr. CB Patel, Publisher\/Editor, ABPL Group<\/strong> says: \u201cWe are so impressed with the quality of this years nomination list and would like to thank everyone who nominated. The Asian Achievers Awards prides itself on showcasing remarkable people and role models and our 2014 nominee list exemplifies that perfectly.<\/em><\/div>\n

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\u201cThis years awards event is shaping up to be the biggest one yet and we are all incredibly excited.\u201d <\/em><\/div>\n

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The organisers were overwhelmed with entries this year, as in addition to submitting nominees through the Asian Voice newspaper and the awards official website, many took to social media, such as twitter and instagram, to send their nominations.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Taking place on September 19th<\/sup> at London\u2019s Grosvenor House Hotel, the Asian Achievers Awards celebrates individuals who are responsible for bringing the South Asian community to the centre stage.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Since launching 14 years ago, The Asian Achievers Awards has helped raise millions of pounds for charity and this year, the chosen charity partner is the Cherie Blair Foundation<\/strong>.<\/div>\n

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ASIAN ACHIEVERS AWARDS 2014 NOMINEES<\/font><\/u><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Business Person Of The Year<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Kishore Lulla<\/font><\/div>\n

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Mahmud Kamani<\/font><\/div>\n

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Kirit Patel MBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Harry Dulai<\/font><\/div>\n

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Entrepreneur Of The Year<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Sukhi Ghuman<\/div>\n

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Taz And Umer Sheikh<\/font><\/div>\n

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Majid Hussain<\/font><\/div>\n

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Dr Richie Nanda<\/div>\n

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Sports Personality Of The Year<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Dilawer Singh MBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Neil John Taylor<\/font><\/div>\n

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Paran Singh<\/font><\/div>\n

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Manisha Tailor<\/font><\/div>\n

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Uniformed And Civil Services<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Dipprasad Pun CGC<\/font><\/div>\n

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Millie Banerjee CBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Kul Mahay<\/div>\n

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Nazir Afzal OBE<\/div>\n

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Media , Arts And Culture<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Shahid Khan Aka Naughty boy <\/font><\/div>\n

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Akram Khan MBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Hanif Kureishi CBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Samira Ahmed<\/div>\n

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Woman Of The Year<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Saba Shaukat<\/font><\/div>\n

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Balvinder Kaur Sandhu<\/div>\n

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Priya Lakhani OBE<\/div>\n

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Sharmila Nebhrajani OBE<\/div>\n

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Ranjana Bell MBE<\/div>\n

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Achievement In Community Service<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Shahien Taj<\/font><\/div>\n

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Kiran Bali MBE JP<\/font><\/div>\n

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Sajda Mughal<\/div>\n

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Wasim Gulzar Khan MBE<\/div>\n

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Professional Of The Year<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Anu Ojha OBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Prof. Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS<\/font><\/div>\n

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Faisel Rahman OBE<\/font><\/div>\n

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Dr Sandy Gupta<\/font><\/div>\n

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Nominees have been unveiled for the 14th Asian Achievers Awards \u00a0 The nominations for the 14th annual Asian Achievers Awards have been revealed. Among them are clothing tycoon, Mahmud Kamani of boohoo.com;\u00a0footballer and founder of PS14, Paran Singh; writer Hanif Kureishi CBE; and internationally acclaimed music producer Naughty Boy, aka Shahid Khan. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}