<b>Newsmaker of the year:</b> Nusli Wadia

Earlier, Wadia has helped Ratan Tata in ousting the old guard from key Tata companies

Fighting fit
 
For decades, Nusli Wadia, 72, Chairman of the Wadia group of companies, kept a close watch on the Tata group as an independent director on the boards of Tata Chemicals, Tata Steel and Tata Motors. And that’s because J R D Tata asked him to look after the group’s interests just before he left for Europe on his last journey. In fact, J R D wanted a more binding relationship. Six months before his death in 1993, he asked Wadia to take over as group vice-chairman. Wadia refused as he did not want to come in