Lockdown blues over, economy improving: Winners of Business Standard awards

Larsen & Toubro won the Company of the Year award and Wipro founder Azim Premji won the Lifetime Achievement award

India's economy is "looking up" after a weeks-long lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, said panellists at a function to mark Business Standard's Annual awards for entrepreneurship.

"(Economic) recovery is slow but it was expected. People are starting to believe that we have to live with this virus. This is great,” said Hari Menon, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Big Basket, the online grocer.

Menon, who got the Start-up of the Year award, said his company got "tremendous momentum" in the lockdown as people confined to their homes ordered online. The lockdown had advanced Big Basket by 15