Pipe solutions major Jindal Saw today said it has appointed Neeraj Kumar as its new Group Chief Executive Officer and Whole Time Director.

Jindal Saw appoints Neeraj Kumar as Group CEO

Press Trust of India

Times Television Network, the broadcast arm of Benett Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), has appointed Nemish Sanghvi as associate vice president for its branded content division.

Nemish Sanghvi joins Times Television as AVP, Branded Content

Business Standard

Newsmaker: Raj Jain

P>Over a year ago, STRONG>Pradeep Jain/STRONG>, the 43-year-old chairman of Parsvnath Developers Ltd, was gung-ho about the Indian property market.

NEWSMAKER: Pradeep Jain

&nbsp;It's hard to believe but true. Within a day of the launch of his brand new English daily Sakaal Times, STRONG>Abhijit Pawar/STRONG>, managing director of the Rs 350-crore Pune-based Sakal Media Group, was taking a flight to Disneyland (Orlando) for a month-long vacation with his family  wife and two children, aged eight and six years.

NEWSMAKER: Abhijit Pawar

P>Way back in 1997, the odds were stacked against STRONG>Kwang Ro Kim/STRONG>, LG's softspoken boss in India.

Kwang Ro Kim: Can Kim repeat the LG magic?

P>State Bank of India Chairman Om Prakash Bhatt is known for playing by the book.

NEWSMAKER: O P Bhatt

P>For the last few months, a crack team of three senior executives selected by Anil Ambani has been working on an unusual mandate  to break into the closed club of Hollywood movies that has been dominated by well-entrenched studios and moody stars who are hard to get as they demand money that is sometimes more than the total budgets of many Bollywood movies put together.

Anil Ambani: Hollywood, here I come

P>Vijaypat Singhania, chairperson of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has never been afraid of pushing himself to new heights despite being on terra firma for over 70 years .

NEWSMAKER: Vijaypat Singhania

P>In spite of an orchid&#39;s legendary inability to bloom in most habitats, STRONG>K Ragavendra Rao/STRONG> has ensured Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd is blooming globally.

K Ragavendra Rao: In full bloom

P>For years, anyone who has witnessed the rise and rise of the Mittal family  from denizens of Ludhiana to becoming movers and shakers in the national capital  the most noticeable face of the three brothers has been Sunil, the second of three sons of the late Sat Pal Mittal, a politician who was a Congress MP from Haryana in the 80s.

Rakesh Mittal: No more easy days

P>When the 58-year-old chairman of the Virgin Group dangled on a pair of safety harnesses at a height of around 30 storeys in Mumbai to unveil the Virgin Mobile&#39; logo brand on a skywalk&#39; stunt, it did not take anyone by surprise.

NEWSMAKER: Richard Branson

P>This February, India&#39;s largest IT services provider  Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services  announced that it had appointed Ajoyendra Mukherjee as the global head of human resources, following incumbent S Padmanabhan&#39;s move to Tata Power as an Executive Director, Operations.

S Padmanabhan: Poor optics

P>It's like a homecoming for Chandrasekhar (Chandu) Bhaskar Bhave, the newly-appointed chairman of India&#39;s capital market regulator.

NEWSMAKER: C B Bhave

P>On the day when the government officially announced C B Bhave as the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), it also announced the successor to him at National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), India&#39;s premier depository.

Gagan Rai: In Bhave`s shadow

&nbsp;Banking is in Deepak Shantilal Parekh&#39;s genes  literally. His grandfather was the first employee of Central Bank.

NEWSMAKER:  Deepak Parekh

P>Rajiv Bajaj may want to impress people with his plans to build a small car but his attempt at one-upmanship has only left him with more detractors.

NEWSMAKER: Rajiv Bajaj

P>Not content with just being called the king of organised retail in India, 47-year-old Kishore Biyani decided to venture into the financial services segment in 2005 by promoting Future Capital Holdings Ltd (FCH) along with 37-year-old Sameer Sain, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs International.

NEWSMAKER: Kishore Biyani

The Mining Engineering Association of India (MEAI) has felicited Akhilesh Joshi, CEO of Hindustan Zinc Ltd with MEAI-Adheraj Baldota Memorial Gold Medal Award-2012.

Hindustan Zinc CEO Akhilesh Joshi gets award

With his proposed budget airline still awaiting nod from the Civil aviation ministry, AirAsia group chief executive Tony Fernandes may call on Union Minister Ajit Singh next week when he visits the country.

AirAsia chief likely to meet Ajit Singh next week

President Pranab Mukherjee today inaugurated the first unit of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) mega power project built at a cost of Rs 3,804 crore.

President inaugurates 1st unit of ONGC's Tripura power project

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