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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Haryana Cadre IAS officer Krishan Kumar Jalan has taken over as Central Provident Fund Commissioner of the retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisations.

K K Jalan takes over as EPFO's Central PF Commissioner

He does not believe in being the captain but the coach; an enabler who needs to talk to people frequently

Newsmaker: Atul Singh

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Company declines to identify Manu Anand's successor

Manu Anand quits as PepsiCo India chief

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President Pranab Mukherjee will on Friday inaugurate Rs 3,429-crore power project of state- owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) in Tripura.

President to inaugurate ONGC's Tripura power project on Friday

The India Cements chairman wants to exit non-core businesses to focus on cement

It's back to basics for Srinivasan

Thomas Mathew T was appointed as interim chairman of LIC on May 31, 2013 after D K Mehrotra retired from his post

S K Roy to be new LIC chairman

Global steel giant ArcelorMittal today said its executive vice president, member of the management committee and head of strategy, Bill Scotting will be the new chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining.

Bill Scotting replaces Peter as ArcelorMittal Mining CEO

Late founder Ashok Kapur's daughter has successfully carved out her own space in the financial world

From ICICI to YES: Meet Shagun Kapur Gogia

Newsmaker: Arun Pandey

NRN is the quintessential poster boy of Indian IT. Someone who is hands-on, who in many ways has pioneered the end-to-end services foray for India

NRN, the brand

Hindustan Zinc today said Sujata Prasad, Joint Secretary and Financial Adviser to the Ministry of Mines, has been appointed as government nominee director on the company's board with immediate effect.

Sujata Prasad appointed as director on board of Hindustan Zinc

Something that he hasn't imagined in his "wildest dreams", N R Narayana Murthy today described his "second innings" at Infosys as an exciting yet "somewhat" a new challenge.

Exciting though a new challenge: N R Narayana Murthy

State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) today said K V Rao has taken over as the company's new Director (Finance).

K V Rao is new Director-Finance at HPCL

M Ravindran has taken over as Director (Human Resources) of Gail (India). Ravindran has over 33 years of experience in the fertilizer and Oil and Gas industries - particularly in gas transmission, petrochemicals and city gas distribution sectors.

M Ravindran takes charge as Gail director

Newsmaker: William Pinckney

Russian conglomerate Sistema today announced the elevation of Vsevolod Rozanov, CEO of its Indian telecom firm SSTL, as the new Senior Vice-President and CFO of the company.

Sistema elevates SSTL's Vsevolod Rozanov to group CFO

David Karp sold his Tumblr blogging service to Yahoo last week for $1.1 billion. The school dropout had realised as far back as 2000 that video would one day rule gadgets.When David Karp was 14, he was clearly a bright teenager. Quiet, somewhat reclusive, bored with his classes at the Bronx High School of Science. He spent most of his free time in his bedroom, glued to his computer.But instead of trying to pry him away from his machine or coaxing him outside to get some fresh air, his mother, Barbara Ackerman, had another solution: she suggested that he drop out of high school to be home-schooled."I saw him at school all day and absorbed all night into his computer," says Ackerman. "It became very clear that David needed the space to live his passion. Which was computers. All things computers."Now 26 years old, Karp never finished high school or enrolled in college. Instead, he played a significant role in several technology start-ups before founding Tumblr, the popular blogging servic

Practical mother, visionary son

JSW Steel Ltd has elevated Vinod Nowal to the position of Deputy Managing Director with effect from May 23, 2013.

Vinod Nowal promoted as deputy MD of JSW Steel

Known as 'Prince Gurunath', he is the team principal of one of the successful teams in IPL - Chennai Super Kings

Who is Gurunath Meiyappan?

Ivan Menezes moves in as chief executive of Diageo from July 2013 from his role as chief operating officer since March 2012

Newsmaker: Ivan Menezes

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