Scoring India Inc&rsquo;s first goal from Pune in the English Premier League (EPL) isn&rsquo;t something you hear every day. But Anuradha Desai, chairperson of the Rs 3,850-crore Venkateshwara Hatcheries (VH) Group, prefers to keep a low profile.

Newsmaker: Anuradha Desai

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Three months ago, Raghu Pillai joined Future Group as chief executive and executive board member from Reliance Retail where he was the president and CEO. Pillai now supervises the group&rsquo;s retail chain Aadhar, neighbourhood chain KB&rsquo;s Fair Price, consumer durables chain Ezone, and Home Town. A retail industry veteran for 16 years, Pillai talks to Raghavendra Kamath about the issues the sector faces and how he plans to take the group&rsquo;s retail ventures forward.

Q&A: Raghu Pillai, Future Group

Bhupender Singh was recently appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intelenet&rsquo;s domestic BPO business. The announcement comes within two months of Intelenet being acquired by UK-based Serco.

BS People: Bhupender Singh

Ashok Soota, one of the co-founders of MindTree and a veteran of the IT industry knows what it takes to try and reach $100 million in five years&mdash;his ambitious goal for his new company titled &lsquo;Happiest Minds.&rsquo; Not surprisingly, he chose Vikram Gulati to lead his new firm towards that target.

BS People: Vikram Gulati

For someone who had been running the Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe (AAC) and West Asia business of Unilever &mdash; a little over 40 per cent of its total &mdash; the latest promotion should be taken as the reward for a job well done. However, when it was announced, it surprised many. That is because it is not often that a century-old company deviates from tradition to create a new position at the top.

Newsmaker: Harish Manwani

After a two-year stint at infrastructure major Punj Lloyd, Aditya Vij has moved over to Fortis Healthcare, India&rsquo;s second-largest private hospital chain, as its new CEO. Vij has replaced Bhavdeep Singh, who resigned from his post seven months ago for personal reasons.

BS People: Aditya Vij

For the first time in the history of any public sector enterprise, a full-time, woman director has made it to the board of a Navratna company, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL).

BS People: Nishi Vasudeva

There are very few people who are able to make their passion their profession. Devraj Sanyal, who heads a music label by day and is a metalhead by night, is one of them.

BS People: Devraj Sanyal

Earlier this week, Gautam Adani attracted front page billing in most business newspapers for clinching a Rs 2,100-crore deal with an Australian company to buy that country&rsquo;s single largest coal tenement. In the global race for energy resources that the Chinese mostly seem to be winning, this is certainly big news.

Newsmaker: Gautam Adani

According to British novelist John Anthony Miller, better known by his pseudonym Peter Pook, rugby is a game for the mentally deficient. &ldquo;That is why it was invented by the British&hellip; Who else could invent an oval ball?&rdquo; Oscar Wilde thought of the game as an occasion to keep 30 bullies far from the centre of the city.

Newsmaker: Bill Gammell

Star CJ, Zee TV plan to dish out more home shopping networks and programmes.

Channels bet on teleshopping

Unfazed by criticism of his SpiceJet acquisition, the scion of a political family says he believes in setting trends, not aping them.

Newsmaker: Kalanithi Maran

In 1988, Ajay Piramal, then 33 years old, decided to bid for Nicholas Laboratories, the Australian multinational that was exiting India. Mike Barker, the man in charge of the divestment, told him he was too young and had no experience or track record.

Newsmaker: Ajay Piramal

The finance company&rsquo;s new chairman and managing director may be more low-profile than its promoters, but he&rsquo;s no less ambitious.

Newsmaker: Sunil Godhwani

The insurance regulator may be the veteran of many controversies, but he&rsquo;s also known for his thoroughness.

Newsmaker: J Hari Narayan

As the IPL controversy has shown, he shuns the limelight but still makes his presence felt.

Newsmaker: Shashank Manohar

The key deal-maker behind the controversial Inox-Fame deal, Asher has a reputation for multi-tasking across the group&rsquo;s varied businesses.

Newsmaker: Deepak Asher

The veteran public sector executive thinks state-owned corporations enjoy more freedom than their private sector counterparts.

Newsmaker: Rana Som

He started out as a small namkeen shop on Kalakar Street in Burrabazar, Kolkata, and went on to build one of the country&rsquo;s biggest packaged snackfoods brands. But Prabhu Shankar Agarwal didn&rsquo;t make the headlines for this accomplishment.

Newsmaker: Prabhu Shankar Agarwal

The youthful former owner of Fame has unwittingly set off a takeover battle over his successful multiplex business.

Newsmaker: Shravan Shroff

The company he promoted has stayed ahead of the curve by cultivating a culture of thinking differently.

Newsmaker: Narendra Murkumbi

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