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Visvesvaraya award for Narayana Murthy
Bangalore: The first-ever Sir M. Visvesvaraya memorial award instituted by the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has been awarded to N.R. Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Technologies.

The award has been instituted to commemorate with the 138th birth anniversary of Sir M. Visvesvaraya.
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R.K. Singh to join Zee Telefilms
New Delhi: R.K. Singh, managing director ESPN Asia, is slated to take over as chief executive of Zee Telefilms from 1 October.

At Zee, Mr Singh will not handle Zee's sports-related activities,  but instead look after the company's broadcasting activities, focusing mainly on developing the group's pay-per-view channels and the digital bouquet the company is planning.
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Rohit Bammi to head Deutsche Bank group
Mumbai: Deutsche Bank announced the appointment of Rohit Bammi as head of the financial institutions group in India. Mr Bammi is taking over from Claudio Luneburg, who is on a new assignment in the financial institutions division of the Deutsche Bank

Mr Bammi will head relationship management for financial institution clients. Deutsche Bank is the largest bank in the world in terms of assets.

Mr Bammi was with Citibank in India as vice president and unit head, banks.
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Sminu Jindal in charge of Saw Pipe local operations
New Delhi: Sminu Jindal, daughter of P.R. Jindal, chairman of Saw Pipes, has been given the charge of the company's Indian operations.

The company is setting up a 100 per cent export-oriented unit in Gujarat to cater to the needs of the market. The export unit will have a capacity to make one lakh tonne of longitudinally welded pipes.
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Bharat Kapadia is ASCI chairman
Mumbai: Bharat Kapadia, associate publisher and chief executive of Chitralekha group of publications, has been unanimously elected chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India.

Sam Balsara, chairman and managing director of Madison Communications, is the vice-chairman. Members constituting the board of governors of ASCI are: A. Dasgupta, C.R. Irani, Ms Urmila Jain, Dr (Ms) V.V. Manerikar, Harish Manwani, Jacob Mathew, Ms Zia Mody, N. Murani, Bharat V. Patel, R.A. Poddar, Goutam Rakshit, Conrad Saldanha, Ram Sehgal and Dorab Sopariwala.

Mr Kapadia was responsible for reviewing and updating the ACI code for self-regulation in advertising.
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Pepsi prefers insiders for top positions
New York: Pepsico, true to its traditions, has named insiders to man its two active divisions, Frito-Lay and Tropicana. It has named Al Bru as president and chief executive officer of Frito-Lay North America, replacing Steven Reinemund, who will take over as Pepsi's president and chief operating officer at its Purchase, New York headquarters. . The company also named Brock Leach as president and chief executive of Tropicana Products.

Mr Bru was president and general manager of Frito-Lay's Sabritas snack maker in Mexico, while Mr Leach has been a long time executive with Frito-Lay.

Earlier, former Tropicana head Gary Rodkin took over the reins of Pepsi-Cola North America, its soft drinks unit, after Philip Marineau left to head Levi Strauss & Co.
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