Maharashtra FDA gets another chief
Mumbai: Amitabh Chandra has been appointed Commissioner of the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from July 1, following a recent reshuffle of bureaucrats. This is the third commissioner the FDA has had in three years. His predecessor, Ramesh Kumar, has been shifted to head the Small Scale Industries Development Corporation (SSIDC).

Maharashtra's FDA has always found itself in the thick of nation-wide controversies, from finding worms in chocolates to questioning the claims of baby oils.
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Madhuri Sapru appointed MD of Kinetic
Mumbai: Madhuri Sapru has taken over as the managing director (South Asia), of the out-of-home media agency, Kinetic. This change is subsequent to Pratap Bose's (who held the position of managing director) taking over as the CEO of Ogilvy & Mather India. Sapru reportedly has over 17-years experience across industries. She has worked with brands such as Nestle, Blow Plast, BPL Mobile and the Tata Group.
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Sanjeev Sharma to join Actis
New Delhi: Sanjeev Sharma, who resigned as the managing director of Nokia India earlier this year, will be joining private equity firm Actis. Sharma would be leading the Actis team on the Phoenix Lamps project. Actis is in the process of carrying out a management buy-in at Phoenix Lamps. The private equity firm earlier this week said it planned to acquireing the complete stake, 36.7 per cent, of Phoenix promoters B.K. Gupta, H.R. Gupta and family in the company.

The acquisition would take Actis' stake in the company to 45 per cent. Actis will shortly be announcing an open offer to acquire a further 20 per cent.
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Venugopal files suit against Government
New Delhi: AIIMS director Dr P Venugopal has filed a case in the Delhi High Court challenging the termination of his service by the government after his public spat with health minister A Ramadoss.

Venugopal in his petition sought a direction to restrain the Centre from nominating any minister either as a member or the president of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences under the provisions of Section 4 and Section 6 of the AIIMS Act, 1956.

While mentioning about the malafide and biased attitude of the minister, he alleged that Ramadoss had brought along with him one IPS officer Pramod Kumar from Tamil Nadu cadre and another former Tamil Nadu police Inspector to serve him as Officers on Special Duty who are occupying the AIIMS guest house meant not for accommodation of the personal staff of the minister, the petition alleged.

The High Court adjourned the case.
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