Shilpa Shetty is the winner of 'Celebrity Big Brother'
London: Shilpa Shetty has won Channel 4's reality TV show "Celebrity Big Brother" and will receive an estimated 100,000 pounds (almost Rs.9 million) in prize money. Shilpa, Shetty, also the first Indian to participate in the British TV show, was reportedly paid in excess of 40,000 pounds for her participation.

Shilpa fame didn't spread from being on the show but from the racist insults hurled against her by her housemates--British contestant Jade Goody and snide comments from her housemates Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara who seemed to have ganged up against Shilpa during her stay.

The racist comments caused outrage in India and Britain, with the issue figuring in the House of Commons and feminist diva Germaine Greer, and even two Indian ministers, demanding corrective action.
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Max CMD Analjit Singh steps back from day-to-day operations
New Delhi: Max Healthcare CMD Analjit Singh is exiting from daily operations of the company to focus on governance and strategy as part of a management restructuring exercise.

Singh is also strengthening the corporate team of Max India, and has given search firm Egon Zender the mandate to recruit two senior managers. Tony Singh, former CEO of Max New York Life, is also joining the Max India board as an independent director.

Mukesh Shivdasani will be the executive director-operations and Dr Parvez Ahmed has relocated to India to take over as executive director-medical operations. Dr Ashok Seth will continue as chairman of the Max Heart & Vascular Institute, supported by the two executive directors. KS Ramasinghaney and Dr Sanjiv Malik are regional directors-operations.
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New EDs for PSU banks
Mumbai: PSU banks will soon have new executive directors on their boards as the appointments. The committee headed by the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, V Leeladhar, has cleared the names of 18 general managers for the post of executive director in state-owned banks.

According to banking industry sources, of the 18 names cleared, three each are from the Bank of India, Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), while two each are from Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India and Canara Bank. The remaining three have been selected from Indian Bank, Corporation Bank and Punjab & Sind Bank, respectively.

The list of general managers who are in line to be appointed as executive directors include G Narayanan, Narendra Prasad and SC Gupta from Bank of India, BM Mittal, DL Raval and Arun Kaul from Punjab National Bank and JP Dua, PM Basin and A Subramanian from Oriental Bank of Commerce.

The list also features general managers from Canara Bank such as SA Tauro and TY Prabhu, Bhaskar Sen and VK Dingra from Union Bank of India and Anil Parulkar and KK Agarwal from Bank of Baroda. Besides this, MG Narendra of Corporation Bank, Devender Singh of Punjab & Sind Bank and Jagmohan Garg of Indian Bank have also been selected, sources said.
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