ONGC top job has eight contenders in fray
New Delhi: There are eight candidates in the fray for the top job of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. The candidates were short-listed from over four dozen applications received.

The candidates include Najeeb Jung, former joint secretary (exploration) in the petroleum ministry. A 1973 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer, Jung quit civil service, and is now serving as director of energy research in Reliance Industries-funded Observer Research Foundation. He is posted in London.

Other key contenders for the post include R S Butola, managing director, ONGC Videsh, ONGC's acting chairman R S Sharma, D K Pandey, director (exploration), ONGC, A K Hazarika, director (onshore), ONGC, A K Balyan, director (HR), ONGC, U N Bose, director (technical services), ONGC and M R Inglekar, director (HR), GAIL.
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Karnik to resign as Nasscom chief
Mumbai: L Kiran Karnik has decided to step down from his role as president, Nasscom and a search process has been initiated for a successor.

Karnik turned 60 this year and took the decision in keeping with Nasscom's aim to become institutionalised through appropriate structures, systems and processes for which well-defined HR policies have been laid down. These include a retirement age of 60 years.

Karnik took over the industry body after the sudden demise of Dewang Mehta in 2001.

The search effort is under the overall leadership of Harish Mehta, former chairman of Nasscom and chairman of Onward Technologies, with the involvement of Karnik and senior industry leaders.

Karnik is expected to stay on for around 6-8 months before his successor takes over and later step into an advisory role. Under Karnik's leadership, the IT-ITeS industry registered strong growth, with a 10-fold growth in the last 10 years. It is already India's top exporter, and well on track to achieve the target of $60 billion exports in 2010.

Nasscom has meanwhile announced the appointment of Lakshmi Narayan, who is the vice chairman on the board of directors of Cognizant Technology Solutions, as Nasscom chairman and Ganesh Natarajan, deputy chairman and MD, Zensar Technologies as vice-chairman for 2007-08.
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Subex Azure make new appointments
Mumbai: Subex Azure has appointed Darlington Jose Hector as the senior manager of Public Affairs.
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Tata AIG gets new MD
Mumbai: Tata AIG General Insurance Company has appointed Michael Carlin as its MD effective from May 1, a company release said. Carlin was the chief operating officer (COO) of the company prior to this appointment.

Based in Mumbai, Mr Carlin would be responsible for providing overall leadership to manage Tata AIG General's operations in India and driving business and market development activities.
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