CSIR advisory panel members
Mumbai: Habil Khorakiwala, chairman of Wockhardt, N.R. Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Technologies, and Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the AV Birla group of companies, have been nominated to the reconstituted advisory board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

The nominations have been made by the prime minister in his capacity as president of CSIR.
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Darbari Seth to quit Tata Tea board
Calcutta: Darbari Seth, chairman emeritus of Tata Tea, has expressed his desire to step down from the board. The company does not propose to fill in the vacancy caused by Mr Seth's retirement at the annual general meeting.

Mr Seth, who has been at the helm of the company since 1981, is credited with transforming the erstwhile plantation company into India's largest integrated tea company.
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IITian gets top post in Qualcomm
New York: Anil Kriplani, an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, has been appointed senior vice president of Fortune 500 company Qualcomm, based in San Diego.

Mr Kripalani will lead Qualcomm's efforts to support implementation of global third generation CDMA standard and will oversee strategy and administration for the company's key international offices in Japan, South Korea and China.

Mr Kripalani joined Qualcomm, a Nasdaq-listed company, in 1994. He had earlier spent some 18 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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