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Mor, Kochar get additional jobs in ICICI
Mumbai: ICICI has appointed its treasury head Nachiket Mor as head of its e-commerce group and Chanda Kochar as head of the infrastructure group. Mr Mor will continue to head the treasury, and Ms Kochar, who heads the major clients group, which accounts for about 60 per cent of ICICI’s business, will continue with her earlier responsibilities. These changes have been brought in following the resignation of Ananda Mukherjee, who has left ICICI to join Enron.
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Former Infosys director joins Chrysalis Capital
Mumbai:
N.S. Raghavan, one of the founding directors of Infosys Technologies, who is leaving the company shortly, has joined a venture capital fund, Chrysalis Capital, as its operating director. He said he will act as a coach, mentor and guide to the entrepreneurs who have founded the fund.
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Verma is AI’s commercial head
Mumbai: Air-India has appointed V.K. Verma, its Delhi region director as the new commercial head in Mumbai. The airline had four candidates shortlisted for the post – Jitendra Bhargava, director, in-flight and public relations, P.K. Sinha, regional director, India, Y.D. Mathur, director, Hong Kong, and Mr Verma.
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Piramal, Brar on panel on pharma
New Delhi: The government’s task force on pharmaceuticals and knowledge-based industries under the chairmanship of human resources development minister Murli Manohar Joshi has constituted a group comprising D.S. Brar, managing director, Ranbaxy Laboratories, and Ajay Piramal, chairman of Piramal Enterprises, to identify strategies to make the Indian pharma industry a global leader. The task force has also set up another group comprising Dabur India managing director G.C. Burman, Dr Jaya Prakash Narayan, chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Central Council of Research in Ayurveda and Sidha, and Dr Veluchamy, director, Central Council for Research in Sidha, to suggest measures to strengthen traditional medicines.
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Chhabria brothers end disputes
Mumbai: The feuding Chhabria brothers, Manu and Kishore, have agreed to bury their differences and end their long-drawn out disputes. A broad formula for an agreement has already been worked out and a settlement is not far off, sources close to the legal officials handling the two brothers’ cases in the courts of law say.
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T.N. Kaul is dead
New Delhi: T N Kaul, a former foreign secretary of India, is dead. Mr Kaul, who also served as ambassador to the US and the erstwhile USSR, died on 16 January at the age of 82. He was at his home in Rajgarh in Himachal Pradesh.
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