Valluri Rao bags Intel Fellowship
New York: Indian-American Mr. Valluri Rao has been named among this year’s eight Intel Fellows, considered to be company’s highest technical position that recognises outstanding research contributions within Intel Corporation.

Born in Hyderabad, Valluri Rao, 46, is among only 36 Intel Fellows appointed to date, who are selected through a stringent company-wide, four month-long selection process from several thousand Intel employees worldwide.

This prestigious designation recognizes their ability to exercise technical leadership and role modeling and mentoring for less senior technical contributors.
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Gita Piramal to join ISB
Bangalore: The Indian School of Business (ISB) has announced the appointment of Gita Piramal as the associate dean for ISB's publishing arm - ISB Interactive. The school, coming up on 250 acres of land in Hyderabad, has already lined up associations with two of the world's most prestigious management institutions - Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gita Piramal as the associate dean of ISB Interactive will take charge of ISB's publishing efforts in both traditional and new media. She will focus on sourcing and disseminating information on diverse management subjects and themes to practicing managers.
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Chirayu Amin joins as Ficci president
New Delhi: The pharma major Alembic's chief Mr. Chirayu R Amin has assumed the office of president, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce for 2000-01, a Ficci statement has said.

Mr Chirayu Amin, who has been a senior member of the executive committee of Ficci for past several years, had earlier held posts like chairman Ficci committees on management and environment besides heading the Indo-Italian and Indo-Spanish joint business councils.

He is also past-president of the Indian chapter of the International Chambers of Commerce, Paris and of the All-India Organisation of Employees and Federation of Gujarat Industries, Mumbai. Mr Amin is also on the board of directors in Shri Dinesh Mills, Shreno, Sona Steering Systems and Whitefield Agrotech.
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Narayana Murthy to head Bangalore airport panel
Bangalore: Mr N. Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Ltd. will head the high-level committee constituted by the Karnataka government to quicken the pace of the Bangalore International Airport project. With Mr Murthy’s appointment, the state government is hoping that international airport project in the city would get more ``credibility'' and help in completing the project more expeditiously.

Two consortiums -- Swiss and Swedish -- are in the reckoning for this project. The government had already acquired 3,000 acres of land for this project. The centre and the government of Karnataka would each hold 13 per cent stake in the project, with 74 per cent being held by the partner.
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