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World Bank appoints Indian national Indermit Gill as chief economist

Indian national, Indermit Gill has been appointed as a new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of World Bank, will be effective September 1, 2022. He will succeed American economist, Carmen Reinhart. He is currently serving as the Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions. He will be the second Indian to serve as chief economist after Kaushik Basu who […]

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Nakul Jain appointed as CEO of Paytm Payment Service

Parent company of Paytm, One97 Communications has appointed Nakul Jain as the CEO of Paytm Payments Services Ltd (PPSL). He replaced Praveen Sharma, who is now serving as the acting CEO of PPSL. Praveen Sharma has been promoted to oversee the organisation’s commerce vertical in addition to his other duties. Nakul Jain has served as managing director of private banking,

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Cricketer Karuna Jain announces retirement from all forms of cricket

The cricketer Karuna has announced her retirement from all forms of Cricket. She has played five Test matches out of which she made 195 runs with 40 as her highest score since making her debut against England at Delhi in November 2005. In August 2014. she has played her last Test for India against England at Wormsley. She has also played 44

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RS Gandhi appointed as additional independent director of YES Bank

YES Bank has appointed Rama Subramaniam Gandhi as an additional independent director of the bank for a period of five years, effective from July 23, 2022. He is currently serving as a financial sector policy expert and adviser. He was a Deputy Governor of the RBI for three years from 2014 to 2017. He had a three-year secondment to the SEBI

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IAPH selected Ennarasu Karunesan to serve as its representative in India

Ennarasu Karunesan has been named as the official representative of the International Association of Ports and Harbors’ (IAPH) in India. He has started his career in the port industry with the Mumbai port and later worked as the general manager of operations and CEO of the Westport Container Terminal in Port Klang, Malaysia (from 2001 to 2004).

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Vodafone Idea appoints Akshaya Moondra as new CEO

Vodafone Idea has appointed Akshaya Moondra as new chief executive officer with effect from August 19, 2022 for a period of three years. He will succeed Ravinder Takkar. Takkar will continue to be a non-executive and non-independent director of the company post completion of his term as the MD & CEO. Moondra has over 30 years of international experience and over

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Tata Projects appoints Vinayak Pai as managing director

Vinayak Pai has been named as the managing director of TATA Projects, the company announced. Vinayak Deshpande, who had been in charge of operations for more than 11 years, had been replaced by Pai. Pai has worked with top engineering and EPC firms for more than three decades, holding significant positions on teams that worked on engineering design, technology licencing, project

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Egypt’s Seif Ahmed appointed as acting president of FIH

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has appointed Seif Ahmed (Egypt) as its acting president after the resignation of Indian administrator Narinder Batra from the post. Batra has resigned as FIH president and also quit as chief of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). He also gave up his International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership which was directly linked with his IOA position. Batra became

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Rajarshi Gupta appointed as Managing Director of ONGC Videsh

Rajarshi Gupta, has appointed as MD of ONGC Videsh Ltd, is an overseas investment arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). He has replaced Alok Gupta who was superannuated in June 2022. He has more than 33 years of experience in supervisory, managerial and strategic planning capacities in domestic and international operations of ONGC and ONGC Videsh. He

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Former SC Judge Vineet Saran appointed as BCCI Ethics Officer

Former Supreme Court judge, Vineet Saran has been appointed as the BCCI’s ethics officer and ombudsman. He has succeeded Justice (Retd) D K Jain, whose term ended in June 2021. He is a former Chief Justice of Odisha High Court, and also served as a judge in Karnataka and Allahabad High Court. He has been graduated from Allahabad University

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