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Ananth Narayan Gopalkrishnan appointed as whole-time member of SEBI

Associate Professor of SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Ananth Narayan Gopalkrishnan has been appointed as the fourth whole-time member (WTM) of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He has been appointed for an initial period of 3 years. Other WTMs: SK Mohanty, Ashwani Bhatia, Ananta Barua Prior to SP Jain, Narayan was the Regional […]

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GoI named former CEA K Subramanian as Executive Director for India at IMF

Former Chief Economic Adviser KV Subramanian was on Thursday appointed as the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an official order said. Subramanian’s term will begin from November and will continue for a period of three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier, by curtailing the tenure of eminent economist Surjit

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Indian scientist Samir V Kamat appointed as DRDO Chairman

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Thursday appointed distinguished scientist, Dr Samir V Kamat, as chairman. Kamat, who is Director General, Naval Systems & Materials (NS&M), will succeed G Satheesh Reddy, who has been named as scientific adviser to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, according to a Personnel Ministry order. Reddy was appointed as

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Vikram Doraiswami appointed as High Commissioner of India to UK

Vikram Doraiswami, who is presently serving as the Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the UK. He started his career as the journalist and joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1992.He had also served as the Third Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Hong Kong in May

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Debasisa Mohanty appointed as director of National Institute of Immunology

Senior scientist, Debasisa Mohanty has been appointed as the director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII). He is currently working as the staff scientist with the institute. In another order, Revenue Secretary, Tarun Bajaj has been given additional charge as Corporate Affairs Secretary. Rajesh Verma, a 1987-batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, was appointed as the Secretary to President, Droupadi Murmu.

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RBL bank appoints Gopal Jain, Sivakumar Gopalan as non-executive directors

The RBL Bank has appointed Gopal Jain and Dr. Sivakumar Gopalan as the non-executive directors. Gopal Jain: He cofounded Gaja Capital in 2004 and is a Managing Partner at firm. He has also been a member of Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee of SEBI since 2018. Dr. Sivakumar Gopalan: He has been a faculty of the Dept of Computer Science and Engineering,

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Credit Suisse appoints Dixit Joshi as new CFO

Credit Suisse has appointed Dixit Joshi as chief financial officer with effect from October 1, 2022 and Francesca McDonagh as group chief operating officer from September 19, 2022. Prior to this, Dixit Joshi was group treasurer at Deutsche Bank and also worked at Credit Suisse from 1995 to 2003. He replaced David Mathers, who stepped down from

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Paytm shareholders approve re-appointment of Vijay Shekhar Sharma as MD

Shareholders of One97 Communications have approved the re-appointment of Vijay Shekhar Sharma as managing director and chief executive officer of Paytm. According to the scrutinizer report, 99.67% votes were in favour of Sharma’s re-appointment while only 0.33% voted against the resolution. Remuneration of Vijay Shekhar will be remain fixed for the next three years without any annual

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Bajaj Electricals elevates Anuj Poddar as MD & CEO

Consumer durable products maker Bajaj Electricals on Tuesday elevated its Executive Director Anuj Poddar to Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The company has separated the post of Chairman & Managing Director and its patron Shekhar Bajaj will continue as Executive Chairman of the company, said a statement from Bajaj Electricals. The separation of the Chairman and

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Rajkiran Rai named as new MD of NaBFID

The Centre and the board of the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) has appointed Rajkiran Rai G as its managing director (MD) for the next five years. The board of NaBFID approved Rai’s appointment on July 30 based on clearance by the RBI, centre and the Development finance institutions (DFI) nomination and remuneration committee. Rai took charge as the DFI’s

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