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NEWSMAKER: Kabul Chawla

Castles on the ground

Lava appoints Sanjeev Agarwal as Chief Manufacturing Officer

Sanjeev brings with him around 24 years of rich experience of working in the operations/manufacturing sector which will help in augmenting Lava's manufacturing capabilities, says company's Chairman an

Godrej Consumer Products appoints V Srinivasan as CFO

He has been appointed CFO and Company Secretary of the company with effect from April 1, 2015

Vodafone India appoints Naveen Chopra as COO

Will succeed Sunil Sood, who will take over as MD, CEO

Newsmaker: Jyotiprasad Taparia

With the country's growing population seeking new options, he was convinced contraceptives could be any drug manufacturer's dream

JK group Chairman chief patron Singhania passes away

Singhania was also the President of J K Organisation and a Promoter Director of JK Cement Ltd since its inception in 1994

40 Years ago... and now- Faqir Chand Kohli: The original Indian techie

Kohli is best known as the first chief executive of India's largest IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services

Former Cairn India chief P Elango joins HOEC as MD

Says his long term vision is to build a world class, independent oil and gas company strongly rooted in India

Anish Aggarwal takes over as Director (Pipelines) at IOC

Aggarwal was previously Executive Director (Operations) at the firm's Pipelines Division

Dropcam CEO leaves Google's Nest, VP joins Twitter

It is not yet clear what Vice President of technology of Google's Nest Yoky Matsuoka's role at Twitter will be

Tarun Rai appointed JWT's South Asia CEO-designate

Outgoing CEO Colvyn Harris to take over as executive director, global growth and client development

TVS Capital appoints G V Kumar as executive director

Kumar was a partner at Aureous India earlier

40 Years ago... and now- Kumar Mangalam Birla: Buying his way to the top

About the secret of Birla's success, old-timers recall that one of his first moves was to set the retirement age for group executives at 60 years

Romesh Wadhwani: An entrepreneur who knows no higher calling

Wadhwani joined the billion-dollar club in 1999, when he sold a venture for $9.3 bn to i2 Technologies

Kamalnayan Bajaj: A 'Gandhian' rebel

(Jan 23, 1915 - May 1, 1972)

Newsmaker: Valerie Wagoner

Harnessing the missed call

Kartikeya Misra appointed VP of Urban Ladder

Company plans to triple its headcount by the end of this year and add 1,400 employees

CEOs should understand the difference between capital and revenue: Vinton Gray Cerf

Cerf speaks about building Internet businesses in India and the information overload which is a fall out of a hyper connected world

Yamaha Motor India appoints Hiroaki Fujita as new Chairman

Fujita takes over from Hiroyuki Suzuki

Aviva Life Insurance appoints Trevor Bull as CEO for India ops

Bull is replacing T R Ramachandran