The finance company&rsquo;s new chairman and managing director may be more low-profile than its promoters, but he&rsquo;s no less ambitious.

Newsmaker: Sunil Godhwani

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The insurance regulator may be the veteran of many controversies, but he&rsquo;s also known for his thoroughness.

Newsmaker: J Hari Narayan

As the IPL controversy has shown, he shuns the limelight but still makes his presence felt.

Newsmaker: Shashank Manohar

The key deal-maker behind the controversial Inox-Fame deal, Asher has a reputation for multi-tasking across the group&rsquo;s varied businesses.

Newsmaker: Deepak Asher

The veteran public sector executive thinks state-owned corporations enjoy more freedom than their private sector counterparts.

Newsmaker: Rana Som

He started out as a small namkeen shop on Kalakar Street in Burrabazar, Kolkata, and went on to build one of the country&rsquo;s biggest packaged snackfoods brands. But Prabhu Shankar Agarwal didn&rsquo;t make the headlines for this accomplishment.

Newsmaker: Prabhu Shankar Agarwal

The youthful former owner of Fame has unwittingly set off a takeover battle over his successful multiplex business.

Newsmaker: Shravan Shroff

The company he promoted has stayed ahead of the curve by cultivating a culture of thinking differently.

Newsmaker: Narendra Murkumbi

The veteran politician&rsquo;s career has been plagued with numerous scandals overshadowing his administrative abilities.

Newsmaker: Narayan Datt Tiwari

&ldquo;Your value is decided by the percentages you score in school and college. That is what the education system does to us and that&rsquo;s what we wanted to show in the film,&rdquo; says Rajkumar Hirani, the director of 3 Idiots , the biggest blockbuster made by an Indian.

Newsmaker: Rajkumar Hirani

As he looks at the challenges, Kapoor will be comforted by the fact that he has been there, done that.

Newsmaker: Sanjay Kapoor

The consensus in the intelligence community is that there will never be another National Security Adviser like Narayanan.

Newsmaker: M K Narayanan

David Smith, 49, is unlikely to remember January 25 fondly. It was the day he stepped down as CEO of Tata Motors&rsquo; owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and surprised anyone following the Midland-based car maker&rsquo;s progress through its most difficult times in recent history.

Newsmaker: David Smith

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, or the chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party, LK Advani? This is the choice that BJP leaders have been grappling with in private, especially after party leader S S Ahluwalia called on the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) managers with what they call an astounding proposal that the chairpersons of the ruling (and opposition) parliamentary parties be given the rank of cabinet ministers.

Newsmaker: Sushma Swaraj

The newest CEO in the Tata group brings an aggressive pace and style to India&rsquo;s largest IT consultancy firm.

Newsmaker: Natarajan Chandrasekaran

In November 2004, when Vinod Kumar Sibal took over as Director General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), he welcomed the media in his Rajiv Chowk office, promising regular press conferences to provide updates on oil and gas exploration in India.

Newsmaker: Vinod Kumar Sibal

Assocham's first lady chief talks of the need to unleash new ideas and wonders why, when India has such politically powerful women, they're hardly to be seen in business.

Tea with BS: Swati Piramal

With his East India Hotels investment, Singh is able to fulfil an ambition to be associated with service excellence.

Newsmaker: Analjit Singh

L&amp;T Power&rsquo;s head is concentrating on growing the business just as he did at ABB India, and refuses to entertain gossip that he could be L&amp;T&rsquo;s group chief in the future.

Lunch with BS: Ravi Uppal

The younger Miglani sibling&rsquo;s Wall Street experience helped him understand the financials of a deal that gave ArcelorMittal its first firm foothold in India.

Newsmaker: Ankit Miglani

Ajit Gulabchand is not fond of the arclights, but he shed his reluctance for once &mdash; just like a proud father would do in the company of his famous child. So Gulabchand was happily posing for the cameras in blue jeans and black blazer, but only after making sure that the photographers had the two central towers of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in focus.

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