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MasterCard bets big on Ajay Banga

The Pune-born, DU alumnus is the only Indian among the top 100 CEOs in HBR's list of best performing CEOs

Ashok Leyland's UK arm Optare's CEO steps down

Hariharan Krishnamurthi is the interim CEO

Newsmaker: Ranganath D Mavinakere

From backroom to the forefront of change

Marico appoints Sanjay Mishra as COO, India sales and Bangladesh

Mishra was sales development head at Marico earlier

Housing.com gets new CFO

Rangarajan will be responsible for driving the company's financial strategy

M K Surana appointed new HPCL Chairman

Surana, 53, is currently the CEO of Prize Petroleum Co Ltd, the upstream oil exploration arm of HPCL

Infosys CFO Rajiv Bansal resigns; M D Ranganath to take charge

Bansal will continue as an advisor to the CEO and the Board through December 31, 2015 to provide a smooth transition

Telenor rejigs global team; Sharad Mehrotra to head India ops

The company's 13 markets will be represented in the new Executive Management team to ensure faster execution of the group strategy

Diageo appoints Kathryn Mikells as CFO

Mikells joins Diageo from Xerox Corporation, where she is currently the CFO, a position she has held since May 2013

Sarat Kumar Acharya takes over as CMD of Neyveli Lignite

NLC plans to achieve 12,221 Mw by the end of the 13th five year plan

Naina Lal Kidwai to step down as HSBC India chairman

Wants to spend more time in the areas of women empowerment and water and sanitation

Newsmaker: SN Subrahmanyan

Driving big revenues with big orders

Nooyi, Bharatiya presented with USIBC global leadership award

Indian-American artist, Natvar Bhavsar who is known for his abstract expressionism and "color-field" painting was awarded the Artistic Achievement Award

From Subhiksha to Viswapriya: Subramanian's fall from grace

Economic Offences Wing of Tamil Nadu police alleges he cheated about 4,000 Viswapriya depositors of Rs 150 crore

Newsmaker: Nitin Mangal

The analyst who weathered a storm

Ireena Vittal's resignation shines harsh light on gender bias at workplaces

A study of the 30 companies that comprise the Sensex highlights the bigger problem: that when it comes to key hands-on management positions, India Inc is still largely run by men

Indrani quit most of her companies by mid-2011

Some of her companies are in the process of shutting; some named in a draft SFIO probe report

Newsmaker: Harsh Vardhan Lodha

In the footsteps of his mentor

Who is Sundar Pichai? All you need to know

Pichai is said to have improved Google's ties with Samsung among other things

Newsmaker: Ankit Miglani

Meet Uttam Galva's man of numbers