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Indra Nooyi appointed as first independent female director of ICC

Indra Nooyi, the PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, has been appointed to the International Cricket Council (ICC) Board as its first independent female director. She will join the Board...

February 9, 2018

Shantanu Narayen elected as Vice Chairman of US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum

Shantanu Narayen, the Indian-American CEO of Adobe, has been elected as the Vice Chairman of the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF). The USISPF is a new organisation...

January 31, 2018

Usha Ananthasubramanian becomes first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association

Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD and CEO of Allahabad Bank, has been elected the first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) for the year 2017-18. She succeeded Jatinder Bir...

January 27, 2018

Kenneth Juster to be new US Ambassador to India

Kenneth Juster, a top economic expert on India, has been appointed as the new US Ambassador to India, which is unanimously confirmed by US Senate on November 3,...

November 5, 2017

India’s first Hyperloop project to come up in Andhra Pradesh

India’s first Hyperloop project will come up in Andhra Pradesh, which will connect the city centres of Vijayawada and Amaravati. It will supposedly cover the distance of over...

September 8, 2017

Mukesh Ambani, Tata join Bill Gates for $1 billion clean energy fund

The Breakthrough Energy Coalition (BEC) with members like Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata, Alibaba’s Jack Ma and other billionaires will invest more...

December 15, 2016

Donald Trump chooses Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State

US President-elect Donald Trump has selected ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his Secretary of State. Rex Tillerson is expected to replace John Kerry as the Secretary of...

December 13, 2016

Sonia Gandhi ranked 6th in the list of World’s Most Powerful Woman

Forbes magazine’s has ranked Sonia Gandhi at number 6 in the list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. The other four Indian women in the list with...

August 25, 2012

Ratan Tata : Swiss Ambassador’s Award for Exceptional Leadership

Ratan Tata : Swiss Ambassador’s Award for Exceptional Leadership Tata Group Chairman, Ratan Tata was awarded with the ‘Swiss Ambassador’s Award for Exceptional Leadership’. The award recognizes persons...

December 28, 2011

Current Affairs : November 4, 2011

Constitution (113th) Amendment Bill gets President’s Assent Constitution(113th) Amendment Bill pertains to change of the name of Oriya language to Odiya. President Pratibha Patil has given her assent...

November 4, 2011

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