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New York State Education Department Recognizes Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, MAHE has been recognised by the New York State Board of Regents for a period of seven years. KMC Manipal is the only medical college from India which has been approved by the New York State education department (NYSED). Following this, there will be no restrictions on the duration of clerkship/elective […]

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Alibaba Group Announces Executive Chairman Succession Plan

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced that one year from today, September 10, 2019, chief executive officer Daniel Zhang will succeed Jack Ma as chairman of the board of Alibaba Group. Mr. Ma will continue as executive chairman of the company over the next 12 months to ensure a smooth transition of the […]

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AkzoNobel India appoints Rajiv Rajgopal as Managing Director

AkzoNobel India Limited (ANIL) has announced the appointment of Rajiv Rajgopal as the Managing Director of the company, effective from November 1, 2018. Rajiv has been with AkzoNobel since 2013, and most recently he was the Regional Director – Middle East & Africa based in Dubai. Earlier, he has held the position of Director – Decorative […]

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Amitabh Chaudhry appointed CEO & MD of Axis Bank, resigns from HDFC Life

Axis Bank has announced the appointment of Amitabh Chaudhry as CEO & MD.  He will take over from Shikha Sharma, and his appointment is for 3 years effective  January 1, 2019. Shikha Sharma will remit her position on December 31, 2018. In its release to BSE, Axis Bank announced –  “We wish to inform you […]

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Alibaba’s Jack Ma to retire. Plans to focus on philanthropy in education.

Alibaba’s co-founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma will retire from the e-commerce giant he founded in 1999, according to New York Times. He plans to pursue philanthropy in education post his retirement. Jack Ma, was a former English teacher at the Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering and has always been known to his commitment to […]

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Tesla Inc. looses two key executives, chief people officer & chief of accounting.

Tesla Inc., is facing the exit of its two senior executives. The news of exit of these executives comes while we have been seeing the video of Elon Musk smoking marijuana during an interview. The interview was streamed live online. As per Bloomberg reports, Tesla’s Chief People Officer, Gaby Toledano, who had joined in May 2017 […]

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Rockwell Automation Board of Directors Approves $1 Billion for Common Stock Repurchase

The Board of Directors of Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) today authorized the company to expend up to an additional $1 billion to repurchase shares of Rockwell Automation common stock. This is in addition to the authorization on January 15, 2018, to repurchase $1 billion worth of common stock, of which approximately $245 million was […]

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Increased hiring activity at India Inc., in August 2018

Hiring activities at India Inc. continued an upswing after July 2018. As per monthly report from Timesjobs, August 2018 reported an overall 4% growth on month-on-month analysis of recruitment activities. Hiring Grew by 33 Percent From August 2017 to 2018 Y-O-Y Consumer Durables Bounce Back After 3 Months India Inc. continued to hire aggressively in […]

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Haier India’s new industrial park to see an investment of Rs. 3,000 cr. To create 4000 plus jobs in Greater Noida.

Leading Chinese home appliances MNC Haier has signed  a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Uttar Pradesh Government to set up its second industrial park in India. The project to be set up in Greater Noida over next four years with an investment of over 3000 cr  is expected to create over 4,000 direct and […]

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Private Sector Employment Increased by 163,000 Jobs in August : ADP Report for US

Private sector employment increased by 163,000 jobs from July to August according to the August ADP National Employment Report®.  This report is produced by the ADP Research Institute® in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics.  The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data, measures the change in total non farm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis. […]

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L&T Technology Services Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Graphene Semiconductor Services

L&T Technology Services Limited (NSE: LTTS), a leading global pure-play engineering services company, has executed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% stake in Bangalore-based Graphene Semiconductor Services Private Limited (“Graphene”) by way of an all cash deal. L&T Technology Services Limited (NSE: LTTS), a leading global pure-play engineering services company, has executed a definitive agreement […]

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Dassault Systèmes Signs MoU With National Institute of Technology Silchar to Establish NITS Cloud Center for Innovation

Dassault Systèmes has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Technology Silchar (NITS) to set up the NITS Cloud Center for Innovation at the institute’s campus in Silchar, Assam. The MoU was signed at the 3DEXPERIENCE Forum India 2018 in New Delhi. As part of the MoU, Dassault Systèmes will host five […]

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Novartis to divest the Sandoz US dermatology business and generic US oral solids portfolio to Aurobindo

Novartis today announced it has agreed to sell selected portions of its Sandoz US portfolio, specifically the Sandoz US dermatology business and generic US oral solids portfolio, to Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc., for USD 0.9 billion of cash plus USD 0.1 billion of potential earn-outs. This transaction supports the Sandoz strategy of focusing on complex […]

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SBI Mutual Fund appoints Ashwani Bhatia as MD and CEO

SBI Mutual Fund has appointed Ashwani Bhatia as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.  He takes over from Anuradha Rao who would be getting back to State Bank of India as Deputy MD.  Before joining SBI Funds Management Private Limited, he was Chief General Manager (Officer on Special Duty), Corporate Centre in SBI, Mumbai (February 2018– […]

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Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar, ex Airtel, joins Reliance Jio as CTO for Mobility

Updated: 20th September: Reliance Jio has announced the appointment of Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar, as the CTO for Mobility business. This update is based on an internal communication released by Jio announcing the appointment. Our Earlier Coverage: Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar, ex Airtel, is expected to join as Group Chief Technology Officer for Reliance Jio*. This position was […]