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Updated on: Jul 2021
UNIBIC Foods ropes in Marico veteran Naveen Pandey as CEO
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UNIBIC Foods ropes in Marico veteran Naveen Pandey as CEO

UNIBIC Foods, one of India’s leading FMCG companies announced the appointment of Naveen Pandey as its Chief Executive Officer. Naveen will be responsible for leading the strategic direction and growth journey of the Company. Naveen has over two decades of senior management experience in the Indian FMCG space. An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Naveen has had successful […]

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TCS partners with Converge ICT Solutions Inc
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TCS partners with Converge ICT Solutions Inc

India’s IT major, TCS partners with Converge ICT Solutions Inc to help the broadband provider simplify business processes, speed up product innovation, and personalize customer engagement. In a regulatory filing, TCS announced that it is partnering with Converge, an end-to-end high-speed fiber broadband provider in the Philippines, to help the latter further enhance the customer […]

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Federal Bank reappoints Shyam Srinivasan as MD & CEO till Sept 2024
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Federal Bank reappoints Shyam Srinivasan as MD & CEO till Sept 2024

Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of Shyam Srinivasan as MD and CEO of Federal Bank for a period of three years, starting from September 23, 2021. His re-appointment will come into effect from September 23, 2021 to September 22, 2024. Srinivasan took over charge as CEO of Federal Bank on 23 September […]

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Flipkart to buyback employee stock options worth Rs 600 crore
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Flipkart to buyback employee stock options worth Rs 600 crore

Walmart-owned Flipkart will undertake a buyback employee stock options worth about Rs 600 crore, according to sources. Earlier in the day, Flipkart announced raising USD 3.6 billion (about Rs 26,805.6 crore) in funding from a clutch of investors that valued the e-commerce major at USD 37.6 billion (about Rs 2.79 lakh crore). In an e-mail […]

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Steel Minister held performance review meeting of SAIL, NMDC, MECON
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Steel Minister held performance review meeting of SAIL, NMDC, MECON

Union Steel Minister Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh on July 12 held Video Conference with Chairman, SAIL, CMDs of NMDC and MECON, to review the activities and performance of these CPSEs. Chairman/CMDs made the presentations to inform about the organisation, ongoing activities, projects, financial performance, and the way forward. While reviewing the performance, Union Minister […]

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TCS attrition goes up in Q1 of the financial year 2022
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TCS attrition goes up in Q1 of the financial year 2022

India’s largest IT Major, TCS has announced its first-quarter Q1 (quarter ending on June 30) results of July 8, 2021. TCS reported attrition of 8.6 per cent in Q1. Although the attrition rate is the lowest among peers, it has gone up from the previous quarter’s 7.2 per cent, ending on March 31. Recently, Accenture […]

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Twitter appoints Vinay Prakash as Grievance Officer for India
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Twitter appoints Vinay Prakash as Grievance Officer for India

The US social media giant’s Twitter has appointed Vinay Prakash as the new grievance officer, providing contact details and procedures for users to report potential violations of its rules and terms. And the company has also released its first India Transparency Report to meet the new IT rules. Earlier, Twitter had appointed Dharmendra Chatur as its interim […]

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TCS plans to bring employees back to office by September this year
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TCS plans to bring employees back to office by September this year

India’s largest IT major, TCS has the target to get vaccinated all of its 5 lakh employees by September this year and bring them back to office on a regular basis. said Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO. While responding to media on July 9 after the Q1 results announcement, Gopinathan said, “We are all hoping to get our […]

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Hiring activity grows 15% in June 2021: Report
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Hiring activity grows 15% in June 2021: Report

According to the latest report by Naukri JobSpeak, White-collar hiring activity in India appears to be bouncing back after the disruption caused by the second wave of the COVID pandemic in April. The leading index on India’s hiring trends grew by 15% to 2,359 in June from 2,047 in May with improvement in hiring across […]

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Tech Mahindra announces advisory board to build cloud roadmap
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Tech Mahindra announces advisory board to build cloud roadmap

IT major, Tech Mahindra part of Mahindra Group has collaborated with enterprises, academicians, and industry advisors to constitute a ‘Cloud Advisory Board’. The cloud advisory board will be a 30-member body with three regional chapters – Americas; Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC) – representing some of the top organizations, experts, […]

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Neha Parikh appointed CEO at Waze, a subsidiary of Google
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Neha Parikh appointed CEO at Waze, a subsidiary of Google

Neha Parikh, the former Indian-American president of the travel website Hotwire, has been appointed as the new CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google. Neha, 41, a board member of the online used car retailer Carvana, replaced Noam Bardin, who stepped down in November as the CEO after leading the […]

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Shantanu joins Accenture as Management Consulting Principal Director
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Shantanu joins Accenture as Management Consulting Principal Director

Shantanu Bhattacharya has joined Accenture as Management Consulting Principal Director. He will be a part of the Talent & Organization / Human Potential section of Accenture Capability Network. Talent & Organization / Human Potential is a specialist group that unlocks the power of human potential, and access a new level of workforce transformation for clients […]

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