Prime Minister Approved Deepak Sandhu as Chief Information Commissioner

Prime Minister Approved Deepak Sandhu as Chief Information Commissioner. Earlier she acted as Media Adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Currently Satyanand Mishra is acting as CIC. Her appointment is approved by Prime Minister and File sent to the President for final approval. Ms.Sindhu is serving as Information Commissioner in Central Information Commission. Other roles of her are Registrar of Newspaper of India, Director for the Directorate of Film Festivals and Press Registrar, Director General for News All India Radio, Principle Director General for Media and Communication in Press Information Bureau.

Veteran Kashmir Journalist, DC Prashant, is no More

DC Prashant died at the age of 96. He was one of the few pre independence era journalists of Jammu & Kashmir. In 1946 he started his journalist career in Lahore. In 1947, he joined PTI (Press Trust of India). He was acted as MP from 1982 to 1986.


Demerger of Non Engineering Business by ITC

Wimco is the subsidiary company of ITC.  Today Board of Directors of ITC Approved for the demerger of Non Engineering Business of Wimco. Main business of Wimco is manufacturing of safety matches.

Granite Value is more than $ 80 is freely allowed

India imports granite stones. If its value is more than $ 80 per sq kilo meter they will be allowed freely. Marbles are low cost when it is compared with Granite stone. Import price for the import of marble is $ 325 per meter.

New CFO of WNS Holding is Sanjay Puria

Due to some personal reasons Deepak Sogani quits from WNS Holdings as CFO. Immediately company appointed Sanjay Puria as new CFO. Currently Sanjay is acting as Corporate Senior Vice President for finance as stated by Keshav R Murugesh, CEO of WNS.

Manoj Kohli, Bharati Airtel’s MD and CEO, relocating to India

Kohli is currently acting as in charge of Airtel operations   in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Africa. As a part of reshuffling of African operations, he is relocating to India. On September 16th 2013, Christian de Faria will join in Airtel Africa. He will give reporting to Kohli.  Faria will take care of Anglophone operations.
Indian American women honoured to Indra Nooyi

Nooyi , Pepsico CEO and Chairperson, would facilitated with Special impact Award. This statement was announced by NGO Children Hope India (CHI).  This award will be given to at annual gala at Pier Sixty in Manhattan.  This organisation is giving support to thousands of children every year.

Infosys Highest Paid Indian Executive Quits the Company

Ashok Vemuri is the Infosys Highest paid Indian executive in Infosys. He quits the company. Rumour spread that he is going to join in iGATE. He was the head of companies operations in the America. Ashok is also acting as Global head of manufacturing and engineering services. Everyone in the industry considered that he would be next CEO of the company. Current CEO is SD Shibulal.

Mobile Rights License received by Seven3Sports

Seven3sports Company is Indian Sports Media Company. This company got mobile rights license from Ten Sports. Ten Sports is the official broadcaster of US open. From August 26th onwards US open started. These games will continue till 9th September 2013.

Promo of Swami Ayyappan won Anifest TVCA Award

Toonz Animations made animated Swami Ayyappan. Under the commissioned category Promo of Swami Ayyappan Won Anifest TVCA Award 2013 for the best film. Award was received by the directors of the movie. Directors are Chetan Sharma and Mahesh Vettiyar. Every year animation festival celebrates. Name of this festival is Anifest India. This is promoted by Tasi (The Animation Society of India).  These awards will be given for the strengthening the traditional topics and creative content.

New Rules for Retired Government Officials

New rule passed by central government stating that after completion of 80 years IAS, IFos, IPS will get 20 % additional pension. For every five years this extra pension percentage will be increased. At the age of 100 years they will get 100 % additional pension. After the completion of 100 years they will get additional benefits apart from regular pension. Current minimum pension they were attaining is Rs.3500 per month.