Ambani's holding group launched the Indian Super League, an elite competition of newly created teams, in 2014 with the aim of attracting investment and big global names, much like the Indian Premier League has in cricket. 'It was 100% a wasted opportunity'.
While Nooyi had a compensation of $10.66 million, that of Mohapatra was $10.29 million and Narayen had a pay packet of $1.88 million.
Six companies led by India-origin people including banking behemoth Citigroup and soft drinks major Pepsico have been named among the greenest American companies by Newsweek magazine.
United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and India-origin PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi figure among the top 10 in the global list of most powerful women, in the league of leaders like Angela Merkel, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the second place.
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Traditionally, issuance from Chinese companies dominate the green bond market, but other emerging market economies are coming up fast
After efforts to resurface in Punjab failed, the militant outfit is making efforts to indoctrinate India-origin youths from US, UK, Canada and Germany. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Nobel laureate and India-origin author V S Naipual, known for his caustic writings on the country of his parentage, has said he has written enough about India and will not be writing anything more on it. "I don't think so. I have written enough about India. I have written these four books and two novels about India and many essays," Naipaul said.
'The sanctions are biting him.' 'He also has a chance to come out into the world and reshape his nation.'
'It is time India withdraws the complaint from the UN and fully integrates the state of J&K into the Indian Union,' recommends Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
President Pratibha Patil has approved the conferment of Padma Awards 2012. This year the president has approved 109 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 14 in the category of foreigners/non-resident Indians/ Persons of India Origin/ posthumous. These comprise five Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 ladies among the awardees.
Twenty four people of India-origin are among the nearly 3,000 suspects being tried for last year's shocking riots in London and other towns of England, new analysis of data shows, contradicting the belief that Asians had stayed away from the violence.
A blue-eyed boy of the billionaire investor, Sokol's surprise exit has come amid disclosures about his personal stockholdings.
The all-cash deal will boost Google's competitive edge in the mobile computing arena as well as give it access to Motorola's range of Android operating system-based offerings.
Michelle was wore a knee-length dress with geometric prints and blue floral motifs.
"In light of the recent devastating earthquake that hit Japan, causing massive damage to life and property, Honda Siel Cars India has postponed the Honda Brio India preview event scheduled to be held on March 17, 2011," the company said in a statement.
Amid speculation about an Indo-Pak bilateral meeting in New York this week, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Tuesday said that talks between the two neighbours were necessary but asked Pakistan to first stop supporting terrorism against India originating from its soil. Rao, however, did not respond to a question about an assertion made by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahomood on Monday that Islamabad had sent 'suggestions' to India through diplomatic channels.
Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has criticised Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna for his remarks that any further terror attack on India originating from Pakistani soil would greatly severe relations, said Islamabad cannot be 'bullied' by such statements.
Canada said on Saturday that terrorist groups would not be given any quarter in the nation even as it stepped up security at airports and other vital installation as recommended by the Kanishka inquiry commission.
Praising them for "being forthright and transparent with shareholders", a magazine has named three India-origin chief executives-- Indra Nooyi, Francisco D'Souza and Ramani Ayer among the best CEOs in the US.
Adobe System's chief executive officer Shantanu Narayen and beverage major Pepsico's Indra Nooyi have been ranked at the 16th and 17th places, respectively in the list of 25 'top gun CEOs' for 2009 who kept their firms thriving amid the recessionary situation. The list is topped by business solutions provider Automatic Data Process's Gary C Butler and the magazine said he was 'extremely strong at strategic planning and overall execution.'
Lakshmi Mittal-led ArcelorMittal made an offer to buy an additional 29.4 per cent stake in domestic steel firm Uttam Galva Steel at Rs 120 a share.
The India-origin chief of The Hartford Financial Services, Ramani Ayer, will retire as chairman and chief executive officer of the Connecticut-based insurer by the end of this year.
Two India-origin individuals -- Sandeep Malhotra and Sanjee Shah -- have found a place in the league of 40 rising stars in the European wealth management industry.
Goldman Sach's chief Lloyd Blankfein had called up his Citigroup counterpart Vikram Pandit to discuss a merger but the proposal was rejected by the India-origin chief executive officer, The Financial Times has reported.
Nayan Chanda of Yale University was chosen for his contribution to arts, Prasad Srinivasan for community service, and Sameer Ahuja was chosen as the 'Young Professional of the Year'
'Francisco D'Souza, 39, heads what is now the largest public company run by a 40-or-under CEO, though his $ 5.7-billion Cognizant Technology Solutions is dwarfed by the $ 16.9-billion Yahoo!.' Forbes said. 'D'Souza has been an officer at Cognizant for 11 years now, chief executive since 2007, and chief operating officer since 2003, when he was a mere 33.'
Arun Sarin, the former chief executive of telecom giant Vodafone, who was reportedly in the race for the CEO post at Internet major Yahoo has decided not to accept the offer, says a media report.
Tony D'Souza, who is consolidating his reputation with The Konkans, his second novel and Ashutosh Varshney, a distinguished professor of political science are among five India-origin Guggenheim fellows for 2008 in Canada and America.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has just been named the richest person in the UK for fourth year in a row, but when it comes to being a powerful businessperson, he lags behind four others in the British manufacturing industry.According to a list of 100 most-powerful business people in the UK's manufacturing sector released by the Daily Telegraph, India-born Mittal has been ranked fifth.
Friedman had joined Fortune in June 2000 and was overseeing the Europe and Asia editions of the global business magazine, besides coordinating the international coverage for the US edition.
The genesis of Swaasth India was during the Pravasi Bharitya Diwas (PBD 2010) in Jaipur.
Global financial service provider Merrill Lynch said on Tuesday it has appointed Jayanti Bajpai as head of investment banking operations in India. Bajpai, named as head of origination for India, would take over from Patti McLaughlin, who has been leading the investment banking effort over the past year.
A senior executive with global investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Sanjay Patel, has been named among the UK's 20 most powerful fund managers. Currently in his second spell at Goldman Sachs, after leaving it for an alternative asset management fund house GSC Partners, Patel is co-head of Goldman Sachs' European PE and Indian capital equity businesses. Patel returned to Goldman Sachs in February 2006.
Manjula Sood, the India-origin Lord Mayor of Leicester, will release dozens of balloons to highlight the plight of widows in India on the International Widows Day on Monday. She said her own life would have been very different if she had been a widow in India, which she left in 1970.
Delaying action on climate change will hurt growth: Global CEOs.
The Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is for space experiments by institutions in the country, and the last date for receiving the proposals is May 19, 2017, the Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO said.
'It has even been suggested that Modi and Amit Shah, however grudgingly, harbour admiration for her controlling streak and steely resilience,' says Sunil Sethi.
In a top-order rejig at eBay Inc, Meg Whitman has resigned as its CEO, and would be replaced by John Donahoe while the world's largest Internet auction firm has brought in India-origin former finance head Rajiv Dutta to the board. In a late night announcement on Wednesday, eBay said that Whitman would step down as its president and CEO on March 31, currently head of its core auction business.
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