British Indian former Cabinet minister Rishi Sunak maintained his lead as the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and next UK prime minister widened on Sunday with a total of nine candidates in the fray, with Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt emerging as an early second favourite.
A 14-member CEOs' delegation, led by Sunil Kant Munjal, President, CII, will embark on a mission to the UK from June 29 to July 1.
Nilanjan Roy spent 13 years with Bharti Airtel, prior to which he worked for 15 years with Unilever across their global operations.
Silent support for the movement, which has recently turned its guns against industry, has come from India Inc as well, mainly from Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy, who made donations of Rs 25 lakhs (Rs 2.5 million) in 2011.
Infosys has said it will look into allegations that $200-million Panaya deal was significantly overvalued.
Of the, four are co-founders of Infosys.
Infosys' first non-founder CEO had been granted 232,329 RSUs at Rs 5 a unit.
In the past two years, Sikka has brought in new measures by putting project managers to pitch how they cut time, saved costs and improved productivity
If elected, 42-year-old Sunak will go on to make history as the first Prime Minister of the UK of Indian heritage.
"Year-after-year, the IT companies remove and sack professionals and simultaneously hike their top executives' salaries in the name of fancied compensation based on variable pay and stock incentives," FITE general secretary AJ Vinod said.
N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies, outlines the key ingredients to building a great company and the role of 'compassionate capitalism' in society.
Amidst the outrage among certain Satyam employees to Infosys Co-Chairman and Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy's statement last week that Infosys would not recruit employees from the disgraced IT firm based in Hyderabad, top Infosys executives on Tuesday stood by their stand. They also couched their views on the Satyam scam in decidedly softer terms. Infosys said that the accounting scandal at Satyam did not call into question the competence of its (Satyam) employees.
Murthy comes at a time when the company is losing market share, profitability, and has lost control over predictability of the business.
Infosys Chairman NR Narayana Murthy in conversation with Maheshwer Peri of Careers360.
In an accompanying vision statement, the former finance minister highlighted his track record of serving in the Cabinet, helping to steer the economy through the toughest of times with the COVID pandemic.
A book revolving around Prime Minister Narendra Modi's work and political and governance model with various chapters written by domain experts, his Cabinet colleagues and leading faces in different walks of life, is set to hit the bookstores next month.
Top decision-making body, executive council, will be dissolved on April 1.
Kriti Mehra (ISB Class of 2010) shares her experience of meeting Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CEO of Biocon.
Ajay Lakhotia, an ISB student, shares his experience of spending the day with former managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank KV Kamath and the management lessons that this young MBA grad has learnt from the banking veteran.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has written to his boss, Boris Johnson, to be referred to one of the British Prime Minister's independent advisers to review all his ministerial declarations of interest amid a row around his family's tax affairs. The Indian-origin finance minister, who has been fighting back attacks over wife Akshata Murty's tax arrangements in India and also Opposition allegations around his own finances, said in a Twitter post on Sunday that he is confident the independent review by House of Lords peer Christopher Geidt, the Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests, will provide "further clarity". "My overriding concern is that the public retains confidence in the answers they are given and I believe the best way of achieving this is to ensure those answers are entirely independent, without bias or favour," Sunak states in his letter to Johnson.
Providing an opportunity for the students to be with the country's renowned business personalities, the Hyderabad-based ISB has come up with the 'Shadow the CEO' programme, where one can bid for a person of their choice.
Karnataka police registered a case against the Infosys chief, while the state government condemned his remarks as an 'unpardonable offence.'
India's corporate sector sees big ticket deals in 2013.
Balakrishnan, head of the BPO, Finacle and India business units at Infosys, is widely seen as a contender for CEO after the incumbent S D Shibulal's term ends in 2015.
Revenue of the Bengaluru-based firm grew 1.7 per cent to Rs 17,078 crore in the June quarter as against Rs 16,782 crore in the year-ago period.
Rishi Sunak, the former UK chancellor of the exchequer, on Friday formally launched his leadership bid to succeed Boris Johnson as the new Conservative Party leader and future British prime minister.
Nilekani, 54, is already credited with repainting India's image globally and will now head an authority that will create a unique electronic database of the country's citizens -- a project that many see as key to plugging loopholes in implementation of welfare schemes. As chairperson of the country's Unique Identification Authority, Nilekani would enjoy the rank of Cabinet minister.
Companies are expected to firm up their business plans for the second half of the year.
Opposition Labour's Valerie Vaz also retained her Walsall South seat and Seema Malhotra won her south west London seat comfortably.
For the first time since its inception over thirty years ago, these exits will lead the company to have a non-founder CEO.
The Bengaluru-based firm has also inducted founder and CEO of Surya Software Systems D N Prahlad as an independent director on its Board, effective October 14, 2016.
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