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Senior citizens rule a quarter of firms N Sundaresha Subramanian | New Delhi BS
After two years of setting a rare example by relinquishing all board responsibilities at the ripe 'young' age of 65 years, N R Narayana Murthy has done a U-turn by deciding to return to Infosys as its...
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Infosys to broaden scope of search for its chief Bibhu Ranjan Mishra |...
In his second innings at Infosys, N R Narayana Murthy, executive chairman of the company, is learnt to have initiated an arduous task of searching for a new chief executive officer, who in all...
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India's 'virtual widows' suffer as husbands seek work in the Gulf- bbc.com
Sajida has been a single parent of a six-year-old from soon after her marriage Many young Muslim brides in India's southern state of Kerala are left behind by their husbands who go to the Gulf in...
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The Health Ministry and Colombo Municipal Council yesterday launched a dengue control programme at the hospital square. CMC workers flanked by public health inspectors fumigating the Town Hall area....
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The Zia factor in Sri Lanka, Pakistan relationship
War on terror revisitedJune 13, 2013, 7:55 pmPresident Zia-ul-Haqby Shamindra FerdinandoPresident Zia-ul-Haq was killed on August 17th, 1988 when a Pakistan Air Force C 130 crashed just five minutes...
View ArticleDons abandon trade union action against Colombo VC
June 13, 2013, 10:10 pmby Dasun EdirisingheThe Colombo University Teachers’ Association (CUTA), which at the end of May threatened an all-out strike within two weeks, if newly appointed Vice...
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Govt. to present urgent Bill to repeal PCs’ power to merge
Northern PC polls in September regardless of PSC consensus on 13-A amendmentsJune 13, 2013, 10:11 pm by Zacki JabbarAn urgent Bill is to be moved in Parliament next week to abolish the power of...
View ArticleGovt. denies Weerawansa assaulted during Cabinet meeting
June 13, 2013, 10:14 pmby Zacki JabbarAmidst rumours that Engineering Services Minister Wimal Weerawansa had been manhandled by Senior Minister for Human Resources D. E. W. Gunasekera, during...
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DIG Vass remanded
June 13, 2013, 10:14 pm by Madura RanwalaDIG Vass Gunawardena arrested for alleged aiding and abetting of the killers of a businessman and questioned under a 72-hour detention order by the Criminal...
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NPC polls: Ranil sets four conditions; seeks powvow with President
June 13, 2013, 12:00 pmby Shamindra FerdinandoUNP leader Ranil Wickreme-singhe has sought a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa urgently to discuss ways and means of creating a level playing...
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India disputes Pakistani’s claim on 2 Nicholas Roerich paintings
Devika Rani and RoerichJune 13, 2013, 10:32 pmby S Venkat Narayan Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, June 12: Legendary Russian artist Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) could not have imagined that two of...
View Article150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda commemorated
June 13, 2013, 10:29 pmA postage stamp to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was issued by the Philatelic Bureau of Sri Lanka. The First Day Cover was ceremonially handed, by...
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Would you like to stay at Portuguese era detention barracks in north …?
Navy launches Malima Group of HotelsJune 13, 2013, 8:08 pm by Shamindra FerdinandoThe conclusion of the conflict in May 2009 paved the way for security forces to launch major commercial ventures in...
View ArticleProphesies on Sri Lanka’s
June 13, 2013, 7:39 pmby G. H. PeirisSince Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka has found it necessary to preface his ‘Devolution and Sri Lanka’s Global Vulnerability: A Response to Prof. GH Peiris’ (The Island, 6...
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13-A and Catch-22June 13, 2013, 7:46 pmThe Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has, after weeks of dillydallying, written to President Mahinda Rajapaksa that it cannot be party to any move to dilute...
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For 23andMe, The Real Value Could Be In Its Data
Matthew Herper, Forbes StaffComment NowFollow CommentsFollowing CommentsUnfollow CommentsAnne WojcickiOn Tuesday, 23andMe, the personal genetics company backed by Google GOOG+0.58% billionaire Sergey...
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Debashis Mitra, former sales and marketing head of Mercedes India, tells...
Image: Vikas KhotDebashis MitraAge: 45Education: BE from Jalpaiguri Government Engi-neering College, West Bengal; PG diploma in business management from IIM-Calcutta Career: Started out as a senior...
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VC Sehgal: We entrepreneurs are a bit insecure, that's why we control
Image: Amit VermaVC Sehgal is the chairman of the $5.4 billion Samvardhana Motherson Group, one of India’s largest auto components companies. In his 40-year-long career, Sehgal has dabbled in various...
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Inderpreet Wadhwa, founder of Azure Power, says the idea has always been to...
Image: Amit VermaThere were few real takers for solar power when Inderpreet Wadhwa started a small 1 MW project in a border town in Punjab. His company, Azure Power, today has a capacity of 55 MW...
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Profile: Wendi Deng Murdoch
Ms Deng, 44, is 82-year-old Mr Murdoch's third wifeWendi Deng Murdoch is the wife - soon to be ex-wife - of one of the richest men in the world.She's a businesswoman, mother of two and Yale graduate,...
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