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P&G India new CEO Kumar Venkatasubramanian: A moment of great pride for me to come back to India

Kumar Venkatasubramanian added that he is looking forward to being back in the market, learning more about the Indian consumers and serving their needs.

Kumar Venkatasubramanian, who is currently leading the P&G business in Australia and New Zealand as CEO, said, “It is a moment of great pride for me to come back to India and spearhead the P&G business in the country.”

Rathikant Basu, who ‘fathered the satellite TV revolution in India’, dies at 82

Rathikant Basu has also held positions at Doordarshan and Department of Electronics as Director General of Doordarshan and Additional Secretary (1993-1996), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and later as the secretary. (Image source: YouTube)

Rathikant Basu, who was 82, was also the executive chairman of Star India between 1996 and 2001.

Lintas’s former vice chairman Fali Vakeel passes away

Throughout his career, Fali Vakeel witnessed the evolution of the advertising industry. He was titled as the 'Last of the Mad Men in Indian advertising,' by his colleagues and peers in the industry.

Even after Fali Vakeel’s retirement as vice chairman of Lintas, Fali Vakeel remained deeply intertwined with the agency, serving as the Trustee of its Employee Welfare Trust.

Women CMOs of India: Who are the ladies leading India’s top brands?

Take a look at some of the women chief marketing officers in India, from the Visionaries' Bangalore and Delhi editions, and how they have transformed the marketing landscape. (From left to right: Anuja Mishra, Roshni Das, Anurita Chopra, Minakshi Handa, Ruchira Jaitly, Chandrika Jain, Mohua Das Gupta, Shilpi Kapoor and Sumeet Singh)

Take a look at some of the leading women chief marketing officers in India, and how they have transformed the landscape of marketing and business.

Anupam Mittal: Shaadi.com to Shark Tank, more about the outspoken entrepreneur

Taking to Twitter, Shaadi.com's founder Anupam Mittal quipped, "Ab toh @ShaadiDotCom par 'OYO' discount code banta hai. Whatsay @riteshagar?" tagging OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal directly.

Anupam Mittal, founder of Shaadi.com, is a notable investor on Shark Tank Seasons 1-3, backing over 250 ventures. His success with Shaadi.com and active role in startups highlight his commitment to innovation.

Meta sues former VP Dipinder Singh Khurana for ‘brazenly disloyal’ conduct

ANDP said that there is "imminent risk of serious and irreparable or difficult-to-repair damage to the fundamental rights of affected holders.” (Representative Image: Dima Solomin via Unsplash)

Khurana, also known as T.S. Khurana, had worked at Meta for 12 years and was the company’s VP of infrastructure.

Sudha Murty: All you need to know about the philanthropist, author, symbol of “Nari Shakti”

Her recruitment at TELCO is an intriguing tale. While Sudha Murty was studying at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1974, she was awarded a scholarship to pursue a PhD in America. However, during her final year of M.Tech, she came across a job opportunity at Tata Telco, which is now known as Tata Motors. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Everything you need to know about Sudha Murty, who she is, her work and more – from why she spells her surname Murty and not Murthy and her saree collection to her Rajya Sabha nomination.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch gets engaged; 92-year-old set to marry for fifth time

A few months ago Murdoch stepped down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, ending a more than seven-decade career at the helm of a global media empire. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Rupert Murdoch is engaged to his girlfriend, Elena Zhukova. This would be his fifth trip down the aisle.

Facebook, Instagram global outage: Mark Zuckerberg’s valuation drops by $ 2.79 billion

Meta is also integrating AI to help businesses create ads on Facebook and Instagram, reminding customers they left an item in their cart or offering a discount for a purchase they’ve been waiting to make.

However, Mark Zuckerberg continued to maintain his position as the world’s fourth richest person on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Nidhi Khare to be Consumer Affairs secretary; takes over from Rohit Kumar Singh

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come up with draft norms for "Online Consumer Reviews" and circulated it among stakeholders. The draft QCO specifies that all organisations (termed as review administrator) managing and publishing online consumer reviews shall comply with the norms. They must ensure that only "genuine" reviews get published and they won't publish any "fake or false" consumer reviews online. (Image source: News18 Hindi)

Nidhi Khare, a 1992 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Jharkhand cadre, is currently the Secretary of the Department of Land Resources.