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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Ivan Menezes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ivan Menezes, DiageoIvan Menezes, the CEO designate of Diageo, worked hard to clinch the deal with United Spirits.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[G V Prasad&#39;s elevation this week as the chairman of Dr Reddy&#39;s Laboratories has not come as a surprise to those in the industry.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[BS People Vineet Taneja]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Selling mobile services may not be vastly different from selling mobile phones.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Gautam Adani]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Amidst the controversy over the cancellation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's keynote address at Wharton India Economic Forum 2013, one man who finds himself in news yet again is Ahmedabad-based billionaire Gautam Adani.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[BS People Nikhil Rungta]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yebhi.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For Puneet Chandra, the new chief marketing officer (IT Business) of Wipro, the appointment could not have come at a more difficult time.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In an effort to regain its position in the Indian market, Japanese electronics major Toshiba Corporation has appointed Sanjay Warke as its new country head for the digital and services division.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The story of the third richest person in the country, Azim Hashim Premji, who began his journey by selling hydrogenated cooking fat and gradually made a leap to information technology services, has been an inspiration to many entrepreneurs.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lunch with BS Ravi Uppal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After a winter of notoriety for the city, meeting someone who feels good about being in Delhi is perplexing.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is perhaps his risk-taking nature, sometimes bordering on recklessness, that lands him in trouble.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Media shy and a bit of a recluse, Basant Kumar Birla&rsquo;s younger daughter, Manjushree Khaitan, suddenly found the spotlight on her when Kesoram Industries appointed her as the executive vice-chairman this week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bharti Airtel is not new to Gopal Vittal, having first worked with the company from 2006-08.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Earlier, Sudhir Valia, director on the board of Sun Pharma, was known primarily within India&rsquo;s pharmaceuticals fraternity.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[King of branded apparel]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Making smart moves is par for the course for Pankaj Patel, Chairman and Managing director, Cadila Healthcare Ltd.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[BS People Shruti Shibulal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Intelligent, ethically correct; very aware of the ways of the world; someone who considers all aspects before taking a decision.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sarojini Damodaran Shibulal, the 57-year old CEO of Infosys, is a true geek.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[They are Indian advertising&rsquo;s hottest creative duo and their over Rs 100-crore deal with Dentsu this week (under which the Japanese agency has bought 51 per cent in Taproot but has allowed the existing management to continue running the agency) has simply reinforced their position in the industry.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 50-year old Englishman from Derby, UK, Karl Slym found it tough to acclimatise to India when he shifted base to the sub-continent in 2007.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shinzo Nakanishi, the 65-year-old managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), spent the better part of last week visiting and apologising to injured colleagues across half a dozen hospitals in Gurgaon, Haryana.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[During the heyday of mobile value-added-service (VAS) provider OnMobile, CEO and Managing Director Arvind Rao was known as a man with a Midas touch.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Kevin Systrom]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Facebook certainly thinks so, considering they forked out exactly that amount for Instagram, a free photo sharing mobile phone program&mdash;called an app&mdash;that allows you to click a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it with your friends.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-kevin-systrom/471169/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ravinder Kumar Rishi is a multi-faceted businessman about whom the Indian press, especially the pink papers that specialise in bombastic headlines, was extremely bullish.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-ravinder-kumar-rishi/470282/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ashok Soota, one of the co-founders of MindTree and a veteran of the IT industry knows what it takes to try and reach $100 million in five years&mdash;his ambitious goal for his new company titled &lsquo;Happiest Minds.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bs-people-vikram-gulati/448301/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bhupender Singh was recently appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intelenet&rsquo;s domestic BPO business.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There are very few people who are able to make their passion their profession.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the first time in the history of any public sector enterprise, a full-time, woman director has made it to the board of a Navratna company, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bs-people-nishi-vasudeva/442528/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a two-year stint at infrastructure major Punj Lloyd, Aditya Vij has moved over to Fortis Healthcare, India&rsquo;s second-largest private hospital chain, as its new CEO.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bs-people-aditya-vij/441718/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Harish Manwani]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For someone who had been running the Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe (AAC) and West Asia business of Unilever &mdash; a little over 40 per cent of its total &mdash; the latest promotion should be taken as the reward for a job well done.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A year ago, everybody complimented Manoj Tirodkar for his restlessness to grow and create value.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[With the appointment of Mahendra Kumar Sharma, former vice-chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd, as an independent director of Wipro, it is clear that the tech giant wants to strengthen its corporate governance practices.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[BS People Peter Unsworth]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[His departure had been kept under wraps till the very end.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Adani group recently became India&rsquo;s first port company to acquire a port outside the country &ndash; the Abbott Point Port in Australia.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[S D Shibulal, CEO and MD-designate of Infosys Technologies, is being seen as the harbinger of change at the country&rsquo;s second-largest IT software export company.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After stepping down as the managing director of United Spirits (USL), Vijay Rekhi is no less a busy man.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[He is Mr Dependable at British consumer goods maker, Reckitt Benckiser, and the candidate the company&rsquo;s board turned to in its hour of distress.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On January 11 this year, the IndiGo flight from Delhi to Goa landed in a way that violated all flying manuals.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-e-k-bharat-bhushan/430550/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[BS People Seki Inaba]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Change seems to be a keyword in premium car manufacturer Honda&rsquo;s operations in India these days.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When G M Rao, the media-shy chairman of GMR Infrastructure, pledged his entire personal stake of Rs 1,540 crore in the company, it did not surprise many.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The decision of Ananda Mukerji, former CEO and managing director, Firstsource, to join Bharti Group, has taken many by surprise in the IT industry.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Robert Dudley]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sitting in the sixth-floor conference hall in BP&rsquo;s headquarters in Central London on the afternoon of February 21 were two of the most powerful men in the world&rsquo;s energy business.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-robert-dudley/426468/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker U K Sinha]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A few months ago at a glittering mutual fund awards night, the chief executive of an asset management company was asked where he likes to go on vacation.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three months ago, Raghu Pillai joined Future Group as chief executive and executive board member from Reliance Retail where he was the president and CEO.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of Pratip Chaudhuri&rsquo;s obsessions is to remain low profile &mdash; work quietly behind the scenes, as far away from the arc lights as possible.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-pratip-chaudhuri/420202/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pramod and Vinod Mittal, the younger sons of Mohan Lal Mittal, have for years lived in the shadow of their illustrious elder brother, Lakshmi Mittal.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-pramodvinod-mittal/419410/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 2009-10, Prasar Bharati&rsquo;s revenues were estimated at Rs 1,050 crore.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-b-s-lalli/417743/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ronnie Screwvala is an unconvincing media moghul.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-ronnie-screwvala/417295/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Over masala tea and sandwich, the 40-year old McCann India Chairman says advertising is now less about a make-believe wonder world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-prasoon-joshi/416524/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:25:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Anuradha Desai]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Scoring India Inc&rsquo;s first goal from Pune in the English Premier League (EPL) isn&rsquo;t something you hear every day.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-anuradha-desai/413076/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:19:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[BS People Dheeraj Hinduja]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The elevation of Dheeraj Hinduja, 39, as the new chairman marks a new beginning for Ashok Leyland, India's second-oldest and second-largest truck maker.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bs-people-dheeraj-hinduja/412706/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[So-called &lsquo;silent&rsquo; periods of listed companies usually end without even a whimper.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-suresh-gurumani/410641/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:33:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last week, Chandra Shekhar Verma did something rather uncharacteristic for a state-owned company chieftain, especially one reputed to be a stickler for rules.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-chandra-shekhar-verma/409816/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is curtains on a three-year litigation drama for Dilip Shanghvi, as his company, Sun Pharma &mdash; the country&rsquo;s biggest drugmaker by market capitalisation &mdash; announced the completion of its open offer to acquire ordinary shares of Israel&rsquo;s Taro Pharmaceuticals a few days ago.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-dilip-shanghvi/408284/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to British novelist John Anthony Miller, better known by his pseudonym Peter Pook, rugby is a game for the mentally deficient.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-bill-gammell/405179/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:31:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Gautam Adani attracted front page billing in most business newspapers for clinching a Rs 2,100-crore deal with an Australian company to buy that country&rsquo;s single largest coal tenement.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-gautam-adani/403647/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:07:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unfazed by criticism of his SpiceJet acquisition, the scion of a political family says he believes in setting trends, not aping them.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-kalanithi-maran/398577/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:12:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Channels bet on teleshopping]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Star CJ, Zee TV plan to dish out more home shopping networks and programmes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/channels-betteleshopping/398578/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1988, Ajay Piramal, then 33 years old, decided to bid for Nicholas Laboratories, the Australian multinational that was exiting India.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-ajay-piramal/396240/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 00:58:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the IPL controversy has shown, he shuns the limelight but still makes his presence felt.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-shashank-manohar/393368/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:07:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The insurance regulator may be the veteran of many controversies, but he&rsquo;s also known for his thoroughness.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-j-hari-narayan/392020/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:21:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The finance company&rsquo;s new chairman and managing director may be more low-profile than its promoters, but he&rsquo;s no less ambitious.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-sunil-godhwani/391259/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:52:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The veteran public sector executive thinks state-owned corporations enjoy more freedom than their private sector counterparts.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-rana-som/388260/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:17:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The key deal-maker behind the controversial Inox-Fame deal, Asher has a reputation for multi-tasking across the group&rsquo;s varied businesses.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-deepak-asher/387525/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:37:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The company he promoted has stayed ahead of the curve by cultivating a culture of thinking differently.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-narendra-murkumbi/386803/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:12:12 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The youthful former owner of Fame has unwittingly set off a takeover battle over his successful multiplex business.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-shravan-shroff/385385/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[He started out as a small namkeen shop on Kalakar Street in Burrabazar, Kolkata, and went on to build one of the country&rsquo;s biggest packaged snackfoods brands.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-prabhu-shankar-agarwal/384624/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:09:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[David Smith, 49, is unlikely to remember January 25 fondly.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-david-smith/383933/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:51:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The consensus in the intelligence community is that there will never be another National Security Adviser like Narayanan.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-m-k-narayanan/383265/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:11:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[As he looks at the challenges, Kapoor will be comforted by the fact that he has been there, done that.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-sanjay-kapoor/382672/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:05:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Your value is decided by the percentages you score in school and college.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-rajkumar-hirani/381970/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:17:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The veteran politician&rsquo;s career has been plagued with numerous scandals overshadowing his administrative abilities.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-narayan-datt-tiwari/381289/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:23:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, or the chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party, LK Advani?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-sushma-swaraj/380580/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:03:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ramesh Agarwal has busted almost every major myth in the publishing business.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-ramesh-chandra-agarwal/379842/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:33:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[With his East India Hotels investment, Singh is able to fulfil an ambition to be associated with service excellence.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-analjit-singh/373999/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:21:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Assocham's first lady chief talks of the need to unleash new ideas and wonders why, when India has such politically powerful women, they're hardly to be seen in business.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teabs-swati-piramal/373703/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:57:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In November 2004, when Vinod Kumar Sibal took over as Director General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), he welcomed the media in his Rajiv Chowk office, promising regular press conferences to provide updates on oil and gas exploration in India.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-vinod-kumar-sibal/373349/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:11:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The newest CEO in the Tata group brings an aggressive pace and style to India&rsquo;s largest IT consultancy firm.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-natarajan-chandrasekaran/372633/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The younger Miglani sibling&rsquo;s Wall Street experience helped him understand the financials of a deal that gave ArcelorMittal its first firm foothold in India.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-ankit-miglani/369675/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:52:06 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lunch with BS Ravi Uppal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[L&amp;T Power&rsquo;s head is concentrating on growing the business just as he did at ABB India, and refuses to entertain gossip that he could be L&amp;T&rsquo;s group chief in the future.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-ravi-uppal/368696/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[As he uses the Ranbaxy money to expand his other businesses, in India and abroad, this young scion is clear about one thing - he's not going to fight battles he can't win.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-malvinder-mohan-singh/365115/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:06:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[With some help from her children, The Lalit's new chief presides over a shopping spree - for hotels - of the type the group has never seen before.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunchbs-jyotsna-suri/363829/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Ajit Gulabchand]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ajit Gulabchand is not fond of the arclights, but he shed his reluctance for once &mdash; just like a proud father would do in the company of his famous child.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-ajit-gulabchand/362721/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:43:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker P C Kapoor]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Bharati Shipyard&rsquo;s chief finds himself fighting for a company he didn&rsquo;t intend to acquire.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-p-c-kapoor/362093/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:02:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Rajiv Singh]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The head of India's largest realtor is known as a businessman who likes to cut his losses.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-rajiv-singh/358129/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:52:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Backstage Chipping away at the pyramid]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Few would expect a doctor to become a police officer, let alone handle investigations related to stock market manipulation.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/backstage-chipping-away-atpyramid/356309/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:54:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[NewsMaker Shikha Sharma]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Shikha Sharma's contentious appointment as CEO of Axis Bank doesn&rsquo;t detract from her sound reputation in the financial world.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Newsmaker Vineet Nayyar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The man behind one of the biggest M&amp;A deals in India&rsquo;s information technology space isn&rsquo;t a conventional techie.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ajit came to Berkshire in 1986.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:47:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, when Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked&nbsp; Jairam Ramesh to head the core team for the Congress campaign in the 2009 general elections, he readily agreed to give up his ministerial responsibilities as Union Minister of State for Commerce &amp; Power in Shram Shakti Bhavan and Udyog Bhavan, and move with a suitcase to his new home on Gurudwara Rakabganj Road.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-jairam-ramesh/350245/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a top job that no neighbour will ever envy.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anil Manibhai Naik, chairman and managing director of Larsen &amp; Toubro, sees himself as a dynamic workaholic.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-anil-manibhai-naik/346837/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:32:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dilip Shanghvi, the chairman and managing director of Sun Pharma, is readying for a long-drawn legal battle to get hold of Israeli drug major Taro Pharmaceuticals.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-dilip-shanghvi/345629/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:56:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[When Omar Abdullah took his first plunge into Kashmir politics in 1998, the odds were stacked heavily against him.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[He continues to avoid the media but AdityaChopra&rsquo;s work seems to do all the talking.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-aditya-chopra/344356/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:10:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Almost three decades ago, India&rsquo;s third-largest IT services provider, Wipro Ltd, successfully diversified from vegetable oils into the IT sector.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-b-ramalinga-raju/343640/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:33:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LUNCH WITH BS Nandan Nilekani]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Infosys' chief sees his public role as a force multiplier for philanthropy - his book, he says, is a framework of ideas to help India meet the challenges ahead.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunch-with-bs-nandan-nilekani/341218/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:10:12 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a move that Yahoo! shareholders like Carl Icahn ardently desired.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:45:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is something about Mahendra Singh Dhoni.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:44:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It could take two years for a turnaround, but since Temasek India is in the black, its head is currently focussed on an impending birthday bash and a holiday to Cambodia.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lunch-with-bs-manish-kejriwal/339751/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:37:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It may just be sheer coincidence or plain design that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose to appoint Raghuram Rajan as his honorary economic adviser earlier this week, less than two weeks before India]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/newsmaker-raghuram-rajan/339409/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:13:00 +0530</pubDate>
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