N.S. Raghavan to retire from Infosys
Bangalore: N.S. Raghavan, one of the founder-members of Infosys Technologies and the company's joint managing director now, has decided to retire from the board with effect from 7 February 2000. The 55-year-old Mr Raghavan is seeking early retirement because he wants to pursue "charitable activities on a full-time basis".

Mr Raghavan had earlier turned down the offer of  the managing director's post in the company and recommended the name of  present managing director Nandan Nilekani. He says Mr Nilekani's younger age favoured him.

He has made it known that he will initially work with the Infosys Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the company.

Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Technologies, said it would be difficult to imagine Infosys without Mr Raghavan. "He has been a close and affectionate colleague in this marathon of building Infosys. His desire to spend his post-retirement time on charitable activities deserves our applause," Mr Narayana Murthy said.
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Trump to run for US presidency
Washington: Donald Trump, the billionaire New York developer and New Jersey casino owner, says he is planning to run for the US presidency. Mr Trump said his top choice as vice presidential running mate will be television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey

Mr Trump made billions in the New York real estate boom of the 1980s and lost much of it in the bust of the early 1990s. He, however, bounced back and Forbes magazine now puts his fortune at $1.6 billion. He says he will run for the White House only if he is convinced that he can win. A survey of New Yorkers released this week by Quinnipiac College had a blunt message for him: "Forget about it".
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Indian-American nominated for Nobel peace prize
San Francisco: An Indian American plastic surgeon has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize. Sharadkumar Dicksheet, the New York-based, Pandharpur, Maharashtra-born plastic surgeon, has devoted his life to fixing the deformed faces of India's poor.

Mr Dicksheet and plastic surgeon and helper Paul Dreschnack, also of New York, have also been nominated for the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Raoul Wallenberg Prize, Conrad Hilton Foundation Award and Kellogg's Hannah Neil World of Children Award.

Dicksheet had quit his lucrative job as a plastic surgeon in New York and devoted himself to the India programme he began in 1968. He spends three months each year in India in running free surgical camps for those with cleft lips, squints, burns, scars and deformed noses.

A person once afflicted by cancer, and who had two heart attacks, Dr Dicksheet talks with an oesophagus-generated voice.
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