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Tarini Vaidya is new Treasury Head for Centurion
Mumbai: Centurion Bank has appointed Tarini Vaidya as its new Treasury Head. She replaces P.P. Mendes, who continues in the team.

Earlier, Tarini Vaidya has worked with HSBC Software Development, India, prior to which she was CEO of Belgium's KBC Bank in Mumbai. Vaidya's induction into the bank is part of the ongoing management restructuring at the bank, according to a release.
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Amit Sharma is Motorola India country president
New Delhi: Motorola has named its vice-president, Amit Sharma, as the Country President of Motorola India Pvt Ltd. He is already serving as Cluster President, with Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam under his jurisdiction. According to a company statement, this appointment will be in addition to his existing responsibilities.

Sharma has been a member of Motorola's Asia-Pacific Management Board since 1996 and has played a key role in developing the company's Asia-Pacific strategy. He served as Country President of Motorola India from 1992 to 1999.
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Jayakumar to head Citigroup's consumer finance
Mumbai: Citigroup has announced the appointment of P.S. Jayakumar as Region Head for Asia-Pacific (Consumer Finance). P.R. Seshadri, formerly in charge of Marketing - Consumer Loans, will now take over from Jayakumar as Consumer Finance head in India, according to a press note from Citigroup. These changes come into effect from January 1, 2004,.
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Unique honour for AP scientist
Hyderabad: Dr Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, an agri-meteorologist, has been elected as member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences of Belgium. The Technical Sciences section of the Academy, to which he has been elected, has a maximum of 60 members, 10 of them foreign. Dr Sivakumar, Chief of Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Switzerland is the only Indian among the 10, according to a release. The Guntur-born scientist has carried out agro-climatology research at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat).
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