T.S. Vijayan appointed LIC chairman
Mumbai: T.S. Vijayan, managing director, Life Insurance Corporation, has been appointed chairman of the corporation, effective May 3. Vijayan at 53 is the youngest ever chairman of LIC. Vijayan began his career in 1977 with LIC as a direct recruit officer. He was the first director and chief executive of LICHFL CareHomes, a subsidiary of LICHFL. In this role, he was instrumental in designing the systems for running community living centres for senior citizens.

Before he became MD, Vijayan was in the post of executive director (Information Technology and Business Process Re-engineering). It was during his tenure that projects involving enterprise portal and data warehousing were conceived and implemented
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Sanjeev Sharma resigns from Nokia
New Delhi: Sanjeev Sharma has stepped down as the managing director of Nokia India after he was asked to move to Singapore as regional head of marketing. Sharma says he prefers remain in India. Nokia's Singapore office has issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr D. Shivakumar as Nokia India V-P and country GM.

Sharma said he was evaluating his next move, and it would be at least two to three months before he makes a decision.
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