Narayana Murthy gets place on the board of Unilever
Mumbai: Unilever plc has inducted three luminaries - a Indian software entrepreneur, N R Narayana Murthy, leading French bio-physicist Genevieve Berger, and leading banker Hixonia Nyasulu, from South Africa on its board of directors.

In a press statement, the company announced its plan to induct N R Narayana Murthy, Infosys co-founder and chairman, as a non-executive member.

Genevieve Berger is a professor of Biophysics and Medical Imaging at Paris University while Hixonia Nyasulu is a non-executive director of Sasol Ltd and Anglo Platinum and an advisory board member of JP Morgan South Africa.

Nyasulu was previously a non-executive director at the Development Bank of South Africa. Berger is also chairman of advisory board "Health" of the EU Commissioner for Research. Until 2003, she was director-general of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Murthy, along with the others, are being proposed for election as non-executive members at the annual general meetings in Rotterdam on May 15, and in London on May 16.
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Sharma to continue as acting CMD of ONGC
New Delhi: R S Sharma, whose appointment as head of India's largest profit making firm was cancelled earlier this week, has decided to continue as acting chairman and managing director (CMD) and will hold the top post at ONGC till the government appoints a full- time head.

The Public Enterprise Selection Board selected Sharma, who had been officiating as ONGC C&MD since May-end 2006, when the Government decided not to extend the term of Subir Raha, for the top job on August 30, 2006.
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Ratan Tata takes to skies in a fighter aircraft again
Bangalore: Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata took to the skies for a second time on Friday on a Boeing F-18 Super Hornet warplane as a co-pilot at the Aero India show in Bangalore.

The Super Hornet took to the skies at 10 AM from the Yelahanka airforce station.

Earlier the 69-year-old Tata flew a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter aircraft and described the experience as being a terrific, terrific ride.

He flew in the F-16 on Thursday for 40 minutes, becoming one of the oldest Indians to fly a combat aircraft.
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