PepsiCo's Nooyi bags American By Choice Award
New Delhi: PepsiCo CEO Indira Nooyi has bagged the American By Choice award and is one among four recipients of the award, which recognises outstanding achievements of naturalised US citizens.
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Nasscom appoints new chairman for SRO
New Delhi: Nasscom plans to form a self regulatory organisation (SRO) for adoption and strengthening of best practices in IT and BPO companies to prevent data theft and ensure that India remains a secure outsourcing destination.

As a first step toward this, Nasscom has appointed former Telecom Secretary Shyamal Ghosh as the chairman of the yet-to-be formed SRO.

Ghosh will lead the effort to set up the SRO functionally and structurally, Nasscom president Kiran Karnik said.

The SRO will raise the bar in data security and privacy by including best practices currently stipulated by certifications such as the ISO17799 standard for information security of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, as well as data privacy and data protection laws worldwide.
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V&S Broadcasting appoints new COO
Mumbai: V&S Broadcasting, a subsidiary of UTV Broadcasting Ltd, has appointed Dilshad Master as chief operating officer, for three of its channels to be launched under the variety and specialty genre. These channels will form part of the upcoming bouquet of TV channels from the UTV group. Olive TV, to be launched in 2007, will be the first of the channels.
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Star India appoints new COO
New Delhi: Uday Shankar has been appointed the COO of Star India. Currently the CEO of Media Content and Communications Services, a 74-26 joint venture between the Ananda Bazar Patrika Group and the Star Group, which runs Star News and the Bengali Star Ananda and a soon to be launched Marathi channel, Shankar will join the network shortly.
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