Robert S McNamara, former president of the World Bank, who, as a previous US secretary of defence, earned himself a reputation as the architect of the infamous Vietnam War, passed away on Monday morning at the age of 93.

Subu D Subramanian takes over as CEO at Defiance Tech

04 Jul 2009

Sanjay Reddy promoted to COO, Zee

04 Jul 2009

Omnicom appoints Tim Lowe as CEO

03 Jul 2009

Japan's Yukiya Amano to succeed el Baradei at the IAEA

03 Jul 2009

Yahoo! appoints Penny Baldwin Senior Vice President, global integrated marketing and brand management

02 Jul 2009

Mahesh Narayanan joins AdMob

02 Jul 2009

Conde Nast appoints James Bilefield as president, new media division

02 Jul 2009

Manish Agarwal joins UTV New Media Ventures

02 Jul 2009

Koichi Takahara (DoCoMo Inter-Touch Ltd)

02 Jul 2009

Sandeep Jain joins Morgan Stanley’s Mumbai division

01 Jul 2009

Ajit Thakur to head GEC at Balaji

01 Jul 2009

Sanjay Raina to join MEASAT Broadcast Network System

01 Jul 2009

Nirupama Rao to succeed Menon as country’s next foreign secretary

30 Jun 2009

India's ambassador to China, Nirupama Rao, will be the country’s next foreign secretary and will succeed Shivshankar Menon who retires on 31 July.

US government seeks 150-year sentence for Madoff

29 Jun 2009

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