Dr. Sambhu N. Banik appointed member of the President's Committee of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Dr. Sambhu N. Banik of Bethesda, Maryland has been appointed by President George W. Bush as a member of the United States President's Committee of People with Intellectual Disabilities..
 
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Indira Jaising elected to UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Indira Jaising, an eminent Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist, has been elected to the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Jaising, 68, secured the highest number of votes — 149 out of 181 — in a contest..
 
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Sanjay Jha hired as co-CEO of Motorola, Inc.

Motorola Inc., preparing to split itself in two, hired Qualcomm Inc.'s Sanjay Jha to oversee the money-losing mobile-phone business after sales plunged for six straight quarters a Bloomberg News report said..
 
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Shantanu Narayan is new CEO of Adobe Systems Inc.

Shantanu Narayen, 43, has taken over as chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc, maker of the popular Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat programmes..
 
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Dr. Subra Suresh: Dean at MIT

Dr. Subra Suresh, Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DSME) has succeeded Prof. Thomas Magnanti as the new dean of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)..
 
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Deven Sharma: President of Standard & Poor's

Deven Sharma is the new president of Standard & Poor's, the financial services division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, effective immediately. Sharma served as executive vice president of Investment Services and Global Sales for Standard & Poor's since November, 2006..
 
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Dr Renu Khator: President & Chancellor of University of Houston

Dr. Renu Khator, 52, assumed charge as Chancellor of the University of Houston System and UH president in January this year...
 
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Vikram Pandit: CEO of CITI

Vikram Shankar Pandit, who was appointed by the Board of Directors of Citigroup as the company's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO and member of the Board of Directors in December 2007, has resumed charge of one of the largest financial compnaies of the world...
 
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Jamsheed K Choksy
nominated member of US National Council

Jamsheed K Choksy, a Mumbai-born professor at Indiana University, has been nominated as a member of the prestigious US National Council on the Humanities for six years from January 27, this year...
 
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