ET Awards 2010-2011

Business Leader of the year: Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank

Entrepreneur of the year: Rahul Bhatia, Indigo Airlines

Global Indian of the year: Vikram Pandit, Citi Bank

Policy Change Agent of the year: Nandan Nilekani

Company of the year: Bajaj Auto

Emerging Company of the year: Shree Renuka Sugars

Lifetime Achievement Award: Yaga Venugopal Reddy, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Top Indian Companies CEO / Heads (Conglomerates)

Mars Group  Dharmendra shekhar ojha (CMD)

Aditya Birla Group  Kumar Mangalam Birla (Chairman)

Bharti Enterprises   Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman & Group CEO)

Bajaj Group    Rahul Bajaj (CMD)

Essar Group  Shashi Ruia (Chairman)

Essel Group  Subhash Chandra (Chairman)

Godrej Group   Adi Godrej (Chairman)

ITC Limited   Y.C. Deveshwar (Chairman)

Jaypee Group Jaiprakash Gaur (Chairman)

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T)   A. M. Naik (CMD)

Mahindra Group  Keshub Mahindra (Chairman)

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group   Anil Ambani (Chairman)

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Mukesh Ambani  (CMD)

JSW Group  Sajjan Jindal (Chairman)

Sahara India Pariwar  Subrata Roy (Chairman)

Tata Group   Ratan Tata (Chairman)

United Breweries Group or UB Group   Dr. Vijay Mallya (Chairman)

Videocon  Venugopal Dhoot (Chairman)

 Wadia Group  Nusli Wadia (Chairman)

Daily Current Affairs 6th October (Steve Job's Special)

                    Steve Jobs Special


1. How much was Steve's salary as the CEO of Apple ?
    $1 

2. Name Steve's biological parents ?
    Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali

3. What was Steve's net worth ?
    $8 billion(approx)

4. Name the other founders of Apple ?
    Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne

5.Who is the new CEO of Apple ?
   Tim Cook  

6. Steve Jobs has served as the top executive in two companies simultaneously. Name them ?
    Apple and Pixar

7. Name the college from which Steve dropped out ?
    Reed College

8. When was Apple established ?
    1st April 1976

9. What was Apple's first slogan ?
    Byte Into An Apple

10. What was Apple's first logo ?
     Sir Issac Newton sitting under an apple tree

CEO's --> Auto Sector

Maruti Suzuki India Limited --> Shinzo Nakanishi (MD and CEO)

Mahindra & Mahindra Limited --> Keshub Mahindra (Chairman)

Tata Motors Limited --> Carl Peter Forster (CEO)

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG(BMW) --> Norbert Reithofer (CEO)

FIAT --> Sergio Marchionne (CEO)

Ford Motor Company --> Alan R. Mulally (President & CEO)

Honda Motor Company Ltd --> Takanobu Ito (CEO)

 

Hyundai Motor Company --> Chung Mong-koo (Chairman and CEO)

Mercedes-Benz --> Dieter Zetsche 

Suzuki Motor Corporation --> Osamu Suzuki

Toyota Motor Corporation --> Akio Toyoda 

 Bajaj Auto --> Rahul Bajaj (Chairman)

 TVS Motor Company --> K N Radhakrishnan (President & CEO)

 

CEO --> IT Companies

Wipro Limited --> T. K. Kurien (CEO)

Infosys Limited --> S.D. Shibulal (CEO & MD)

HCL Technologies Ltd. --> Vineet Nayar (CEO)

Mahindra Satyam --> Gurnani

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) --> N. Chandrasekaran

   

Heads/CMD's Of Maharatna

Indian Oil Corporation Limited, or IndianOil--> Ranbir Singh Butola (CMD)

NTPC Limited (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation)--> Arup Roy Choudhury (CMD)

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)--> Chandra Shekhar Verma (Chairman)

ONGC--> Sudhir Vasudeva(CMD)


 

Daily Current Affairs 4th October

Your Daily Dose Of GK/Current Affairs  


1. Nobel prize for Physiology or medicine has been awarded to ?
    Bruce Beutler , Jules Hoffmann And Ralph Steinman

2. Which Malayalam film has been chosen as India's entry for Oscars?
    Adaminte Makan Abu     

3. Who has been named CEO of HP?
    Meg Whitman

4. Who has been elected as president of BCCI?
    N Srinivasan

5. Who has been appointed as IPL Chief?
    Rajiv Sukla

6. Which Dubai-based company has picked up 12% stake in Everonn Education?
    Varkey Group's education firm Gems education

7. Name the company which divided its business into operating and network division recently.
    Maxis Owned Aircel

8. Who is the current CEO of Apple Inc?
    Tim Cook

9. Who is the new ONGC Chairman ?

    Sudhir Vasudeva 

10. Who has recently been made the Head of India,Middle East And Africa of Nokia ?
     D Shivakumar

CEO's --> Indian Pharmaceutical Industries

Biocon--> Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (CMD)

Cadila Healthcare--> Pankaj Patel (Chairman)

Cipla Limited--> Y. K. Hamied (CMD)

Dabur--> Dr. Anand Burman (Chairman)   Mr. Sunil Duggal (CEO)

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd-->Anji Reddy (Chairman),GV Prasad (CEO)

Elder Pharmaceuticals-->Jagdish Saxena (MD)

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd--> Dr. Hasit Joshipura (MD)

Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL)--> T K Ranganath (CEO)

Lupin Ltd-->Nilesh Gupta (President & Director), Dr. Kamal Sharma (MD)

Piramal Healthcare--> Ajay Piramal  (CEO)

Ranbaxy--> Mr. Arun Sawhney (CEO & MD)

Wockhardt Ltd.-->Habil Khorakiwala (Chairman) Murtaza Khorakiwala (MD) 
 

CEO's --> Indian Airline Industries

Air India-->Rohit Nandan (CMD)

Jet Airways-->Nikos Kardassis (CEO)

Kingfisher Airlines-->Vijay Mallya(CMD), Sanjay Aggarwaal(CEO)

MDLR Airlines-->Gopal Goyal (Chairman)

SpiceJet-->Kalanithi Maran (Chairman), Neil Mills (CEO)

GoAir-->Jehangir Wadia (MD)

Paramount Airways-->M. Thiagarajan (MD)