Indra K. Nooyi Biography October 28, 1955 • Madras, India Executive Indra K. Nooyi is the president and chief financial officer of PepsiCo. Best known for its Pepsi soft drinks, the international powerhouse that Nooyi oversees is actually one of the world’s largest snack-food companies. It makes and sells dozens of other products, including Doritos-brand [...]

The Chennai girl hit headlines on Monday yet again when PepsiCo’s board of directors announced that it has elected Indra K Nooyi, 51, chairman of the board, effective May 2 when current executive chairman Steven S Reinemund, 58, retires. Ms Nooyi is currently chief executive officer of the more than $32-billion global convenient food and [...]

The University of Madras’ Syndicate has approved three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) for collaborative research and exchange programmes with Turkish and Japanese institutions. The Department of Applied Geology will be collaborating with Kyoto University, Japan, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory and Middle East Technical University, Turkey, Disaster Management [...]

 Six additional visa interview windows will be added this week at the United States Consulate in Chennai to help eliminate the visa backlog. “Our goal is to totally eliminate the visa backlog by March 31,” says U.S. Vice-Consul Jimmy Mauldin. Speaking on the sidelines of a business forum organised by the U.S. State of Virginia [...]

Rekha, daughter of choreographers Lalitha and Mani, whos has acted in many movies under the name of “Junior Silk”, married a lawyer named Madhan Kumar yesterday. The marriage was attended by many celebrity guests from the film industry to bless the couple and wish them a long and happy wedded life. Among the persons who [...]

The audio of Koodal Nagar is out now. And Koodal Nagar has superb music by Sabesh- Murali. Koodal Nagar features Bharath, Bhavana and Sandya. Bharath is teaming up with Bhavana and Sandya after the success of the movies Veyyil and Kaadhal. He shot into fame through the movie Kaadhal, which turned out to be a [...]

After experiencing success in Germany, UK, Japan, Singapore and several other countries, Britain’s leading re- school physical play programmed — Tumble Tots – has launched its first centre here, and is already a hit with kids and their parents. The programmed divided into three segments namely Gym babes, Tumble Tots and Gym bobs cater to children [...]

Brushing aside allegations that the recent income tax raids on the premises of actor-turned-politician Vijaykanth were politically motivated, the DPI, an ally of the DMK, said all were equal before law. Party leader Thol Tirumavalavan told reporters here today that all were equal before law and hence it was wrong to say that the search [...]

Southern Railway will run a special train from Chennai Egmore to Nagercoil to clear the extra rush of passengers. Train No.0613 Chennai Egmore –Nagercoil special will leave Chennai Egmore at 20.15 hrs on February 3 and arrive Nagercoil at 10.45 hrs the next day. The train will stop at Tambaram, Chengalpattu, Tindivanam, Villupuram, Vriddhachalam, Ariyalur, [...]

The Dubai-based leading gold jewellery retail chain major, Joy Alukkas Group is establishing the world’s largest gold & diamond jewellery store in Chennai’s Usman Road, known as the gold hub of the city. It has picked up 80,000 sq ft of retail space in Prashanth Gold Tower, being jointly promoted by actor Thiagarajan and property [...]

On Wednesday, Tendulkar batted like Sachin again. With a sumptuous 76-ball century against West Indies that was aesthetic, intelligent, the maestro was rocking once again and in the mood for World Cup. India’s Sachin Tendulkar admitted his man-of-the-series performance against West Indies came at just the right time with the World Cup looming. His unbeaten [...]

Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives urging the US Postal Service to issue a postage stamp honouring Diwali. Pallone has estimated that some 1.5 million Indian Americans celebrate Diwali and the idea of a stamp has received widespread support from the community. “Diwali is one of the most important [...]