Shiv Nadar steps down from HCL Technologies board, becomes chairman emeritus indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
KIIT College of Education wins award
KIIT College of Education, Gurugram, was honoured with the “Excellent Teacher Education Institute” at the 16th National and sixth International CMAI ICT and Electronics World Communication Awards 2021 ceremony. Prof. (Dr.) S.S. Agarwal (Director General, KIIT) received the award from Prof. N.K. Goel (President CMAI Association of India) during the online programme. These awards identify, acknowledge, and recognise outstanding contributions to the field of Education.
Former ambassador Syed Akbaruddin joins KSPP
Ex-Indian Foreign Service diplomat and former Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin has joined as the Dean of Kautilya School of Public Policy. With a career spanning over three decades, he has now opted to serve students and academia. Recently, Dr. Moshik Temkin, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, and Menaka Guruswamy, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, joined the institute’s advisory board.
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NewsX was recently joined by Vineet Nayar, Founder and Chairman of Sampark Foundation and former CEO of HCL Technologies, for an exclusive conversation as a part of its special series NewsX India A-List, wherein he spoke about his foundation and education system in India.
Talking about Sampark Foundation, Mr Nayar said, “It is a very interesting story. I was, as you are aware, CEO and Vice-Chairman of HCL Technologies and I had just written a book called ‘Employees First, Customer Second’, which sold very well, and New York Times had just done an article on the book. So, I was feeling very good, my head was about ten times larger than what you see today. I did a mistake by walking up to my mother, who was a school teacher and told her, “Look, how proud you should be of your son and aren’t you lucky that this son was born to you”. She being a school teacher, took out a copy, tore it in half and wrote one word on it, put it in a used envel