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  At Rs 1.5 lakh crore, Mukesh Ambani’s wealth equals Estonia's GDP; tops Forbes list

  October 20, 2016 18:41 IST

  Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Mukesh Ambani who has been named among India's 100 wealthiest big shots for the ninth sequential year has his fortune equivalent to Estonia's GDP, says Forbes India. Mukesh Ambani,

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  PremjiInvest picks up Rs 200 cr stake in Lenskart

  September 07, 2016 12:07 IST

  Wipro Chairman Azim Premji’s ambitious venture, PremjiInvest, has made its latest bet on retail with an investment in eyewear retailer Lenskart. According to a report in Eonomic Times, PremjiInvest has invested about Rs 200 crore

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  Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar only Indians in Forbes list of 100 richest tech tycoons

  August 11, 2016 14:00 IST

  Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indians billionaires to feature in a list of the world’s richest tech tycoons. What is more remarkable is that they rank in

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  Wipro chairman Azim Premji to donate more to public-spirited causes

  June 29, 2016 18:16 IST

  New Delhi: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, who had already donated 39 per cent of his wealth to Azim Premji Foundation for public welfare has said that he will donate more in the coming days.

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  Top 10 richest Indians in the world

  March 02, 2016 17:47 IST

  New Delhi: AS on today, India has a higher number of billionaires than it ever had, according to Forbes' annual ranking of billionaires.Forbes magazine announced the annual list of world's richest person on Tuesday (March

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  Microsoft founder Bill Gates tops worlds billionaire list

  January 29, 2016 8:44 IST

  Bengaluru: India's richest business mogul Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Indian IT czar Azim Premji of Wipro and drug maker Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma rank among world's top 50 wealthiest billionaires.According to Wealth-X and

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  Mukesh, Premji, Shanghvi among top 50 in world wealthiest list

  January 28, 2016 20:18 IST

  New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Azim Premji of Wipro and Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma are the only three Indians to have made it to a global list 50 of the wealthiest people

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  Wipro Limited Appoints TK Kurien as Executive Vice Chairman; Abidali Neemuchwala is new CEO

  January 04, 2016 17:36 IST

  Bangalore: Wipro, India based global information technology, consulting and business process services company today announced the appointment of TK Kurien as the Executive Vice Chairman and Abidali Z Neemuchwala as the Chief Executive Officer and

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  Rich Indians needs to be more generous : Azim Premji

  December 13, 2015 16:15 IST

  Bengaluru:  IT Czar Azim Premji, who has donated about $8.5 billion--almost half of his stake holding in Wipro to charitable causes, has appealed to the rich Indians to be more forthcoming  in giving away their

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  Warren Buffet to Mark Zuckerberg: 10 major charitable donations

  December 02, 2015 9:53 IST

  New Delhi: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that he will give away almost all his wealth (a whopping $45 billion) to charity in celebration of her new born baby girl 'Max'.With this announcement,

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  Microsoft's Satya Nadella to co-chair next year WEF meet

  November 10, 2015 23:36 IST

  New Delhi: Microsoft chief Satya Nadella will co-chair the World Economic Forum's annual meet in January, an event that is likely to be attended by over 100 Indian business leaders.More than 2,500 leaders from across

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  Zafar Sareshwala preferred over Amitabh, Gulzar, Azim Premji for Urdu University Chancellor post

  India | September 21, 2015 19:51 IST

  New Delhi: Zafar Sareshwala, who was Muslim face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election campaign, has been preferred over personalities like Amitabh Bachchan, Gulzar and Azim Premji for the post of Chancellor of Maulana Azad

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  Premji, Nadar among Forbes' 20 richest people in tech

  August 12, 2015 21:24 IST

  New York:  Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indian tycoons in the top 20 richest people in the world of technology, according to an inaugural list by Forbes,

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  Strong demand for IT services, says Wipro's Azim Premji

  July 23, 2015 8:36 IST

  Bengaluru:  There was a strong demand for IT services in Europe and the US where the economy gained a lot of strength, Wipro chairman and IT czar Azim Premji said on Wednesday."With the US economy

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  Azim Premji gives half of his stake in Wipro for charity

  India | July 08, 2015 21:47 IST

  Bengaluru:  IT czar Azim Premji has given away almost half of his stakeholding in Wipro, India's third largest exporter of software services, to philanthrophy.The Wipro's billionaire founder has given away an additional 18 per cent

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  Wipro appoints Azim Premji's son Rishad to board of directors

  April 22, 2015 10:09 IST

  New Delhi: Software major Wipro on Tuesday appointed its chairman Azim Premji's 38-year-old son Rishad Premji to the board as a director from May 1.The appointment was announced alongside Wipro's fourth-quarter earnings and a modest

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  Premji clarifies on attending RSS body event

  Politics | April 05, 2015 22:55 IST

  New Delhi: Wipro Group chairman Azim Premji, who attended an event organised by an RSS body near Delhi today, said his presence did not mean that he endorsed the view of the forum.Addressing a session

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  Need to create a peaceful society: Mohan Bhagwat

  Politics | April 05, 2015 21:20 IST

  New Delhi: The RSS will expand its work and make it more organised to serve all sections, its chief Mohan Bhagwat said today, insisting that it would be “without any distinction, motives or selfish reasons”.The

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  Wipro to introduce new compensation structure

  March 12, 2015 9:50 IST

  New Delhi: Wipro will roll out a new compensation structure for its software and sales teams with a focus on incremental revenue.The company aims to catch up with larger, faster-growing rivals after lagging industry growth

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  Azim Premji calls on Narendra Modi

  Politics | October 31, 2014 7:59 IST

  New Delhi: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji  called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on thursday."Chairman, Wipro Shri Azim Premji called on the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, here today," an official statement from Prime Minister's Office