Appointments

• Praveen Gupta has been appointed as Managing Director & CEO of SBI Capital Markets Ltd (the Merchant Banking arm of State Bank of India) as on June 22, 2015. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Managing Director and CFO of SBI.
• Ujjwal Batria has been appointed as Country CEO of Lafarge India. Been with the company for the past 16 years, prior to his current appointment, Batria was the Managing Director of Lafarge India Pvt Ltd.
• WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, recently appointed Anand Gopaladesikan as its new Managing Director of its subsidiary Wacker Chemie India Pvt Ltd, Mumbai.

Sobha Ltd has bagged top ranks in Track2Realty´s ´Brand X Report- 2014-15Æ. The recognitions won include: Top National Realty Brand across Asset class in India; Top Realty Brand in South India across Asset class; Top Residential Developer in India; and Top Real Estate Company in Public Perception across India.

IIT-Delhi has been ranked as the best engineering college in India while Kolkata´s Jadavpur University is leading the pack among government colleges: EDU-RAND 2015 rankings.

Volvo Trucks becomes the first premium European truck brand to cross the landmark of 10,000 truck deliveries in India.