MN Rao appointed DG of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard

The Central government on Friday appointed M Nageswar Rao, Additional Director of CBI as the Director General of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard.

As per the government order, he will continue to hold the post till superannuation in July 2020.

LinkedIn appoints Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for India

LinkedIn, a social network for professionals owned by American technology company Microsoft, named Ashutosh Gupta as country manager for India, its second such appointment in six months.

The previous country manager, Mahesh Narayanan, said he left LinkedIn to pursue other opportunities in the country’s fast-growing digital ecosystem.

Gupta will take over in September and report to Olivier Legrand, LinkedIn’s managing director for the Asia-Pacific region.