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Nirupama Rao named director at Network 18
New Delhi, March 25
Former foreign secretary
Nirupama Rao has been named non-executive independent director of media
house Network 18, now a part of industrialist Mukesh Ambani's group.
In
an intimation to stock exchanges, the company said Rao's appointment
was taken up by the board of directors and approved Wednesday.
The
appointment also satisfies the requirement under the Companies Act of
having at least one woman director on the board of public limited
companies.
The soft-spoken Rao, a member of the Indian Foreign
Service (1973 batch) was India's foreign secretary for two years from
July 2009.
She was then appointed India's ambassador to the US from August 2011 to November 2013.
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