Balakrishnan News

A freelance cartoonist was arrested for a cartoon depicting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami allegedly in a distasteful manner.

Infosys founders participating in the Rs 13,000 crore buyback offer does not give any wrong signal to shareholders, the IT giant's former CFO V Balakrishnan has said.

Infosys' ex-CFO V Balakrishnan on Wednesday favoured bringing in Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of the company, saying his experience and understanding of clients made him a "good face" to lead the organisation in the current situation.

A former CFO of Infosys on Thursday said the company's decision to return Rs 13,000 crore to shareholders is 'too little' and appointing a co-Chairman would make the structure much more complex at board level.

Echoing co-founder N R Narayana Murthy's view, former Infosys CFO V Balakrishnan today said a pay hike for a top executive is "terrible for any leadership" when subordinates were being asked to "sacrifice" on wages.

Varughese George, national General Secretary of JD(U) said in a statement that, in Parliament, the Congress, the Left and Janata Dal (U) have taken strong position, highlighting people's difficulty in the aftermath of demonetisation.

Aravindan Balakrishnan, an Indian-origin Maoist leader, was sentenced to 23 years in jail by a UK court for a string of sexual assaults, rape of his own daughter for three decades.

The sentencing ends an over two-year police investigation into a case which Scotland Yard detectives described as "completely unique".