Alumni in the news - August 29

The Mumbai Traffic Police has created three traffic communities TrafficCity, TrafficEast and TrafficWest that are sponsored by ICICI Lombard and will send traffic alerts to the community members twice a day.

Members of the community would receive text messages during the morning and the evening. Based on the information received, commuters would be made aware of the traffic conditions they in turn can make an informed decision on which route to take. To facilitate even better commuting experience, Mumbai Traffic Police will disseminate additional messages in cases like traffic jams, accidents, processions, political rallies, religious congregations and floods.

Says Beerud Sheth, CEO, and SMS GupShup, “Knowing what route to take and the bottlenecks to avoid can make all the difference to your day We at SMS GupShup believe that delivering such vital information in a timely manner, via SMS to people in Mumbai would be a great value addition. We are happy to have ICICI Lombard on board with us on this initiative.”

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Imation Corp. today announced the promotion of Subodh Kulkarni ('85), PhD, to the position of senior vice president of Imation’s global commercial business and chief technology officer (CTO) for the company. Dr. Kulkarni was most recently vice president of the commercial business, manufacturing, and research, development, and engineering (RD&E) for Imation, a position he has held since 2007.

"As Imation has expanded its brand and product portfolio as part of its strategic transformation, Subodh has successfully guided our company’s continued global leadership in data storage across magnetic, optical, flash, and removable/external hard disk drive technologies. He is well known and respected within the storage industry," said Mark Lucas, president and chief operating officer of Imation.

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Three days after he snapped ties with the party over "ideological differences", former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strategist Sudheendra Kulkarni said he had joined an advisory committee in the railway ministry headed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

Denying reports that he had joined the Trinamool Congress, Kulkarni said he had been appointed on a "committee in the ministry of railways that has been constituted to advise the minister on how to innovatively usher in reforms in the railways".

Kulkarni, who was aide to senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and also adviser to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, categorically said: "I am not joining any political party."

The 58-year-old IIT graduate-journalist-political backroom boy was a Communist Party of India-Marxist card holder before he crossed over to the other side of the political spectrum.

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