March 18, 2016 - Times Internet elevates Satyan Gajwani as MD; Gautam Sinha becomes CEO

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Invite Friends Blog Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk This has been a good week. Parliament has passed 7 bills, including the Real Estate bill and the Aadhaar bill. Bills indicate intent, the action still has to happen on the ground. Action of the kind taken by Temsutula Imsong, who is cleaning up Varanasi, one ghat at a time. Temsutula is co-founder of Sakaar Sewa Samiti, a non-profit involved in rural development. It's people like her and her army of volunteers who are turning words into action, rather than the local government, which dumps the garbage across the river whenever a VIP arrives. The citizens of India are waking up to the consistent calls to action from the top, it's time the government machinery woke up too - Comment Digital Times Internet elevates Satyan Gajwani as MD; Gautam Sinha becomes CEO In December, TIL brought in Gulshan Verma as chief revenue officer. 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