r thyagarajan

Veteran journalist and Dravidian ideologue, r thyagarajan, known better by his pen name of Chinnakuthoosi, passed away on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness at the age of 77.

In the nearly four decades of shepherding the Shriram Group, r thyagarajan, 75, has come to be recognised as an outlier.

Time and remuneration have never a subject of concern for Kilimanoor r thyagarajan, who devoted his life to teaching violin, said health minister V S Sivakumar. He was inaugurating 'Thyagaraja Vybhavam', the 70th birthday celebrations of the famous violinist here on Friday.

The government also posthumously conferred the Padma Bhushan on superstar Rajesh Khanna and satirist Jaspal Bhatti. Actress Sharmila Tagore, cricketer Rahul Dravid and Olympic boxing medal winner Mary Kom too were conferred the Padma Bhushan.

r thyagarajan is the founder of Shriram Group, a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that employs 108,000 people and operates in everything from insurance to stockbroking. Thyagarajan built his fortune extending credit to low-income borrowers shunned by banks.

A day after both IDFC and Shriram groups aborted the merger process, the stock prices of their group companies saw a smart rise on Tuesday, even as Shriram Group founder r thyagarajan said, “There still is a probability that the merger might happen and that parties could restart the process.”

MYSORE: The cheap labour that India boasted of would no longer have a comeptitive edge, said Dr.G. Thyagarajan, scientific secretary, COSTED Secretariat, Chennai, on Monday here. The focus will be design, production quality, science and technology in future, he added.

MYSORE: The cheap labour that India boasted of would no longer have a comeptitive edge, said Dr.G. Thyagarajan, scientific secretary, COSTED Secretariat, Chennai, on Monday here. The focus will be design, production quality, science and technology in future, he added.

When the chips were down for Rajesh Khanna post-1976, producers of the southern film industry stood by him.

Even though there are many lookalikes of MGR, Thyagarajan is prominent mainly because of his dual role in singing and acting like the way MGR used to do in movies.

Companies go all out to retain talent, some dole out hefty pay packets, many others offer stock options. It is all about employee retention.

Awareness on toxicology is important among the public as food safety and public trust are under threat and debate, former director of CSIR labs G Thyagarajan has said.

In India, insurance broking is only a decade old, and is still evolving. Brokers have still not reached the scale to expand into the commercial world. At the same time, the market is changing and it is estimated that 20-25% of the commercial lines’ insurances are placed through brokers. Among larger corporates, it is significantly higher.

Piramal Enterprises on Thursday said it will buy a 20% stake in Shriram Capital, a Chennai-headquartered unlisted financial services company, for Rs 2,014 crore.