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NEW DELHI Quinten Rollins Vapor Untouchable Jersey , Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The CEO and managing director of India's second largest software exporter Infosys, Vishal Sikka, resigned Friday.
The Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Sikka "effective immediately," the company said in a statement.
He was appointed to the top post in June 2014.
In the statement, the company also said that its chief operating officer U.B. Pravin Rao has been appointed as the interim-managing director and chief executive.
However Damarious Randall Vapor Untouchable Jersey , Sikka will continue his association with the company as executive vice chairman till a new full-time CEO is appointed, Infosys said in a notice to the country's stock exchanges.
Shares of the company tumbled nearly 7 percent, following Sikka's resignation.
This is the second time in the past four years that Infosys has plunged into a leadership crisis ever since the founder members retired from the top management.
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PARIS, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- China has been very active and constructive in the ongoing climate change negotiations here Kenny Clark Vapor Untouchable Jersey , former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Stressing that the current COP21 had to be a growth opportunity for developing countries, de Boer said: ""For many developing countries, priority number one is still economic growth and poverty eradication.""
But for China, ""changing the mode of economic growth and making economic growth greener, is very much a top priority today Vince Biegel Vapor Untouchable Jersey ,"" said de Boer, who is now director general of the Global Green Growth Institute.
""What is happening at this conference (COP21) is in line with that objective,"" he added.
In line with this, De Boer hailed China's South-South Cooperation Fund on Climate Change which aims to help other developing countries cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the effects of global warming.
""It is a sign that the position of China on the international landscape is changing, that China is contributing very actively to helping other countries to engage on climate change Jamaal Williams Vapor Untouchable Jersey ,"" de Boer told Xinhua.
De Boer also believed the Paris conference would be a success given that ""the scientific understanding of the issue is much stronger,"" and countries ""recognize the model of economic growth needs to change fundamentally.""
As for how things were progressing at the climate talks: ""We had more than 150 leaders here on the first day. So that's a sign of universal political commitment,"" he said, adding that receiving action plans from 185 countries was ""a sign of willingness to act by nearly all the nations of the world.""
However, according to him Montravius Adams Vapor Untouchable Jersey , there were still financing challenges and questions about the practical implementation of the action plans.
Speaking of his expectations of the outcome, de Boer thought the Paris agreement would be very ""practical.""
""I hope that this conference will also agree that every five years we need to review whether action is actually being taken,"" he expressed, echoing the joint statement of Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Francois Hollande at the beginning of November in Beijing, who also called for a five-year review.
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DAMASCUS Josh Jones Vapor Untouchable Jersey , March 17 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian air defense system downed a U.S. drone over the country's coastal city of Latakia Tuesday evening, according to the state-run al-Ekhbaria TV.
The TV footage purportedly showed the plane wreckage and a number of Syrian soldiers checking it.
PARIS, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Paris council voted in favor of supporting the French capital city's bid for the 2024 Olympic Games here Monday morning.
After the City Hall of 163 councilors giving its backing to mayor Anne Hidalgo's resolution, Paris moved a decisive step toward officially announcing a bid with most political obstacles having been tackled.
"This is an historical vote which marks an important moment of our collective life," said the female mayor. "Now we're off on an Olympic adventure."
French president Francois Hollande expressed his support on the idea of Paris bidding for the Games five months ago.
"For the 2024 Olympic Games Kevin King Vapor Untouchable Jersey , I'm in favor of the city if Paris decides to put in a bid for the Games," he told a prime-time television interview "Francois Hollande faces French people" on November 6, 2014.
"We need big events," added the president, citing the climate conference in 2025 and the Euro 2016 soccer event.
Hidalgo Marwin Evans Packers Jersey , who was reticent for a long time, has in recent months come round to agree that Paris should host the grand event exactly 100 years after it last held the Games.
She said on Monday that a new feasibility study, the Islamist attacks in the city in January, and the likely contribution of 1.8 billion euros from the International Olympic Committee had changed her mind.
Her resolution approved Monday says the bid should be led by athletes and would benefit the country's struggling economy.
Hidalgo's deputy for sport Jean-Francois Martins echoed by saying that "sport has given Paris its shape, and it should keep doing so".
The cost of bidding itself would reach 60 million euros Geronimo Allison Packers Jersey , with part of the budget likely to be obtained through crowd funding, according to Martins.
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