Satyam board says company on way to resurrection

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The beleagured IT firm Satyam Computer cannot hold its board meeting Saturday as scheduled earlier, Minister for Company Affairs Prem Chand Gupta said here Friday. 'The government is restraining all current directors from the board.

January 8th, 2009 HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI - The government Friday evening superseded the Satyam board and dismissed three remaining directors, including two independent ones, of the tainted IT major. The government has cancelled a Satyam board meeting scheduled for Saturday in Hyderabad.

January 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Sunday named a three-member board, including former Nasscom chief Kiran Karnic and Deepak Parikh, chairman of HDFC, to oversee the functioning of scam-tainted Satyam Computers. Minister of Corporate Affairs Premchand Gupta told reporters here that the board, whose third member will be C.

March 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Satyam board met on Friday to assess the proposals of the bidders for acquiring up to 51% stake in the embattled IT company, and discuss several other issues. The Government-appointed company board has received several expressions of interest, including those from engineering major Larsen and Toubro, B K Modi-led Spice Group, software firm Tech Mahindra and iGate, a company official said after the meeting.

April 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - Tech Mahindra, the IT arm of auto major Mahindra and Mahindra, Monday won the bid for India's fourth largest software exporter Satyam Computer. Satyam's new board of directors, which met here to select the highest bidder, chose Tech Mahindra following its bid of Rs.1,757 crore ($351.4 million) for 31 percent stake in the scam-tainted IT giant.

January 11th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The three-member board appointed by the central government to bring back financial order to the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services began its meeting here Monday. A Satyam spokesperson said the meeting began at the company's headquarters in Hitec City at 11 a.m.

January 22nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Three names have been shortlisted for the posts of chief executive officer and chief financial officer in fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services, the new board announced Friday. The selections will be taken next week.

January 7th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Mendu Rammohan Rao, dean of the prestigious International School of Business (ISB) here, Thursday resigned from his position in the wake of the financial fraud at Satyam Computers. He was a member of the Satyam board when the irregularities were committed.

February 4th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The scam-hit Satyam Computer Services Thursday appointed a company veteran, A.S. Murty, as its chief executive, while naming two other outside experts as advisors to the reconstituted board.

January 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Scam-tainted IT bellwether Satyam Computer Services Ltd late Friday welcomed the central government's move to appoint 10 nominees as directors to replace the current board. 'We welcome this decision which will ensure uninterrupted operations and restore the confidence of all employees, customers and shareholders across the globe,' the Hyderabad-based company said in a statement.

January 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - Satyam Computer Services Ltd founder chairman B Ramalinga Raju and managing director B Rama Raju resigned from the board Wednesday, the company announced. In a notification to the stock exchanges, the Hyderabad-based IT firm said Ramalinga Raju and Rama Raju have tendered the resignations earlier in the day and the regulator (SEBI) has been informed.

April 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Tech Mahindra, the new owner of scam-hit Satyam Computer Services, will announce an 'open offer' Tuesday to obtain an additional 20 percent stake in the software major, Satyam chairman Kiran Karnik said here Monday. Tech Mahindra, which deposited Rs.2,910 crore (Rs.29.1 billion) in an escrow account Monday for a 31 percent stake in Satyam, will see its total holding increase to 51 percent after the open offer.

January 12th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Former interim CEO of Satyam Computer Services Ram Mynampati is in the US, the company clarified Tuesday while denying reports that he had been arrested by Andhra Pradesh police. A Satyam spokesperson said Mynampati was meeting clients in the US and the reports of his arrest and interrogation were not true.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has taken no view on the proposals from domestic and international companies to buy the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services and left the decision to its new board, Corporate Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta has said. 'There are many corporate houses, they are interested,' Gupta told reporters on being asked if the government was interested in hiving off the beleaguered firm to engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The newly-appointed member of the Satyam board of directors, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) chief mentor Tarun Das, Friday said the main priority was to safeguard the interests of employees, customers and investors of the scam-tainted IT company. Minister for Corporate Affairs P.C.