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  • Mihir Sharma joins Bloomberg as columnist

    Mihir Sharma joins Bloomberg as columnist

    MUMBAI: Mihir Swarup Sharma has joined Bloomberg News as a view columnist. He will be focusing on business and economy in India.

    Sharma brings over 18 years of deep journalistic experience and was trained as an economist and political scientist in New Delhi and Boston. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a columnist at The Indian Express and Business Standard, and was conferred the Sriram Sanlam award in recognition for his work in financial journalism.

    A member of the Harvard University Fellowship between 2000 and 2003, Sharma has contributed significantly as an economist to reputable universities including his alma mater Harvard University, Institute of International Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    In 2015, Mihir published a book Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy to considerable critical acclaim. It was awarded the Tata LitLive Best Business Book of the Year and was long listed for the Financial Times–McKinsey Business Book of the Year.

  • Mihir Sharma joins Bloomberg as columnist

    Mihir Sharma joins Bloomberg as columnist

    MUMBAI: Mihir Swarup Sharma has joined Bloomberg News as a view columnist. He will be focusing on business and economy in India.

    Sharma brings over 18 years of deep journalistic experience and was trained as an economist and political scientist in New Delhi and Boston. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a columnist at The Indian Express and Business Standard, and was conferred the Sriram Sanlam award in recognition for his work in financial journalism.

    A member of the Harvard University Fellowship between 2000 and 2003, Sharma has contributed significantly as an economist to reputable universities including his alma mater Harvard University, Institute of International Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    In 2015, Mihir published a book Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy to considerable critical acclaim. It was awarded the Tata LitLive Best Business Book of the Year and was long listed for the Financial Times–McKinsey Business Book of the Year.

  • Puneet Jain is now group chief law officer in TV Today Network

    Puneet Jain is now group chief law officer in TV Today Network

    MUMBAI: TV Today Network’s Puneet Jain has been redesignated as group chief law and compliance officer, company secretary and vice president (Internal Audit) as per a filing by the company at the stock exchanges. He was earlier the group head- legal and compliance and company secretary and vice president (Internal Audit).

    Jain has been with the network since April 1994. He has served in roles as the DGM Finance and general manager finance, accounts and company secretary with the company.

  • Puneet Jain is now group chief law officer in TV Today Network

    Puneet Jain is now group chief law officer in TV Today Network

    MUMBAI: TV Today Network’s Puneet Jain has been redesignated as group chief law and compliance officer, company secretary and vice president (Internal Audit) as per a filing by the company at the stock exchanges. He was earlier the group head- legal and compliance and company secretary and vice president (Internal Audit).

    Jain has been with the network since April 1994. He has served in roles as the DGM Finance and general manager finance, accounts and company secretary with the company.

  • Subhash Chandra elected to Rajya Sabha as independent member

    Subhash Chandra elected to Rajya Sabha as independent member

    NEW DELHI: Essel Group Chairman and noted philanthropist Subhash Chandra has been elected to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate from Haryana.

    Chandra was supported by the Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party who receoived 29 votes.

    His election coincides with the Essel Group completing ninety years of existence.

    Chandra launched the first private satellite television channel Zee TV in 1992 and later the first private news channel Zee News.

    For his outstanding contributions to the media industry, Dr Chandra was awarded the 2011 International Emmy Directorate Award at the 39th International Emmy Awards in New York – first to receive the award recognizing excellence in television programming outside the United States.
    He also now presents a weekly Dr Subhash Chandra Show, where he shares the lessons learnt by him in his journey with an invited audience and an estimated 230+ million viewers across the country and overseas.

    Born on 30 November 1950, he dropped out of school in 1970 while in 10th grade to join family business of commission agent and trader who procured and supplied rice to Food Corporation of India.

    In the 1980s, he started manufacturing flexible packaging (mainly plastic tubes) for toothpaste, etc. under the name Essel Packaging. He followed up with a leisure park EsselWorld in north Mumbai. In 1992, he launched Zee Television, in collaboration with Li Ka Shing and the first online lottery and first Dish TV in India.

    His TV channels number around 70 in different languagesHe started the Indian Cricket League, a domestic Twenty20 league but failed.In November 2009, he took over management responsibility of the English Daily News & Analysis (DNA) newspaper. The DNA had been launched in 2005 in collaboration with the Dainik Bhaskar group/ Chandra is the founder-Chairman of the Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony, an interfaith group. He has donated land for Global Vipassana Pagoda at Borivili and contributed to the spread of this meditation method.

    Late last month, Chandra stepped down from the post of director and non-executive chairman of Zee Media.

  • Subhash Chandra elected to Rajya Sabha as independent member

    Subhash Chandra elected to Rajya Sabha as independent member

    NEW DELHI: Essel Group Chairman and noted philanthropist Subhash Chandra has been elected to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate from Haryana.

    Chandra was supported by the Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party who receoived 29 votes.

    His election coincides with the Essel Group completing ninety years of existence.

    Chandra launched the first private satellite television channel Zee TV in 1992 and later the first private news channel Zee News.

    For his outstanding contributions to the media industry, Dr Chandra was awarded the 2011 International Emmy Directorate Award at the 39th International Emmy Awards in New York – first to receive the award recognizing excellence in television programming outside the United States.
    He also now presents a weekly Dr Subhash Chandra Show, where he shares the lessons learnt by him in his journey with an invited audience and an estimated 230+ million viewers across the country and overseas.

    Born on 30 November 1950, he dropped out of school in 1970 while in 10th grade to join family business of commission agent and trader who procured and supplied rice to Food Corporation of India.

    In the 1980s, he started manufacturing flexible packaging (mainly plastic tubes) for toothpaste, etc. under the name Essel Packaging. He followed up with a leisure park EsselWorld in north Mumbai. In 1992, he launched Zee Television, in collaboration with Li Ka Shing and the first online lottery and first Dish TV in India.

    His TV channels number around 70 in different languagesHe started the Indian Cricket League, a domestic Twenty20 league but failed.In November 2009, he took over management responsibility of the English Daily News & Analysis (DNA) newspaper. The DNA had been launched in 2005 in collaboration with the Dainik Bhaskar group/ Chandra is the founder-Chairman of the Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony, an interfaith group. He has donated land for Global Vipassana Pagoda at Borivili and contributed to the spread of this meditation method.

    Late last month, Chandra stepped down from the post of director and non-executive chairman of Zee Media.

  • Star India appoints ex Mondelez director Narayan Sundararaman as Star Plus GM

    Star India appoints ex Mondelez director Narayan Sundararaman as Star Plus GM

    MUMBAI: Star India has yet appointed former Mondelez International director of process transformation Narayan Sundararaman as general manager of its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel Star Plus.

    Tasked with shaping the business agenda for the channel, Narayan Sundararaman will report to the network’s Entertainment CEO Amit Chopra.

    He will oversee drama and movie channels across national and regional channels in Hindi, English, Bengali and Marathi.

    Sundararaman comes from Mondelez International where he was Director for process transformation. Sundararaman was with Mondelez for about 17 years. Prior to Mondelez, he was with ITC for about three years. Sundararaman has also been a consultant in the marketing field for a while now.

  • Star India appoints ex Mondelez director Narayan Sundararaman as Star Plus GM

    Star India appoints ex Mondelez director Narayan Sundararaman as Star Plus GM

    MUMBAI: Star India has yet appointed former Mondelez International director of process transformation Narayan Sundararaman as general manager of its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel Star Plus.

    Tasked with shaping the business agenda for the channel, Narayan Sundararaman will report to the network’s Entertainment CEO Amit Chopra.

    He will oversee drama and movie channels across national and regional channels in Hindi, English, Bengali and Marathi.

    Sundararaman comes from Mondelez International where he was Director for process transformation. Sundararaman was with Mondelez for about 17 years. Prior to Mondelez, he was with ITC for about three years. Sundararaman has also been a consultant in the marketing field for a while now.

  • Keshet UK appoints David Williams as creative director non scripted

    Keshet UK appoints David Williams as creative director non scripted

    MUMBAI: Keshet UK has appointed David Williams in the newly created role of non-scripted Creative Director. Williams joins the company in July 2016 from BBC Entertainment North where he also held the role of Creative Director for four years.

    Leading the existing team, Williams will build on Keshet’s presence in the non-scripted genre. In his former role Williams lead the development of a range of new Entertainment and Factual Entertainment programmes across all BBC channels such as Call the Council and Junior Paramedics, as well as overseeing a number of returning series including the long-running Dragons’ Den. Before joining BBC Production, Williams was a Commissioning Editor in Entertainment at Channel 4 where he commissioned Made In Chelsea among other successful series. A founding member of the team on Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, he was later responsible for the entire franchise on behalf of Channel 4.

    Keshet UK managing director Sammy Nourmand said, “I have followed David’s career for a long time and am delighted to have prized him away from the BBC. His arrival further demonstrates Keshet’s ongoing willingness to invest in the UK and work with the best British talent.”

    Williams said, “It’s been a privilege to get my BBC badge of honour with the brilliant people of Entertainment North but the opportunity to return to my commercial roots with Keshet was too tempting to turn down. With big plans and creativity at their heart they feel like a fantastic fit and I can’t wait to get cracking.”

    The non scripted team at Keshet UK developed and produced the workplace dating show When Do You Get Off? for ITVBe in 2015. Other recent Keshet UK commissions include the co-productions, The A Word season two with Fifty Fathoms for BBC One and the Keshet International comedy drama Loaded (8 x 45’) for Channel 4 with Hillbilly Television.

  • Keshet UK appoints David Williams as creative director non scripted

    Keshet UK appoints David Williams as creative director non scripted

    MUMBAI: Keshet UK has appointed David Williams in the newly created role of non-scripted Creative Director. Williams joins the company in July 2016 from BBC Entertainment North where he also held the role of Creative Director for four years.

    Leading the existing team, Williams will build on Keshet’s presence in the non-scripted genre. In his former role Williams lead the development of a range of new Entertainment and Factual Entertainment programmes across all BBC channels such as Call the Council and Junior Paramedics, as well as overseeing a number of returning series including the long-running Dragons’ Den. Before joining BBC Production, Williams was a Commissioning Editor in Entertainment at Channel 4 where he commissioned Made In Chelsea among other successful series. A founding member of the team on Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, he was later responsible for the entire franchise on behalf of Channel 4.

    Keshet UK managing director Sammy Nourmand said, “I have followed David’s career for a long time and am delighted to have prized him away from the BBC. His arrival further demonstrates Keshet’s ongoing willingness to invest in the UK and work with the best British talent.”

    Williams said, “It’s been a privilege to get my BBC badge of honour with the brilliant people of Entertainment North but the opportunity to return to my commercial roots with Keshet was too tempting to turn down. With big plans and creativity at their heart they feel like a fantastic fit and I can’t wait to get cracking.”

    The non scripted team at Keshet UK developed and produced the workplace dating show When Do You Get Off? for ITVBe in 2015. Other recent Keshet UK commissions include the co-productions, The A Word season two with Fifty Fathoms for BBC One and the Keshet International comedy drama Loaded (8 x 45’) for Channel 4 with Hillbilly Television.