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  • ITC Aashirvaad gets fibre in the spotlight

    ITC Aashirvaad gets fibre in the spotlight

    MUMBAI: Looks like India’s finally talking roughage without getting rough around the edges. As part of Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2025, ITC Aashirvaad teamed up with the Institute of Home Economics (Delhi University) to host an engaging seminar on the role of dietary fibre in health.

    With digestive health concerns on the rise, recent surveys reveal that over 70 per cent of Indians fall short of daily fibre needs, women more than men. The findings, from Aashirvaad’s multigrain happy tummy survey covering eight lakh respondents, point to an urgent need for dietary awareness as low fibre intake is increasingly linked to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

    AIIMS dietitian Richa Jaiswal led the expert session, stressing how fibre-rich foods are vital for both prevention and management of non-communicable diseases. “There’s an urgent need to re-emphasise fibre’s role in maintaining gut health,” she said, urging future nutritionists to be champions of awareness.

    Reinforcing the brand’s commitment, Aashirvaad Staples and Meals, ITC Ltd. vice president & head of marketing Abhishek Mehrotra, said the initiative aligns with ITC’s ‘Help India eat better’ mission to empower consumers through nutrition education.

    Echoing this, ITC Ltd. vice president & head of food sciences Shantanu Das, added that the company continues to focus on science-backed dietary solutions to improve community well-being.

    The session wrapped up with a spirited Q&A and a creative inter-college recipe contest, where students reinvented traditional dishes with a nutritious twist, proving that when it comes to better health, the secret really is in the fibre.

  • Abhijit Kishore named Vodafone Idea’s new chief executive

    Abhijit Kishore named Vodafone Idea’s new chief executive

    MUMBAI: Vodafone Idea has appointed Abhijit Kishore as its new chief executive officer. A long-time company insider, Kishore has spent more than five years in senior roles at the struggling carrier, including chief operating officer and chief enterprise business officer.

    Before joining Vodafone Idea, he held leadership positions at Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications, steering mobility, enterprise and circle operations across key markets. Over two decades in telecoms, Kishore has managed P&Ls from Kerala to Gujarat, notching up operational turnarounds and enterprise growth.

    An alumnus of Delhi University and the Fore School of Management, he has sharpened his management credentials with stints at IIM Ahmedabad and London Business School. His appointment comes as Vodafone Idea wrestles with heavy debt, a bruising price war and the need to raise capital for 5G roll-out.

  • NDTV’s K Yegneshwara Iyer joins Times Network as VP & head technology

    NDTV’s K Yegneshwara Iyer joins Times Network as VP & head technology

    MUMBAI: NDTV chief information officer K Yegneshwara Iyer has joined Times Network as vice president & head of technology. 

     

    A source close to the development informs Indiantelevision.com, “He will work closely with the business and leadership teams to ensure that the Network is at the cutting edge of technology.”

     

    According to the source, while Iyer will report to Times Network MD and CEO M K Anand, the company’s Technical and Broadcasting teams will directly report in to Iyer.

     

    Iyer has 27 years of experience and spent the last 18 years at NDTV. Prior to that, he had over nine years of experience in setting up networks and developing business software.

     

    In his long stint at NDTV, he was the software architect as well as a part of the development team that developed arguably India’s fastest election results platform. He is a co-applicant in a patent application for real time graphics on television. He has launched greenfield projects co-ordinating with multiple internal and external teams and business verticals within NDTV, integrated traditional and digital processes between TV, Internet and mobiles, conceptualised and delivered innovative technical processes in news broadcast television, developed mobile apps and mobile app back-end architecture.

     

    Iyer has done his BA from Delhi University and has done CISA and CISM from ISACA.