Hindustan Times is losing two senior editors. Foreign editor Amit Baruah is leaving to head BBC’s Hindi service. Baruah has been foreign editor since 2007, prior to which, he spent 19 years at The Hindu, variously as foreign correspondent at Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South East Asia, and also as…

As part of its continuing expansion of services focussed on the Indian market, The Wall Street Journal has hired Durga Raghunath, managing editor of Livemint.com. She will join WSJ as editor, mobile services and digital product development, India. Raghunath confirmed the development. She will report to Paul Beckett, WSJ’s India…

Rajendra Sinh, director, HR and change management at Essel Group, has resigned. Sinh joined the Subhash Chandra-promoted group in August 2007 and 15 July will be his last day at work. Essel Group is one of India’s largest diversified media conglomerates, with interests in broadcasting, distribution, direct-to-home and publishing. Group…

Sunil Rajshekhar, chief operating officer at Times Internet Ltd, is leaving the company, according to a person familiar with the situation. Rajshekhar will however, be around for a few months till a new CEO takes charge and will help through the transition period. Dinesh Wadhawan had stepped down as CEO…

Thirty four-year-old Rishi Khiani, who sold his Urban Eye Media to Network18 Media and Investments Ltd in 2006, has stepped down as chief operating officer at Web18. The Internet arm of Network18 has another COO in Joyson Thomas. “Rishi has decided to move on after completing his three-year contract. He…

Ajay Vidyasagar, who stepped down at Star India as president, content and new media, in March, has been named chief operating officer at Sun TV Network Ltd, one of India’s largest listed media companies. We had reported earlier about speculation that Vidyasagar was joining the Chennai-based broadcaster. Sun broadcasts 20…

The Wall St. Journal announced several personnel changes this afternoon, including that Almar Latour, who has been managing editor of WSJ.com, will become the new editor-in-chief of the WSJ’s Asian operations. His replacement to run the site is Rebecca Blumenstein, who was the bureau chief in China before returning to…

Anil Srivatsa, COO at The India Today Group’s Meow FM, has left the radio station he launched in 2007, reports AFaqs. Meow markets itself as a talk radio station targetted at women.  Senior journalist Gautam Adhikari stepped down as editorial pages editor at The Times of India. He is moving…

Venture capital fund Canaan Partners has appointed former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Syamtec executive Sharad Sharma as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Sharma earlier led Yahoo! India R&D and was the India General Manager and VP of Product Operations with Symantec. Sharma was responsible for turning around the operations of Symantec’s, formerly VERITAS…

Scam-hit Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that P.S. Saminathan, who was barred by the capital market regulator Sebi recently, is stepping down as chairman of the company. He will, however, continue as managing director. N. Narayanan, a promoter-director of the company, will take over as…

Gautam Adhikari, a well-regarded journalist, academic and television commentator, is stepping down as the editorial pages editor at The Times of India effective June 5. He was also group editorial advisor to The Times Group as well as dean at the Times Centre for Media Studies. “I’m going back to…

The Bhaskar Group, publisher of India’s second largest read daily, Dainik Bhaskar, has named K. Yatish Rajawat as managing editor responsible for all group publications. Previously, Rajawat was editor-in-chief of Business Bhaskar, the group’s Hindi business daily that was launched in June 2008. Rajawat confirmed the development. He will continue…

Bigflix.com, the video-on-demand and video rental service from the Reliance ADA Group, today named Preetam Shah as vice-president for international business development. Shah is currently VP for US venture operations at group firm Reliance Capital. His responsibilities at BigFlix will be in addition to those at Reliance Capital, the company…

Yash Khanna, executive vice-president (corporate communication) at Star India, is leaving the company, becoming the fourth senior executive to quit in two months at the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster. Khanna joined Star in 1992, as the second employee of the organisation in India, at a time when it was a satellite…

Sanjay Trehan, who recently quit as the CEO of NDTV Convergence after a two-year stint, is headed to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and will head MSN, reporting to Microsoft MD Hemant Sachdev, reports E4M. When contacted, Trehan declined to comment. 

Shortly after CEO Ravi Dhariwal clearly told his employees that the times were bad, G. Subramaniam has stepped down as the chief financial officer of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. S. Sivakumar, CEO of Times Private Treaties, the group’s ads-for-equities program, will now also oversee the finance function. Subramaniam declined…

Group editorial Director Shishir Joshi as well as editor Krishna Warrier have left Mumbai-headquartered publisher Mid Day Multimedia Ltd. Abhijit Mazumdar, thus far resident editor of the tabloid’s New Delhi edition, has been named executive editor incharge of all Mid Day editions. The company has decided not to fill the…

Rajrishi Singhal, executive editor at The Times of India, who writes the Monday Mocha column in The Economic Times, is leaving publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd after a 15-year stint to head up research at Dhanalakshmi Bank, according to our sources. Singhal was the top editor at ET with…

Web18’s chief technology officer Varun Singh has confirmed what we reported last week. “I have put in my papers at Web18 and i’m leaving to start my own company,” Singh said. Singh, 27, has set up ScalArc Inc., a Delaware, US-incorporated consulting firm that will help web companies optimize infrastructure…