Roshan Tamang, VP for news, sports and entertainment at Web18, has resigned. This is his last week at the Network18 Group firm. Tamang confirmed the development, but would not say where he was headed. According to a source, Tamang is joining Indiatimes as VP. We are awaiting comment from an…

The Internet Service Providers Association of India, an industry body of ISPs, has moved the Competition Commission of India alleging that the government’s delay in allowing Internet telephony is “favouring mobile operators and preventing fair competition,” Business Standard reports.  

TimesofIndia.com has launched an instant newspaper of sorts that it calls ‘2-Minute TOI’. Essentially a snapshot of the top news stories of the moment, the page features a 50-odd-word summary of 12 top stories on a single page. Each snippet links to the full story on the website. Times Internet…

In a happy-ending sequel to his March memo that effected pay cuts and sent waves of panic through India’s print media industry, BCCL CEO Ravi Dhariwal says “there is reason for us to look at the future more optimistically”. The memo, that was sent out on Friday to staffers at…

Times Internet Ltd COO Sunil Rajshekhar, who, we reported in May, was stepping down from Bennett, Coleman’s flagship Internet firm, has moved to group company Vijayanand Printers Ltd as CEO. VPL publishes Vijay Karnataka, The Times Of India Kannada and Bangalore Mirror. Rajshekhar confirmed the development, which e4m reported first.

In a rare and rather unusual development, the ministry of home affairs is moving to take legal action against two reporters of The Times of India, according to The Hindu, the Press Trust of India and The Indian Express. The offending story—Two ITBP Jawans Injured In China Border Firing—ran on…

Zoom business head M.K. Anand is joining UTV Global Broadcasting as CEO, according to multiple sources familiar with the development. Anand was not reachable for comment. Zoom CEO Suresh Bala confirmed that Anand is leaving the organization. Medianama first reported about Anand’s movement. UTV Global Broadcasting operates four channels—Bindass, Bindass…

We told you in March about the project. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, publisher of The Times of India, has started the circulation drive for a 32-page ‘premium edition’ of the paper that will appear on Saturdays and cost Rs6. BCCL chief marketing officer Rahul Kansal said there was no…

Business news channel NDTV Profit and business daily The Financial Express are in talks to forge a content partnership. NDTV Profit is run by Prannoy Roy-headed broadcaster NDTV Ltd and The Financial Express is published by The Indian Express Ltd, which also publishes the eponymous broadsheet. Spokespersons at both companies…

In exactly two months from launch, ET Now, the business news channel from Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, has toppled NDTV Profit to become the second most viewed channel in Metros. According to latest data from TAM Media Research, for the week ended 15 August, ET Now had a 26%…

A.P. Parigi, managing director of Entertainment Network Of India Ltd (ENIL), the company that runs the Radio Mirchi-branded network of radio stations, has decided to retire from active corporate life, his associates said Saturday evening. Parigi, among the seniormost executives at Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, will step down from…

Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, publisher of The Times of India and one of India’s largest media companies, has hired Shankar Narayan as CFO (via E4M). Narayan comes from beleaguered broadcaster INX Media Pvt. Ltd, where he was CFO from the time the company was founded. Narayan confirmed the development.…

Dileep Padgaonkar, a former executive editor of The Times of India, who famously said that next to the prime minister, he (TOI editor) held the most important job in the country, has joined the country’s most read English daily as a consulting editor. According to a company source, Padgaonkar, who…

ET Now, the latest addition to business news channels in the country, has slipped to the bottom in the latest weekly ratings. According to data from TAM Media Research, the channel, broadcast by Times Global Broadcasting, managed just 7% marketshare in metros for the week ended 4 July, while the…

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…

In an immensely positive development, The Economic Times has made public the code of conduct that will govern the journalists at India’s largest business daily as well as ET Now, the business news channel that went on air yesterday. The code also includes a code of financial conduct, which specifies…

After a rather long wait, ET Now, the fourth English business news channel in India, went on air this morning as part of a phased rollout and is available on some of the major cable networks. ET Now is broadcast by Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Bennett,…

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…

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…