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The Week (Indian Magazine)
''The Week'' is an Indian news magazine founded in the year 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd. The magazine is published from Kochi and is currently printed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kottayam. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it is the largest circulated English news magazine in India. The magazine covers politics, entertainment, social issues, trends, technology and lifestyle. History Chief editors ''The Week'' was launched by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd in December, 1982, and has had two chief editors, before the designation was discontinued. * K. M. Mathew (Padma Bhushan, 1998), the founder chief editor, remained in office until 25 December 1988. Popularly known as Mathukuttychayan, he was chairman of the Press Trust of India, president of the Indian Newspaper Society and chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He died on 1 August 2010. The obit which appeared in ''The Times of India'' said, "The highly acclaimed Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Press Holdings
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPHL) was an organisation with businesses in property and aged care in Singapore. Since its takeover by Cuscaden Peak in 2022, it has been renamed Cuscaden Peak Investments. Prior to 1 December 2021, SPHL was in the media business as well with a reach in the print, digital, radio, and outdoor media. It formed part of a duopoly on the mass media of Singapore, with the other player being Mediacorp. SPHL had over 4,000 employees, including a team of approximately 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating around the world. 2,500 of the staff, including the journalists and its media business were subsequently transferred to SPH Media Trust. The company was one of the country's "blue-chip" counters on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX) until its delisting on 13 May 2022 following its acquisition by Cuscaden Peak. It was also a constituent of the Straits Times Index until its removal on 22 June 2020. History 1984: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuja Chauhan
Anuja Chauhan ( hi, अनुजा चौहान) is an Indian author, advertiser and screenwriter. As a writer, she is known for ''The Zoya Factor'' (2008), '' Battle For Bittora'' (2010), ''Those Pricey Thakur Girls'' (2013), ''The House That BJ Built'' (2015),''Baaz'' (2017), and ''Club You To Death'' (2021). She worked at the JWT advertising agency in India for over 17 years, becoming vice-president and executive creative director before resigning in 2010 to pursue a full-time literary career. Early life and education Born in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Chauhan spent most of her childhood in various cantonment towns in North India, as her father served in the Indian Army. He took premature retirement at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, migrating to Australia thereafter. She is the youngest of four sisters: Padmini, Rohini, Nandini, and Anuja. Her older sister Nandini Bajpai is also an author. She did her schooling at the Army Public School, New Delhi, Soph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibek Debroy
Bibek Debroy is an Indian economist, serving as the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. Debroy has made significant contributions to game theory, economic theory, income and social inequalities, poverty, law reforms, railway reforms and Indology among others. He is also an anchor for the fortnightly show ''Itihasa'' on Sansad TV. From its inception in January 2015, till June 2019, Mr. Debroy was a member of the NITI Aayog, the think tank of the Indian Government. He was awarded the Padma Shri (the fourth-highest civilian honour in India) in 2015. In 2016, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by US-India Business Summit. Early life and education Debroy was born in Shillong, now in Meghalaya, on 25 January 1955. His grandparents had migrated from Sylhet, now in Bangladesh; his paternal grandfather and his father migrating as late as 1948. His father went on to join the Indian Audit and Accounts Service. Bibek Debroy started his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navtej Sarna
Navtej Singh Sarna (born 1957) is an Indian author-columnist, diplomat and former List of ambassadors of India to the United States, Indian Ambassador to the United States. He previously served as the High Commission of India to the United Kingdom, High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, and the Ambassador to Israel.Navtej Sarna, envoy to Israel ''The Hindu'', 30 March 2008. Early life and career He was born in Jalandhar, East Punjab, India to noted writer in Punjabi, Mohinder Singh Sarna and Punjabi poetess and translator Surjit Sarna, and did his schooling from St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun. Later he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1980. He was the longest-serving spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Ministry (six years),[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and author. She has been a reporter and news anchor at NDTV and Tiranga TV. She currently runs her own digital news channel called 'MoJo Story'. She is also an opinion columnist with '' The Hindustan Times'' and '' The Washington Post''. Dutt was part of NDTV's team for 21 years, until she left the channel in January 2017. She emerged as a prominent figure after her frontline war reporting on the Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. Dutt has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. Dutt was one of the journalists taped in the Radia tapes controversy. At NDTV, Dutt was the host of the weekly, award-winning talk-show ''We The People'' as well as the daily prime-time show ''The Buck Stops Here.'' Personal life She was born in New Delhi to S. P. Dutt, an Air India official, and Prabha Dutt, who was a well-known journalist with the '' Hindust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor (; ; born 9 March 1956 in London, England ) is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of All India Professionals Congress, he formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and on Informational Technology. Born in London, UK, and raised in India, Tharoor worked across the world, graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1975 and culminated his studies in 1978 with a doctorate in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. At the age of 22, he was the youngest person at the time to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Mani Shankar Aiyar (born 10 April 1941) is an Indian politician and former career civil servant diplomat. He is a member of the Indian National Congress Party. He represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the 10th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha, and 14th Lok Sabha. He was a nominated member of parliament from Rajya Sabha. He was defeated from Mayiladuthurai in 2014 Lok Sabha election where he finished fourth and lost his deposit. He is also a part of the Hon. Board of Advisors of IIMUN. Early life and education Mani Shankar Aiyar is the son of Vaidyanatha Shankar Aiyar, a chartered accountant, and Bhagyalakshmi Shankar Aiyar. He was born in Laxmi Mansions, Lahore in British India, which as post-Partition refugee property, became house for the family of Saadat Hassan Manto. His older brother is the journalist, Swaminathan Aiyar. He lost his father at age 12 in an air crash. He attended Welham Boys' School, The Doon School and obtained B.A. in economics from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swara Bhaskar
Swara Bhasker (also spelled Bhaskar; born 9 April 1988) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. Best known for her supporting work in mainstream productions and starring roles in independent films, she has won two Screen Awards and has been nominated for a Filmfare Award on three occasions. Swara made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2009 drama '' Madholal Keep Walking'', a commercial failure. She got wider recognition for her supporting role in the commercially 2011 successful romantic comedy ''Tanu Weds Manu''. Her performance in the film was well received by critics and she garnered a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Swara garnered further praise for her performance in the critically acclaimed romantic drama ''Raanjhanaa'' (2013), the role earned her second Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. She then reprised her role from ''Tanu Weds Manu'' in the film's sequel and later appeared in the family drama ''Prem Ratan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meenakshi Lekhi
Meenakshi Lekhi (born 30 April 1967) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture of India from 7 July 2021. She is a Member of Parliament from New Delhi Parliamentary constituency in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party./Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4717 She is also a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. She won the high-profile New Delhi parliamentary constituency as a BJP candidate in the 2014 elections and was re-elected in 2019. In July 2016, she was appointed as chairperson of the Committee on Privileges of the Lok Sabha in Parliament. On 26 July 2019, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla appointed Lekhi as a chairperson of parliamentary committee on Public Undertakings and is continuing since then in that position. Besides writing articles in journals, periodicals and newspapers on socio-political issues, she participates in various television shows on matters on national and international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shobhaa De
Shobha De (''née'' Rajadhyaksha, formerly Kilachand; born 7 January 1948) is an Indian novelist and columnist. She is best known for her depiction of socialites and sex in her works of fiction, for which she has been referred to as the "Jackie Collins of India." Early life and education Shobhaa De was born on 7 January 1948 in Mumbai into a Marathi Brahmin family. Her father was a district court judge, and her mother was a home-maker. The youngest of four siblings, she has two sisters and a brother. Shobha grew up in Mumbai, where she attended Queen Mary School. She graduated from Saint Xavier's College. Career At age 17, she began her career as a model, which lasted for five years. At age 20, she began her career as a journalist, writing "agony aunt" advice columns and features for society magazines. She founded the magazine ''Stardust'' at age 23, which included Bollywood interviews, gossip, and photographs. In the 1980s, she contributed to the Sunday magazine section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjaya Baru
Sanjaya Baru is a political commentator and policy analyst. He served as Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) until his resignation in April 2018. Prior to this, he was Director for Geo-Economics and Strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media advisor and chief spokesperson (PMO) from May 2004 until August 2008. He has also served as associate editor at '' The Economic Times'' and '' The Times of India'', and then chief editor at '' Business Standard''. Baru writes a column for '' Civil Society Magazine'' called Delhi Darbar. His father B. P. R. Vithal was Finance and Planning Secretary during Dr. Manmohan Singh's tenure as Secretary of Finance in the Government of India. ''The Accidental Prime Minister'' In April 2014, Penguin India published ''The Accidental Prime Minister'', Baru's tell-all memoir about his time at the Prime Minister's Office. In it, Baru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
