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Yahoo! set to enter India
Yahoo! Inc is all set to set its foot in India. The portal had earlier announced its plans for creating a India-centric portal. It will commence its operations in India within three months. The Santa Clara based company is setting up offices in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Yahoo!’s Indian model will be on the lines of Rediff.com and Indiainfo.com. The company has advertised in local newspapers to recruit technical and management professionals for its India operations.
Rediff.com insiders have laid fears of the outgo of its senior, experienced and well-trained professionals and executives to Yahoo India. “The staff outgo to Yahoo! is a bigger threat than the portal itself” said a senior official at Rediff.com.
Portals like Indiainfo.com, Rediff.com and Satyamonline.com will have to roll up their sleeves as the biggest international player is entering the Indian web space. In a recent report, Yahoo.com was the portal with the largest recall value. With all the resources, goodwill, popularity and the experience, Yahoo! is all set rule the portal market in India.
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Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
