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Aspect Sports renews Pinkathon partnership for Delhi edition
Official Sports Partner supports women runners on 8 March 2026 event.
MUMBAI: This Women’s Day, Aspect Sports is lacing up to run alongside thousands of women because when the starting gun fires, empowerment isn’t just cheered, it’s paced. Aspect Sports has extended its association as official sports partner for the 8th edition of Pinkathon Delhi, set for 8 March 2026 to coincide with International Women’s Day celebrations. The partnership builds on the momentum from the Mumbai edition, doubling down on structured training, guidance and long-term engagement to encourage more women to embrace running.
Through dedicated runners’ meets at the expo and practical training tools, Aspect Sports will support participants in the lead-up to race day. The initiative centres on “Her,” the female runner aiming to turn first steps into lasting habits rather than one-off events.
Aspect Global Ventures executive chairperson Aksha Kamboj said, “Women’s Day carries strong symbolism, but the real impact comes from what happens beyond the celebration. Our association with Pinkathon is focused on ensuring that women who show up on race day have access to the right guidance, structure and support.”
Pinkathon founder Milind Soman added, “Pinkathon has always been about encouraging more women to take that first step towards taking up the sport of running, irrespective of age and background. With Aspect Sports continuing as our Official Sports Partner, we’re strengthening the support structure for that first step, as well as the subsequent ones.”
Since its inception in 2012, Pinkathon has engaged over half a million participants across cities, establishing itself as one of India’s most recognised platforms for women’s running. The Delhi edition reinforces the theme of sustained participation, bridging the gap between event excitement and consistent involvement.
In a race where every stride counts, Aspect Sports and Pinkathon aren’t just marking Women’s Day, they’re paving a longer track for women to keep running, one confident step at a time.
Brands
YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
