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Panel defers meet on Draft Convergence Bill.
Convergence is the new buzzword. But you wouldn’t know it by the urgency shown by government ministers to thrash out issues related to the matter.
The meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM), scheduled for Thursday to finalise the Bill, has been deferred yet again.
The reason this time. According to government sources, the GoM meeting had to be deferred as members of the group were busy with Parliament proceedings.
No new date has been fixed yet.
It may be recalled that the Bill has already had two redrafts by the Fali nariman Committee before the latest redraft was ordered.
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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.
