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SC puts off BCCI case hearing to 30 November
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rescheduled to 30 November its final hearing of the India cricket board case.
The apex court had in its last hearing of the case on 11 October, fixed 26 October for final hearing on the petitions filed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), challenging a Madras High Court order restraining newly-elected board officials from functioning.
The Supreme Court had then stayed the Madras HC order restraining newly elected/appointed office-bearers from taking over the board. The apex board had also kept the cricket board supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya on the back foot by restraining him from becoming the BCCI’s patron-in-chief.
The bench, comprising Justices N Santosh Hegde and SB Sinha, had stated then that prima facie the high court did not act properly by passing the order restraining the newly elected board while entertaining a review petition filed by Netaji Cricket Club (NCC), the petitioner before the high court.
Till 30 November, the apex court’s interim order of 11 October will continue to be in force.
The reason given for the postponement by the constitution bench headed by Justice Hegde is that the hearing could not be completed as another matter had to be heard first, due to which the hearing was rescheduled.
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Senior media executive Madhu Soman exits Zee Media
Former Reuters and Bloomberg leader says he leaves with “no regrets” after brief stint at WION and Zee Business
NOIDA: Madhu Soman, a veteran of global newsrooms and media sales floors, has stepped away from Zee Media Corporation after a short stint steering business strategy for WION and Zee Business.
In a reflective LinkedIn note marking his departure, Soman said his time within the network’s corridors was always likely to be brief. “Some chapters close faster than expected,” he wrote, signalling the end of a nearly two-year spell in which he oversaw both editorial partnerships and commercial strategy.
Soman joined Zee Media in 2022 after more than a decade abroad with Reuters and Bloomberg, returning to India to take on the role of chief business officer for WION and Zee Business. His mandate was ambitious: bridge the newsroom and the revenue desk while expanding digital and broadcast reach.
During the stint, Zee Business reached break-even for the first time since its launch in 2005, while WION refreshed programming and strengthened its digital footprint across platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
But Soman suggested the cultural fit proved uneasy. Describing himself as a “cultural misfit”, he hinted at deeper tensions between editorial instincts shaped in global newsrooms and the realities of India’s television news ecosystem.
Before joining Zee, Soman spent more than seven years at Bloomberg in Hong Kong as head of broadcast sales for Asia-Pacific, expanding the company’s news syndication business across several markets. Earlier, he held senior editorial roles at Reuters, overseeing online strategy in India and managing Reuters Video Services from London.
His career began in television and wire reporting, including a stint with ANI during the 1999 Kargil conflict, before moving into digital publishing as India’s internet media landscape took shape.
Now, after nearly three decades in broadcast and digital media, Soman is leaving Delhi NCR and returning to his hometown, Trivandrum.
Exhausted, he admits. But unbowed. And with one quiet line that sums up the journey: he didn’t sell his soul — because some things, after all, are not for sale.
