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Software geek triumphs on ‘Super Selector’
Software MNC Induslogic vice president (management) Dheeraj Jain, has won the November episode of the Star Sports' Super Selector show.
He will fly Down Under to watch Australia wage war with South Africa on Boxing Day to see which test team is the best. His team composition was better than the other 265,000 entries. He has also won a Maruti-Suzuki Versa.
The programme will air this evening on Star Sports at 5:00 pm with repeats on 7 December at 6:30 pm, 8 December at 10:30 pm and 9 December at 10.30 am. On ESPN it will air on 6 December at 7 pm, 8 December at 6:30 pm and 9 December at 11:30 am.
Dheeraj's Super Score was 4330. Ironically, although he is a huge fan of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, the batting maestro did not feature in his list.
His team included dashing South African opening pair Herschelle Gibbs and Gary Girsten, Zimbabawe's Flower brothers Andy and Grant, South African allrounders Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock and Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.
Tendulkar was omitted as he could not include all those who are valued at 150.
Dheeraj Jain is delighted at the thought of sharing the spotlight with ESPN Star Sports' commentators. He enjoys the professional and consistent aproach of the Aussies.
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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.
