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Yes Bank appoints Dayal as business banking president
MUMBAI: Yes Bank today announced the appointment of Munish Dayal as president business banking. He will be responsible for planning, directing and steering the business banking (Small and Medium Enterprises/Emerging Local Corporate relationship based) activities of the bank.
Prior to joining Yes Bank, Dayal handled various responsibilities across diverse business functions and geographical locations for Citigroup, most recently based in London and prior to that in India.
Dayal is a commerce graduate from Sriram College, Delhi and a merit holder of the Business Administration degree from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi.
Earlier, he was the Business Head at Citibank and was responsible for developing and managing the SME segment in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has vast, cross-functional experience in banking, encompassing Transaction, Retail and Financial Institution Banking, apart from a sound product and operational knowledge. Being on the international circuit, he has a global perspective of the business and brings a lot of value to the table. Dayal has also undergone various training programs and has a number of awards and recognitions to his credit.
Having worked across continents, Dayal has a global perspective of the business and brings with him knowledge of latest trends and growth opportunities to Yes Bank.
Dayal said, “I believe I can make significant addition with my vast domain experience that will complement Yes Bank’s corporate ethos of being a knowledge driven institution. I am positive that our association will help garner new business opportunities in the SME sector. It’s always a pleasure to be a part of such a high powered team. I believe at Yes Bank, there is a unique entrepreneurial opportunity to create a paradigm in Banking as opposed to being a pert if predefined, age-old systems in established Banks.”
Speaking on the new appointments Yes Bank MD and CEO Rana Kapoor said, “It is our fullest endeavor to attract the finest talent in India in a pursuit to build a world-class organisation and create an institution of enduring trust and value. Munish’s understanding of the Commercial Banking/ SME business at Citibank in various locations as well as his vast, cross-functional experience in banking, encompassing Transaction, Retail and Financial Institution Banking, will give Yes Bank an edge in our quest to establish a high quality, technology driven, state-of-the-art private Indian Bank.”
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
