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ET Now brings ‘Kem Cho Gujarat’ on 26 May
MUMBAI: On viewers’ demand, India’s No. 1 English business news channel, ET Now, returns on 26 of May, with Kem Cho Gujarat, the knowledge-powerhouse ground initiative to empower individual investors across Ahmedabad and Gujarat. On monsoon-eve, ET Now is all set to make an even deeper connect with viewers and investors who, across three eventful days of Kem Cho Gujarat — through interactions the biggest market experts, live dealing room updates and investor education forums — will be empowered to pick the best stocks and make the best investment decisions to ride the bull run.
With the much anticipated monsoon around the corner, Kem Cho Gujarat, is planned as yet another significant investor welfare initiative from India’s #1 business news channel ET NOW from the TIMES NETWORK.
The activities will feature exclusive interaction opportunities with top market and business experts like Hiren Ved, Deven Choksey, Ashish Chugh and others along with ET NOW’s Niraj Shah and other market experts. Very special live coverage on Day One, i.e. Thursday, the 26 of May, from the state’s biggest brokerage firms and dealing rooms will help viewers to understand how the local players are dealing with the current market conditions.
On Day 2, 27 May, ET Now’s Niraj Shah gets together with ace market experts and analysts to power investors’ portfolios. He discusses with Deven Choksey (MD, KR Choksey Investment Managers Private Limited), Ashish Chugh (Hidden Gems) and Siddharth Bhamre (F&O Expert, ET NOW) on how investors should pick the right stocks for their portfolios. Viewers interested in attending the event, to be held at the J B Auditorium, Ahmedabad Management Association from 6 to 7.30 pm, can register on a first come first served basis
On Day 3, 28 May 2016, market guru Hiren Ved (Director & CIO, Alchemy Capital Management), through a candid conversation with Niraj Shah, Senior Editor – Stocks, ET NOW, will share his market outlook and recommendations on how investors should diversify their portfolios before the much anticipated monsoon to maximise gains. Viewers interested in attending the events, to be held at the J B Auditorium, Ahmedabad Management Association can do so by registering themselves as per the respective event schedule (Seating will be on a first come first served basis).
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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.
