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Dr. Anurag Batra enunciates his views - The Business of Defence: New players who have brought cutting-edge capability in defence production

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  Anurag Batra is a serial entrepreneur, media mogul, a journalist and an eternal optimist rolled into one. Mr. Batra is also appointed by Government of India as the Chairman of an industry committee formed to come up with a vocational training framework for the media, communication and entertainment industry. Anurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of BW Businessworld & Founder and Editor-in Chief of exchange4media Group enunciates his views. In this latest special edition of BW Businessworld, Anurag Batra profiles exceptional new players who have brought cutting-edge capability in defence production. “The political management of defence is one of the highlights of the Narendra Modi government. It has shown the willingness to use the military as an instrument of statecraft. The defence sector reforms undertaken by it have been the most significant since India’s Independence”, Dr. Anurag Batra underlines. Of great salience is the Aatmanirbhar Bharat agenda for defence pr...

Anurag Batra analyses the reasons for the stagnant growth of the television news viewership universe

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  Anurag Batra , the journalist and serial entrepreneur analyses the reasons for the television news viewership universe not growing. According to the editor in chief of BW Businessworld, if the stagnation or the shrink is indeed true, rather than blaming everyone else and the business media that reports it honestly, the television news promoters and CEOs and editors have to introspect the matter. The first 12 months of the pandemic in 2020 created a winner for news channels and a loser for cinema halls — and by that extension — Hindi and Bollywood cinema. According to the expert, “In the first one year of Covid-19, people, citizens, and viewers were glued onto television news channels for information on Covid, to understand what was happening around them and to get updates and solutions. The pandemic was a huge event that had audiences glued to television news, eager to know what was in store for them. To the credit of news channels, they rose to the occasion, news reporters, came...

Virat Kohli vs Haris Rauf & other tales: How seasoned pro out-thought the one-time tape-ball amateur.

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  The two Indians — Kohli and Ashwin — are men with sparkling bodies of work but they aren’t quite the T20 masters. In contrast Haris and Nawaz are still work in progress but have skills — one a tearaway quick and the other a left-arm spinning all-rounder — to be on the shopping list of most franchise owners. Tales about India-Pakistan games don’t have expiry dates. So it will never be too late, or outdated, to talk about the October 23, 2022 India-Pakistan special, the game with an engrossingly original script. Read more:  https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/virat-kohli-vs-haris-rauf-other-tales-how-seasoned-pro-out-thought-the-one-time-tape-ball-amateur-8250709/