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Q U A R T E R LY I N - H O U S E M A G A Z I N E O F H T G R O U P

jANUARY 2015

NEW HIGH IN EXCELLENCE

HT Star Awards 2014 celebrates innovation, collaboration and more...

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INSIDE...

January 2015, volume no. 31

COVER STORY 04 HT STar awardS A glittering star-studded event to honour talent at HT 26 HT LeaderSHip SummiT A glimpse into the most coveted event of the year 36 Fever FamiLy day & eiGHTH BirTHday A time for family, fun and frolic at Fever 104 FM 64 JaN-JaN Se Juda HiNduSTaN Hindustan endears itself to its readers

fEaTuRES 50 waLKiNG THe rOad wiTH HT The spotlight on our valuable employees 40 BeyONd wOrK Our employees showcase their talents

REgulaRS 24 iNTerview – LeaderSHip ip Team Jai Menon shares the excitement of transformation at HT 32 COFFee wiTH THe Leader CEO Rajiv Verma interacts with HT group team members 42 CarTOON All aboard the Delhi Metro!

54 NewS FrOm HT wOrLd L A lowdown on HT events and celebrations

COnTESTS 80 CrOSSwOrd Solve and win the contest!

REwaRdS & RECOgniTiOn 44 rewardS GaLOre aT HT Congratulating young achievers 77 KaBiLey TariF HH Journalist of the Month awards TEaM BEHind

design @ PealiDezine; english editorial: Upasna Pandey; Hindi editorial: Prashant Jha, Naveen Raman and team; Cartoons: Jayanto; Hr Co-ordinator: Surbhi Sukhija; pre-production: reSudhir Wadhwa and team; production: roduction: Noida Press

CEO’S message

Driven by Values and Talent Our CEO, Rajiv vERma, identifies our core values, hunger for innovation, collaboration and rich talent as key drivers in 2015

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hen I reflect on the last decade of our great company, I am reminded of how our core values have continued to shape how we evolve our business in difficult times. We are a group of innovators who defy, day after day, the bounds of a media company. It is with these values, centred around the goal of enriching and empowering India, that we have built our businesses. I will save you the lengthy and monotonous positive percentage figures in what I hope will be a heartfelt message to all of you to thank you for your commitment and inspiration.

Looking forwards, I ask us to recall one of our most relevant and distinct values: our value of Continuous Self Renewal. As a company, it is integral for us to continually question what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how we are doing it. This trait of constant questioning will help us grow and develop our future with a clear purpose and powerful momentum.

We have seen great success in building SHINE: we grew by an astronomical 40% in the period year to date. Our successful and innovative tool provides fierce competition to existing giants such as Naukri.com and Monster.com.

We have two very important elements in our pursuit of taking the online business by storm: strong growth and a talented team. I ask that everyone look within themselves for the third and arguably most important element: purpose. Once again, we must question our purpose and path in order to best reveal the direction for the future.

What we are really doing is rooted in HT Media's vision of empowering and enriching India; we are helping students find jobs, we are helping companies find talent, and we are helping our advertisers grow their businesses. This minuscule but immensely rich drop of significance, upon reflection, I hope, provides you motivation to continue to bring your talented brains to work and light a fire in our battle to be leaders in online.

The dedicated people of this company tell this story better than I can write in a short yearly message. This unique alignment that HT has towards bridging our values to a greater sense of purpose is what has allowed our projects to be so successful. BRIDGE and STUDYMATE are doing exceedingly well and have reshaped our identity as a national media company to a globally competent business partner in educating the vast pool of Indian youth. We are creating academic expertise in industries that years ago we could have only dreamed of entering, all with a sense of purpose of enriching our own company and the customers we serve. With these new businesses, we bring education and opportunity to those who may not have pursued it in the past. I hope this, sans tremendous revenue data, is more than enough to bring you to work every day and perform the miraculous feats you are all so well known for. HT is not just a successful company, it is a purposeful company.

This yearly message would not be complete without recognising the handwork and efforts of all our print teams, especially Mumbai and Hindi , who have maintained an extremely strong position and have also helped us turn our Mumbai business cash-positive. Congratulations to you all, and thank you for putting in the effort that you do.

FEVER continues to be a leader in the industry, and once again demonstrates the strong leadership and talent that we recruit into this company.

As we look back and recognize the diversity in products and services that we bring to our listeners, readers, students, and clients, I urge you to remember purpose and questioning. It is with these questions that we realise that we are not just building businesses and entering markets, but we are evolving society and demonstrating the importance of values like ours.

I wish all of you the happiest and most successful New Year.

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From being organised in the gym in 2006 to 64 nominations across 13 functions and 10 locations, live webcast and doubled prize money in 2014!

tar Awards is a marquee event to reward and recognise the journey of excellence amongst our people at HT Media Ltd. With a focus on being people-centric and establishing HT Media Ltd. as a great place to work, we embarked on the transformational journey of Star Awards in 2006.

The first Star Awards began in a truly humble way with the event organised at the gym of HT House and a small gathering in attendance.

From 2006, we have come a long way to become a gala platform for showcasing exemplary performance in front of the top management and employees across the nation. There is also the added bonus of the prize money which has since been doubled!

The ninth Star Awards was a gala function organised at Epicentre, Gurgaon, live telecast to 25 office locations across the country. This

year’s Awards saw an unprecedented 64 nominations, a sharp increase from the 25 nominations of 2013.

With the introduction of a parallel award for outstanding innovators called the I-Star Award in 2012, and the Bronze category in 2013, it was quite a challenge to select the best of the best this year. There were nominations from across businesses, corporate functions, products and locations. The jury’s four rounds of selection almost qualified everybody, but then, only a few could make it to the top. Also, for the first time in the history of Star Awards, there was a tie for the Star Gold and Bronze categories, which explains the high voting and popularity of these projects and campaigns across the organisation.

One of the interesting aspects of the awards function was the loud cheering by the Fever team that kept alive the fun element throughout the evening.

Their antics caught everyone’s attention, and CEO Rajiv Verma quipped several times that “the Fever team was chosen for an award but got dropped due to the high noise they were creating during the event”, which was taken in the lighter vein by the team who refused to bring down the din.

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Star awardS EvEnts

The Dazzle of A Star-ry Night It is not every day that stars descend on earth and we get a chance to applaud their brilliance

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he HT Star Awards event, celebrated on November 14, 2014 was a special occasion like no other with around 350 members of the HT family in attendance as the Leadership Team felicitated HT Star and HT Innovation Star award winners, 8 in all, catapulting it into an epic experience of pride in our culture of excellence and innovation.

The evening took off with a warm welcome from the emcees Neeraja and Nisarg who opened the event with a musical treat from Silver Strings, an international band that enthralled the audience with a medley of Hindi and English chartbusters. This was matched by an almost surreal performance by,

an Egyptian Tanura artist.

The event witnessed the presence of prominent leadership team members including Rajiv Verma, CEO, Sharad Saxena, Executive Director – Operations & HR, Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director, Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times, Nic Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times, and many others.

There was palpable excitement as the names of nominees and winners were announced. It all became even more spellbinding as there were video clips of team members talking about their behind-the-scene stories of hard work, passion and collaboration for each winning project.

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ne could see faces filled with pride and sincerity as they shared about the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the winning ideas that made it to the marquee event.

Sanjoy lauded the nominees for their pursuit of excellence and praised the spirit of cross team collaboration and out-of-the-box thinking which has been pivotal in bringing success to multiple teams across the country. He made a special mention of the seriousness of each nomination that made it tough for the jury to select the finalists. He congratulated the HT Editorial team for being awarded the International Press Institute Award 2014 for the series of stories that culminated in the ‘Stop Acid Attacks’ campaign.

CEO Rajiv Verma reflected on the past few years and lauded HT’s ability to survive through the period of economic downturn and stride ahead with a team which is young, vibrant, rich in talent and willing to adapt and collaborate. He pointed to the growing challenges and hurdles ahead and the need to be ready as an organisation for any possible challenges.

Rajiv was enthusiastic about the upcoming integrated newsroom, which is designed to be the most modern and convergent newsroom, set to become a game-changer in the delivery of news across the industry. He also emphasised the need for seamless collaboration and breaking down of silos, combined with technological

brilliance to enhance HT’s dominance in the market.

Nic heartily congratulated the winners and complimented the teams for demonstrating resilience, innovation and ability to achieve more within limited resources.

The surprise quotient of the evening was not just the announcement of Star Award winners but a highvoltage hour of witty oneliners now synonymous with former Indian cricketer and ace commentator and entertainer, Navjot Singh Sidhu.

He wowed everyone with his ‘life lessons’ and his ideas on the ‘qualities of a champ’ as someone who conquers fears and dares to do things differently.

In all, it was a melange of exemplary brilliance, inspiring words, lots of fun and scintillating performances, all of which made it a cherished evening for all.

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Star awardS Gold Star awardS

Star Gold Winners First time tie winners HT Editorial Investigations team and Lucknow Editorial team raise the bar of editorial social responsibility

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or the first time ever in the history of the Star Awards there is a tie and that too in the Star Gold category. The competition was so tough and the contribution so huge that the jury had to take a decision to call it a tie in the most coveted category of the Star Awards.

Editorial resources from bureaus across the country, led by Harinder Baweja, Editor Investigations, Hindustan Times, came together with powerful stories and sensitive pictures to raise a national issue of public interest – ‘Wake Up India – Stop Acid Attacks’. The team tied up with Fortis Hospital that offered free medical tests on Delhi-based acid attack survivors. The initiative sensitised scores of Indians.

Hundreds of readers came forward due to this initiative to offer jobs and financial assistance to the survivors.

Thousands more signed the online petition to stop acid attacks. The Supreme Court took note of the campaign and mentioned HT while hearing a petition for the regulation of acid sales.

The editorial team with this

Special Mention

Fever Voice of Change

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initiative has moved from editorial responsibility to editorial social responsibility.

Following this nationwide campaign, the HT Editorial team Lucknow decided to give acid attack survivors a platform to face the world at the much lauded HT Woman Awards event. Survivors from across the state were crusaded, their hidden talents identified and the team motivated them to perform at the event. Special grooming sessions were organised for the survivors who walked the ramp, sang, danced and shared their emotional saga at the event. Kailesh Kher agreed to be the chief guest without taking any remuneration.

The event has raised the bar for editorial in the state.

ever 104 FM and Bollywood actor John Abraham associated to launch a full-fledged CSR campaign aimed at addressing major issues concerning our country. Christened ‘Fever Voice of Change’, the campaign urged listeners to not just wish to see a change they want in society, but also be a part of it. The key messaging was ‘Ab Bakwaas Band.

Badlaav Shuru’.

Fever Voice of Change and John Abraham, with the power of radio, ensured definite closure to these problems, thus engaging radio listeners, concerned local authorities, eminent citizens and celebrities to make our society a better place.

Harshad Jain, Business Head – HT Music & Entertainment Ltd. said, “We strongly believe in the power of radio as a medium and its ability to bring positive changes in the society. Fever 104 FM reaches over 16 million listeners across four metros, and with this campaign we are aiming to provide people with a platform that will help them express their concerns. We are extremely honoured to have partnered with John Abraham, who today is an ultimate youth icon and is looked up by millions of people.

With his clean image and philanthropist nature, the campaign

could not have found a more responsible partner.”

Abraham commented, “I have always believed in giving back to society in whatever best way I can and I am extremely proud to be a part of this drive. I have a long relationship with Fever 104 FM and am happy to be contributing in the best possible manner. I am sure that this campaign will become a movement in no time.”

The initiative kicked off on February 28, 2014, inviting participation from Fever listeners in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata.

After the success of its first initiative ‘Mission Jurrat’, a women’s safety campaign, Fever Voice of Change launched ‘Mission Tezaab’ aimed at rehabilitating acid attack survivors and helping them find a new life. Fortis Hospital joined as healthcare partner to provide necessary medical assistance.

Star awardS winner Speak

“Celebrating the journey from being victims to survivors”

T Harinder Baweja

Editor, Investigations New Delhi

he entire ‘Stop Acid Attacks’ Team is happy to have won the Star Award Gold particularly because the award is an acknowledgement of the powerful public interest campaign we put together on an important and sensitive issue.

The paper lent its voice to countless women who suffered in silence. Joining hands with acid attack victim Laxmi, who had petitioned the Supreme Court against the sale of the corrosive liquid that destroys lives in a few seconds, we ran a ten-day allIndia campaign in which Laxmi and other brave survivors told searing stories of their journeys from being victims to survivors.

Laxmi’s long legal battle paid some dividend when the apex court ordered the regulated sale of the deadly liquid weapon. In its campaign, HT also demanded that the State reimburse all medical costs and rehabilitate victims who have an inalienable right to live with dignity. The court recently questioned the government’s laxity in providing rehabilitation.

Importantly, our initiative helped sensitise scores of Indians. The campaign received an astounding response and HT’s readers came forward to offer jobs, financial assistance and medical care. The

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financial assistance to victims – who boldly shared their trauma – continues to date.

Thousands signed our online petition to Stop Acid Attacks. We at HT are proud to have lent our platform for a cause that helped shake society’s consciousness. As we wrote in our first piece of the series featuring Laxmi, “HT joins Laxmi and countless other acid victims – there is an attack every three days – in their fight for dignity and rehabilitation. India needs to do more. You and I need to do more.’’

Laxmi’s plea, “Don’t stare at me, I’m human too,’’ inspired our readers and other survivors to come forward and share their trauma. Thousands of readers wrote in to us offering help and it gives us great satisfaction that Laxmi’s fight became easier – even if a wee bit easier. As Laxmi herself told us, “I have become the face of the fight.”

Laxmi became one of the ten ‘extraordinary women from 10 countries’ to win the International Women of Courage Award. The award was presented by American first lady, Michelle Obama. The focus on an important issue has helped many survivors lead lives of dignity and the young women are today invited to preside over functions in cities across the country. The campaign is a fine example of the power of team work.

Reporters, photographers and designers displayed great sensitivity and courage to craft a campaign that is a fine example of editorial social responsibility.

Three cheers to the entire team.

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Silver Star Winner

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1. Navjot Singh Sidhu entertains all

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2. Sidhu felicitated by Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times 3. A performance by Silver Strings 4. The spellbound audience 5. The victorious Project ‘X Factor’ team with CEO Rajiv Verma 6. Team Fever present their project to the jury during selection 7. Audience cheering on the winners 8. Neeraja & Nisarg, our very talented emcees for the day 9. The proud team members of ‘Gurgaon Takes A Toll’ 10. A victorious and joyous Team Kanpur 11. Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director felicitates the winning team from Fever 104 FM 12. Team DQ present their project to the jury during selection 13. A breathtaking Tanura Egyptian dance act

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he Commercial function works closely with both business and operations. We understand the daily pressures and rigorous reviews that our sales delivery system goes through. The recent times have been particularly challenging; clients have been cautious about their marketing spends and the market has not been very receptive. This calls for exhibiting special efforts to support the system, the origin of Project ‘X Factor’ taken up by the Commercial team.

In attempting to partake with a small revenue responsibility, we had to not merely reach out to our agency contacts in a dry market, but also put up a convincing sales pitch to excite the advertiser, not a common skill set amongst the Commercial team. We did not want to bother our colleagues in Sales, so the entire selling had to be fronted by us.

We chose ‘Indian Youth’ as being

a relevant and sellable theme for our pitch, which was fortified with ready help from marketing and editorial.

I am proud to say that the versatility amongst my colleagues is fabulous and awe inspiring. More than 125 sales pitches were made over 4 weeks by 10 colleagues in the hope of garnering 14 prospective advertisers for our youth supplement.

In the final outcome, though the revenue emanated mostly from Delhi, I am indebted to the towering efforts of the teams from Mumbai, Patna and Lucknow.

It gives me great satisfaction to have an all-weather team capable of meeting diverse challenges and an organisation which exhorts this.

AnuP ShArMA Media Marketing Head - Commercial New Delhi

First on radio

Silver I-Star Winner

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adio is one of the most challenging mediums with few options for differentiating content across stations. In this scenario, it was imperative for us to innovate to keep our listeners engaged and bring in pure monies.

Moving away from the tried and tested formats into previously ‘unheard on radio’ formats was a big risk. We wanted to build appointment listenership and be recognised as a channel that was not just evolving with the times, but also pre-empting changing listenership trends.

Winning this award vindicates our belief that content, after all, is king. This recognition makes us believe that we have raised the bar for ourselves in the area of entertainment.

Sonia Parasnis Fever Programming, Mumbai

“My team’s confidence KHaBar KaHin se, Kaise BHi was unwavering” Gold I-Star Winner

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t all began when I sat down to discuss the nomination of our team for the Star Awards.

When the time came for me to nominate the team for the Star Awards and I-Star Awards, we decided to opt for the latter. ‘We fit Sunita aron the bill’ was the common refrain.

Senior Resident Editor Excitement grew once we were Lucknow short-listed and the voting started.

I was the sceptic in a team which was confident that we had a good chance of winning. This was inspired by the fact that the two seniormost editorial leaders, Sanjoy narayan and nic Dawes, had personally shared the intense passion and emotion with which we conducted the hT Woman Awards event.

“I am not going to Delhi for the event,” I told my team and requested Madhulika Singh, Features Editor and richa Srivastava, Senior reporter to attend the function instead. I was aware that we had worked very hard within limited resources and feared rejection. On the other hand, my team was passionate and had unwavering confidence.

I had to yield to their request as I booked my tickets to attend the finale event.

I was sitting at the Epicentre hall along with all the other nominees as we saw as the various rounds of awards being announced. It was great to see well-deserving teams walk away with their trophies. But all this while my mind was preoccupied with one question – “What about us?”

Soon came the announcement of the Gold Star Award, which went to my colleague harinder Baweja’s team. I told myself, “They deserved this award, but we deserved it too.”

I continued to argue with myself that perhaps our team has not been able to articulate or showcase its work to the jury.

Just then, the magic happened and my team’s name was also announced. We won, and my team was right all along.

I ran to the podium to take the ‘elusive’ trophy. I wanted to thank everyone – the jury, each employee who had voted for us and believed in us, but I was overwhelmed with emotion. All I wanted was to do was return to Lucknow, share the joy with my team and thank them for making it possible.

T

he IT team along with hindi editorial support developed an innovative application for better news filing and seamless transfer of stories using advanced integrative systems.

This is a first of its kind platform which enables the editorial team to work offline also and file reports from any location irrespective of connectivity. It integrates bureau offices with the main newsroom over broadband through offline Windows client. Pagination can be done offline on CMS and data gets replicated on the main database upon connectivity. This type of tool is not available with any other vernacular media group.

The team put up a great show by working in sync and tirelessly towards catering to this requirement, which has led to improved productivity of editorial workforce through greater mobility - any device any where any time.

When Stars Dazzled H ere are glimpses from the glitzy awards function which had several notable attractions such as a series of brilliant performances on popular Hindi and English numbers by an international band ‘Silver Strings’, a beautiful Egyptian Tanura dance act, and most importantly, a rib-tickling yet awe-inspiring speech by the king of laughter, Navjot Singh Sidhu, replete with ‘Sidhuisms’.

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Project ‘X Factor’

Silver Star Winner

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1. Navjot Singh Sidhu entertains all

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Star awardS GLIMPSES

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2. Sidhu felicitated by Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times 3. A performance by Silver Strings 4. The spellbound audience 5. The victorious Project ‘X Factor’ team with CEO Rajiv Verma 6. Team Fever present their project to the jury during selection 7. Audience cheering on the winners 8. Neeraja & Nisarg, our very talented emcees for the day 9. The proud team members of ‘Gurgaon Takes A Toll’ 10. A victorious and joyous Team Kanpur 11. Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director felicitates the winning team from Fever 104 FM 12. Team DQ present their project to the jury during selection 13. A breathtaking Tanura Egyptian dance act

7

he Commercial function works closely with both business and operations. We understand the daily pressures and rigorous reviews that our sales delivery system goes through. The recent times have been particularly challenging; clients have been cautious about their marketing spends and the market has not been very receptive. This calls for exhibiting special efforts to support the system, the origin of Project ‘X Factor’ taken up by the Commercial team.

In attempting to partake with a small revenue responsibility, we had to not merely reach out to our agency contacts in a dry market, but also put up a convincing sales pitch to excite the advertiser, not a common skill set amongst the Commercial team. We did not want to bother our colleagues in Sales, so the entire selling had to be fronted by us.

We chose ‘Indian Youth’ as being

a relevant and sellable theme for our pitch, which was fortified with ready help from marketing and editorial.

I am proud to say that the versatility amongst my colleagues is fabulous and awe inspiring. More than 125 sales pitches were made over 4 weeks by 10 colleagues in the hope of garnering 14 prospective advertisers for our youth supplement.

In the final outcome, though the revenue emanated mostly from Delhi, I am indebted to the towering efforts of the teams from Mumbai, Patna and Lucknow.

It gives me great satisfaction to have an all-weather team capable of meeting diverse challenges and an organisation which exhorts this.

AnuP ShArMA Media Marketing Head - Commercial New Delhi

First on radio

Silver I-Star Winner

R

adio is one of the most challenging mediums with few options for differentiating content across stations. In this scenario, it was imperative for us to innovate to keep our listeners engaged and bring in pure monies.

Moving away from the tried and tested formats into previously ‘unheard on radio’ formats was a big risk. We wanted to build appointment listenership and be recognised as a channel that was not just evolving with the times, but also pre-empting changing listenership trends.

Winning this award vindicates our belief that content, after all, is king. This recognition makes us believe that we have raised the bar for ourselves in the area of entertainment.

Sonia Parasnis Fever Programming, Mumbai

“My team’s confidence KHaBar KaHin se, Kaise BHi was unwavering” Gold I-Star Winner

I

t all began when I sat down to discuss the nomination of our team for the Star Awards.

When the time came for me to nominate the team for the Star Awards and I-Star Awards, we decided to opt for the latter. ‘We fit Sunita aron the bill’ was the common refrain.

Senior Resident Editor Excitement grew once we were Lucknow short-listed and the voting started.

I was the sceptic in a team which was confident that we had a good chance of winning. This was inspired by the fact that the two seniormost editorial leaders, Sanjoy narayan and nic Dawes, had personally shared the intense passion and emotion with which we conducted the hT Woman Awards event.

“I am not going to Delhi for the event,” I told my team and requested Madhulika Singh, Features Editor and richa Srivastava, Senior reporter to attend the function instead. I was aware that we had worked very hard within limited resources and feared rejection. On the other hand, my team was passionate and had unwavering confidence.

I had to yield to their request as I booked my tickets to attend the finale event.

I was sitting at the Epicentre hall along with all the other nominees as we saw as the various rounds of awards being announced. It was great to see well-deserving teams walk away with their trophies. But all this while my mind was preoccupied with one question – “What about us?”

Soon came the announcement of the Gold Star Award, which went to my colleague harinder Baweja’s team. I told myself, “They deserved this award, but we deserved it too.”

I continued to argue with myself that perhaps our team has not been able to articulate or showcase its work to the jury.

Just then, the magic happened and my team’s name was also announced. We won, and my team was right all along.

I ran to the podium to take the ‘elusive’ trophy. I wanted to thank everyone – the jury, each employee who had voted for us and believed in us, but I was overwhelmed with emotion. All I wanted was to do was return to Lucknow, share the joy with my team and thank them for making it possible.

T

he IT team along with hindi editorial support developed an innovative application for better news filing and seamless transfer of stories using advanced integrative systems.

This is a first of its kind platform which enables the editorial team to work offline also and file reports from any location irrespective of connectivity. It integrates bureau offices with the main newsroom over broadband through offline Windows client. Pagination can be done offline on CMS and data gets replicated on the main database upon connectivity. This type of tool is not available with any other vernacular media group.

The team put up a great show by working in sync and tirelessly towards catering to this requirement, which has led to improved productivity of editorial workforce through greater mobility - any device any where any time.

When Stars Dazzled H ere are glimpses from the glitzy awards function which had several notable attractions such as a series of brilliant performances on popular Hindi and English numbers by an international band ‘Silver Strings’, a beautiful Egyptian Tanura dance act, and most importantly, a rib-tickling yet awe-inspiring speech by the king of laughter, Navjot Singh Sidhu, replete with ‘Sidhuisms’.

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Project ‘X Factor’

Silver Star Winner

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1. Navjot Singh Sidhu entertains all

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Star awardS GLIMPSES

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5

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2. Sidhu felicitated by Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times 3. A performance by Silver Strings 4. The spellbound audience 5. The victorious Project ‘X Factor’ team with CEO Rajiv Verma 6. Team Fever present their project to the jury during selection 7. Audience cheering on the winners 8. Neeraja & Nisarg, our very talented emcees for the day 9. The proud team members of ‘Gurgaon Takes A Toll’ 10. A victorious and joyous Team Kanpur 11. Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director felicitates the winning team from Fever 104 FM 12. Team DQ present their project to the jury during selection 13. A breathtaking Tanura Egyptian dance act

7

he Commercial function works closely with both business and operations. We understand the daily pressures and rigorous reviews that our sales delivery system goes through. The recent times have been particularly challenging; clients have been cautious about their marketing spends and the market has not been very receptive. This calls for exhibiting special efforts to support the system, the origin of Project ‘X Factor’ taken up by the Commercial team.

In attempting to partake with a small revenue responsibility, we had to not merely reach out to our agency contacts in a dry market, but also put up a convincing sales pitch to excite the advertiser, not a common skill set amongst the Commercial team. We did not want to bother our colleagues in Sales, so the entire selling had to be fronted by us.

We chose ‘Indian Youth’ as being

a relevant and sellable theme for our pitch, which was fortified with ready help from marketing and editorial.

I am proud to say that the versatility amongst my colleagues is fabulous and awe inspiring. More than 125 sales pitches were made over 4 weeks by 10 colleagues in the hope of garnering 14 prospective advertisers for our youth supplement.

In the final outcome, though the revenue emanated mostly from Delhi, I am indebted to the towering efforts of the teams from Mumbai, Patna and Lucknow.

It gives me great satisfaction to have an all-weather team capable of meeting diverse challenges and an organisation which exhorts this.

AnuP ShArMA Media Marketing Head - Commercial New Delhi

First on radio

Silver I-Star Winner

R

adio is one of the most challenging mediums with few options for differentiating content across stations. In this scenario, it was imperative for us to innovate to keep our listeners engaged and bring in pure monies.

Moving away from the tried and tested formats into previously ‘unheard on radio’ formats was a big risk. We wanted to build appointment listenership and be recognised as a channel that was not just evolving with the times, but also pre-empting changing listenership trends.

Winning this award vindicates our belief that content, after all, is king. This recognition makes us believe that we have raised the bar for ourselves in the area of entertainment.

Sonia Parasnis Fever Programming, Mumbai

“My team’s confidence KHaBar KaHin se, Kaise BHi was unwavering” Gold I-Star Winner

I

t all began when I sat down to discuss the nomination of our team for the Star Awards.

When the time came for me to nominate the team for the Star Awards and I-Star Awards, we decided to opt for the latter. ‘We fit Sunita aron the bill’ was the common refrain.

Senior Resident Editor Excitement grew once we were Lucknow short-listed and the voting started.

I was the sceptic in a team which was confident that we had a good chance of winning. This was inspired by the fact that the two seniormost editorial leaders, Sanjoy narayan and nic Dawes, had personally shared the intense passion and emotion with which we conducted the hT Woman Awards event.

“I am not going to Delhi for the event,” I told my team and requested Madhulika Singh, Features Editor and richa Srivastava, Senior reporter to attend the function instead. I was aware that we had worked very hard within limited resources and feared rejection. On the other hand, my team was passionate and had unwavering confidence.

I had to yield to their request as I booked my tickets to attend the finale event.

I was sitting at the Epicentre hall along with all the other nominees as we saw as the various rounds of awards being announced. It was great to see well-deserving teams walk away with their trophies. But all this while my mind was preoccupied with one question – “What about us?”

Soon came the announcement of the Gold Star Award, which went to my colleague harinder Baweja’s team. I told myself, “They deserved this award, but we deserved it too.”

I continued to argue with myself that perhaps our team has not been able to articulate or showcase its work to the jury.

Just then, the magic happened and my team’s name was also announced. We won, and my team was right all along.

I ran to the podium to take the ‘elusive’ trophy. I wanted to thank everyone – the jury, each employee who had voted for us and believed in us, but I was overwhelmed with emotion. All I wanted was to do was return to Lucknow, share the joy with my team and thank them for making it possible.

T

he IT team along with hindi editorial support developed an innovative application for better news filing and seamless transfer of stories using advanced integrative systems.

This is a first of its kind platform which enables the editorial team to work offline also and file reports from any location irrespective of connectivity. It integrates bureau offices with the main newsroom over broadband through offline Windows client. Pagination can be done offline on CMS and data gets replicated on the main database upon connectivity. This type of tool is not available with any other vernacular media group.

The team put up a great show by working in sync and tirelessly towards catering to this requirement, which has led to improved productivity of editorial workforce through greater mobility - any device any where any time.

When Stars Dazzled H ere are glimpses from the glitzy awards function which had several notable attractions such as a series of brilliant performances on popular Hindi and English numbers by an international band ‘Silver Strings’, a beautiful Egyptian Tanura dance act, and most importantly, a rib-tickling yet awe-inspiring speech by the king of laughter, Navjot Singh Sidhu, replete with ‘Sidhuisms’.

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Star awardS nominees

STAR AWARDS

iSTAR AWARDS

Team: Shine MarkeTing & SaleS

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Fever 104 FM

Team: hT CiTy & Fever 104 FM

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Media MarkeTing & MarkeTing

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: MarkeTing, CirCulaTion & ediT

Team: hT ediTorial

Project: Shine hr ConClave | Location: gurgaon

Project: Fever voiCe oF Change | Location: delhi

Project: CriSiS ManageMenT | Location: delhi

Project: CaMPuS ka Mahayudh | Location: delhi

Project: MiSSion uTTrakhand | Location: delhi

Project: one india | Location: gurgaon

Project: Tv ka Pehla radio Show |

Project: The SuPer hero |

Project: hT luCknow |

Location: MuMbai

location: delhi

Location: luCknow

Ten HR conclaves across Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore,

This was the biggest CSR initiative in the radio industry and

The team effort resumed transmission of the Delhi station that

A joint initiative between Editorial and Marketing where 120 students

The Fever team managed to rescue a family stranded in

The B2B team collaborated with several other national and

The radio show was broadcast on TV,

A competitive platform for kids and adults

Acid attack survivors showcased their

Chennai and Hyderabad to generate Rs 3.1 cr in revenue, 31%

earned Fever Delhi Rs 1.78 L over three months.

was completely ruined due to a storm with minimum business

across 50 colleges of Delhi University participated to decide the most

Uttrakhand by reaching out to the concerned authorities,

regional newspapers to provide greater reach and circulation

giving listeners an opportunity to see

where 100 residential societies registered

talent in front of a live audience at the

loss.

sought-after college in the city.

politicians and listeners.

than TOI.

what goes on in the studios.

for an inter-society football tournament.

HT Women Awards.

profitability and enhanced reputation in HR fraternity.

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial & Media MarkeTing

Team: TeaM kanPur

Team: Media MarkeTing CoMMerCial

Team: hT ediTorial & MarkeTing

Team: digiTal QuoTienT

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: hh ediTorial & iT

Project: neSTlé hT CiTy geT healThy | Location: delhi

Project: gurgaon Taking a Toll CaMPaign | Location: gurgaon

Project: unClog MuMbai | Location: MuMbai

Project: kanPur relaunCh | Location: kanPur

Project: ProjeCT X FaCTor | Location: gurgaon

Project: Friday jaM | Location: gurgaon

Project: arQ & roCQ |

Project: FirST on radio |

Project: khabar kahin Se, kaiSe bhi |

Location: gurgaon

Location: MuMbai

Location: delhi & noida

This was a three-month long campaign where over 4 lakh

The HT Gurgaon bureau ran a 50-day full-page campaign

An action-oriented campaign aimed at finding and delivering

Team efforts to launch Kanpur as Strong no 2 position in terms

The Media Marketing Commercial team took an initiative to

Marketing team negotiated a deal with DLF Cyber Hub as

Two innovative products ArQ and RocQ

The team created 12 innovative radio

The IT team along with Editorial support

readers participated and pledged to living fit.

between July 29 and September 22 to remove the Sirhaul toll

solutions through local authorities. The HC directed the traffic

of circulation.

go beyond the call of their regular job and contribute in

venue for Friday JAM, 100 bands registered.

were launched; these platforms have

campaigns/properties in music, movies,

developed an application for efficient

plaza on the Delhi-Gurgaon border. All the efforts resulted in

police and BMC to take note of HT’s campaign.

eased top tier talent to be recruited

audio productions and sports

news filing, offline pagination, integra-

while setting stage for global expansion.

throughout the year.

tion of remote offfices with main CMS.

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Organising Team

generating revenue.

Delhi HC clearing the decks for Sirhaul toll plaza to be scrapped.

Team: Fever SaleS

Team: CirCulaTion

Team: Media MarkeTing

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: SuPPly Chain

Project: delhi real eSTaTe | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT SliM | Location: gurgaon

Project: one india | Location: MuMbai

Project: SToP aCid aTTaCkS | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT Fuel (TCP) | Location: MuMbai

Team: SuPPly Chain Project: TkS road To SuCCeSS | Location: greaTer noida

Project: SuPer hero | Location: bangalore

The team achieved unparalleled success by developing 61 new

This was a unique initiative to reduce unproductive

The teams’ strategic approach towards FMCG business

Editorial resources from bureaus acroos the nation came

The Regioman press with 4 X 1 configuration was installed at

The complexities of TKS machine were handled by the joint

This innovative show was given a

Ashima Deepak Kaul

Chirag Sharma

Vineeta Mittal

Mehak Jain

clients enabling lower dependence on only a few large

expenditure on unsold copies with sustainable measures,

through innovation, initiative and smart space selling was

together with powerful writing and sensitive pictures to

Mumbai in the year 2009. Total Newsprint wastage has

efforts of the Greater Noida team, resulting in stable and

persona of a superhero, taking the

AGM, HR

Sr Mgr, Magazines

Sr Mgr, HR

Dy Mgr, Mint

agencies and thereby broad-basing revenues and reducing

generating a positive impact of Rs. 9.2 cr in unsold newsprint

the hallmark of unchartered success.

raise awareness for a national issue of public interest - Stop

reduced from 3.27% to 1.75% (lower than 2.00% which is the

consistent multiple book printing.

evening ratings to a new level with

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

the risk of losses at the branch.

cost on the bottom line.

Acid Attacks.

lowest in India as well as world.

average MS of 12%.

Star awardS nominees

STAR AWARDS

iSTAR AWARDS

Team: Shine MarkeTing & SaleS

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Fever 104 FM

Team: hT CiTy & Fever 104 FM

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Media MarkeTing & MarkeTing

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: MarkeTing, CirCulaTion & ediT

Team: hT ediTorial

Project: Shine hr ConClave | Location: gurgaon

Project: Fever voiCe oF Change | Location: delhi

Project: CriSiS ManageMenT | Location: delhi

Project: CaMPuS ka Mahayudh | Location: delhi

Project: MiSSion uTTrakhand | Location: delhi

Project: one india | Location: gurgaon

Project: Tv ka Pehla radio Show |

Project: The SuPer hero |

Project: hT luCknow |

Location: MuMbai

location: delhi

Location: luCknow

Ten HR conclaves across Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore,

This was the biggest CSR initiative in the radio industry and

The team effort resumed transmission of the Delhi station that

A joint initiative between Editorial and Marketing where 120 students

The Fever team managed to rescue a family stranded in

The B2B team collaborated with several other national and

The radio show was broadcast on TV,

A competitive platform for kids and adults

Acid attack survivors showcased their

Chennai and Hyderabad to generate Rs 3.1 cr in revenue, 31%

earned Fever Delhi Rs 1.78 L over three months.

was completely ruined due to a storm with minimum business

across 50 colleges of Delhi University participated to decide the most

Uttrakhand by reaching out to the concerned authorities,

regional newspapers to provide greater reach and circulation

giving listeners an opportunity to see

where 100 residential societies registered

talent in front of a live audience at the

loss.

sought-after college in the city.

politicians and listeners.

than TOI.

what goes on in the studios.

for an inter-society football tournament.

HT Women Awards.

profitability and enhanced reputation in HR fraternity.

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial & Media MarkeTing

Team: TeaM kanPur

Team: Media MarkeTing CoMMerCial

Team: hT ediTorial & MarkeTing

Team: digiTal QuoTienT

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: hh ediTorial & iT

Project: neSTlé hT CiTy geT healThy | Location: delhi

Project: gurgaon Taking a Toll CaMPaign | Location: gurgaon

Project: unClog MuMbai | Location: MuMbai

Project: kanPur relaunCh | Location: kanPur

Project: ProjeCT X FaCTor | Location: gurgaon

Project: Friday jaM | Location: gurgaon

Project: arQ & roCQ |

Project: FirST on radio |

Project: khabar kahin Se, kaiSe bhi |

Location: gurgaon

Location: MuMbai

Location: delhi & noida

This was a three-month long campaign where over 4 lakh

The HT Gurgaon bureau ran a 50-day full-page campaign

An action-oriented campaign aimed at finding and delivering

Team efforts to launch Kanpur as Strong no 2 position in terms

The Media Marketing Commercial team took an initiative to

Marketing team negotiated a deal with DLF Cyber Hub as

Two innovative products ArQ and RocQ

The team created 12 innovative radio

The IT team along with Editorial support

readers participated and pledged to living fit.

between July 29 and September 22 to remove the Sirhaul toll

solutions through local authorities. The HC directed the traffic

of circulation.

go beyond the call of their regular job and contribute in

venue for Friday JAM, 100 bands registered.

were launched; these platforms have

campaigns/properties in music, movies,

developed an application for efficient

plaza on the Delhi-Gurgaon border. All the efforts resulted in

police and BMC to take note of HT’s campaign.

eased top tier talent to be recruited

audio productions and sports

news filing, offline pagination, integra-

while setting stage for global expansion.

throughout the year.

tion of remote offfices with main CMS.

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Organising Team

generating revenue.

Delhi HC clearing the decks for Sirhaul toll plaza to be scrapped.

Team: Fever SaleS

Team: CirCulaTion

Team: Media MarkeTing

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: SuPPly Chain

Project: delhi real eSTaTe | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT SliM | Location: gurgaon

Project: one india | Location: MuMbai

Project: SToP aCid aTTaCkS | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT Fuel (TCP) | Location: MuMbai

Team: SuPPly Chain Project: TkS road To SuCCeSS | Location: greaTer noida

Project: SuPer hero | Location: bangalore

The team achieved unparalleled success by developing 61 new

This was a unique initiative to reduce unproductive

The teams’ strategic approach towards FMCG business

Editorial resources from bureaus acroos the nation came

The Regioman press with 4 X 1 configuration was installed at

The complexities of TKS machine were handled by the joint

This innovative show was given a

Ashima Deepak Kaul

Chirag Sharma

Vineeta Mittal

Mehak Jain

clients enabling lower dependence on only a few large

expenditure on unsold copies with sustainable measures,

through innovation, initiative and smart space selling was

together with powerful writing and sensitive pictures to

Mumbai in the year 2009. Total Newsprint wastage has

efforts of the Greater Noida team, resulting in stable and

persona of a superhero, taking the

AGM, HR

Sr Mgr, Magazines

Sr Mgr, HR

Dy Mgr, Mint

agencies and thereby broad-basing revenues and reducing

generating a positive impact of Rs. 9.2 cr in unsold newsprint

the hallmark of unchartered success.

raise awareness for a national issue of public interest - Stop

reduced from 3.27% to 1.75% (lower than 2.00% which is the

consistent multiple book printing.

evening ratings to a new level with

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

the risk of losses at the branch.

cost on the bottom line.

Acid Attacks.

lowest in India as well as world.

average MS of 12%.

Star awardS nominees

STAR AWARDS

iSTAR AWARDS

Team: Shine MarkeTing & SaleS

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Fever 104 FM

Team: hT CiTy & Fever 104 FM

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Media MarkeTing & MarkeTing

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: MarkeTing, CirCulaTion & ediT

Team: hT ediTorial

Project: Shine hr ConClave | Location: gurgaon

Project: Fever voiCe oF Change | Location: delhi

Project: CriSiS ManageMenT | Location: delhi

Project: CaMPuS ka Mahayudh | Location: delhi

Project: MiSSion uTTrakhand | Location: delhi

Project: one india | Location: gurgaon

Project: Tv ka Pehla radio Show |

Project: The SuPer hero |

Project: hT luCknow |

Location: MuMbai

location: delhi

Location: luCknow

Ten HR conclaves across Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore,

This was the biggest CSR initiative in the radio industry and

The team effort resumed transmission of the Delhi station that

A joint initiative between Editorial and Marketing where 120 students

The Fever team managed to rescue a family stranded in

The B2B team collaborated with several other national and

The radio show was broadcast on TV,

A competitive platform for kids and adults

Acid attack survivors showcased their

Chennai and Hyderabad to generate Rs 3.1 cr in revenue, 31%

earned Fever Delhi Rs 1.78 L over three months.

was completely ruined due to a storm with minimum business

across 50 colleges of Delhi University participated to decide the most

Uttrakhand by reaching out to the concerned authorities,

regional newspapers to provide greater reach and circulation

giving listeners an opportunity to see

where 100 residential societies registered

talent in front of a live audience at the

loss.

sought-after college in the city.

politicians and listeners.

than TOI.

what goes on in the studios.

for an inter-society football tournament.

HT Women Awards.

profitability and enhanced reputation in HR fraternity.

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial & Media MarkeTing

Team: TeaM kanPur

Team: Media MarkeTing CoMMerCial

Team: hT ediTorial & MarkeTing

Team: digiTal QuoTienT

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: hh ediTorial & iT

Project: neSTlé hT CiTy geT healThy | Location: delhi

Project: gurgaon Taking a Toll CaMPaign | Location: gurgaon

Project: unClog MuMbai | Location: MuMbai

Project: kanPur relaunCh | Location: kanPur

Project: ProjeCT X FaCTor | Location: gurgaon

Project: Friday jaM | Location: gurgaon

Project: arQ & roCQ |

Project: FirST on radio |

Project: khabar kahin Se, kaiSe bhi |

Location: gurgaon

Location: MuMbai

Location: delhi & noida

This was a three-month long campaign where over 4 lakh

The HT Gurgaon bureau ran a 50-day full-page campaign

An action-oriented campaign aimed at finding and delivering

Team efforts to launch Kanpur as Strong no 2 position in terms

The Media Marketing Commercial team took an initiative to

Marketing team negotiated a deal with DLF Cyber Hub as

Two innovative products ArQ and RocQ

The team created 12 innovative radio

The IT team along with Editorial support

readers participated and pledged to living fit.

between July 29 and September 22 to remove the Sirhaul toll

solutions through local authorities. The HC directed the traffic

of circulation.

go beyond the call of their regular job and contribute in

venue for Friday JAM, 100 bands registered.

were launched; these platforms have

campaigns/properties in music, movies,

developed an application for efficient

plaza on the Delhi-Gurgaon border. All the efforts resulted in

police and BMC to take note of HT’s campaign.

eased top tier talent to be recruited

audio productions and sports

news filing, offline pagination, integra-

while setting stage for global expansion.

throughout the year.

tion of remote offfices with main CMS.

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Organising Team

generating revenue.

Delhi HC clearing the decks for Sirhaul toll plaza to be scrapped.

Team: Fever SaleS

Team: CirCulaTion

Team: Media MarkeTing

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: SuPPly Chain

Project: delhi real eSTaTe | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT SliM | Location: gurgaon

Project: one india | Location: MuMbai

Project: SToP aCid aTTaCkS | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT Fuel (TCP) | Location: MuMbai

Team: SuPPly Chain Project: TkS road To SuCCeSS | Location: greaTer noida

Project: SuPer hero | Location: bangalore

The team achieved unparalleled success by developing 61 new

This was a unique initiative to reduce unproductive

The teams’ strategic approach towards FMCG business

Editorial resources from bureaus acroos the nation came

The Regioman press with 4 X 1 configuration was installed at

The complexities of TKS machine were handled by the joint

This innovative show was given a

Ashima Deepak Kaul

Chirag Sharma

Vineeta Mittal

Mehak Jain

clients enabling lower dependence on only a few large

expenditure on unsold copies with sustainable measures,

through innovation, initiative and smart space selling was

together with powerful writing and sensitive pictures to

Mumbai in the year 2009. Total Newsprint wastage has

efforts of the Greater Noida team, resulting in stable and

persona of a superhero, taking the

AGM, HR

Sr Mgr, Magazines

Sr Mgr, HR

Dy Mgr, Mint

agencies and thereby broad-basing revenues and reducing

generating a positive impact of Rs. 9.2 cr in unsold newsprint

the hallmark of unchartered success.

raise awareness for a national issue of public interest - Stop

reduced from 3.27% to 1.75% (lower than 2.00% which is the

consistent multiple book printing.

evening ratings to a new level with

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

the risk of losses at the branch.

cost on the bottom line.

Acid Attacks.

lowest in India as well as world.

average MS of 12%.

Star awardS nominees

STAR AWARDS

iSTAR AWARDS

Team: Shine MarkeTing & SaleS

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Fever 104 FM

Team: hT CiTy & Fever 104 FM

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: Media MarkeTing & MarkeTing

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: MarkeTing, CirCulaTion & ediT

Team: hT ediTorial

Project: Shine hr ConClave | Location: gurgaon

Project: Fever voiCe oF Change | Location: delhi

Project: CriSiS ManageMenT | Location: delhi

Project: CaMPuS ka Mahayudh | Location: delhi

Project: MiSSion uTTrakhand | Location: delhi

Project: one india | Location: gurgaon

Project: Tv ka Pehla radio Show |

Project: The SuPer hero |

Project: hT luCknow |

Location: MuMbai

location: delhi

Location: luCknow

Ten HR conclaves across Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore,

This was the biggest CSR initiative in the radio industry and

The team effort resumed transmission of the Delhi station that

A joint initiative between Editorial and Marketing where 120 students

The Fever team managed to rescue a family stranded in

The B2B team collaborated with several other national and

The radio show was broadcast on TV,

A competitive platform for kids and adults

Acid attack survivors showcased their

Chennai and Hyderabad to generate Rs 3.1 cr in revenue, 31%

earned Fever Delhi Rs 1.78 L over three months.

was completely ruined due to a storm with minimum business

across 50 colleges of Delhi University participated to decide the most

Uttrakhand by reaching out to the concerned authorities,

regional newspapers to provide greater reach and circulation

giving listeners an opportunity to see

where 100 residential societies registered

talent in front of a live audience at the

loss.

sought-after college in the city.

politicians and listeners.

than TOI.

what goes on in the studios.

for an inter-society football tournament.

HT Women Awards.

profitability and enhanced reputation in HR fraternity.

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: hT ediTorial & Media MarkeTing

Team: TeaM kanPur

Team: Media MarkeTing CoMMerCial

Team: hT ediTorial & MarkeTing

Team: digiTal QuoTienT

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Team: hh ediTorial & iT

Project: neSTlé hT CiTy geT healThy | Location: delhi

Project: gurgaon Taking a Toll CaMPaign | Location: gurgaon

Project: unClog MuMbai | Location: MuMbai

Project: kanPur relaunCh | Location: kanPur

Project: ProjeCT X FaCTor | Location: gurgaon

Project: Friday jaM | Location: gurgaon

Project: arQ & roCQ |

Project: FirST on radio |

Project: khabar kahin Se, kaiSe bhi |

Location: gurgaon

Location: MuMbai

Location: delhi & noida

This was a three-month long campaign where over 4 lakh

The HT Gurgaon bureau ran a 50-day full-page campaign

An action-oriented campaign aimed at finding and delivering

Team efforts to launch Kanpur as Strong no 2 position in terms

The Media Marketing Commercial team took an initiative to

Marketing team negotiated a deal with DLF Cyber Hub as

Two innovative products ArQ and RocQ

The team created 12 innovative radio

The IT team along with Editorial support

readers participated and pledged to living fit.

between July 29 and September 22 to remove the Sirhaul toll

solutions through local authorities. The HC directed the traffic

of circulation.

go beyond the call of their regular job and contribute in

venue for Friday JAM, 100 bands registered.

were launched; these platforms have

campaigns/properties in music, movies,

developed an application for efficient

plaza on the Delhi-Gurgaon border. All the efforts resulted in

police and BMC to take note of HT’s campaign.

eased top tier talent to be recruited

audio productions and sports

news filing, offline pagination, integra-

while setting stage for global expansion.

throughout the year.

tion of remote offfices with main CMS.

Team: Fever PrograMMing

Organising Team

generating revenue.

Delhi HC clearing the decks for Sirhaul toll plaza to be scrapped.

Team: Fever SaleS

Team: CirCulaTion

Team: Media MarkeTing

Team: hT ediTorial

Team: SuPPly Chain

Project: delhi real eSTaTe | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT SliM | Location: gurgaon

Project: one india | Location: MuMbai

Project: SToP aCid aTTaCkS | Location: delhi

Project: ProjeCT Fuel (TCP) | Location: MuMbai

Team: SuPPly Chain Project: TkS road To SuCCeSS | Location: greaTer noida

Project: SuPer hero | Location: bangalore

The team achieved unparalleled success by developing 61 new

This was a unique initiative to reduce unproductive

The teams’ strategic approach towards FMCG business

Editorial resources from bureaus acroos the nation came

The Regioman press with 4 X 1 configuration was installed at

The complexities of TKS machine were handled by the joint

This innovative show was given a

Ashima Deepak Kaul

Chirag Sharma

Vineeta Mittal

Mehak Jain

clients enabling lower dependence on only a few large

expenditure on unsold copies with sustainable measures,

through innovation, initiative and smart space selling was

together with powerful writing and sensitive pictures to

Mumbai in the year 2009. Total Newsprint wastage has

efforts of the Greater Noida team, resulting in stable and

persona of a superhero, taking the

AGM, HR

Sr Mgr, Magazines

Sr Mgr, HR

Dy Mgr, Mint

agencies and thereby broad-basing revenues and reducing

generating a positive impact of Rs. 9.2 cr in unsold newsprint

the hallmark of unchartered success.

raise awareness for a national issue of public interest - Stop

reduced from 3.27% to 1.75% (lower than 2.00% which is the

consistent multiple book printing.

evening ratings to a new level with

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

the risk of losses at the branch.

cost on the bottom line.

Acid Attacks.

lowest in India as well as world.

average MS of 12%.

Star awardS SILvEr Star awardS 3

2

Project ‘X Factor’

Silver Star Winner

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1. Navjot Singh Sidhu entertains all

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Star awardS GLIMPSES

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5

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2. Sidhu felicitated by Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times 3. A performance by Silver Strings 4. The spellbound audience 5. The victorious Project ‘X Factor’ team with CEO Rajiv Verma 6. Team Fever present their project to the jury during selection 7. Audience cheering on the winners 8. Neeraja & Nisarg, our very talented emcees for the day 9. The proud team members of ‘Gurgaon Takes A Toll’ 10. A victorious and joyous Team Kanpur 11. Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director felicitates the winning team from Fever 104 FM 12. Team DQ present their project to the jury during selection 13. A breathtaking Tanura Egyptian dance act

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he Commercial function works closely with both business and operations. We understand the daily pressures and rigorous reviews that our sales delivery system goes through. The recent times have been particularly challenging; clients have been cautious about their marketing spends and the market has not been very receptive. This calls for exhibiting special efforts to support the system, the origin of Project ‘X Factor’ taken up by the Commercial team.

In attempting to partake with a small revenue responsibility, we had to not merely reach out to our agency contacts in a dry market, but also put up a convincing sales pitch to excite the advertiser, not a common skill set amongst the Commercial team. We did not want to bother our colleagues in Sales, so the entire selling had to be fronted by us.

We chose ‘Indian Youth’ as being

a relevant and sellable theme for our pitch, which was fortified with ready help from marketing and editorial.

I am proud to say that the versatility amongst my colleagues is fabulous and awe inspiring. More than 125 sales pitches were made over 4 weeks by 10 colleagues in the hope of garnering 14 prospective advertisers for our youth supplement.

In the final outcome, though the revenue emanated mostly from Delhi, I am indebted to the towering efforts of the teams from Mumbai, Patna and Lucknow.

It gives me great satisfaction to have an all-weather team capable of meeting diverse challenges and an organisation which exhorts this.

AnuP ShArMA Media Marketing Head - Commercial New Delhi

First on radio

Silver I-Star Winner

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adio is one of the most challenging mediums with few options for differentiating content across stations. In this scenario, it was imperative for us to innovate to keep our listeners engaged and bring in pure monies.

Moving away from the tried and tested formats into previously ‘unheard on radio’ formats was a big risk. We wanted to build appointment listenership and be recognised as a channel that was not just evolving with the times, but also pre-empting changing listenership trends.

Winning this award vindicates our belief that content, after all, is king. This recognition makes us believe that we have raised the bar for ourselves in the area of entertainment.

Sonia Parasnis Fever Programming, Mumbai

“My team’s confidence KHaBar KaHin se, Kaise BHi was unwavering” Gold I-Star Winner

I

t all began when I sat down to discuss the nomination of our team for the Star Awards.

When the time came for me to nominate the team for the Star Awards and I-Star Awards, we decided to opt for the latter. ‘We fit Sunita aron the bill’ was the common refrain.

Senior Resident Editor Excitement grew once we were Lucknow short-listed and the voting started.

I was the sceptic in a team which was confident that we had a good chance of winning. This was inspired by the fact that the two seniormost editorial leaders, Sanjoy narayan and nic Dawes, had personally shared the intense passion and emotion with which we conducted the hT Woman Awards event.

“I am not going to Delhi for the event,” I told my team and requested Madhulika Singh, Features Editor and richa Srivastava, Senior reporter to attend the function instead. I was aware that we had worked very hard within limited resources and feared rejection. On the other hand, my team was passionate and had unwavering confidence.

I had to yield to their request as I booked my tickets to attend the finale event.

I was sitting at the Epicentre hall along with all the other nominees as we saw as the various rounds of awards being announced. It was great to see well-deserving teams walk away with their trophies. But all this while my mind was preoccupied with one question – “What about us?”

Soon came the announcement of the Gold Star Award, which went to my colleague harinder Baweja’s team. I told myself, “They deserved this award, but we deserved it too.”

I continued to argue with myself that perhaps our team has not been able to articulate or showcase its work to the jury.

Just then, the magic happened and my team’s name was also announced. We won, and my team was right all along.

I ran to the podium to take the ‘elusive’ trophy. I wanted to thank everyone – the jury, each employee who had voted for us and believed in us, but I was overwhelmed with emotion. All I wanted was to do was return to Lucknow, share the joy with my team and thank them for making it possible.

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he IT team along with hindi editorial support developed an innovative application for better news filing and seamless transfer of stories using advanced integrative systems.

This is a first of its kind platform which enables the editorial team to work offline also and file reports from any location irrespective of connectivity. It integrates bureau offices with the main newsroom over broadband through offline Windows client. Pagination can be done offline on CMS and data gets replicated on the main database upon connectivity. This type of tool is not available with any other vernacular media group.

The team put up a great show by working in sync and tirelessly towards catering to this requirement, which has led to improved productivity of editorial workforce through greater mobility - any device any where any time.

When Stars Dazzled H ere are glimpses from the glitzy awards function which had several notable attractions such as a series of brilliant performances on popular Hindi and English numbers by an international band ‘Silver Strings’, a beautiful Egyptian Tanura dance act, and most importantly, a rib-tickling yet awe-inspiring speech by the king of laughter, Navjot Singh Sidhu, replete with ‘Sidhuisms’.

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A huge survey covering 4,60,000 households was conducted over 31 days and a pre-launch brand hype was created. There was also focus on retention of team members, and incentive schemes were created to keep them motivated. This was coupled with a host of marketing

activities to build the brand in the readers’ mind to create a new perception.

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eam Digital Quotient launched two innovative products – ArQ and RocQ – going beyond their core responsibilities and accepting newer initiatives with a strong long-term impact. ArQ is being leveraged by 15 customers and has crossed 50 lakhs in revenue in only two months. RocQ is being leveraged by key partners and has touched 0.3 million users in two months.

he Marketing, Circulation and Editorial teams joined hands to take the Gurgaon Inter-society Football Action initiative to new heights. The GIFA is a fun yet competitive platform for children and adults to come out and play football with other residents. A first-of-its-kind event at this scale, it required a high degree of coordination between various functions. The event saw great response with over 100 housing societies registering for it.

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Star awardS Jury Jury Speak

The Selection Process T he HT Star Awards Jury – Sharad Saxena, Executive Director - Operations & HR, Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director, Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times, and Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor, Mint – took on the task of screening the 64 nominations received from 13 functions across 10 locations, and different business including Hindustan Times, Hindustan, Mint, Fever, Shine, Digital Quotient, etc. It was a daunting as well as inspiring assignment to examine and evaluate the innovations, projects and campaigns which were at par in terms of quality, passion and impact.

Jury members spoke to Between Us about the journey of the award selection process.

Please share with us the challenges in the award screening and selection process this year?

Sanjoy The quality of Sanjoy: entries in 2014 was of

very high standards. The jury had a difficult job of screening and finalizing the winners. Many entries received were achievements or projects that were encompassing cross functional teams and showcased high level of collaboration between different teams. I feel that all teams have taken Star Awards very seriously this year which is a very good sign.

It reflects an organisational culture and we were impressed with the outstanding team efforts which were put in by each nominated project. In contrast to past years, various departments conducted internal screening of the projects before sending the entries for Star Awards, this was another factor which made it a difficult task to select the best of the best.

Benoy: The biggest challenge really was choosing the winners. There were two challenges. Firstly all entries were of outstanding quality and find finding winners

from the great work done by all the teams was not easy at all. Secondly, our task was made even more complex by the nature of our organisation where there is great work happening both on the Business side and the Editorial side and very often one has to compare entries which come from both the streams.

Sharad: Many teams are doing outstanding work. To do an objective evaluation where quality of presentation does not overwhelm the criteria of shortlisting/screening, i.e. just the presentation skills of the presenter should not overshadow the quality or depth of the work done by the team, to ensure that was a challenge for the Jury as many teams had done very high quality work. The entries came from across the country and many of those were not known to the people at the center. Right questions need to be asked in a short time to under understand the depth of

the project. Contributions were from all functions and it was important to empathize with each presenter to understand the passion, values and extent of challenge involved in the project. The jury was cross functional and had to ensure discussion on the project after each presentation to make sure that the project is understood in the right perspective and right decision is made.

What are the key qualities/ and attributes of teams which won the awards this year?

Sanjoy: Both in Star and I-Star category, winners have done work which pushes the boundaries of regular work and expectations from these teams. Each entry reflects efforts to surpass the existing levels of performance and reach out for higher excellence. Teamwork has been at the core of all projects which won Star Awards. All the shortlisted teams have set examples in this.

Benoy: For me the key qualities I look for are a person/team doing things way beyond what was expected from them and the ability of the participants to work across the

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he things that impressed me the most about the entries for 2014 Star Awards was not just the quality of work that had been done, which has been impressive, but also the passion of the people involved.

As part of the jury, I evaluated 25 shortlisted entries. The work behind all the entries was good, honest, and competent. And the jury rated the work objectively based on several parameters.

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various functions of our company.

Sharad: 1. Level of impact on organisation, business, society at large or the nation. 2. In line with the cause of the organisation. 3. Cross functional collaborations. 4. Degree of difficulty. 5. Values demonstrated while achieving the results any personal favorites – teams or projects? Please share why.

Sanjoy: It is great to see support functions like IT or Supply Chain also winning Star Awards in 2014. This is a new trend which complements core functions winning awards.

Benoy: My personal favorite was the fantastic work done by the Gurgaon Editorial team in fixing the DelhiGurgaon toll problem. This was a nightmare which I faced every day and the impact of this has improved my quality of life which I believe is what newspapers are meant to do.

Sharad: Enthusiasm with which innovation happens in the Radio team has a very high impact on the culture that exists in the team. This came out very loud & clear. Even if an individual innovation at work is required as part of the deliverables but the sheer

“Here are teams who are proud of their work and care deeply about what they do” which were used, what was quite impressive and made me very happy was enthusiasm, dedication, and passion on display. Here were people and teams who were proud of their work, who thought they had made a meaningful contribution. These were stories

amount of creativity that comes out of the team is overwhelming.

What is your message for aspiring 2015 hT Star award winner teams?

Sanjoy: If any team/individual aspires to win the Star Award, each individual has to first raise his or her personal benchmark. Personal excellence has to be at the core which can translate into team success. The business we are in, we need to think laterally than in predictive manner.

We need to look at the impact of what we do or maximize the impact whether on business/customers/ own way of working/processes.

Benoy: My only advice to the people aspiring to win next year’s awards is that it all starts with a burning desire to make a significant improvement to our business or products. If the burning desire is there the rest will follow!

Sharad: Star Awards should not be treated separate from the Business.

Employees should work on projects keeping in mind the impact on organisation/society/nation and not Star Awards. Work should be exemplary to win a Star Award and not work to win a Star Award.

of teams who were happy with what they had achieved and who cared deeply about what they were doing.

I believe the most important role the Star Awards program is that it gives a platform to such individuals and teams to showcase their work.

I believe that while the winning teams earn their recognition, the HT Awards work quite well as an incentive for diverse teams to participate in the nomination process itself.

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Star awardS MUSINGS

Reflections in Time “It is a symbol of approval and gratitude for good job” Prasada – Deputy General Manager, Supply Chain, Greater Noida

“Second consecutive year for me to see the live telecast” Ashish Mittal – Assistant General Manager, HR, Lucknow

This is one of the most prestigious awards at HT and it is seen as a symbol of approval and gratitude for each individual’s good job. The recognition at a grand platform motivates everyone to strive for excellence and we all benefit from it.

We eagerly look forward to participating in this annual program.

It is the second consecutive year for me to get an opportunity to see the live telecast of Star Awards. It was an exciting and enriching experience to listen to inspiring success stories of individuals and teams. We were also treated to live music and dance performances by various artists that added to the excitement. This award function not only gives recognition for excellence in work but also helps in reaching new heights and setting benchmarks for the industry.

“There should be regional Star Awards too” Saurabh Yadav – Management Trainee, Media Marketing, Lucknow

“It is a symbol of approval and gratitude for good job” Prasada – Deputy General Manager, Supply Chain, Greater Noida

I had the opportunity to see the live telecast of

“Second consecutive year for me to see the live telecast” Ashish Mittal – Assistant General Manager, HR, Lucknow

Star Awards at Lucknow and was proud to see my team win two Star Awards. These awards help imbibe the company values and bind all of us together as a family where everyone is performing to achieve excellence. I think it is a great idea to have these awards and I would suggest that there should be similar awards at the regional level, for example UP (E) Star Awards.

“The suspense over winners made the event all the more thrilling” Madhulika Singh – Feature Editor, HT City, Lucknow The Star Awards event was quite entertaining with performances of various artists. It was a great idea to have Leadership Team member do

the event anchoring which was quite impressive. The suspense over the final winners made the event all the more thrilling. As the Star Gold Award was announced at the end of the event, the entire team at Lucknow had lost hope and we were resuming our day’s work. Right then, we saw the announcement of Lucknow team winning the Gold Award and the entire HT House erupted in joy. It was an unforgettable moment as people clapped, laughed, hugged and congratulated each other.

“Thanks to the organising team for a grand Awards event” Richard A Coutinho – National Circulation Head, Mint, New Delhi I want to thank the organising team for putting together an exemplary HT Awards event and making it a memorable experience for all of us.

It would have taken a lot of planning, efforts and seamless execution by many individuals and teams to create such a grand event. The whole build

“There should be regional Star Awards too” Saurabh Yadav – Management Trainee, Media Marketing, Lucknow

up in the form of initial nominations, the announcement of the award jury team and the final ceremony was very well conceptualised and conducted.

“Winning is secondary, being nominated itself is a matter of pride” Zubair Sheikh – Manager, Media Marketing, Mumbai

“The suspense over winners made the event all the more thrilling”

I have worked for over seven years Madhulika Singh – Feature Editor, HT City, Lucknow with HT and being nominated for the Star Awards filled me with joy and excitement. Winning is secondary because earning a nomination in itself generates a sense of pride. The motive behind Star Awards is to recognise the efforts of teams and individuals, and knowing that the organisation values you is sufficient to make one aspire for higher milestones.

I believe that the awards ceremony carries value for each one of us. It is a special occasion which builds the faith in HT as one of the best places to work for. I want to thank everyone who made this possible for us.

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‘Let’s brace ourselves for an exciting transformation’ Jai Menon, Group Director - Technology talks about the excitement and energy of a comprehensive transformation at HT How different is working in a media house from an MnC? How do you compare working across cultures (europe, America, Africa and india)?

Prior to joining the media industry at HT Media, my professional experience has been in technology industries – IT (IBM, foreign MNC, New York), telecom (AT&T, foreign MNC, Atlanta) and then telecom again (Bharti, Indian MNC, Delhi). I am fortunate to have been a part of the transformational phases in each of the stints. In the IT industry, it was about transformation from hardware to software and then to becoming service-oriented. Telecom witnessed the transition from voice/SMS to data services through new outsourcing-oriented business models. I am fortunate to be a part of HT as we prepare to transform from a print to a ‘print+digital’ era.

I am sure that the levels of empowerment that I have experienced here, coupled with our resident metaphor of ‘leading at the edge’, will make the HT journey perhaps

I love the history and significance of HT strong gravitas with an exciting vision

the most exciting one in my professional career.

What do you love about HT as an organisation?

I love the history and significance of HT as a brand – strong gravitas with an exciting vision. It is really impressive how we have already diversified into new areas. Project Butterfly, in particular, brings along a comprehensive transformation with a first-of-its-kind integrated newsroom in every respect. It is great to be part of this movement towards a digital future.

How do you connect with your teams to create a win-win for all?

My childhood has been quite grounded and this has shaped the way I look at people – it is always human first. I believe in open brainstorming for innovative ideas to co-create solutions from first principles. A supporting key element is ensuring there is clarity in terms of roles, structures and interdependencies. Finally, I believe in helping people become more marketable; there is a win-win for all in this.

Please share the most challenging moment in your work life.

One of the most challenging experiences has been working, month after

month, in Africa which is a difficult territory to work in.

What would be a perfect work day?

If I can go home feeling that some (mini-) steps have been taken towards achieving a cause (eg. new digital futures).

What do you think needs to be changed at the organisation?

Two things: (a) greater collaboration to unlock our collective strengths, and (b) setting a culture of continuous learning and adaptability.

What keeps you inspired every day?

These days it is the high energy and excitement of transformation; we will be so new and different by Diwali next year.

Do you think you have realized your potential as a leader?

There is so much to learn and do.

There is a long way to go towards realizing my potential.

Tell us about one leader from any field you admire and why?

I have been inspired by the work of Steve Jobs – not just for what he has done to tech experience and usability, but more for how he has weathered personal ups and downs.

Holiday cheer with family

What keeps you ticking?

My family - my kids and my wife.

Who do you rely on the most?

My wife Sajita - she advises me, coaches me and continues to help me grow as a person.

One incident from your childhood that you can’t forget…

It was my first day at IIT Delhi in 1982, and I was just setting out from home when I suddenly broke my spectacles.

I headed out, changing three buses along the way. As I was crossing the road towards IIT gate, I saw my father standing with a new pair of spectacles. I can never forget that and still don’t know how he did it!

Do you look forward to weekends or weekdays?

Both are great, weekdays are all about transformational excitement and weekends are all about being with the family.

Rapid fiRe Your favourite season?

Autumn - lots of festivities What makes your day?

Taking steps towards a cause What about people upsets you?

People who are two-faced Destiny or hard work?

Hard work – it can shape destiny Books or movies?

Movies Who do you go to for advice?

My partner - my wife What makes you proud?

Being part of an exciting cause Favourite music on the move?

Mostly devotional music The last thing you bought for yourself?

Kinnow and Rose Earl Grey Tea.

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In your opinion, what are the qualities of a good leader nowadays?

A good leader must be approachable and open minded, with an ear for ground realities. It is also vital for a leader to think strategic and long term with a focus on an executable roadmap. A leader should be able to anticipate waves and trends, and figure out approaches to finding opportunities and solutions.

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Reshaping India We at Hindustan Times work to be activists for change and progress, calling on global leaders to shape a better future

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he 12th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit offered the perfect setting for eminent personalities from different walks of life to converge under one roof as they laid out their blueprint for ‘Reshaping India’.

A total of 25 dynamic speakers, including heads of state, union ministers, business tycoons, film actors and directors, a Nobel laureate, media experts, etc., took the centre stage for 14 thought-provoking sessions at the Taj Palace, New Delhi on November 21-22, 2014, deliberating and bringing insight on a host of topics which impact us as a nation. The emphasis was on building a common stage for the leaders to share their vision with an audience of policy makers, diplomats and leaders.

IS THIS AFGHANISTAN’S MOMENT OF RECKONING? K HAMId KARzAI, President of Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Chair: Barkha dutt, Group Editor, NDTV India role in the reconstruction of his Karzai praised India’s country, as he urged India, China and Russia to put up a united fight against terrorism in the region. He spoke of peace as he said that his country will not allow its soil to be used for a proxy war between India and Pakistan.

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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS – WHY THEY FAIL AND HOW TO MAKE THEM WORK RANA KAPOOR, Founder and CEO, YES Bank & CHRISTOPHER L THOMPSON, President and CEO, Brand USA Chair: Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor, Mint Kapoor called for driving double-digit growth through consistent infrastructure push and development all the way up to 2050. He expressed confidence in the government’s moves to transform the economic landscape, as he spoke of a definite need for more project finance institutions in the country.

1. Hamid Karzai speaks at the inaugural session 2. Audience listen in to a session in progress 3. Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson, HT Media Ltd. shares a moment with Hamid Karzai 4. Rana Kapoor and Christopher L Thompson in conversation with Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor, Mint 5. Rana Kapoor addresses the audience 6. Nic Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times felicitates Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi 7. Kailash Satyarthi addresses the audience 8. Audience in rapt attention as they listen to the eminent speakers 9. Nitin Gadkari addresses the audience 10. Distinguished guests interact between sessions

TOWARDS A TRULY PEACEFUL, NON-VIOLENT AND CHILD-FRIENDLY WORLD KAILASH SATYARTHI, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2014 Chair: Sonia Singh, Editorial Director, NDTV Satyarthi called for a child-friendly world as he threw light on how problems and challenges need to be linked to solutions, with a push for collective social responsibility and social audit.

“Child labour, poverty and illiteracy create an unholy troika while education, employability, entrepreneurship, equality, efficiency and ethics are the solutions,” he said.

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Gadkari appeared upbeat about bringing in the new Road Transport and Safety Bill to replace the 1988 Motor Vehicles Act, and to deter errant drivers by installing cameras at traffic intersections and building better designed roads. He also shared plans for creating one lane on all the over 350 toll plazas across the country which would have electronic toll collection facilities.

IN CONVERSATION WITH RIZ KHAN FRANCIS FORd COppOlA, Director and Producer Chair: Riz Khan, International Broadcast Journalist and Author Coppola told the audience that the cinema of the future would be about fusion of technology and art form, emphasising that the audience will be the masters for cinema. He expressed his love for Bollywood films and the use of music and songs in Indian cinema, sharing that he comes from a family involved in musicals.

MAKING INdIA A SUpERpOWER: HOpE OR FANTASY? ARUN JAITlEY, Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information and Broadcasting Chair: Sanjoy Narayan, Editor in Chief, Hindustan Times Jaitley laid down the broad contours of India’s short-to-medium term reforms roadmap as he spoke of subsidy cuts and likely moves towards privatisation of some state-run companies. He expressed the hope that decisions taken by the new government will put India on the path of economic recovery and attract foreign investors.

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IN CONVERSATION WITH KARAN JOHAR AAMIR KHAN, Actor and Producer & dEE dEEpIKA pAdUKONE, Actor Chair: Karan Johar, Filmmaker Both Aamir and Deepika talked about

1. Aamir Khan talks about the business of cinema 2. Deepika Padukone smiles as she interacts with the audience 3. Acclaimed director Francis Ford Copolla in conversation with Riz Khan, International Broadcast Journalist and Author 4. Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra interacts with Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, NDTV 5. Arun Jaitley, Union Minister of Finance addresses the audience 6. Hollywood action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger interacts with the audience 7. Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson, HT Media Ltd. listens to a session in progress as other dignitaries look on 8. Audience share notes during a session 9. Audience listen attentively to a session in progress

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the transition of Indian cinema, women-centric stories, and the trend of 100-crore box-office films. Aamir shared that the understanding of mainstream Indian cinema was widening, with filmmakers now making films that earlier wouldn’t have been made. Deepika shared her thoughts on competition in cinema, sharing that that given her non-film background, she never really felt any pressure at the time of her debut.

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MUSCLE BEACH TO HOLLYWOOD TO GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA: A WONDEROUS, SURREAL TRIP? ARNOLD SCHWARzNEGGER, Governor of California, 2003-11 Chair: Riz Khan, International Broadcast Journalist and Author Schwarzenegger spoke of wanting to visit India whenever he gets the chance, expressing confidence in the talent and growing GDP of India. He spoke of the need to protect the get off fossil fuels as fast as possible’. environment and to ‘get Sharing sound advice with the audience, he asked them to never listen to ‘naysayers’, work hard, and most importantly, believe in themselves.

STATES HOLD THE KEY TO INDIA’S MAKEOVER DEVENDRA FADNAVIS, Chief Minister of Maharashtra Chair: Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, NDTV Fadnavis spoke of his plans for taking tough decisions on governance in his state. He expressed confidence that Maharashtra could set benchmarks for others pursuing the Prime Minister’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, claiming his state contributes the most to the

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country’s GDP and industrial output. He promised to aggressively push e-governance at all levels and identified the agrarian crisis as the biggest challenge for his government.

IS SOCIAL MEDIA KILLING BIG MEDIA? KAtIE JACOBS StANtON, Vice President, Global Media, Twitter & SArAh SANDS, Editor, London Evening Standard Chair: Nic Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times Stanton expressed faith in the Indian market where more and more people are engaging with Twitter, as India brings in about 78 percent of the Twitter traffic from outside the US. Sands talked about the journey of London Evening Standard, making a turnaround at a time when print has been declared doomed, and how it is available on a multi-platform format. Both Stanton and Sands agreed that social media has been a game changer for the way the media operates.

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hIttING hOME – WhY SECUrING INDIA IS A DIFFICULt JOB rAJNAth SINGh, Minister of Home Affairs Chair: harinder Baweja, Editor-Investigations, Hindustan Times Singh brought to fore India’s stance that terrorism in the country is ‘completely Pakistan-sponsored’, and while the government is open to resuming dialogue, Islamabad needs to take the first step.

Pledging to ‘leave no stone unturned’ to provide security to all its citizens, Singh talked about strategies to counter attempts by international terror outfits, assuring that holes in India’s security along the borders would be plugged with help from Israel.

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1. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval speaks on India’s security preparedness 2. Rajnath Singh, Minister of Home Affairs addresses the audience 3. Sarah Sands, Editor, London Evenign Standard and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Vice President, Global Media, Twitter in conversation with Nic Dawes, Chief Editorial and Content Officer, Hindustan Times 4. Soumya Bhattacharya, Resident Editor, HT Mumbai interacts with ace cricketers VVS Laxman and Saurav Ganguly 5. Former Indian cricket captain Saurav Ganguly interacts with the audience 6. Vinod Mehta, Advisor, Outlook magazine asks a question 7. Rob Rhinehart addresses the audience 8. Audience listen to a session in progress 9. Abdul Basit, Pakistan High Commissioner listens to NSA Ajit Doval

Chair: Soumya Bhattacharya, Resident Editor, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Ganguly was cautious in his optimism about defending champions India reaching the 2015 World Cup final in Australia, while Laxman predicted a back-to-back win for the Indian team.

Laxman insisted that India would surely go all the way to win their third World Cup. Ganguly expressed confidence in the current crop of players, adding that the tour would provide a perfect opportunity for Indian pacers to deliver.

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INDIA’S FUTURE SECURITY THREATS AjIT DovAl, National Security Advisor Chair: Kanwal Sibal, former Foreign Secretary of India Talking about the country’s security preparedness in the future, Doval said that India needs to be ready on a two-front war and build deterrence that ensures conflict is not an option for its adversaries.

He explained how the government was optimistic about engaging economic inter-dependence’. With with China and Pakistan through ‘economic cyberspace emerging as an engine for powerful economic growth, the government will continue to keep a sharp eye on it, he said.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE oF FooD? RoB RHINEHART, Founder, Soylent Chair: Riz Khan, International Broadcast Journalist and Author 26-year-old Rhinehart talked about his revolutionary offering, Soylent, which he has developed as a powder that when mixed in water makes a drink which promises to make the future of food healthy, balancing all nutrients the human body needs. With a shelf life of decades if stored in ideal conditions, 450 grams of the powder mixed with 1.6 litres of water could become someone’s three square meals. Soylent aims at providing world food security, he said.

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‘We desire to be a company hungry for efficiency’ RAJIV VERMA, CEO, HT Media Ltd., talks about how our business model will need to innovate in order to take advantage of both digital and newspaper presence

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his is a unique employee engagement initiative where HT leaders interact with employees over a cup of coffee.

The hour-long session begins with the leader talking about his role and responsibilities, followed by Q&A with employees. The latest session on October 20, 2014 was with Rajiv Verma, CEO, HT Media Ltd. Given below are some excerpts.

Let us begin by talking about the state of the business, how the last couple of years have been, how 2014 has been, and how I see things going forward, as far as this industry is concerned. Most of you would have joined in the last 3-5 years, so you are relatively new to the company.

Overall the economic slowdown of the last couple of years still has to show signs of catching up. Although there are signs that the economy will revive, it still has to turn into action. Other companies that are in the same space, especially English newspapers and not necessarily vernacular, have been hurting a lot. For instance, the growth of the market leader TOI for the last couple of years has been under 5%. A single-digit growth is not good for any industry, what one would like to see is growth more than the rate of inflation which is currently at about 8%. As a result of this, some newspaper companies have gone into deep losses. We have been somewhat fortunate that our growth has been ahead of the industry by

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at least 1-2 points if not more, because we have maintained strict cost discipline in the company.

The net result of this is that we have been able to maintain our profitability. The other mega trend which is visible to all of us is that there is a huge change happening in the lives of our readers and advertisers. The habit of consumers is shifting to other ways of consuming news using smart phones, tablets, computers etc. The time spent on reading newspapers is coming down so our industry is facing some backlash as far as advertisers are concerned since they do not find newspapers as the only medium of choice now.

If we look at the recent General Elections, the use of social and digital media was at a very different level. So what does all this mean to us? Our industry is facing pressure on the cost side, the consumer habits and preferences are changing, and other platforms are eating into media spending.

This trend is not likely to abate; it can only accelerate.

As a company we need to adapt to these changes, because if we don’t then we might suffer as several companies in the West did. We are fortunate that we have another arm of our business – our vernacular business and we find that these changes are somewhat slower in the hinterlands and tier-2 cities, so bewe have a little more time there be fore these changes affect us.

Does all this mean it is doom and gloom for newspapers? I don’t believe so. I think this is a signal of changing times and external environment and we need to acclimatize ourselves by changing our business model and understanding the customers and consumers better.

The other media in terms of advertising ROI are more cost-efficient, so the need to become digital savvy. Therefore we have undertaken the project of digi-talization, Project Butterfly. The entire newsroom is going to be digitalized.

While there will be newspapers that come out in the morning everyday under brand HT, HH or Mint, throughout the day news will be provided to our readers as and it would happen in a far more encapsulated and presentable format.

Our newsroom teams will have to be far more attuned to how news needs to be packaged and provided to our readers. The engagement of our readers with our brands will be 24x7. This presents certain opportunities, while the readers interact with our websites throughout the day, we could present them with some advertising widgets around the activities they are performing on their digital devices.

Our business model will need to innovate in order to take advantage of both digital and newspaper presence. I think this change will happen over the next 3-5 years and these would result in margins coming under pressure, so the only way we can sustain then will be by expanding our revenues and contracting our cost lines.

The productivity of our employees, material, and all other resources will have to be improved. The world that is unraveling is going to belong to companies that are more efficient and where people are smart and hungry and willing to adapt to the times.

I believe we are a company, or at least desire to be a company hungry for efficiency.

Another thing we need to do is to diversify

Our business model will need to innovate to benefit from digital and newspaper presence

into other businesses, which we started to do 8-9 years ago. Today I’m proud to say that our radio business is one of the outperformers in the industry in terms of its business outcomes and listener experience. We have also moved into education. Studymate, our business of supplementary coaching is in its fifth year now and has expanded to 24 centers from the 4 centers it began with. It is growing at the rate of 70-80% each year. We hope to create another a strong arm of the company which is somewhat away from our core business. Our higher education business is also now in the first year of creating a pilot, the initial results of which look quite good.

The last part of our business is our digital business – Firefly eVentures – which is currently facing certain challenges. We are now at a threshold where we may be able to see success in at least one of the four parts of this business – Shine, htcampus, Digital Quotient, and desimartini.

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coffee with the leader Lastly, for the company to remain agile and active, the cornerstone for that will be our people who must be hungry to learn and ambitious to perform. This industry is very exciting by the nature of work, since it impacts the society and the world at large, whether through news or entertainment or education.

We aspire to become a role model organization which will only happen if we all are determined to plan our days better and give our best to the company.

One advice from me is that you all need to spend time on your personal development by way of reading and studying and otherwise making sure that you are learning. Otherwise in the coming years you’ll find yourself trapped and unable to grow further.

There are two parts to your growth – one being the opportunities that the company provides by way of training and continuous coaching, and the other being you yourself. You

For the company to remain agile and active, our people must be hungry to learn and ambitious to perform

must do your part and ask for trainings and the company would also be playing its part.

Q: There are reports of HT not reaching readers in many parts of Gurgaon, or it being replaced by TOI particularly on weekends or special occasions when it has supplements etc.

What we are witnessing in Delhi and NCR region is that we are locked in a battle which goes back 20-30 years with our competition. We must not focus on this but continue on the good work we have been doing, innovate and fight back with energy and confidence. Our circulation colleagues are doing good work and I recircu quest you to report such instances to the circulation team for their action and follow up.

Q: We are doing quite well in the education business with HTCampus and Studymate, do we have any plans to venture into the University education sector also?

The Bridge School of Management has been designed to cater to the of University segment where we are offering 11 month specialization course in data analytics. We hope to launch at least two more programs soon. We perform hope that it becomes a large performing segment of our business.

Q: Newspapers are long gestation business and we can see examples of vernacular newspapers which are loss making and it takes 8-10 years for results to start showing, so what is our strategy on vernacular markets?

Launching more newspapers may not be very wise, we need to survey markets, view our margins and right now we are fofo cusing on digital aspect of news and not on the launch of new newspapers. The migramigra tion would have to be towards digital platplat forms. We need to be wise in utilization of the capital and take prudent steps accordingly.

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Q: Please share about a typical day in your life as a CEO? I am blessed to have teams which take away my worries so I can focus on golf (Rajiv smiles as the audience breaks into laughter). I think 50% of my day is spent in managing people issues, conflicts and concerns across regions and motivating teams. I am a strong believer in organizational justice and strive for establishing a fair workplace, ensuring we are focusing on the right competencies. Rest of my time is focused on the customer, market and the competition. I also spend time in planning for the business for the future. I am spending more time in planning and less on execution as I have efficient teams and believe that the organization is in safe hands.

Q: We are already in the entertainment business with Fever 104, are there any plans of diversification into cinema and television in the near future?

Right now we are not planning to venture into television or cinema as we don’t understand this space too well. There would be opportunities of acquisition and mergers in the radio space and we plan to scale this up.

Q: How do you view your personal career path in the next five years?

My personal career growth will come from the rise in scale and size of the company and its people, that’s how I see my progress in the next five years. We will grow in mind capacity to conceive, envisage and visualize more for the company. I want to become more ambitious for my company and my people in the coming years.

Q: How do you see the shrinking market space in the recruitment segment with shine jobs and how should we work for improving this scenario?

Newspapers are more tedious than online medium. We need to acknowledge that technology is changing, and the rules of the game are changing. We need to explore op-

Rajiv Verma, CEO and Sharad Saxena, Executive Director Operations & HR interact with the participants

I am blessed to have teams which take away my worries so I can focus on golf!

portunities in the low skill and blue collar job markets in tier II cities or even in the NCR region.

Q: What is your vision of the entertainment business, and do we have any specific plans of expanding to other cities?

There certainly are several plans for our radio business, which fortunately has been doing very well. The bad news, however, is that it remains a challenging industry due to government regulations and high barriers to entry and growth. That is, however, all going to change within this year hopefully, with people beginning to bid for licenses or buying other companies. Not only are we doing very well but we also have a lot of capital and liquidity with us. This business has far more sellers than buyers, and we are in the buyers’ market which provides us with a good possibility of consolidating and growing rapidly. We just need to take care we plan well and do not make any silly mistakes. Growth in this sector would mean more career opportunities, more employment opportunities, and reaching out to many more people. There would be lot of excitement in this segment.

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Family day

Feverish Frenzy

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ever 104 FM, on the occasion of its half yearly success, celebrated Fever Family Day in the month of October across the four locations – Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata.

This was the first occasion since inception when our proud employees and their families came together to celebrate their success. The event had a quick showcase of the key achievements of the year and rewarded achievers who had contributed significantly towards those milestones. Our very talented employees presented a scintillating dance performance as well.

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Family day

Happy 8th, Fever!

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ever 104 FM celebrated its 8th birthday in October. The brand has been dominating the radio industry with its innovative shows and rich talent pool. In its journey so far, Fever has established a unique identity for each of its stations – Dominant No. 1 in Delhi, Bangalore’s Baap of Bollywood, Mumbai’s Entertainment Ka Baap, and Dada of Entertainment in Kolkata. Today Fever is one of the most looked upon brands in the media industry.

NEHA CHADHA Manager, Marketing Fever 104 FM

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Beyond Work

A Journey Called Life Our employees share their musings on love, life and limelight

Sorrows and Dead Flowers Once, long back, I gifted my heart to you Then it was a fresh flower vivid and new Blooming in the chillness of early morn dew But on the billows of your frail tears It glided away from me and you With my uncooled desires away it flew I could see Deep sorrows glitter through your eyes Like million stars on the vast grey sky Once, The clipped dead flowers from your silk hair Smiled for a second in brief, so fair.

KarunaKaran K P nair Deputy Manager, Office of Business Head - North, Chandigarh

Sorrows and the dead flowers Will face into the silent woods When the heavens first living showers Would gently pass through Now that the days left are short and few And yet I shall wait, wait for you.

Saurabh Sinha Assistant Manager, Sales, Bhagalpur

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PooNam Sharma Backend Executive Sales, Jhandewalan

pHoToS: THiNkSTock

Shammi Nigam Executive, HT Editorial, New Delhi

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Life in the Metr Metro transport is the lifeline of our metropolitan cities and a huge social space in our lives. Jayanto looks at the fun and not-so fun behaviours depicting a typical day on board the Metro

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RewARDS & RECOGNITION

Celebrating Exceptional Performance Presenting our proud winners across various teams for the months of August, September and October. Congratulations!

AUGUST MONTHLY INDIVIDUAL AWARDS – ENGLISH EDITORIAL Darpan Singh,

KumKum DaSgupta,

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He did an exclusive story exposing how the city’s pollution watchdog has ordered the immediate closure of the Delhi Gymkhana Club by holding it responsible for wasting water and causing pollution. He followed this up with another story on the Delhi Golf Club being asked to shut down on similar charges, also pointing to a bigger problem that most of the 50-odd clubs in Delhi are running without pollution permits. yojana yaDav, Chandigarh

She planned and led a six-part series ‘Toilet for girls’ pegged to PM Narendra Modi’s promise in his Independence Day speech. Sourcing the HRD Ministry’s data on the best and worst districts with regard to toilets in government schools, she commissioned and anchored onground reports from various states for an HT campaign to keep girls in school.

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She has written for the Web edition over and above her regular duties on the Comment page, with her articles on the floods in Kashmir, the Meerut riots and how curbing rumors can help contain communal tension, and her critique of Modi’s decision to speak to students on Teachers’ Day, all becoming very popular. jeevan praKaSh Sharma, new Delhi His impactful series on distance learning courses offered by private and state universities outside their states in violation of UGC rules was very well received. People had complained about their job offers being rescinded and promotions held back due to invalid certificates. One of the stories was also referenced in the Rajya Sabha.

panKaj jaiSwal, lucknow

His ground-zero series on the recent flash floods in UP looked at the extent and scale of the floods, damage to infrastructure, and how people were just swept away and died. Some competitors followed the series by going hunting at the same spots that he had discovered. ajay aggarwal, new Delhi He led from the front with his exceptional coverage of PM Modi’s speech on Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort and his Brunch cover story shoot of celebrity chef Vikas Khanna.

He won the first prize in the Amazon Better Photography contest.

SiDhartha roy & atul mathur, new Delhi Their month-long ‘Unclog Delhi’ campaign identified the worst traffic choke points in Delhi, looked for problem areas, and suggested solutions with the help of traffic experts.

AnnuAl TeAm AwArds – mediA mArkeTing

Jasvinder sindhu, new delhi

His insightful story on how sport is still uniting communities split wide apart by communal tension in UP was extensively followed up by other media and found huge traction online and on TV.

mega race First runner up – group a amyt Bhatia, Pratap g Kembrekar, vrushali Parab, Bimal ved, rajkumar Chandna, Priyank desai, shahrukh sethna, debashish Baidya, yogendrasing rathod, Zubair shaikh, soumalya Biswas

rhythma Kaul, new delhi

Her story on Modi’s first check-up as PM crippling ordinary services at AIIMS made HT the only newspaper or TV channel to have an extensive coverage and break real time information as Twitter feeds from inside the hospital.

digiTAl FirsT AwArd

mega race Winner – group C amit shrivastava, avanish Kumar, mukesh Kumar sharma, rohit raman, v vaidyanathan mega race First runner up – group B vivek Pandey, rajeev Chaurasiya, yogesh Jeswani, Jaydeep

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1. Benoy Roychowdhury, Executive Director, HT Media Ltd. awarding P Manikantan and R S Krishnan 2. Vishal Chaddha, Business Head Media Marketing awarding Ashish Dutta 3. Vivek Khanna, CEO, Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd. awarding Gaurav Ravi Arora 4. Anshul, Tashun, Anoop, Rajeev, Ashish, Ankit, Priya, Rafieah

Chaturvedi, anil malik, arunn P shinde, varun sodhi, akshay mahadik, reema Chaturvedi, akshata Khadye, Piyali sarkar, Kartiki Jha Winner – south Zone ayub ahmed Khan, umesh l, sidharth Karanth, r ashok, sitaram Prabhu, vinit Kumar, vasudha singh, Juhi Khichariya, Kirneet, sanjay singh, swapnil ravindran, Biji naryanan, sankara surya narayanan, m venkatasubramaniam, John Felix, r s Krishnan, Priyanka Chakraborty, madhavacharya, deepa gopinath, Palani sekar

QuArTerly individuAl AwArds – mediA mArkeTing

veenu singh, new delhi

Her initiative and sustained efforts to integrate multimedia with her conventional textbased storytelling has helped the multimedia team be in the loop on all her major stories to check if they could make for good videos.

Best Performer in Quarter 1 Prabhat mishra

Best Performer in Quarter 1 anidhya Pahwa

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RewARDS & RECOGNITION SEpTEMbER MONTHLY INDIVIDUAL AWARDS – ENGLISH EDITORIAL Sahil magoo, new delhi

His news-breaking story on tons of litter generated during DU campus elections every year included the Chief Election Officer’s ultimatum to campaigners to clean up or suffer cancellation of their tickets, and PILs were filed as a result. The story was widely followed up by electronic, print as well as social media.

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Her cover story in Brunch titled ‘The case of the vanishing Armenians’ documented the lives of the less-than-100 strong conservative and rather clannish community of Indian-Armenians in Kolkata, tracing their history in India. This story got great feedback on Twitter and over email. neelam Pandey,

ShoumeShwar Sen, new delhi

He ‘live’ covered several events during the Asian Games, quickly put up alerts and stories, and put out comprehensive packages on India’s performance at Incheon.

His exclusive story ‘Bird watchers discover a new wetland in Greater Noida’ was written after a detailed investigation into revenue records to ascertain whether or not the wetland existed on papers. After our story, UP forest department and the Yamuna Expressway authority assured to notify and protect the wetland.

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Her exclusive story on page 1 exposed more than 850,000 of Delhi’s 1.8 million ration card holders as bogus, leading to an enquiry being ordered by the government soon after the story was published.

raJ k raJ, new delhi & nitin kanotra, Jammu Their coverage of the Kashmir floods was a tough assignment especially due to local people reacting adversely to the presence of media, despite which they ensured a continuous flow of admirable images for our various editorial demands.

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Her brilliant reportage on the Kashmir floods stood out for its sheer journalistic courage and inventiveness in a crisis spot, especially after she was sent to Srinagar at just a twohour notice. For over ten days she was the sheet anchor of our flood coverage, filing well-written spot and special stories, communicating from the emergency control room of the Indian Air Force.

QUARTERLY INDIVIDUAL AWARDS MEDIA MARkETING

mohit Sharma Highest revenue growth (Apr to Jul)

BriJeSh Pandey Maximum share growth (Apr to Jul)

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PankaJ madaan Highest yield growth (Apr to Jul)

akhileSh miShra 1st prize – Highest revenue growth (Apr to Jul)

anidhya Pahwa 2nd prize – Highest revenue growth (Apr to Jul)

harSh Chauhan 3rd prize – Highest revenue growth (Apr to Jul)

Monthly teaM awards Media Marketing (Mint) Humaira ansari,

asHutosH misHra & meHak jain For their cost saving efforts in barter deals and successfully handling various major events such as the South Banking Conclave, ICICI Workshops, Energy Conclave, etc.

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Her very insightful story ‘An uneven score’ on internet gaming addiction was based on the opening of India’s first internet deaddiction centre. The human faces that she managed to put to the story, coupled with exhaustive boxes on symptoms and de-addiction techniques, ensured enormous positive feedback from academicians and behavioural scientists to everyday people. ajai masand,

manisH sHukla, niHarika bisHt, prerna sHarma For relentlessly supporting the Marketing team in all their initiatives and putting in extended working hours to deliver high quality work for all sales activities.

spot awards Media Marketing soumik natH GHosH For generating revenue worth 22 L at the ICICI Mutual Fund Workshop

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His outstanding coverage of the Asian Games left the competition far behind, especially a story on how the Indian government restricted the stay of the athletes and made them miss several training sessions. The IOA being penalised was an HT exclusive, while the news about Africa declaring its intention to be part of the Asian Games community was first reported in HT.

robin jain 1st prize – Highest share growth (Apr’14 to Jul’14)

sHruti bHarGava 2nd prize – Highest share growth (Apr to Jul)

digital First award saurabH trivedi, new delhi

For his photos of a Ghaziabad cop fining his wife for not wearing a helmet and a monkey seen inside a Metro coach, both of which saw great response on Twitter

arpit manGal 1st prize – Maximum new clients

saumya ranjan mallick 2nd prize – Maximum new clients

spot awards Media Marketing HarsH GambHir & arsHdeep kaur For securing active participation from the client during the hugely successful ‘Unclog Delhi’ campaign and ‘Youth Survey’ event

rajiv bisHt & tasHun sHarma For making the ‘Dental Conference’ series a huge success

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RewARDS & RECOGNITION OCTOBER

MONTHLY INDIVIDUAL AWARDS – ENGLISH EDITORIAL

Vijay Murty, ranchi He travelled to the interiors of dangerous Maoistdominated districts to come up with a series of revealing stories highlighting the plight of innocent villagers caught in a war that is not theirs. His efforts forced the government to sit up and take notice, making the series a good example of high impact journalism.

Pratik SaluNke, Mumbai

His exclusive Page 1 story exposed how 209 babus in Maharashtra who have been booked in corruption cases have still not been suspended, highlighting the lackadaisical attitude of the government and senior officers while punishing the corrupt. The report also carried another inside story on how 318 corruption cases filed since 2012 have not even reached the court.

Sidhartha roy, New delhi

His persistent and comprehensive coverage of the DDA Housing Scheme 2014 for more than a month had several breaking stories such as the housing scheme likely to be extended (which it eventually was), the sharp dip in sale of forms due to onset of Shraddh period, inclusion of category for transgender for the first time, the housing scheme to be webcast on YouTube, etc.

ANNUAL AWARDS – FEVER 104 FM

BeSt SaleS PerforMaNce aNkita arora, delhi PraShaNt jadhaV, Mumbai harSha k, Bangalore PriyaNka SeN, kolkata BeSt PerforMaNce – StatioN yogeSh SharMa, delhi feVer faN Park - MaiNak Mitra, deBarati Pal, ariNdoM chakraBorty, aNirBaN Saha, rudra Sarkar, deBaSiSh ghoSh,

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tereNce aShiSh MaNdle, kolkata BeSt PerforMaNce – SuPPort huMaN reSourceS – Swati NagPaul fiNaNce – kaMal dhiNgra, PraBhaSh kuMar aggarwal, yogeSh uPreti, SaNdeeP choPra, arPit Mudgal traffic – Balraj thakur, rajiNder SiNgh, Sayyad aNwar, rajeeV VerMa, rahul juSta

BeSt radio Show khurafati NitiN, delhi NaNa chi taNg - Siddhartha Sahai SriVaStaVa, oMkar arViNd PawaSkar, aNuPaM Purohit, aShutoSh BalSekar, MuMBai feVer flaShBack - ruBiNa ShaBeer Patel, Bangalore Meter dowN - SayaN ghoSh, kolkata feVer fit Syed NaBeel haSaN & SuMit

NeelAm PANdey, New delhi

kumAR uttAm, New delhi

Her story on how AAP and BJP sent each other visual evidence to show lack of cleanliness got more than 43K shares and sharp political reactions. BJP sent pictures of dirty toilet blocks in Kejriwal’s constituency. This was after AAP had sent pictures of overflowing garbage dumps, wanting them to be cleared as part of the PM’s popular Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

He broke several key stories in October that many others followed – being the first to declare Manoharlal Khattar’s name as the front-runner for Haryana CM on the day of the Assembly election results, Krishna Gopal replacing Suresh Soni as the RSS ‘ points man in the BJP, and an explosive interview with Rajnath Singh in which the latter made some explosive remarks against Pakistan.

BhARdwAj, delhi AftAB AlAm Ali, mumbai shRAddhA GAutAm, Bangalore ARiNdom chAkRABoRty, kolkata coRPoRAte – swAti siNGh

Best PRoductioN NAvRAtRi PRoPeRty - deveNdRA siNGh kARki, dANish shAkil, AzAAN khAN, NishANt kuNdRA, himANshu BhARdwAj, vikAs kumAR, swAti siNGh, ABhishek duGGAl, sAmeeR ANANd, delhi eNteRtAiNmeNt kA BAAP, celeBRity imAGiNG - Noel d’silvA, AftAB AlAm Ali, mumbai fifA jiNGles toh - sANtosh mAviNkuRve, Bangalore

exemPlARy seRvice kiRPAl siNGh, delhi NARAiN tAkle, mumbai AzAAd kumAR PRAdhAN, Bangalore tARAk dAs, kolkata

Avijit GhosAl & RAvik BhAttAchARyA, kolkata

They consistently did well on the Saradha scam and the Bengal terror issues through their stories ‘Will Saradha do to Didi what Bofors did to Rajiv?’ and ‘Clear and present danger: Burdwan blasts point to new terror threats’, which were appreciated by readers.

keo kARPiN commeRciAl - deBARAti PAl, kolkata coRPoRAte – kyA woh sAch thA sumANto RAy, diPikA fomAN, sAuRABh kumAR BhoNjAl Best sAles PeRfoRmANce – teAm leAd RAjitA shARmA, delhi tAPAN shARmA, mumbai

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walking the road with ht

“I work 7 days a week!” walk down the memory lane with ht team members as they share their fondest memories and experiences

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n a new series, the spotlight is on team members who have not only had a long association with the organisation but have also engaged with sincerity and passion to contribute to its success story. Below are excerpts from a conversation with Vijay Singh Rathore, Editorial Coordinator, New Delhi, as he talks about an enriching journey of more than 38 years with HT where he started his career.

Tell us about your first day at work.

I was officially appointed on November 1, 1976 but I had already joined in June that year. I was 20 years old and it was my first job. I was interviewed by Hiranmay Karlekar, an eminent editor. My family was

thrilled when I got the job. Karlekar congratulated me and told me to work hard and progress well in HT. Within a few years of working here, I realised I didn’t want to work anywhere else.

What do you love most about HT? When I joined, I was told that I should focus on my work and nothing else.

That has remained my mantra till date. There are no strict rules to follow as long as one ensures work is being delivered on time. I try to always stay ahead of my deadlines.

My work is the most precious thing in my life! I live by my sincerity and edication What is the secret of your long association with HT? I have never had any problems with any of my co-workers or superiors. I also cherish the strong sense of job security with HT which is the reason of my long stay with the organisation.

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How do you start your day for work?

I start my morning with a pooja at home. I never have any pending work

from the previous day and the first thing I do is to delete all old files and then check all emails. Everyday there is new work for me.

What fun things do you enjoy at work?

I look forward to spending time with my colleague and friend Yashpal Bajaj. We take short breaks for tea and refreshments which last only 1520 minutes but make me quite happy.

What do you look forward to when you come to work everyday?

Let me share something which is hard to believe - I work on all seven days in a week! I only take leave when I need to visit my native place in Rajasthan. I look forward to work everyday. My family – my wife and two sons – know that I enjoy going to work everyday.

What is the high point of your career so far?

I joined as a clerk and now work as an Editorial Coordinator. I have enjoyed working for public grievance columns such as ‘Action Line’ and ‘What’s on’, which were quite useful for readers.

Is there anything you wish to do differently or new after you retire?

I want to go back to my native place and take care of my farmhouse along with my wife. I may start my own work but would not like to work for any other company.

BU health

Tips For A Healthy Life a healthy diet is all about providing your body with the right amount of nutrients and energy, without depriving yourself of the food you love.

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aintain your health with these easy-to-follow tips:

Put your family and health at the top of your priority list because health is your most precious commodity.

density, and nutritional supplements along with regular exercise can reverse bone depletion.

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● We all have the knowledge about what is good for our health. Begin implementing a change in your lifestyle and good health will follow.

Do not overeat even if you are eating healthy. ●

● If you are overweight, your cholesterol synthesis is elevated. By reducing body fat this problem can be corrected. ● Women who are 50 years of age or more should take a 1,000 mg supplement of calcium and 500 mg supplement of magnesium daily.

Post-menopausal women are susceptible to decreased bone

● Stay mentally engaged to stay sharp and prevent age-related memory loss. Play scrabble, learn a new language, solve puzzles, read or learn something new periodically. Do something that you really enjoy and that stimulates the brain cells. ● Stress accelerates ageing. Be pleasant and polite to people who you deal with. Tell your loved ones how much you love them. It will positively impact your own health.

Most processed and packaged foods such as cookies, biscuits, cakes, chips, farsans and fried foods like pakodas and samosas contain trans-fats, which are more harmful than saturated ●

fats as they increase bad cholesterol and reduce good cholesterol, thereby raising total cholesterol levels. ● If you have high blood pressure, switch to a vegetarian diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables. These are rich in potassium and magnesium and help reduce blood pressure. ● Your genetic tendency towards heart disease and diabetes is almost certain to manifest if you eat a diet high in refined carbohydrates.

Shara Ashraf Lifestyle Editor, HT City New Delhi

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Turning a New Leaf

Turning a New Leaf As we bid adieu to 2014 and prepare to welcome the new year, hear our senior leaders reveal what they look forward to in 2015

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he year 2014 was a turning point for the country with a new government a the Centre and the promise of change. It also saw HT stepping up the game with renewed passion for innovation, greater synergy between teams, and increased focus on technology. The dawn of a new year fills us with

optimism, as we carry with us learnings from the last year and a resolve to become the organisation of the future.

Some of our prominent leaders from across the country – Alok Tewari, Unit Head, Jaipur, RS Krishnan, Media Marketing Head (South), Bangalore, and Dinesh

Mishra, Senior Resident Editor, Hindustan, Ranchi – share milestones of the year gone by and their expectations from the New Year as individuals and teams.

How do you see the year 2014 as a part of HT and overall for yourself?

Alok: I think 2014 has been a good year with many processes being successfully implemented and helping in overall growth. It was a year where the unit has been under a lot of pressure to meet revenue targets, which was raised by a new government and average education season. krisHnAn: It was a fascinating and challenging year. Imagine growing at 23% in 2013 and targeting a growth of another 20% over that base in 2014! Lots of learnings which kept me on my toes round the year.

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Please share any special/ unforgettable moments of 2014 for you and your team/s.

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moment for the team was coming close to our June numbers of 2013, which were the highest ever from the unit till date. This gave us the confidence that with a plan in place we can scale our capacities to high levels.

Krishnan: A topical advertisement that was almost lost to competition at Hyderabad was dramatically retrieved almost in the middle of night. The deal was closed over a phone call around 11.50 pm with the MD of the company, leading to relief and jubilation.

Dinesh:

Which people/events/things inspired you in 2014 and why? aloK: The plan to launch Hindustan in Jaipur was the most inspiring, as I believe it would give HT the rightful recognition in Rajasthan and enhance our brand value. Dominance in Hindi in one of the biggest states can spell a success story for us all.

Krishnan: Digital Quotient business in the South started off on a low key and reached its pinnacle of success in October when we touched 50 lakhs in revenue in a single month.

This was achieved single-handedly by Priya Vivek of DQ, who taught me that passion and patience pays rich dividends.

Dinesh:

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HT steps up the game with passion for innovation and focus on technology – as we bid a fond adieu to 2014 and prepare to welcome the new year

Please share any resolutions you plan to focus on as an individual and as a team in 2015. aloK: The biggest resolution for me and my team is to keep pace with the changing business requirements and try to deliver the maximum results in the region. I would like to maximise all my efforts to prove that we are the best team in the company.

Krishnan: Making the South

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region again grow at 20% which is the new normal, turning this into a goal, and building passion in the entire team to achieve it.

Dinesh:

in 2015, how do you plan to further grow as an individual and as a team? aloK: I am sure 2015 will be a year of action for all of us in Jaipur after the launch of Hindustan. I would like to focus on my individual growth to a level where I can take tough decisions for the overall betterment of the region.

Krishnan: I would like to take up more challenging assignments and contribute to the growth of the organisation through the use of nonconventional methodologies.

Dinesh:

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Festive Fervour H

T came alive with myriad colours and the beauty of Diwali, with festivities across the various offices in Delhi/NCR. Tambola, games, contests, music and delectable snacks were some of the major attractions of the Diwali Mela held simultaneously at HT House, Noida and Gurgaon. Bright colours and smiling faces defined the success of the event everywhere.

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1. Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson, HT Media Ltd. lights the ceremonial lamp along with Harshad Jain, Business Head - HT Music & Entertainment Ltd. 2. Rajiv Verma, CEO, HT Media Ltd. at Diwali Pooja 3. Decorating a Rangoli is so much fun 4. A sweet Diwali for the winners of Rangoli contest 5. Dance the blues away!

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t all started with Team HT deciding to celebrate Diwali with a difference this year.

They visited Drishti, a home for special children founded by late Neeta Bahadur, first winner of the HT Woman Award. Team HT bought sweaters for the 103 children at the home along with two the gift radiator heaters. A leading 1. Bringing of smiles to the bakery sponsored snacks tiny tots and cake, while the team 2. Benoy Roychowdhury, took along goodies, balloons Executive Director and and balls for the children. Vivek Khanna, The bright smiles of the CEO, HMVL with Team HT little angels added sheen to 3. Diwali with special children our celebrations!

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t was the perfect opportunity for employees at Bihar and Jharkhand to showcase their talent with a Rangoli contest, which saw enthusiastic participation from every team. The excitement of the teams reflected in the myriad colours of their beautiful creations, as they proudly posed next to their masterpieces.

At the Moradabad office, Diwali celebrations kicked off with a display of bright fireworks, as employees gathered to joyfully wish each other and enjoy delicious sweets.

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our HT photojournalists have won awards under different categories in the MFI-Yes Bank National Press Photo Contest 2014, the results of which were announced on November 26.

Raj K Raj, Special Photographer, HT Delhi won the second prize in the arts and culture section, while Vijayanand Gupta, Special Photographer, HT Mumbai won the third prize in the general news category. Ajay Aggarwal, Photo Editor, HT Delhi received an honourable mention in the sports catogeory, while Subrata Biswas, Photographer, HT Delhi has received an honourable mention for the best photo story.

The winners were selected from a total of 23 contestants across six categories by a three-member jury of awardwinning photojournalists Pablo Bartholomew, Arko Datta and Rafeeq Ellias. The award ceremony was held on December 19 at Mumbai.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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aramita Ghosh, Senior Assistant Editor, HT Delhi has won the second prize in the print category at the All India Environmental Journalism Competition for her article “Iron in their souls”. Submissions were reviewed by a five-member jury representing the Asian College of Journalism, The Third Pole, Deutsche Welle Akademie, ICLEI South Asia, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Paramita received her prize from the German Ambassador on October 9 in Mumbai.

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unique employee engagement initiative, ‘Coffee with the Leader’ is an opportunity for employees to interact with HT leaders over a cup of coffee, brainstorming ideas, sharing opinions and asking candid questions. The Mohali unit organized two such sessions - the first for cross-functional team members with Sanjay Hazari, Business Head on October 17, and the second for the Editorial team with Ramesh Vinayak, Senior Resident Editor on October 29.

Notable suggestions shared by the participants included having a separate supplement on Education to cater to the great potential for the

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sector in the region, the addition of one page of local Lifestyle and Entertainment content from across the region to increase local readership as well as response from advertisers, having more relevant content for technology on page 5, and providing

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learning opportunities to trainees by having them accompany senior team members on special projects.

Both leaders welcomed the suggestions and shared their inputs.

The sessions were well-received and appreciated by all present.

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ecycle Waste - this was the theme behind a fun-filled activity organised on September 19 at New Delhi and Patna.

HT employees wowed everyone with their beautiful creations using nothing but waste material, what we would usually call ‘rubbish’.

Not only did they exhibit their artistic skills, they also displayed immense respect for our environment. Most of the creations were quite useful in addition to being a delight to look at.

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hagun Chowdhary, an ace shooter from Jaipur and the first Indian woman to qualify for the Olympic trap shooting event, was recently invited to the HT office to interact with our reporters. She spent an hour with our colleagues and shared her experience on and off the shooting range, easily mingling with everyone around. Team Jaipur was inspired by her presence and indomitable spirit.

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1. Taj Mahal designed using thermocole and plastic bottles 2. A car running on air, a mushroom garden and a pen stand

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mployees at Mumbai all donned their thinking hats on November 1 for the invigorating and entertaining Brainvita Quiz.

The audience enjoyed cheering their favorite participants as much as the participants had fun answering a mixed bag of question thrown at them by the quizmasters Suresh Manivannan, Anita Joshi and Rohit Sarma.

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Employee Welfare aaDhar carD helpDesk An Aadhar Card helpdesk was organised from December 11 to December 13 for employees and their families. About 215 employees benefited from the camp and could get their cards made easily.

Diabetes awareness camp To create awareness about the rising menace of diabetes on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, November 14, a health check camp was set up to test blood sugar and blood pressure levels of employees. Dr. Amit Verma, HOD Medicine at Mahant Indresh Hospital shared valuable tips on prevention, control and treatment of diabetes.

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Across 1. Stored secretly or hid supplies 4. Self-centeredness 7. Centimeter tenths 10. Donkey 11. Foot digit 12. Nephew’s sister 13. Medals 14. Just a minute, wait a …

15. Door rug 16. Swing (tail) 17. Thin pancake 18. Undeveloped insect 19. Falsehood or rest on bed 20. Plaything 21. Hot drink 22. Light meals 23. Uproar 25. Poetic term for pasture 28. Old witch

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