Shobhana Bhartia

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Shobhana Bhartia
Nominated

Shobhana Bhartia (born 4 January 1957) is an Indian

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani) which was founded by her grandfather G. D. Birla
and is the current chairperson of Endeavor India.

Closely associated with the Congress party, Shobhana served as a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Indian parliament from 2006 to 2012. In 2016, she was listed as the 93rd most powerful woman in the World by Forbes.[2] She is married to Shyam Sunder Bhartia, owner of Noida based Jubilant Bhartia Group.

Background

Born in a

Domino's Pizza franchise and also convenience store chain Monday to Sunday in Bangalore.[9] In 2013, Shamit Bhartia married Nayantara Kothari, daughter of Bhadrashyam Kothari, a Chennai-based industrialist and Nina, daughter of Dhirubhai Ambani
.

Media career

Bhartia joined Hindustan Times in 1986, as a 29 year old and directly as Chief Executive. She was the first woman chief executive of a national newspaper and probably one of the youngest.[5] She is considered to be one of the motive forces behind the transformation of the Hindustan Times "into a bright, young paper."[10] She looks after editorial as well as financial aspects, and is credited with raising ₹400 crore through a public equity launch of HT Media in September 2005.[11]

She has received the

Global Leader of Tomorrow award from the World Economic Forum
(1996). She is also the recipient of the Outstanding Business Woman of the Year, 2001, by PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and National Press India Award, 1992. She has also won the Business Woman award, The
Forbes Asia's 50 Women in the Mix.[12]
She has received the Delhi Women of the Decade Achievers Award 2013 from the ASSOCHAM Ladies League in recognition for her Excellence in Nation Building through Media & Leadership. The ht media is also famous for his court cases there are many cases on ht media but the one case on Ht media vs aita Ram and others are still running in hight court , supreme court and patiala house court since 18 years the case is started on 2004 and they dismissed their 272 employees without giving any notice or reason and they exploit them. they all suffering from past 18 years

Political career

Shobhana was one of the first

BJP politician Arun Jaitley.[17]

References

  1. ^ "India's most powerful women in business: Guess which B'wood celeb is on it?". Yahoo!. 24 September 2019.
  2. ^ "World's Most Powerful Women". Forbes. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  3. ISBN 9789353054175
    . Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Members Page". Rajya Sabha Secretariat. Retrieved 17 October 2020. The website generates a random link for all members making it difficult to check the source next time. So it can be navigated to using this link "https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/member_site/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx" {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  5. ^ a b "Business Empires: The Birlas: Hindustan Times". The Economic Times. 28 October 2004. Archived from the original on 7 July 2005. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
  6. ^ Naazneen Karmali (28 August 2008). "Paper Tigress". Forbes. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  7. ^ a b HT Media Group Prospectus 12 August 2005
  8. ^ Bhupesh Bhandari (27 December 2005). "Hari Bhartia's mantra for success: The Rediff Interview/Hari Bhartia, MD, Jubilant Organosys". rediff.com. Retrieved 19 June 2006.
  9. ^ Sandhya Iyengar (2 June 2003). "Temptation is its other name". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 1 July 2003.
  10. ^ Pradyuman Maheshwari (20 April 2003). "Top 50 power points in the media". Mid-Day.
  11. ^ "HT Media debuts on BSE at Rs 685". The Hindu Business Line. 2 September 2005. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
  12. ^ Scott, Mary E. "Asia's Women In The Mix, 2013: The Year's Top 50 for Achievement In Business". Forbes Asia. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  13. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  14. ^ "Nominated to Rajya Sabha". The Hindu. 18 February 2006. Archived from the original on 24 March 2006. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
  15. ^ a b Legal Correspondent (29 April 2006). "Plea against nomination to Rajya Sabha rejected". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 27 September 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
  16. ^ "The Child Marriage (Abolition) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill, 2006" (PDF). Parliament of India, Rajya Sabha. December 2006.
  17. ^ Dev, Atul (1 December 2018). "History repeating at Shobhana Bhartia's Hindustan Times". The Caravan. Retrieved 15 February 2020.

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