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| Chandra plans US wellness empire | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Media and broadcasting mogul Subhash Chandra is creating a health and wellness platform in the US to cash in on the world's fastest-growing market for fitness solutions. |
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| Media numbers reveal the power of two | 31-OCT-09 |
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| It has been known for long that The Times Group (Bennett, Coleman and Company) is the largest. While the News Corporation-owned Star Group briefly lay claim to number two spot, it is now clear that Subhash Chandra’s Zee is way ahead of its former partner and now arch rival. At Rs 3,732 crore, the Zee Group is India’s second-largest media firm. |
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| Zee net up 12% at Rs 111 crore | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Riding on a small growth in its subscription revenue, coupled with a 15 per cent decline in operating costs, Subhash Chandra’s broadcasting arm, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), the owner of Zee TV and other television channels, has posted a 12 per cent increase in net profit to Rs 110.9 crore for the financial year’s second quarter, ended September 30, compared to the same period last year. |
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| Dish TV to raise Rs 1,000 crore | 29-AUG-09 |
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| Dish TV, the direct-to-home (DTH) arm of Subhash Chandra’s Essel group, will raise Rs 1,000 crore from foreign markets, issuing foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) in a month. |
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| Zee pips STAR Plus for top position | 02-JUL-09 |
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| It's celebration time at Subhash Chandra's Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) as its flagship Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Zee TV has become the genre leader among the dozen Hindi channels, pushing the leader STAR Plus to number three position behind Colors. |
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| The BCCI clique | 03-MAY-09 |
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| Is BCCI the master of all cricket in India? It may have been started by a bunch of princes with a heightened perception of the self, but the sceptre is long gone. The board once described itself in court as a private club not performing any public function, and said that it could therefore not be subjected to public interest litigation. The board’s refuge was its status of a private society answerable only to its members — the 31 state associations. The board took the same cover when two cricket-lovers filed a PIL in February 2000, seeking accountability and transparency in the way cricket was run in the country. |
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| Zee News Q4 net dips 42% to Rs 8.76 cr | 24-APR-09 |
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| Subhash Chandra promoted firm Zee News today said, its consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 31, has dipped by 42.67 per cent to Rs 8.76 crore. |
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| Sun, Zee remain top on Asia-Pacific profitability charts | 24-APR-09 |
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| Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Network and Subhash Chandra’s Zee Entertainment, the two homegrown media companies, have maintained their number one and two positions, respectively, in the Asia-Pacific pay broadcaster ranks for the second year in a row. |
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| Who's Bose, ask Pakistani researchers | 30-JAN-09 |
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| American scholar Leonard A Gordon was invited to Lahore University last year and found that Pakistani researchers he interacted with did not know who Subhash Chandra Bose was. Gordon is the author of one of the more authoritative accounts of Bose’s role in the freedom struggle. |
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| Essel Group gets ministry nod for HITS launch | 22-SEP-08 |
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| Having got clearances from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B), as directed by the appellate tribunal, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), the Subhash |
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