Alan Quartly

Alan Quartly is the South Asia Bureau Editor for BBC News. He is based in New Delhi and is responsible for BBC News coverage across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

He began his career working as a producer for Worldwide Television News and Associated Press Television News.

Quartly began working for the BBC in 2000 when he was hired as a producer for the Moscow bureau to cover news from across the region and abroad including the conflicts in the North Caucasus and the Gujarat earthquake.

He was part of the first BBC team to cross into Afghanistan in 2001 and spent much of the autumn of that year covering the campaign to oust the Taliban.

In 2004 he served as Europe producer for the BBC's Brussels Bureau, covering the EU and major news stories across Europe.

Quartly was appointed Bureau Editor in Moscow in 2005. During that time he covered the Russia-Georgia war and was assigned temporarily to East Asia, to lead BBC coverage of the 'Red Shirt' protests in Thailand.

Ashok Venkatramani

A mechanical engineer from Mumbai and MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, Ashok started his career with Unilever, having been with them for 19 years, working on the foods and personal care side of the business in sales, marketing and general mgmt roles. He was the Vice President and Business Head - skincare for Unilever in India before moving into his current role of the CEO - MCCS – a Star International (A NewsCorp Co) and Ananda Bazaar Patrika group joint venture which runs the news channels of Star TV in India.

He is also a Treasurer and Director on the board of the News Broadcasters Association and chairs their HR and Sales Sub committees .

Maroof Raza

Maroof Raza appears frequently on TIMESNOW , as their Strategic Affairs Expert. In 2006, he anchored and presented an 18 part series on the Indian armed forces, titled 'Line of Duty' for TimesNow, and the episode on Siachin Glacier won an Award for the best military documentary at the Film Festival in Rome. This television series has also entered the 2007 edition of India's Limca Book of Records. In the past, he has also appeared on a number of Indian television channels, and on BBC's World Service radio programmes, since 1995. He has also written for a number of leading print publications, such as the Times of India, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, India Today and the Outlook.

Maroof Raza has authored two books (Low-Intensity Conflicts (1995) and Wars and No Peace over Kashmir (1996); and edited two others, Generals and Governments in India and Pakistan ( 2001 ) and Confronting Terrorism (2009). He is also the General Editor of a Military Affairs series of Har Anand Publications since 2001, in which he edited twelve volumes as yet, as part of this series. He also publishes a monthly magazine 'Salute'. Educated in India and in England, Maroof has served in the Indian Army from 1979 to 1994. To know more about Maroof Raza please visit: http://www.maroofraza.com

Rahul Kanwal

At 32,Rahul is the youngest 9 O clock anchor on the news television in India Today. Under Rahul's leadership Headlines Today has become the fastest growing channel in the English genre.

It is in an interview with Rahul Kanwal that both Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal first revealed their plans to go political. This was a week before they announced their intentions.Leading from the front,Rahul incisive questioning has often grabbed headlines the next day. And these are not necessarily political.Maruti chief RC Bhargava confirmed for the first time the hand of left wing extremist elements in the violence that rocked his plant in Manesar again participating in a panel discussion hosted by Rahul Kanwal. About two years ago, Rahul Kanwal hosted one of the revealing shows of the year.The Hafeez Saeed tapes procures by Headlines Today at great peril became the centrepoint of the foreign secretary level talks between India and Pakistan that were held late February. Rahul's expertise on strategic affairs was highlighted with the expose on how Chinese hackers targeted the PMO.Initial denials by the government by the government,were later reversed and the NSA himself confirmed that such an attempt had indeed been made. Rahul Kanwal anchored Centerstage asks the questions that few dare to ask.And he asks it in the most direct manner possible.There is no fear or favor shown. It is that zeal which forced attention on telecom minister A Raja,under ever-darkening cloud in the spectrum scam. Under Rahul,Headlines Today represents the future of the news.He ensures it carries stories that matter to you.He sees it carries stories that drive government to action.And he ensures that he remains true to the values of the India Today group.

Rahul Razdan

Rahul Razdan is the President – Mobile & Games at ibibo, India's leading games and mobile apps company.
Rahul has 15 years of diverse experience across various media comprising television, documentary films, interactive media, internet, and mobile. Prior to ibibo.com, Rahul has worked with best of the breed organizations like Sony Entertainment Television, Cyber Media, and Satyam Computers; and also clocked in a few years in media academics where he'd been an advocate of new media technologies, and their inevitable take-over of mainstream media workflows. Rahul is a professionally trained architect, having done his B. Arch. from the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi. He is also a post-graduate in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore.

Satish Jacob

Satish Jacob started his career as a reporter and worked with The Statesman, The Patriot and later joined BBC as stringer. He retired as BBC's Delhi Deputy Bureau Chief after serving the organisation for 26 years. Satish Jacob had joined P7 News on February 7 2011. Currently Satish is the Consulting Editor of NewsX.

Sheela Bhatt

Sheela Bhatt is the editorial director of rediff.com.She started her career in 1978. She has published-edited Abhiyaan,a political weekly in Mumbai. Sheela shifted her base to New Delhi to become senior editor in India Today. She has been trained at Sky TV in London. Sheela have reported, almost, all the major political events since 1980 and have extensively covered insurgencies in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam. Later Sheela joined Star TV as executive producer in 1998. She was the recipient of Chameli Devi Jain award for in-depth reporting. Since 2000 Sheela is assciated with rediff.com and is currently an Editorial Director of rediff.com and India Abroad, weekly produced from New York.

Sudhir Chaudhary

Sudhir Chaudhary is the Editor & Business head Zee News. Prior to this he was editor & CEO, Live India & Mi Marathi.

Sudhir Chaudhary has been in the TV news industry for more than 15 years and is a ''seen it all'' journalist. As a TV professional, he belongs to the first generation of television journalists and has been associated with the television news industry since its inception.

After spending almost a decade with ZEE NEWS as a senior editorial person and prime time anchor, Mr. Chaudhary moved on to Sahara Samay National as part of the core team which launched the channel and senior anchor, where he played a major role in creating human resource and content to establish the channel. Following this, he joined INDIA TV as an Executive Editor where he was hosting their prime time shows apart from carrying out key editorial responsibilities.

From the political battle fields of different Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha Elections, to the heights of Kargil or the terrorist attack on Parliament, Sudhir Chaudhary has covered every big story of Indian television news from the spot. Apart of being aware of almost every action point in the country, he has also traveled extensively across the globe covering the big moments of Indian diplomacy --- whether the UN summit or the much hyped Mr. A. B. Vajpayee- Mr. Pervez. Musharraf Indo-Pakistan meeting in Islamabad or India's hard selling with American and Russian Presidents Mr. G. W. Bush and Mr. V. Putin.

As an anchor, Mr. Chaudhary has fired sweet and sour questions at almost every BIG SHOT of the country from difficult and elusive Ms. Sonia Gandhi to witty Prime Minister Mr. Vajpayee to the hard talker Mr. L. K. Advani, Mr. Narendra Modi at the time of Gujarat Elections or Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav for his Rail Budget or the great charmer Mr. Amitabh Bachchan & Aamir Khan or cricket stars like Mr. Rahul Dravid and Mr. Saurav Ganguly for different TV shows.

Right now he is running a news channel and a regional GEC which is an unusual combination for a journalist and anchor wearing a hat of a CEO also. Sudhir Chaudhary re branded Sri Adhikari Brothers current affairs channel" Janmat" in a new avatar of a 24 hours news channel Live India which made it successful venture in terms of viewer ship and commercial aspects.

Suresh Selvaraj

Around three decades in Print Media. Worked for different kinds of media brands like dailies, weekend papers, magazines. Worked in almost all the metros in India. Wroked for No.1 media group, regional leaders, fledgling brnads, start ups, challenger brands. Consider myself a genuine print media all rounder and a rare resource in the industry. Goal - to retain the title Turnover Tiger in whatevr I do.

Vivek Law

Mr. Vivek Law is an Editor with Bloomberg UTV, a leading Business News Channel. He is responsible for leading the Editorial function across verticals. He has worked with CNBC TV18 as National Editor (Consumer Affairs). He has also worked with Economic Times, Business standard, Financial Express and India Today. Mr. Law is a graduate from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce. In his illustrious 19 years in Business Journalism in print and electronic media, he has been at the forefront in the issues related to Personal Finance, Real Estate, Small and Medium Enterprises, Consumer Grievances and Economic Crime. His experience and global eye-view in matters of financial inclusion, financial literacy and customer protection would help the Financial Planning movement in addressing issues of Financial Planning from consumers' perspective.