Asianet News Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (AMEL) has announced the appointment of Rajesh Kalra as its Executive Chairman. He will also be joining the board.

AMEL has multiple digital brands in its portfolio including asianetnews.com, indigomusic.com etc and serves consumers in multiple languages.

Prior to this, Kalra was the Chief Editor at Times Internet. He was also an entrepreneur from 2000-2006 when his company managed the dynamic portions of websites such as Yahoo India, MSN India, Mantra Online and started India’s first 24*7 news website, NaradOnline.

During his stint at Times Internet, where he became the youngest Chief Editor at the age of 40, he was instrumental in the launch of almost all the news and entertainment properties of the group – TOI, ET, Mumbai Mirror, Bangalore Mirror, Ahmedabad Mirror, Pune Mirror, NBT, MT, Indiatimes, Ei Samay, I am Gujarat, Vijay Karnataka and the three Samayam properties (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam). Kalra started his career with the computer publication, Dataquest and thereafter had stints with the print editions of the Times of India, Business Standard and The Economic Times.
Kalra’s move to digital happened after ET, when he became the first Editor of Times Interactive in 1999, before he moved on as an entrepreneur.

On the appointment, Abhinav Khare, Chief Executive Officer, said, “I am very happy that Mr Kalra is joining this team. He will add significant leadership capability to our company and the entire team, and I am excited to be working with him and growing our company even faster.”

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