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Zenga strikes gold again; brings home two honours
NEW DELHI: Zenga Media has received awards for Best Mobile & Web TV and Best Engagement App “Sunny Leone” along with the Integrated Marketing at the 2nd Asian Customer Engagement Forum & Awards.
The customer engagement forum, founded in 2012-13, is one of Asia’s largest communities of customer engagement and advocacy professionals, including the most innovative practitioners around.
Zenga Media which is the exclusive digital rights holder of Sunny Leone in India, creating and managing Sunny Leone’s official mobile app has showcased its excellence by winning Best Engagement App.
The thought behind Celebrity Fan Engagement App was based on the fact that people are used to handheld devices like smart phones and tablets for close interaction and direct engagement. This is a space Zenga Media decided to look closely at helping celebrities reach out to their fan keeping in mind a direct interaction and gratification to the followership that these celebrities have.
Sunny Leone said, “I am excited to receive an award for the Best Engagement App at the 2ndAsian Customer Engagement Forum & Awards. The app provides an entire new way for me to communicate with my fans and give them a new and unique content experience! I am really thankful to ZengaTV and OneDigital team to have closely worked with me in creating something which is loved by my fans and helping me stay in touch with my fans. ”
The award winning Sunny Leone application is available for all iOS, windows and android mobile and Tab users. Fans can download this free of cost from iTunes App Store for iPhone/ iPad and Google Play for android users and windows store for windows users.
“While the idea was big, the challenge was to create a first of its kind app, bridging the gap between the celebrity and fans. This app offers opportunity for her fans to stay in touch with her through live interactions apart from new videos, images and wallpaper on Sunny Leone. The integrated approach adopted by our team for the web and mobile TV led to the great success of the Zenga App, while the team also works on building direct engagement with fans through her Facebook, YouTube channel and ZengaTV channel. It’s a great feeling to win an award particularly because it recognizes our innovative approach that the brand stands for in each area, be it in product development or marketing. Kudos to the team for bringing this honour and setting an example in taking customer engagement to the next level” said ZengaTV & OneDigital Entertainment MD & CTO Shabir Momin.
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OneOTT partners with UP govt for Project GANGA broadband rollout
Initiative to connect 2M plus households, empower 8,000–10,000 entrepreneurs in 2–3 years.
MUMBAI: Uttar Pradesh just got a digital Ganga flow because when broadband meets ambition, even villages start streaming faster than city traffic. OneOTT Intertainment Ltd. (OIL), the broadband arm of Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) under the Hinduja Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the State Transformation Commission (STC), Government of Uttar Pradesh, for Project GANGA (Government Assisted Network for Growth & Advancement).
The MoU, signed on 7 March 2026 in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Finance & Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, aims to empower 8,000–10,000 local entrepreneurs at the Nyaya Panchayat level as independent Digital Service Providers (DSPs). A significant number of these DSPs are expected to be women. The initiative will deliver high-speed broadband to over 2 million households in the next 2–3 years and create direct and indirect employment for more than 100,000 individuals.
Project GANGA will support government priorities in digital education, healthcare and public services while enabling MSMEs and enterprises with reliable connectivity. DSPs will receive structured training, financing assistance, network build-out support and technology enablement.
STC CEO Manoj Kumar Singh said, “Project GANGA is a significant step toward expanding inclusive digital infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh. By empowering local entrepreneurs, the program will strengthen service delivery and ensure affordable digital access for underserved communities.”
OIL, MD & CEO and HGS whole-time director Vynsley Fernandes added, “This initiative reflects our long-term commitment to enabling digital access and economic opportunity at scale. Project GANGA is structured as a multi-year program focused on entrepreneur onboarding, network deployment and workforce development.”
OIL brings execution strength backed by HGS and NXTDIGITAL’s national footprint, which already connects over 5 million homes across more than 4,500 pin codes in 1,500 cities and towns through 15,000 plus franchise partners and over 2 lakh kilometres of fibre infrastructure. The ecosystem will support broadband, IPTV, OTT, CCTV, satellite internet and cybersecurity solutions for households, businesses and public institutions.
In a state racing toward digital inclusion, Project GANGA isn’t just laying cables, it’s laying the foundation for millions to connect, learn, heal and earn, one Nyaya Panchayat at a time.
