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Team Infosys crowned champions at Corporate Badminton Championship
Mumbai: Team Infosys crowned champions at the fifth edition of the Corporate Badminton Championship on Sunday at the high-quality sports centre in Hyderabad.
In a thrilling Championship Cup final, Team Infosys defeated Team Optum to claim the trophy, while Team Novartis overcame the challenge of Team JP Morgan Chase in the Challengers Cup final. The chairman of Kankanala Sports Group, Abhishek Reddy Kankanala was the chief guest of the event and gave the awards to the winners.
“The Corporate Badminton Championship is a great initiative by Gamepoint that aims to promote and incorporate the numerous benefits of sports amongst the employees in the corporate world, thereby promoting improved physical health, mental well-being, and encouraging enhanced teamwork among the employees,” stated Abhishek Reddy Kankanala after attending the event.
Commenting on the tournament, Gamepoint co-founder Siddharth Reddy stated, “I congratulate all the winners of the Corporate Badminton Championship. This tournament is now a milestone for the corporate employees as they look forward to participating and competing. Over the years, it has also taken a pivotal step towards integrating physical well-being and teamwork in the corporate world. Gamepoint is dedicated to creating a culture that values sports and fitness and we hope this event inspires everyone to think about its importance in a new light. We look forward to witnessing some of the biggest corporate companies engage in exciting badminton action on our state-of-the-art courts.”
Meanwhile, in the individual events, Rutwika Das of TCS defeated Geetha (JPMC) 30-23 to win the women’s singles trophy, while Pranava Jain clinched the men’s singles title with a walkover. Avvaru Sathish Babu and Donthu Sai Ram (FINMKT) overcame Bharath & Manoj of Infosys 30-22 to claim the men’s doubles event.
The women’s doubles title went to Pooja & Ritwika Das (TCS), who beat Geetha & Nikitha (JPMC) by 30-26. Infosys’ Bharath & Mousam claimed the mixed doubles event with a 30-25 win over Pranava Jain & Riya Kumari of Microsoft. Wipro’s Raghu Vamshi P clinched the title in 35 plus Men’s singles category after defeating Satya R (Service Now) 30-18, while Abdul Zabbar & Deepak Dixit of Novartis won 35 plus Mens doubles event with 30-21 victory against Jagadeesh & Nandikolla Srinadh (Optum).
The corporate Badminton Championship was conducted in a unique team event format along with seven individual events. In the team event, a total of eight companies participated which included JP Morgan Chase and Co., Goldman Sachs, INFOSYS, Novartis India Limited, Colruyt group, FinMkt, Samrat Group, alongside last year’s winner Optum.
More than 100 participants took part in seven individual events. Each game in the tournament was decided by a single game of 30 points.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
