News Broadcasting
Get connected with India and Indians Worldwide with Go Yaar.com
MUMBAI: The Indian community in India and around the world now has an exciting and easy-to-use tool to connect and interact with friends, batch mates and colleagues online- GoYaar.com.
Go, Yaar! is unique among social networking websites in India that build directly on the communities that are already important to individuals — their schools, universities, and companies. The site was launched by an Indian-born former McKinsey & Company consultant in September 2006.
Registering using a company email address automatically validates a user as a member of a company community. Alternatively, users can indicate their school and over 3,000 college affiliations in India, the US, and Canada if registering using their personal email addresses.
Once registered, a user can design a personalized profile, interact with and meet new members of their academic and company communities, invite friends to events, and form groups. In addition, Go, Yaar! provides a set of highly flexible and fully integrated email, video, photo album, blogging, instant messaging and peer-to-peer collaboration tools, all as a one-stop source informs the release.
“With more than 40 million Internet users, India has just discovered the potential of social networking,” says Go, Yaar!’s CEO and founder, Phalgun Raju.
“There is a tremendous opportunity for Go, Yaar! to redefine the space and become India’s premier social networking destination given its focus on India and NRIs, its multitude of features, and its rapidly growing member base,” adds Raju.
The website is entirely free. “According to an April 2006 study by Nielsen/NetRatings, the top social networking sites in the U.S. are experiencing 47% annual growth,” explained Raju. “The social networking market in India is well positioned to grow even faster given India’s extremely rapid growth of Internet users and PC penetration.”
Go, Yaar! provides its members with customized privacy settings, which enable them to control who can view their content, and an ever-evolving robust set of interactive tools to create and share information while building relationships.
“To continuously enhance our users’ experience, we are targeting adding key new features every month to the site,” said Raju. “The growth of 4.5 million new mobile phone subscribers per month across the country will be a key driver for Go, Yaar!’s growth as we unveil mobile capabilities in the future.”
News Broadcasting
Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
