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RAPA awards to be held on 20 May
MUMBAI: Radio and Television Advertising Practitioners’ Association of India (RAPA) is all set to stage its 31st Annual awards for excellence on 20 May at St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra, Mumbai.
RAPA has been honouring and encouraging creative excellence for over 30 years. This is the only association in the country which encompasses all Indian languages and English and gives as much importance to radio as television.
Entries have come in from all over the country and judging has been completed. The panel of judges include Ameen Sayani, Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, Rinki Bhattacharya, Karuna Samtani, Ramesh Deo, Manjul Sinha, Javed Siddiqi, Pushpa Bharati, Sandesh Shandilya Anil Ganguli, Jyoti Venkatesh, Gufi Paintal and Nandita Puri to name a few.
The winners list does not compromise of work from metros only, people from small towns have also made a mark, informs an official release.
This year also happens to be the 100 year of Radio coming into existence. RAPA says that it salutes those who had faith in radio and did not desert it when boom in the television industry made most people comment that radio was dying and it was a matter of time before radio would be forgotten.
The association states that all the who’s who of the entertainment industry will be there to felicitate and be felicitated.
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Book Cricket gets a digital century on News18 amid T20 fever
Nostalgic classroom game revamped in English, Hindi plus Telugu on web and app.
MUMBAI: When the T20 World Cup fever hits fever pitch, News18 decides to flip the script straight back to the classroom. The digital news platform has revived the timeless schoolyard favourite Book Cricket as an interactive online game, perfectly timed to ride the cricket wave gripping fans across the globe. The reimagined Book Cricket ditches textbooks for smartphones, blending old-school nostalgia with modern gameplay. Once a sneaky recess pastime played by flicking book pages to score runs, the digital version now offers seamless fun for anyone craving a quick cricket fix between overs.
Available in English, Hindi and Telugu (with more languages planned across News18’s network), the game sits within the platform’s fast-growing gaming portfolio of over 20 titles, all built in-house. It joins event-driven hits like ‘Kursi Catcher’ and ‘Result Rewind’ during the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections, plus festive specials such as ‘Durga’s Astras’ for Durga Puja and ‘Mouse Modak’ for Ganesh Chaturthi.
News18 Digital CEO Mitul Sangani said, “Gaming is a key pillar of our engagement strategy. At News18, we uniquely combine our newsroom agility with immersive gaming experiences. By blending credible content with interactive formats, we are creating meaningful engagement in an era defined by shrinking attention spans and evolving consumption habits.”
Select titles have expanded beyond News18.com to CNBC-TV18.com and Firstpost.com, reflecting the network’s push to deepen user interaction across platforms. The Book Cricket game is live now at https://www.news18.com/games/book-cricket/.
In a tournament where every boundary counts, News18’s digital Book Cricket proves the simplest games can still deliver the biggest smiles no syllabus required, just pure cricket joy one page-flip at a time.
